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By Luke Thomas<\/a> and Fanny Dassie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

March 12, 2009<\/p>\n

Many of San Francisco’s early childhood development programs will be terminated in May due to funding cuts and strict civil service rules, confirmed Recreation and Park Department general manager Jared Blumenfeld during a hearing of the Budget and Finance Committee yesterday.<\/p>\n

In a room filled with frustrated parents, youngsters and seniors who held signs in support of recreational center staffers and program directors, Blumenfeld said the Department’s plan to balance its 2009-2010 budget would involve raising fees and laying off 65 professionals to help close its $11.4 million budget cut.<\/p>\n

In February, those selected for termination under civil service seniority rules, were notified that on May 1 they will no longer work for the Recreation and Park Department which manages over 230 parks in the city.<\/p>\n

The rules dictate that seniority and job classification are the only criteria used in selecting staffers for termination, a procedure that will result in the termination of childhood development programs run by experienced program directors.<\/p>\n

“We’d get rid of those people that don’t show up for work,” if civil service rules were not a factor in determining termination selection, Blumenfeld said, responding to Fog City Journal inquiry.<\/p>\n


\nRecreation and Park Department General Manager Jared Blumenfeld.<\/p>\n

In terminating the most experienced staffers, the Recreation and Park Department faces losing the confidence of thousands of parents across the city who rely on the centers’ program directors for the valued programs they administer, programs which include cooking, music, social skills development, gardening, motion skill development, sports and dance classes.<\/p>\n

“Without the program directors that manage these wonderful programs, the rec-centers will effectively become empty buildings,” said Lucy McAllister, a mother who takes her two children to the Moscone Recreation Center run by Program Director Veronica O’Boyle who is being terminated. “Why are the most valued staffers being terminated? It doesn’t make any sense.”<\/p>\n

Robert Chan, a 51-year-old retired attorney, has been driving all the way from the Marina where he lives to the Outer Mission for the past six years to drop his high school son at St. Mary’s Park and Recreation Center to play basketball.<\/p>\n

“We go there just for Marty,” Chan said referring to St. Mary’s Park and Recreation Center Program Director Marty Arenas. “We need people with a firm hand and Marty demands respect from all the kids. He is one of the best employees I know.”<\/p>\n

While the city faces a $576 million budget crisis, many are asking for the stringent civil service rules to be suspended to help save the program directors and the programs they manage from termination.<\/p>\n

Board of Supervisors President David Chiu told Fog City Journal he is looking at the civil service rules and the city charter to evaluate the city’s options.<\/p>\n

Supervisor Chris Daly said he believes the only way to change the civil service rules would be through a charter amendment ballot initiative, a procedure that would require six votes from the 11-member Board.<\/p>\n

And on another front, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi asked the City Attorney to examine a Children’s Fund provision in the city charter that permits the Board of Supervisors to “modify an existing Community Needs Assessment or Plan, provided that any modification shall occur only after a noticed public hearing.”<\/p>\n

“As it relates to the Children’s fund,” Mirkarimi said, “there may be some flexibility – as long as those other stipulations as suggested are met.”<\/p>\n


\nSupervisor Ross Mirkarimi.<\/p>\n

Responding, Deputy City Attorney Sheryl Adams said restrictions to reassessment would apply to services created after a 2001 baseline and non-child specific services that benefit the population at large.<\/p>\n

“Those are the issues and the problems that I see right now,” Adams said. “I will add this to our list of many things I know that we’re looking at to try and solve the problems with the budget.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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