As part of a proposed $185 million dollar bond issued to help revitalize our parks, Park & Rec head cheese Yomi Agunbiade, announced that a major emphasis of the bond measure will be brining in new bathrooms. The reason for such a decision is the obvious third-worldyness of current park bathrooms. Twenty points for Gryffindor. ...

Two months after Newsom became the umpteenth Mayor to try and roust the homeless from the parks the Examiner checks on in to see how everything is going. The answer? Just swell says Recreation and Park Department General Manager Yomi Agunbiade. According to their stats, the city has torn down 380 encampments and placed 66 homeless people in housing and 33 have been given services. They also tallied who was in the park and discovered that the majority of them are between 18 and 34 and between 30 and 40 percent were from out of town...

From the week that was... -After an extensive, nation-wide search, Gavin announced a new head of the Parks & Recs Department-- the guy who was in charge already. Your new boss of the Parks & Rec Department is the same as the old boss, Yomi Agunbiade. As SFist has done our fair share of temping, we always love it when the temp gets the full-time gig. Gavin also promised major shakeups to the department, including......

After one of those breathless, local news type investigations by ABC 7 into supposed slacking of city gardeners aired in December, the head of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department has vowed to crack down on the abuses. From here on in, there will be quarterly reviews of staff employees and they will have to sign in and sign out of their assignments. To further make sure gardeners actually work, managers will start visiting......