LiUNA! Members step up with SF Public Golf Alliance to save Sharp Park!

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will consider an ordinance this fall to close Sharp Park, the only existing MacKenzie-designed public seaside golf course in the world, to protect two threatened species. Anti-golf activists claim that driving off the golfers is the only way to protect the red-legged frog and San Francisco garter snake that live on the course. That claim is simply false.
The San Francisco Public Golf Alliance, working together with environmentalists, historic preservationists, muni golfers and the City of Pacifica, is developing a financially sound plan to save the MacKenzie golf shrine, while simultaneously improving natural habitat and preserving affordable public golf.
Working with Lincoln Park’s neighborhood organizations and others who want to protect Lincoln against development, we are fighting against an effort to drive off golfers–beginning with the transparent proposal to install parking meters in the Lincoln parking lot–­and develop an unneeded events center and related roads and parking facilities overlooking the Golden Gate.
We need your help to make sure that you can continue enjoying these historic, affordable courses.

New Gavin Stuff.

Opportunistic Low Blow for Privatization Angers Workers: LiUNA!, Local 261 to meet with SF Building Trades to discuss future of Golf Management.

The linked article below appeared on the eve of the President's Cup and was met with disappointment by many of the City's workers who have worked lean, day and night to make the Harding Course shine for all San Franciscans this weekend!

The LiUNA!, Local 261 Golf Committee, issued the following: "We are disappointed at the tone and timing of this article. Our staff has been lean and effective while meeting the highest private standards in the industry on a municipal Golf Course for the world to see. To capitalize on a political opportunity to engage in discussions about the alleged "need" to privatize our public golf courses is a low blow to our membership especially in light of what we all celebrate this week. We believe that while some functions in management need to be addressed, and that it is not likely that the status quo will continue, any attempt at rationalizing that the private effort be done on the backs of the "maintenance" workers by denying wages, benefits, or Civil Service protections when "management" is the primary concern, will be met with aggressive advocacy to keep the Courses entirely Public. We need look no further than the SF Zoo or the Concourse Authority to see that "privatization" for the sake of relieving the City of its assets and their burdens is not the best answer." (for more info. see 2007 SF Labor Council Resolution)

Vince Courtney, City Representative
Zac Salem, Golf Committee Chair

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/08/BAVB1A214C.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0TU1lilZS
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Harding Park Golf Course │ San Francisco Golf Courses │ Presidents Cup 2009

Harding Park Golf Course │ San Francisco Golf Courses │ Presidents Cup 2009
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