During the San Diego Pride Board Retreat in October of 2012 Joe Meyer introduced a motion to change the name of the "San Diego Pride Festival " to "America's Pride" with an alternating theme and the Board voted to approve the motion 5 to 2. We feel that that after the turn of events in 2010, it was established that San Diego Pride belongs to the San Diego LGBT Community and that Board and its staff are just the custodians of the event, and that something as drastic as changing the identity of the event should have been a decision brought up to and discussed by the community. With this past history of poor decisions under previous boards that affect the entire LGBT community the Board should be more willing to present these proposals to the public to be more transparent and open.