Each election year, NPC hosts supervisorial candidate forums that focus specifically on park, recreation, and open space issues. Our goal is to give you the opportunity to learn more about each candidate's knowledge of and positions on these subjects. 

While we do not endorse candidates, we do give them "park-friendly" ratings based on a questionnaire that we ask them to complete. Candidate responses will be posted on our website.

Stay tuned for the date and time of your district forum! All forums will be held in September and October 2010.

Volunteer Opportunity: Want to help us conduct outreach for your District's meeting by distributing flyers or forwarding email announcement to your networks? Email council@sfnpc.org or call 621-3260 to volunteer.

The Community Opportunity Fund program (COF) of the 2008 Parks Bond is a $5 Million capital program that allows residents, neighborhood groups, and park advocates to initiate capital improvements in their parks by matching public funding with other private gifts and grants. The $3 Million in direct funding will be split into 3 rounds, with award budgets of $500K, $1.25 Million, and $1.25 Million. The deadline for the first round is September 24, 2010.

Click here to review the Community Opportunity Fund documents approved by the RPD Commission on June 17th. The final version of the COF application can be downloaded here.

COF Workshops

NPC is partnering with RPD to hold informational workshops for the public. A representative for each application is required to attend a COF workshop. The dates and locations for these workshops are:

       Saturday, 7/17 12:30pm-4:30pm (drop by any time to this open house)
       Harvey Milk Rec Center

       Wednesday, 7/21 6pm-8pm
       Mission Playground

       Saturday, July 24: 10am-12:00pm
       Joe Lee Rec Center

       Wednesday, 7/28 6pm-8pm
       County Fair Building Auditorium

       Tuesday, 8/3 6-7:30pm
       Main Library, Hispanic Meeting Room

Click here to see the meeting flyer.