On June 2, when I saw a stop sign at Louisiana Street and Polk Avenue tagged with anti-semitic graffiti, I immediately emailed councilmember Todd Gloria's office. I also sent a photo showing the racial slur, which spelled out “JEW.”
M. Vanessa Jackson, executive administrative assistant to Gloria, responded quickly with this email: “I have forwarded this information to the appropriate person.”
A few days went by with no cleanup, so I followed up on June 7. Jackson responded: "I am sorry to hear that the graffiti has not been removed yet. San Diego is a very big city with many issues so it’s difficult to get to everything right away. I did forward your first email to our North Park representative, Anthony Bernal.”
Bernal emailed back June 7: “I submitted this to Streets Division and they will address. Please notify me if it is still up by next Monday.”
On June 10, I contacted a North Park friend who has done volunteer graffiti removal in North Park for many months. He came over June 11 and cleaned the graffiti off the stop sign.
On June 2, when I saw a stop sign at Louisiana Street and Polk Avenue tagged with anti-semitic graffiti, I immediately emailed councilmember Todd Gloria's office. I also sent a photo showing the racial slur, which spelled out “JEW.”
M. Vanessa Jackson, executive administrative assistant to Gloria, responded quickly with this email: “I have forwarded this information to the appropriate person.”
A few days went by with no cleanup, so I followed up on June 7. Jackson responded: "I am sorry to hear that the graffiti has not been removed yet. San Diego is a very big city with many issues so it’s difficult to get to everything right away. I did forward your first email to our North Park representative, Anthony Bernal.”
Bernal emailed back June 7: “I submitted this to Streets Division and they will address. Please notify me if it is still up by next Monday.”
On June 10, I contacted a North Park friend who has done volunteer graffiti removal in North Park for many months. He came over June 11 and cleaned the graffiti off the stop sign.
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