{"id":226557,"date":"2026-03-19T06:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226557\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T06:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:29:13","slug":"fresno-county-board-of-supervisors-to-hold-special-meeting-to-consider-renaming-cesar-chavez-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226557\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County Board of Supervisors to hold special meeting to consider renaming Cesar Chavez Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Fresno councilmembers Annalisa Perea, Mike Karbassi, Nelson Esparza and Miguel Arias have confirmed they plan to restore the original names of roadways currently designated as C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The proposal will be introduced during a special council meeting on Thursday at Fresno City Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This comes after recent reports have raised serious allegations about Chavez, accusing the late labor leader and civil rights activist of sexually abusing women, including minors, and fellow leader Dolores Huerta, who came forward to say the repeated sexual assaults led to pregnancies and multiple children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Perea, Karbassi and Esparza say their proposal, if approved, would return the original street names, which city officials say remain in storage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Arias was one of the most vocal proponents of the original renaming, which created a single, continuous Cesar Chavez Boulevard stretching just over 10 miles through the heart of Fresno and connecting West Fresno with downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Click <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/fresno-councilmember-propose-restoring-former-street-names-cesar-chavez-boulevard\/18730679\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno councilmembers Annalisa Perea, Mike Karbassi, Nelson Esparza and Miguel Arias have confirmed they plan to restore the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[102830,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-226557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-102830","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}