{"id":484824,"date":"2026-10-04T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484824\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:18:08","slug":"likening-of-city-government-to-nonprofit-is-nonsensical-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484824\/","title":{"rendered":"Likening of city government to nonprofit is nonsensical \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Re \u201cHousing emerges as key issue in District 6 election\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/enewspaper.sandiegouniontribune.com\/infinity\/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=d1678d86-34bc-4444-beab-5de904027eec&amp;share=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 27<\/a>): Councilmember Kent Lee, whose only experience has been in the nonprofit world, recently claimed that San Diego is run more like a nonprofit than a business. As a former City Council member who also served as the head of a nonprofit, I find that depiction a troubling misunderstanding of city government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nonprofits must earn donors\u2019 trust. Donors choose whether to give, expect their money to be spent as promised and often require reports showing where their money went. A city government works nothing like that. Residents can\u2019t opt out of taxes, have little say in how their money is spent and see little accountability when it\u2019s wasted. When City Hall needs more, it simply finds new ways to extract it from residents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Business experience isn\u2019t about profit. It\u2019s about managing budgets, measuring results and saying no to spending that doesn\u2019t deliver. If San Diego really were run like a nonprofit, its donors would have walked away years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014 Lorie Zapf, Ocean Beach\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cHousing emerges as key issue in District 6 election\u201d (Sept. 27): Councilmember Kent Lee, whose only experience&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-484824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}