Pershing Square Redesign Funding Questions for Retiring Rec and Parks General Manager

On May 19, 2022, as documented in our live tweet, the Recreation and Parks Commission grilled Rec and Parks GM Mike Shull about the lack of funding or documents handed over by former Councilman Jose Huizar's dissolved nonprofit, Pershing Square ReNew.

On June 17, the City Hall's Channel 35 announced that Shull has retired from city service. Now outgoing Mayor Eric Garcetti seeks to appoint Jimmy Kim to replace him. This is odd timing, because it's the right of a new Mayor to appoint General Managers as well as Commissioners, and one will be elected in November.

Update, January 19, 2022: A motion from embattled councilmember Kevin de Leon seeks to move $3.5 Million from Onni Group's 1000 S. Hope project to the Pershing Square Improvement Fund.