The Lack of Action by City Officials is Astonishing - And Disgusting

At 10p, just over an hour ago, I got an email about this SF Standard article, published late afternoon.  I thought, I'll react tomorrow.  I'll make a video.  I'll go to RecPark Office.  

I'm just so disgusted by the Lack of Action by Park General Manager Phil Ginsburg and City Mayor Daniel Lurie, to put an end to this whole Zoo mess.  

I just don't understand it.  As someone who has been in management, who has fired employees for not doing their jobs, it escapes me how the satisfaction of being rid of the problem, has not moved either to act.

How can two grown men, be such cowards?

How can they allow this shit-show to continue?

https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/12/sf-zoo-4m-funding/

From the article...

>The zoo operates under the city’s Recreation and Parks Department and has its own governing board. Rec and Parks department head Phil Ginsburg told Chan at the Thursday board meeting that he understood where the concerns about the zoo were coming from.<

This is literally all he is quoted saying.  Not just in this particular circumstance, about the situation at all.  Other than a letter he sent Zoo Director Tanya Peterson about her non-compliance to the Audit, I don't recall him sounding off on anything that's happened, or surfaced over the last fourteen months of Our Zoo being in the news.  

Ginsburg seemingly continues to ignore what is allegedly the San Francisco Zoo hierarchy protocol, as the Zoo is in the Department he manages.   

Either the information former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin confirmed to me is accurate and being ignored, or is inaccurate.  If the later, Why can't Phil Ginsburg and Mayor Daniel Lurie, comment one way or the other, Why they aren't taking any action?

People aren't stupid, Our Zoo is City Owned, there has to be an Authority above the Zoological Society, a management entity.  And that highest Authority, is allegedly the Mayor.

I'd go to Phil Ginsburg's Office at McClaren Lodge and ask him personally to settle this obvious curiosity, because frankly, Who is in charge, is extremely relevant at this point, but the last time I did that, Ginsburg cowered in his office and wouldn't talk to me.  

It's not like he, and the Mayor don't know that at least one City Resident wants this answer, because I have sent them both all my blog posts with letters, over the last two weeks.  They and their people are very well aware.   They apparently think they don't have to answer to anyone.  And they wonder why Tanya Peterson conducts herself in the same way.  

Why is it, Park Department General Manager Phil Ginsburg, and San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, can not make a simple statement answering, Why they will not assert their alleged Authority over the Zoological Society, and Remove Tanya Peterson as Zoo Director?  

Instead, they support the Board of Supervisors withholding funds to the Zoo, a move that could be detrimental to the Animals.  

This action is not going to scare Tanya Peterson.  She is going to hold her position in the fight.  She has proven in so many ways that she doesn't care about Our Zoo or the Animals that live there.

No one really cares about Our Zoo.  If they did, someone would actually do something.  Someone with Authority would Remove the Problem.   

Unfortunately the two with Authority, Park GM Phil Ginsburg and City Mayor Daniel Lurie, either don't care, or don't have the guts.  

And it's Disgusting.