Live tweet of meeting of SF school board where they voted 6-0 to paint over a mural painted during 1930’s by Communist depicting George Washington in his capacity as slave owner and Indian fighter. The mural was intended to portray the moral ambiguity of the founding.https://twitter.com/PPSSFBoardWatch/status/1143711478827978752 …
The cost is presumably the devaluation of the land due to removing the painting. If you could get it out of there for less, they'd probably take you up on it.