Records reviewed by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit show that thousands of dollars raised by the San Francisco Parks Alliance scholarship fund, ended up paying for city Recreation and Parks staff retreats instead.
“This raised a lot of questions,” said City Supervisor Connie Chan, who has been a vocal critic of the Parks Alliance’s role in city politics. “People thought that what they're donating to is a scholarship fund,” she said, but the money instead “allowed Parks Alliance to create a slush-fund account to allow the executive staff of the Recreation and Parks Department to use and tap into those funds for whatever it is, at their leisure.
“We are happy to invest in their learning and morale, which helps them deliver great services every single day,” the department said in a statement. Even so, Supervisor Aaron Peskin has joined Chan in questioning the ethical implications of shifting money from a scholarship fund to a separate pot controlled by parks officials.
Peskin worries that the Crab Fest event could allow for an end run around city ethics rules that otherwise restrict direct contributions to city officials by firms doing business with the city.
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