"One of those is China Beach in San Francisco's Sea Cliff neighborhood, as it is part of the national park known as the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Or rather, China Beach closed. It's not anymore, as KTVU reports that a group of swimmers who frequent the area decided to start a GoFundMe to reopen the beach, and sure enough, they raised enough money and China Beach is now reopened."
""If the federal government can't figure it out, then the local community will," the GoFundMe's organizer David Yacubian told SFGate. As seen above, it did not take all that much money to reopen the beach. Yacubian asked Golden Gate National Recreation Area officials how much it would cost to reopen the park, and they told him it would be just $130 a day in maintenance costs. So once the GoFundMe hit enough for two weeks of that per diem cost, he had the park reopened."
Federal government shutdown closed many National Park facilities, including China Beach in San Francisco's Sea Cliff neighborhood. Frequent swimmers organized a GoFundMe and raised sufficient funds to cover maintenance costs and reopen the beach. Organizer David Yacubian reported officials said reopening cost $130 per day, and donations covering two weeks of that per diem allowed the park to reopen. China Beach reopened on Nov. 5 with crowd-funded support through Nov. 19. The fundraiser will remain open to cover additional two-week periods if the shutdown continues. Any surplus funds will be donated to the San Francisco-Marin Foodbank.
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