49ers Move Will Hurt San Francisco Parks

February 17, 2012 8:25 AM

Candlestick Park in San Francisco. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Reporting Barbara Taylor

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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Millions of dollars that maintain parks all over San Francisco will vanish when the 49ers head to Santa Clara in 2014, and city officials said they are worried about how to fill that gaping hole in the budget.

“As a city, we’re actually going to have to have a serious conversation about how to solve for that when, eventually, they stop playing football games at Candlestick,” said Phil Ginsberg, executive director of the Recreation and Parks Department.

KCBS’ Barbara Taylor Reports:

49ers Move Will Hurt San Francisco Parks

The 49ers lease at Candlestick Park brought in $10 million this year, about $2 million more than usual because the team had a good season that ended with the National Football Conference Championship.

“This year has been significantly better than prior years simply because they sell more tickets, they sell more hot dogs and because they had a couple of extra games,” Ginsberg said.

The winning season meant no layoffs or program cuts this year for a department with a $115 million budget.

Stadium revenue typically brings in $6 million to $8 million that Ginsberg said “helps us keep gardeners in our parks and custodians in our rest rooms.”

The city will also stop pocketing several million dollars of stadium admission tax on home games.

A study released in 2007 by the 49ers estimated the new football stadium near the Great America theme park would bring hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to the South Bay.

The $1 billion project means hundreds of temporary construction jobs, and perhaps 1,000 permanent jobs once finished, although economists said it’s unclear exactly how much money the stadium will bring to Santa Clara itself.

49ers Move Will Hurt San Francisco Parks

heygeo

SF deserves what it gets here… they take all the revenue from candlestick and spend it on other non revenue generating parks leaving their cash cow in shambles… they killed the proverbial golden goose.
tn

Cash cow = Cash how?, Golden Goose = Golden Noose. Add any of those factors and the answer is civic politics. Kind of like the peanut shell game and the ones moving the shells are many of our appointed politicians.
tn

And the photo of Barbara Taylor (above)…. was she ever a dude? (Admit it- I know you thought it)
BT

Given what SF spends on its non-taxpaying parasites, it should be able to easily find $10 million for something the middle class cares about. If not, every one of the Supervisors should be recalled.
BT

PS: In the end, the stadium will bring NOTHING to Santa Clara or its residents while bringing many millions to the owners of the Giants. What other business get taxpayer subsidies like pro sports? The “giant sucking sound” you hear will be money being vacuumed from the Santa Clara treasury to the team and its owners.
JB

The CITY of Santa Clara (the only ones paying for the Santa Clara Stadium) is getting a total of NINETY JOBS (90) and that’s all!! And, that is per a city-paid report which is probably overstated. All the monies that keeps being volleyed about is “regional benefits” which means absolutely nothing to the ones paying for it … the CITY of Santa Clara. The Region is not putting in a single cent … and neither are the 49ers!

Wow … the City and County of San Francisco is making MILLIONS per year … Santa Clara is slated to make $180,000 for the FIRST year and will get ONE MILLION dollars in lease payment in the ELEVENTH (11th) year! Santa Clara WILL NEVER make $6-8 Million/year … NEVER!!

And, the fans will have an awful experience in Santa Clara too! Like ZERO dedicated parking! THOUSANDS in PSL fees! Access WORSE than Candlestick (per the 49ers’ own report)! And, a location directly under the flight path!! Santa Clara’s site is inadequate and the 49ers do not have a hoot about the lousy experience that they know will be there … all except the 1% that have the TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars for the suites, luxury boxes and PSLs.
Stop The Shenanigans Santa Clara!

Measure J was built on deceit, & fraud…The Yorks, & Santa Clara elected officials 1st said that Measure J would be of no cost to the taxpayers of SC…Then as of December 2011, the price rose to $850 Million to the taxpayers of Santa Clara. Now after the 49ers Rigged the Court System in Santa Clara County, & got the lawsuit thrown out, the price of the Stadium is 1.2 BILLION! There is no doubt in my mind the the price of this undersized stadium will rise to at least $3 Million.

The bottom line is that the taxpayers did NOT vote for a 1.2 BILLION STADIUM, and now due to corrupt politicians, and the Yorks THE TAXPAYERS ARE BEING MADE TO PAY FOR THE 49ERS STADIUM! Something is wrong when a small town has the huge burden of this debt, and their elected officals stand with the Pro-Sports team…

if you are reading this, and are as outraged as I am, & I don’t even live in Santa Clara…Write to the AG of California, and complain about the Yorks, & the elected officials of Santa Clara…About the lies, deceipt, & fraud put on these poor ppl of Santa Clara.