Then a report by the city’s budget analyst found massive fiscal mismanagement at the Marina Yacht Harbor, which is run by Rec and Park. Perhaps so much money wouldn’t have gone unaccounted for, the audit suggested, if the department had installed a cash register. Still, not a problem for Agunbiade. Other reports exposed one organizational or fiscal snafu after another, but his position was secure. In San Francisco, running a city department like a Franz Kafka nightmare doesn’t cost a decisionmaker his job.
— The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. - Benjamin Wachs, Joe Eskenazi
While I, as a Baltimoron, have a bone to pick with these guys for claiming that San Francisco is the worst run city in America, I recognize some familiar features in their description of how the system works…
