East Bay Regional Park District

This Strategic Energy Plan serves as a roadmap for the East Bay Regional Park District's future energy decisions. It details strategies to significantly enhance energy efficiency, reduce energy costs by 78%, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 771 tCO2e/year. The plan outlines investments in energy efficiency projects targeting lighting, HVAC, pumping, and hot water systems, alongside on-site renewable energy generation, primarily through photovoltaic systems. The estimated investment for these measures is approximately $8.4 million.

This document outlines the East Bay Regional Park District's collaborative Ecological Health Assessment, a science-driven initiative to understand and evaluate the East Bay's ecological health. Key focus areas include identifying indicator species and community types (e.g., golden eagle, various mammals, salmonids, amphibians, oak woodlands, grasslands), developing metrics for assessment, and analyzing existing data. The assessment aims to establish a landscape-level quantitative baseline to benchmark future ecological changes, identify data gaps, and inform resource management decisions and actions, aligning with the district's master plan goals. This collaborative effort involves partners like the East Bay Municipal Utility District, Contra Costa Water District, San Francisco Public Utility Commission, and California State Parks, covering approximately 200,000 acres across three sub-regions: East Bay Hills, Mount Diablo, and Mount Hamilton.

This document outlines the vision and engagement process for the East Bay Regional Park District's new District Plan, which serves as a strategic roadmap to guide the future of regional parks. The plan addresses changing conditions such as climate change, economy, demographics, and park usage. Key draft goals include enhancing Access, Experiences, Resource Protection, Engagement, Public Lands Management, and Organizational Management, all underpinned by themes of Equity, Resiliency, Fiscal Sustainability, and Collaboration. The ultimate aim is to foster an extraordinary and well-managed system of open space parkland.

This synthesis meeting reviewed the year's work regarding the development of new natural surface trails within the district. Key objectives included walking through feedback received on recommendations and the main report, agreeing on the process for finalizing the document, and outlining the next steps for stakeholder engagement. The discussion covered strategies organized into four categories: design and engineering, information and education, management, and enforcement. The meeting also included updates from park district staff regarding recent operational activities such as contract negotiations, the return to in-person work, changes in board meeting formats, progress on major projects like the Wilde Ranch Golf Course planning and construction of a staging area at Pleasanton Ridge, and restoration efforts at Koskar Creek and Sibley.

The Liaison Committee Meeting agenda focused on four informational presentations concerning joint interests between the Contra Costa Water District (CCWD) and the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD). Key discussions included an update on the CCWD Canal Replacement Program, detailing plans to modernize the aging Contra Costa Main Canal into a pipeline to ensure water supply reliability and improve public safety, with phased implementation scheduled to begin in 2032. A second update provided details on the detection and ongoing management strategy for the invasive Golden Mussels within the untreated water system, involving enhanced monitoring, pilot projects, and continued collaboration with EBRPD. The committee also received updates on the planning and community engagement process for the Contra Loma Swim Lagoon, which is currently closed for sand removal and upgrades, and an update on the EBRPD's new District Plan development, which includes a second round of public engagement scheduled to continue through 2026.