— By Kyle Kelly-Yahner (@kylekellyyahner) |
It turns out the Mission Playground is no longer for sale.
Yesterday, San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Department repealed its previous policy allowing adults to rent Mission Playground’s soccer field. The decision is unsurprising after the Rec and Parks received tremendous backlash for quietly selling public space for private use, resulting in a bunch of Dropbox/Airbnb employees thinking they could book the Mission Playground without confrontation, as we watched in the infamous video we wrote about last week.
The decision is a step in the right direction, but not enough for one of the kids who was playing at Mission Playground the day of the tech encounter. During their pick up game against the adults who tried to kick them off the field, he claims to have been kicked in the back. The youth says he feels it was it was no accident, and plans to press charges against the man who allegedly kicked him.
He told Mission Local, “I’m not going down without a fight,” adding “I want an apology to my face.”
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Rec and Park General Manager Phil Ginsburg has been working overtime to privatize and limit access to as many SF public parks as posssible, and this is just one of the latest disgusting examples of the Ginsburg / Scott Wiener / Ed Lee / Mark Buell corruption machine. We already pay a fortune in taxes and bonds for unrestricted access to our public parks here in San Francisco., and the people in this neighborhood already had a great system worked out for prioritizing who is allowed to play on this field, which was based on sharing and allowing everyone to play. The problem here stems from greedpigs like Phil Ginsburg who cuts budgets for Recreation Center employees and gardeners while (with the help of Scott Wiener, of course) allocating millions of taxpayer dollars to six figure middle management, public relations hacks and an ever increasing recreation and park security patrol force. As an additional bonus, Ginsburg and Wiener recently made it a crime for you to visit any of the public parks you pay for after the ungodly hour of midnight. If you care about parks and don’t want to see brodouches and corporate parties kicking out children, feel free to contact Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Scott Wiener to give them some feedback on Phil Ginsburg and our parks: Mayor’s OfficeCity Hall, Room 200,1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett PlaceSan Francisco, CA 94102 Telephone: (415) 554-6141Fax: (415) 554-6160 Email: mayoredwinlee@sfgov.org Supervisor Scott Wiener
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett PlaceCity Hall, Room. 244
San Francisco, Ca 94102-4689 (415) 554-6968 Scott.Wiener@sfgov.org
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Rec and Park General Manager Phil Ginsburg has been working overtime to privatize and limit access to as many SF public parks as posssible, and this is just one of the latest disgusting examples of the Ginsburg / Scott Wiener / Ed Lee / Mark Buell corruption machine.
We already pay a fortune in taxes and bonds for unrestricted access to our public parks here in San Francisco.
The people in this neighborhood already had a great system worked out for prioritizing who is allowed to play on this field, which was based on sharing and allowing everyone to play.
The problem here stems from greedpigs like Phil Ginsburg who cuts budgets for Recreation Center employees and gardeners while (with the help of Scott Wiener, of course) allocating millions of taxpayer dollars to six figure middle management, public relations hacks and an ever increasing recreation and park security patrol force.
As an additional bonus, Ginsburg and Wiener recently made it a crime for you to visit any of the public parks you pay for after the ungodly hour of midnight.
If you care about parks and don’t want to see brodouches and corporate parties kicking out children, feel free to contact Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Scott Wiener to give them some feedback on Phil Ginsburg and our parks:
Mayor’s OfficeCity Hall, Room 200,1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett PlaceSan Francisco, CA 94102 Telephone: (415) 554-6141Fax: (415) 554-6160 Email: mayoredwinlee@sfgov.org
Supervisor Scott Wiener
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett PlaceCity Hall, Room. 244 San Francisco, Ca 94102-4689 (415) 554-6968 Scott.Wiener@sfgov.org