Kansas City, Mo. ? Colored photographs of piles of trash, broken beer bottles, waist-high weeds and filthy toilets weren’t what Kansas City park and recreation commissioners hoped to see during a report on the state of the city’s parks.

But the pictures are what highlighted a critical report presented Tuesday by Mark Funkhouser, the city auditor.

Commissioners agreed with the report but said the city just didn’t have enough money to correct all the problems.

Parks officials promised a better monitoring system to track problems and figure out creative ways to fix them.

“Some of the unsanitary restroom conditions were deplorable,” the report stated. “Liberty Park’s restroom had a clogged toilet, no running water, a feces-soiled wall and a dirty floor covered with broken glass.”

Funkhouser’s audit team inspected 50 parks in the summer and found problems in all of them. In one north Kansas City park, for example, inspectors found several nails sticking out of boards next to a playground.

The report, however, gave the parks department good marks for landscaping.

Trash can accumulate in parks quickly, acknowledged Mark McHenry, deputy director of the parks department. However, “it’s cleaned up quickly,” he said.