ok I went over the muni golf course issue and the SB city council voted to privatize the grounds maintenance and the rightwingers are praising councilfreak Dale Francisco as a visionary for providing the leadership to privatize...and blah blah blah....
first of all, some city departments have been using private gardeners for years and years...the city owns lots of properties...and the city does lots of business with the private sector..it's nothing new
but if Dale was so concerned about saving the city money, why didn't he try to privatize the golf course maintenance when he was first elected? instead, he waits until the golf course funds run out, then runs to Wendy and writes an op-ed in the News-Press about the evil unions and Murillo and Hart who support city jobs for city workers....
no dice Dale..this is just a political stunt.. I just can't believe that Dale Francisco would be so of touch with the finances of the golf course that he didn't move sooner to save it..after all, he is on the finance committee!! and what about water..what's it cost to water that huge golf course??
then when you factor in the Elings Park/ Las Positas Tennis Courts fiasco you can see how the money disappears especially when you privatize...or hand the park over to a nonprofit, which is worse!
I went to a BBQ at Elings Park once and it's a nice place...why did the city, in 2010 lease 95 acres at $1 a year to the Elings Park Foundation non-profit?? because it used to be landfill? nonsense...
if you can answer that $1/year lease riddle you've cracked the city gov't Parks and Rec code..I just don't get it..and all the alcohol festivals..what's up with that??
isn't it obvious that Nancy Rapp, the city parks chief doesn't have any business sense...and Dale Francisco is not a sound businessman..he's a political puppet for Miss Anti-Union Wendy McCuckoo!!
reverse the political decisions to privatize the golf course and Elings and give them back to the public...fire Nancy Rapp, she's incompetent..get a real manager/leader in there..and Dale stop pandering to your benefactors...
maybe the city workers should go on strike...cops, fire, wastewater and water plant operators...send a little message to the rightwingers...hmmmmm
blaming the city workers or unions for the parks mismanagement or the demise of golf is..
well... it's for the birdies
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Rapp's assistant is Jill Zachary ($130,000/yr) who gave us the Zachary Stench at the bird refuge!
Zachary also advertised for volunteers to clear foothill trails and we got a major forest fire!
Responding to the previous pee and poop previous 1-2 of 2 commenter; The stench has been around long before Jill got here and advertise for volunteers is what one must do when the illiterate conservative psyche doesn't want public lands let alone pay to maintain said public lands.
I'm enough of a biologist to know you can't toss the brush cuttings into the pond where you already have a serious problem!
She dumped the forest fire blame on the poor kids who responded to her SBNP solicitation.
Dredge that crap out of the pond and dump it In Hope Ranch and see how quickly the phone calls come flying into the city with promises of backing a raise for their budget!
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