The San Francisco Conservation Corps has shuttered after 42 years in operation, citing financial strain.
The job training nonprofit, which provided around 100 young people a year with part-time employment on city projects like landscaping and recycling, surprised city officials when it ceased all operations earlier this year, Public Works Director Carla Short said at a Public Works Commission meeting last week.
“I think we were all caught off guard by this,” Short said at a public works commission meeting last week. “They are part of a national organization that’s existed for a very long time, so I don’t think we saw this coming.”…