Wonder How Much Water They Buy?
Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick will hold a news conference at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, January 5, in her office at 200 North Main, Room 300, in City Hall East. She will release a performance audit of recreation and community service programs in the City's Department of Recreation and Parks. The Department provides recreation and community service opportunities to 390 parks, 372 children's play areas, 306 sports fields, 287 tennis courts, 176 recreation centers, 59 swimming pools, 30 senior centers, 24 childcare facilities, 13 golf courses, nine lakes, nine dog parks, seven museums, seven campgrounds, two beaches and an urban forest of one million trees.The Department receives an average of $87 million per year from the General Fund specifically for recreation and community services, amounting to approximately 46% of the Department's total budget. The scope of the audit covered fiscal year 2001-02 through December 2005.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 1/04/2006 04:21:00 PM
7 Comments:
super chick is at it again
Talk to any RAP manager about improvements or maintenance on a city park, and they'll say "WE'RE BROKE."
This could be fun. . .
Don't they also rake in the proceeds from the Greek Theater? And various concessions? It's a very well-oiled Department for a non-proprietary one.
The Observatory is not on time and not on budget. But what an undertaking---it's fairly excusable...
Man, Parks and Rec. may be good at taking money for the use of some of their facilities, but they total blow at access to their fancy new soccer fields. You can get a tennis court on the spot, pay a couple of cents to jump in a pool, and show up at just about any baseball feild for free, but if you want to play a pick-up game of soccer on their space-age turf fields, you have to file for a permit days or weeks in advance. God forbid you play anywhere in their parks that are not specifically designated as a soccer field. Their employees call the cops on you, and you get treated like a criminal.
You can't audit stuff like this, but sumthin has to be done to make the situation more equitable to meet the demand for places to play soccer.
Archie, are you really Doug Dowie?
Archie grow up! If you have a critizism of Chick do it in an adult manner not an immature juvenile. I haven't seen anything on this press conf. Does anyone know what she found?
Rec and Parks. Yuk. They do all claim to be broke and some of their back room deals would curl your hair. The parks they control are supposed to be owned by the public.
My ass....
I've got tons of stories.
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