""I have to read in the paper that there's a new skate park?" he asked Recreation and Park Department general manager Phil Ginsburg at the July 17 commission meeting. "We should know these things.""
""I'll compile all of that for you, commissioner. I don't think you're going to see some huge influx of dollars.""
""In the context of parks which cost in the tens and tens of millions of dollars, it was a minor investment," he said. "It's fair to say, given all the acreage"
Larry Mazzola, Jr., a Recreation and Parks Commission member, learned about an oceanfront skate park at Sunset Dunes through news stories and questioned why the commission was not informed. He requested a full accounting of the funding for the project. Recreation and Park Department general manager Phil Ginsburg initially said much of the money "did come from philanthropy and the private sector" and that no large influx of public dollars was expected. A one-page document produced later showed more than 80 percent of expenditures came from public sources, including about $700,000 from the 2020 Prop. A bond. The disclosure prompted debate over whether that sum constituted a substantial public investment.
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