As the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) celebrates its 85th anniversary, the Park District is seeking public input to help inform the District’s future priorities and interests to maintain its relevancy to the recreational needs of the East Bay’s evolving multi-cultural community. The survey will also give the public an opportunity to weigh in on some of the most pressing issues the Park District and our community face moving forward.
Through a robust outreach program, the East Bay Regional Park District will strive to reach out to as many people as possible and invite them to participate in the survey. The survey is intended to give the public an easy opportunity to provide feedback to the EBRPD’s Board and staff. Surveys are online or will be available at the Alameda County Fair EBRPD exhibit located in the Agriculture Building.
“By completing this short survey, the public will help our Board and staff to evaluate priorities as the Park District plans for a future with wide-ranging opportunities and challenges, such as wildfire prevention and climate change. We also want to understand what services, programs and recreational activities residents would like to see added in their local parks, including what they think can be improved,” said Robert E. Doyle, General Manager.
For 85 years, the East Bay Regional Park District has provided public access to regional parks, shorelines, and trails for hiking, biking, swimming, horseback riding, boating, fishing, picnicking, camping, and nature discovery.
The East Bay Regional Park District is the largest regional park agency in the nation managing 73 parks and over 1,250 miles of trails in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. The Park District acquires, manages, and preserves natural and cultural resources for all to enjoy now and into the future.
Take the survey at www.eastbayparksurvey.com. Learn more and stay connected with the Park District by visiting www.ebparks.org.
Would someone please explain for me the phrase ” …seeking public input to inform the District’s future priorities and interests…”
Was there a typo or is a word missing?
It’s grammatically correct. Your confusion probably lies in the less common definition(s) of the word “inform”.
I don’t believe there’s anything missing. The word “inform” doesn’t have to have a person or group as its “object.” It just means that any input will be taken into consideration when the District decides on its priorities for the future.
I could accept it if it said “…inform the District on (or of) future priorities…” but this wording has “…inform the District’s future priorities…” which is possessive. Is the public input going to inform the priorities about something? It does not parse correctly for me. Any grammarians out there?
The future priorities are what will be informed using the data collected.
The District is not being “informed” in that particular sentence.
Here’s a simple exercise. Let’s replace the word “inform” with one of the definitions per Merriam-Webster:
” …seeking public input to (give character or essence to) the District’s future priorities and interests…”
This exercise doesn’t always work, but it does in this case.
Get the off-leash dogs under control! I drive many miles out of my way to hike on Mt. Diablo, where dogs are strictly controlled. The East Bay Regional Parks trails and EBMUD trails have become open-air dog parks. Nothing kills the mood like taking a turn on a single track trail and coming face to face with an off-leash pit bull, and the dog owner is nowhere in sight.
YES. absolutely.
I got a 404 on that survey link. Twice. I double checked it.
I did too but then I typed it in by hand and it worked.
Oh … ok … thanks.
how is an eye in the sky abusing the copter?
I’m curious, what’s your beef about the helicopter? Where are you seeing it? I’ve been all over Briones, Tilden, Redwood, Huckleberry, Point Pinole, Las Trampas, Chabot, etc etc for decades and I’ve never seen it.
I’m no heliophile, but wouldn’t aircraft be something you’d want to sort of “drive around the block” fairly often to check that everything is functioning well and not just sit for a long time?
I’m just trying to figure out why “the recreational needs of the East Bay’s evolving multi-cultural community” would necessitate adding other amenities than “public access to regional parks, shorelines, and trails for hiking, biking, swimming, horseback riding, boating, fishing, picnicking, camping, and nature discovery”….. doesn’t that pretty much cover the needs of all people who use the parks?
Maybe some Aboriginal immigrant needs a Boomerang practice range?
I mean really, what’s missing?
Target Shooting is missing. It was included for most of those years … but they are trying to serve fewer people in the community, not more.
If the Parks District is serious about serving the entire community they should replace the closed Chabot rifle and pistol range and build a new one to serve the public.
+1.
The helicopter is used for firefighting, surveying land, and lots of other things. It would be a waste of money to have it just for the occasional rescue.
Agree with Bad Nombre. I’m not a gun person, but the trend towards fewer legal, regulated gun ranges accessible to the general public is not good. All levels of government should encourage our gun owners to be of the well regulated, well trained, responsible variety, as opposed to everybody having secret guns that they only discharge surreptitiously.
Replace all homeless drug addicts with plain old park trees.
Make their FD 24hr/day. Makes no sense how come they only work days with santa rosa and paradise burning down. Whats gonna happen when the oakland hills catches fire and theres no one working!