About 13 minutes before the end of the meeting, Councilmember Sam Liccardo introduced a “petition” purportedly by 92 business owners (click here to view the list), dated March 4, 2008, that stated as follows:
“We do not want the City Council to name any name on the street until the City staff to develop a guideline on naming a business district. We will work with the City’s staff and members of our business community to come up with a name that is acceptable to us. WE DO NOT WANT OUTSIDERS TO IMPOSE A NAME to our business area that we do not need and do not want it NOW.”
As soon as this document was made public after the March 4, 2008 council meeting, dozens of business owners whose signatures appeared on this purported petition began publicly speaking out against this petition (see the list below), and emphatically stating that they never signed this petition and that their signatures were grafted onto this petition without their consent, or that their signatures were forged.


LIST OF BUSINESSES SIGNED LETTER OF DECLARATION
DANH SÁCH THƯƠNG GIA KÝ GIẤY MINH XÁC
As of March 13, 2008
Eurasia Delight (1)
O Mai International (2)
Hien Khanh Dakao (3)
Chau Nguyen (5)
Banh Khot (6)
Nuoc Mia Ninh Kieu (8)
Mah’s juice (10)
Chao Vit Thanh Da (11)
Thanh Xuan music (12)
Pho Phi Long (15)
GAC (21)
Co Hong (26)
Tran Dac (27)
Hung Phat (28)
Thuy Anh Diamonds (30)
Bao Huynh Jewelry (32)
Kim Son (34)
Kim Son II (35)
Quang Kim Son (36)
Kim Khanh Jewelry (37)
Bich Van Jewelry (38)
Kim Loan (39)
Calla (46)
Diana Collection (47)
Milano & Tuxedo (51)
Perfect USA SJ (53)
Streetel (54)
Y Nhu (57)
Mimi 2000 (63)
Century gift gate (64)
Site for Sore eyes (67)
Tele wireless (70)
Global air (71)
Thu Thao bridal (72)
HMH auto parts (82)