SF Parks Alliance Scandal Explodes, public prosecutor opens criminal investigations

There can be shameful or even criminal reasons why the Sunset Cinema Outdoor films in the park will not take place this summer, since the SF Parks Alliance, which runs these film nights, is now exposed to a criminal examination of millions of missing dollars.

At the beginning of May we learned that the popular films from SF in the Park program Sundown Cinema for 2025 are canceled, since the SF Parks Alliance non -profit organization that leads the program had some mysterious but definitely problematic financial problems. The SF Parks Alliance (which does not match the SF Rec and Park Department) is a private non-profit organization that carries out its own fundraising campaign and contains funds such as a bank for various smaller parking and neighborhood groups, so that these groups themselves do not have to be included as non-profit organizations.

These financial problems became less mysterious and problematic than the chronicle last weekend falling a news bomb from 5 p.m. that the Parks Alliance had spent almost 4 million US dollars for other operating costs for their own operating costs. Louise Mozingo, Chairman of the Alliance Board Park, said that the financial problems of the organization “What a friend of mine would call a garbage container fire” does not want to call himself a fire itself as a dump.

But we will definitely get into the Müllcontainer Fire Territory because today's Chronicle reports that Brooke Jenkins' office opened a criminal investigation by the Parks Alliance. According to reports, this investigation is carried out by the Special Prosecution department of the office, which examines public corruption and crime crime.

In addition, the city council's office confirmed David Chiu that they too will examine the SF Parks Alliance. This investigation would be unlikely to create criminal charges, but Chius Office could sue the organization or have it concluded by further city contracts.

“The recent reports on financial mismanagement at Parks Alliance are extremely worrying,” said the city's spokesman for the lawyer, Jen Kwart, in a explanation of the chronicle. “We check the matter to ensure that public resources are used appropriately.”

Robert Ogilvie, CEO of New SF Parks Alliance, told the Chronicle: “This is the first time that I hear about it” when I was asked about the reported criminal investigation. Ogilvie replaced the former CEO Drew Becher, who calmly resigned in February before the reports appeared that the smaller partners of the Allianz found that it took months or more to reimburse the costs of only $ 100.

But the chronicle received an e -mail from Ogilvie, which was sent last Monday, in which Ogilvie apologized to the members for “lack of communication, transparency and accountability, which in the past came from the organization”.

Last week, the supervisor Shamann Walton demanded hearings in the troubled financial situation of the Parks Alliance. Then the Supervisor Jackie Fielder now called for an examination of the SF budget and legislative analyzing “to examine all financial and expert relationships with the SF Parks Alliance, including but not limited to the special limited funds for General Manager and the Recreation and Park Commission”.

If it has to be pointed out, Jackie Fielder and Da Brooke Jenkins in the political SF spectrum are the most possible objects. And even with their political purposes of the Polar Opposite, both are now aimed at the SF Parks Alliance.

Allianz seems to see that the former CEO Drew Becher is set up here as a autumn type. Now, however, several examinations are underway, and new revelations could change this narrative quickly.

Related: The supervisor calls for hearings to everything that is going on with the besieged SF Parks Alliance [SFist]

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