A member of San Jose’s Parks and Recreation Commission has issued a public broadside against the department he helps to oversee.
In a public letter sent to city leaders Nov. 7, Commissioner Ken Brennan warned that mismanagement within the Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services Department has hamstrung the agency’s ability to maintain the more than 200 parks that it is responsible for throughout the city.
“My concern is they don’t really understand how inefficient and unproductive (the parks department) is and how poorly the decisions within (the agency) are being made,” Brennan, who represents District 10 on the 11-member commission, told San José Spotlight…