Mission Bay Park Conservancy

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[Mission Bay Park Conservancy @mbayparkorg]

@RichardPBailey_ Thank you @richardbailey__ for highlighting the important work the Mission Bay Park Conservancy is doing to address the operational and safety challenges in Mission Bay Park.
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[Richard Bailey @RichardPBailey_]

13 of the 28 restrooms at Mission Bay Park are closing indefinitely. Why? To save $550K/yr and help close the city’s $100M+ structural deficit.

Despite generating over $40M annually, Mission Bay Park is only guaranteed about 33% of the funds which can only be used for capital projects. The rest of the funds go to other regional parks (17%) and the city’s general fund (50%).

So the city could’ve used a portion of the general fund allocation to keep all of the restrooms open, but instead chose to continue floating a very bureaucratic organization with excessive personnel.

There’s no greater example of this than city council office staffing which increased approx 40 X faster than population growth over the past five years and now represents an additional $10M in annually expenditures.

If the council would’ve reduced their staff to 2021 levels, all of the restrooms could’ve remained, arts funding gap fully funded and filled a pot hole or two.

It simply comes down to priorities.