On April 22, at exactly 10:11 a.m. according to the meeting minutes, Recreation and Parks general manager Phil Ginsburg and his department’s director of partnerships addressed the board of the teetering and since-imploded San Francisco Parks Alliance.
It wasn’t a fun meeting. Ginsburg and everyone else likely would’ve rather been wandering through one of this city’s many wonderful, verdant parks.
Ginsburg told the board that he believed that the Parks Alliance had contravened its grant agreements. Or, as the minutes record it: “restricted funds not held in restricted accounts.” In other words, money raised for specific uses had been spent on other things — not legal and definitely not fun. Ginsburg, per the minutes, “urges the board to secure an institutional loan to get out of public sector debt. Needs to inform the Mayor and eventually City Attorney.”…