SEC. 16.105. CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
§ 16.105
The City owns buildings and improvements at the California Academy of Sciences (including the Aquarium, Natural History Museum, and Planetarium), but the Academy manages and controls them and their operations, except that City employees there remain subject to City Charter personnel and compensation rules, and the Academy must submit annual financial statements to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors.
San Francisco owns the buildings where the California Academy of Sciences operates, including the Aquarium and Planetarium. However, the Academy runs these buildings day-to-day. City workers who work there still follow City rules about hiring, pay, and benefits. The Academy has to give the Mayor and Board of Supervisors a yearly report about how much money it spends and makes.
- Complex:The section involves multiple overlapping ownership, management, and employment relationships that require careful parsing to understand the division of authority.
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Official text
All buildings and improvements erected by or under the authority of the California Academy of Sciences, in or on property owned or controlled by the City and County, including but not limited to the Steinhart Aquarium, the original Natural History Museum, the Simson African Hall and the additions housing, among other things, the Alexander F. Morrison Planetarium and Auditorium, are the property of the City and County. However, the buildings and improvements, and the activities and personnel therein shall be managed and controlled exclusively by the California Academy of Sciences, except that employees of the City and County shall be subject to the personnel provisions of this Charter and their compensation fixed in accordance with this Charter and City and County funds are subject to the financial provisions of this Charter.
The California Academy of Sciences shall submit to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors an annual financial statement of its activities in connection with the operation of the buildings described in this section.
Nothing herein shall abrogate any trust by which any property of the California Academy of Sciences has been acquired.