Heron's Head Park

Park

Heron's Head Park (park, run by the Recreation and Park Department): $256,154 paid to contractors for work here, $250.4M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 2,161 employees on the payroll, 1 capital project, 3 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. Heron's Head is a park the city has largely paid other people to run. The Port Commission's minutes of 2004 record an authorisation to issue a request for proposals for education and public participation programmes here, and an amendment to the contract with Literacy for Environmental Justice to provide them, with the director's recommendation noting that community participation had been an important part of the park since its inception and a major contributor to its health. Four years later the commission was approving a licence allowing the same organisation to run grant-funded education and habitat improvement programmes on the site, and by 2013 it was issuing a request for proposals to lease the park's EcoCenter together with 6,058 square feet of non-exclusive licence area around it. The park is also a fixture of the working waterfront's calendar — the commission's announcements list it among the sites cleaned on Coastal Cleanup Day, alongside Warm Water Cove, Agua Vista Park and Mission Creek — and its entrance appears in the Port's waterfront parks bond programme beside Crane Cove Park and the Islais Creek shoreline. The money follows the documents exactly: Literacy for Environmental Justice has been paid $256,154.41 between 2021 and 2023. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.