![]() Back in March, Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan said they smelled a rat with this arrangement, though they never really found the rat, so the Ferris wheel was extended another four years, with the Parks Alliance still managing the attraction.īut Supervisor Chan is not done with the Parks Alliance yet. That corrupt slush fund - really just a minor piece of the wider public corruption scandal - put a dark cloud over the Golden Gate Park’s SkyStar Ferris wheel, because the Parks Alliance gets and manages the proceeds from all of those $18 ferris wheel rides. And that is precisely the sort of structure that allowed Mohammed Nuru to bilk a $1 million slush fund out of the Parks Alliance, as the City Controller discovered in September 2020. The SF Parks Alliance is a “Friends of”-type outside nonprofit that raises money or provides philanthropic services on park-related matters, donating money back to the city's Parks and Public Works departments for various projects. SF Rec and Parks is a city department that manages and maintains our parks. They have very similar names, but the SF Recreation and Parks Department and the SF Parks Alliance are two different entities. Supervisor Connie Chan is not done snooping into the finances of the San Francisco Parks Alliance, with an audit she ordered finding millions in anonymous donations, but no smoking gun. ![]()
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