Recreation & Fun

Prop C Maintenance Standards

In 2003, San Francisco voters passed Proposition C, which required that:

-- The City establish standards for street, sidewalk, and park maintenance;
-- The City departments engaged in street, sidewalk, and park maintenance publish their schedules on the web, and;
-- The Controller's Office conduct an annual performance audit of the City's street, sidewalk and park maintenance and cleaning operations.

Since July 2004, the Controller's Office has worked with the Department of Public Works (DPW) and our department to develop maintenance standards and schedules and evaluate streets, sidewalks and parks for compliance.

At Rec and Park, our managers are responsible for performing quarterly park evaluations to ensure that our parks are conforming to the established maintenance standards, evaluating things like turf conditions, cleanliness of bathrooms and grounds, functionality of play equipment and the condition of plants and trees.

Today, I ventured out to Mountain Lake Park in the Richmond District. The park is looking great.

Overall, our parks are doing extremely well. In the last round of evaluations, for the first time in the nearly five year existence of the program, the combined scores from RPD and the Controller’s Office reached a compliance rating of 90%.

This means the dedicated work of our staff is making a quantifiable difference in providing world-class parks and recreation facilities to the public. Having set the target of 90% at the inception of the program, we are extremely pleased to have reached this goal and look forward to maintaining this standard as we move forward.