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Recreation & Park Department lays out budget priorities, highlights $15M a year for deferred maintenance
Summary
RPD General Manager Philip Ginsberg told the Budget & Finance Committee the department manages about 4,000 acres and a $154 million operating budget, described equity metrics tied to Proposition B and a $15 million annual deferred‑maintenance allocation, and answered supervisors on park activation, needle boxes and procurement delays.
Philip Ginsberg, general manager of the San Francisco Recreation & Park Department, gave the Budget & Finance Committee a broad budget and program briefing, emphasizing the department’s strategic plan, equity metrics and plans to address deferred maintenance.
Ginsberg said RPD oversees nearly 4,000 acres and 222 neighborhood parks and that a statistic he’s “most proud about” is that very nearly 100 percent of San Franciscans live within a 10‑minute walk of a park. He described three core revenue sources for the department: the general fund subsidy, an open space fund funded by 2.5 cents per $100 of property tax, and earned revenue from permits, concessions and parking. On deferred maintenance,…
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