Documents Show Charitable Donations Spent on Retreats for San Francisco Parks Staff

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’s Recreation and Parks staff retreats instead. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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[aeromtb]

with a budget of over $10 billion why anyone giving the city additional money for programs?

[chief]

Please audit the overtime abuse and other questionable conduct by the San Francisco Park Rangers, especially Head Park Ranger Marcus Santiago.

[davinxi]

Every officials and Park director needs to be looked into and heavily audited in ALL Bay Area cities? Subpoena all records. Do these officials go to luxury retreats? Do officals go to companies they support or to business political events?

[frankgrima]

SF tax revenue is probably the envy of every major city but yet we have ramped crime, homelessness and drugs. We have only one type of politician progressive, and they all think alike with failed policy.

[deejaye]

This is pretty sickening. Thank you for covering.

[zmanzoran]

This points out a serious problem that we face in a lot of other areas of budget and spending. At the state level when you vote for bonds or money that is supposed to go to roads or to schools a lot of times the state will that move that money allocated for those projects to a general fund which they could spend on whatever the hell they want to spend it on. This is pure corruption it needs to stop we need laws that prevents the state from moving moving money to a general fund

[hapakii]

Every non-profit is for profit. Profiting only the elites not the needy.

[jasonyu]

THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING WORK! WE NEED MORE INVESTIGATIVE WORK!!

[hungtran]

No surprise. We got crooked mayor breed

[ginatyra]

Another reason I do not donate to anything! I’ll help anyone locally but I’ll never donate to an “organization “ again!

[rickestricky]

Call me shocked *GASP* 😲. Who watches the Watchmen?? Positions with authority should always be audited.

[mikelew]

Public works / park & Rec / water dept need auditing and investigations

[vancejones]

What sf politics involved in corruption? Who knew

[scottcass]

Heads should roll, but more likely to get golden parachutes.

[JoeRogansGutBiome]

Ok Peskin the Alcoholic who comes to work hungover tell us about bad behavior.

[hayabusa]

64k cashout 😂

Only fools would support any charity

[tedporciuncula]

horrible, just horrible...wheres the mayor?

[BabaYaga-yhyi]

Wow must be nice eh?
Wonder who else dipped into the pot?
How high?

[Standoffmuffin]

I like how they essentially admitted to lying but saying it was for a good cause so please look the other way!

[davinxi]

This happened under the county of supervisor watch tho.