After publishing yesterday's post, I took a break for the afternoon, as I planned to start finishing that Part Two draft post in the evening. As it has happened many times in the past, when I feel I have it in me to tackle a post that has languished in draft too long, something unexpected comes my way that tries to derail me. It happened again. I finished my dinner just about 7p, and was taking a breather before tackling that post. I checked email. An Anonymous message via my blog comment form had come in.
"Curious if you’ve seen the audit yet"
... Linking me to the document, which I'll share at the bottom. Thank you to whoever sent this.
I have been inquiring to Supervisors about this for months. Waiting through the month of April, as that was the noted time it would be made public. And they release it one day after the month ends, and as I have four drafts set for the weekend. Unbelievable, though not really.
My first thought was, Don't Open It! Seriously, as much as I wanted to, my goal had to be finishing that draft post, especially now that this was probably going to backburner all other draft posts. I sat there, curiosity gnawing at me. I can't write while digesting, so I gave in and decided to just take a look. It's 248 pages. I peeked a bit further. I ended-up scanning the first 29 pages, because frankly I couldn't believe what I was reading. I felt relieved that I was reading something official that could finally help Our Zoo, yet sad and sick, that it's taken eighteen years for there to be some attention, thought and care shown to Our Zoo after so many years of negligence. All I was reading was familiar, and reminiscent of too many of my own words, expressed in this blog and letters to Officials. Pleas for help. Enlightenment and Suggestions. Thankfully I had the strength to close it for the time being. I proceeded to work on that draft for the next seven+ hours, finally putting that aside at 4a.
I had checked Google News, when this came in and there was nothing about this yet. I thought to immediately just share the link here, but I knew I'd get wrapped-up in it somehow, so I decided to wait til today, in hopes of publishing that draft post first. It's early morning now, and checking News again, there's a Chronicle article. It's dated last night, so they must have got it in not long before the day ended. Since their reporting on it is out there, I'm going to share the link to the Audit Document now, as opposed to later today when I expect to publish that draft post. Not a fan of this flow, but it does also give me opportunity to possibly finish and post the other drafts as well, before getting into dissecting the Audit, which will take some time to even read, let alone write my reactions to.
That said, this post is obviously not my full reaction to the Audit, but to the brief scan through of the first twenty-nine pages, and to acknowledge it's been made public, and share the link (at bottom) to the Audit Document.
All I can say for now is, I TOLD YOU SO.
I've been telling City Officials for over a decade, no one wanted to listen, because No One Cared.
This is all on the Mayor's, past and present over the last eighteen years, the Recreation and Park Commissioners and previous Park General Manager, the City Supervisors, and the San Francisco Zoological Society. The later and it's chosen CEO/Director are primarily to blame, but they were allowed to run Our Zoo into the ground with mass mismanagement and elitist behavior, with absolutely no oversight from City entities, despite Our Zoo being owned by The City.
The amount of effort I put forward, in 1,111 blog posts over fifteen years, spending over 6600 hours minimum, not including time spent writing endless emails ad nauseam, contained more information than was needed to alert and highlight what was going on at Our Zoo, and I started documenting over thirteen years before the Chronicle ever wrote an exposing word.
THEY ALL KNEW. While my voice as the only member of the public, attempted to Roar the loudest, I watched as Staff members tried to express the need for help to the RecPark Commissioners and Zoological Society Board Members who sat on the Joint Zoo Committee.
NO ONE CARED. Not one person in a sea of those who could have helped. Who could have Saved Our Zoo from this desperate position a very long time ago. SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!!!
Audit Document PDF
https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/050126_Performance_and_Management_Audit_of_San_Francisco_Zoo.pdf
Related Post:
*The Audit - Furthermore To Zoo Board and City Officials... Do Not Say It!!!
https://iamnotananteater.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-audit-furthermore-to-zoo-board-and.html
1 comment:
I, too, am appalled, but not surprised, given your years of sounding alarms. It’s outrageous that so many of those who oversaw this are still in positions to make financial decisions!
I hope Tanya is, in some way, ashamed of herself. But given the smugness of having friends in high places, and the subsequent freedom to steal money points to an incurable narcissism.
It’s clear that the zoo needs a total overhaul of management.
This is the type of theft that irks so many of us.
Mayor’s move?
Keep up the fight!
Keep pointing it out!!!
These people are crooks.
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