Measure FF NO-TAX-INCREASE EXTENSION MEASURE

On June 5, 2018, the East Bay Regional Park District Board of Directors voted unanimously to place Measure FF on the November 2018 ballot to extend existing, voter-approved funding for Regional Parks in western Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Measure FF does not increase tax rate. Measure FF Priorities Wildfire Protection and Healthy Forests Measure FF will provide continued funding for fire hazard reduction, firefighters, and sustainable forest management, consistent with the Park District’s approved and fully permitted Wildfire Hazard Reduction and Resource Management Plan. Voter-approved funding currently supports the thinning or removal of hazardous vegetation on over 500 acres annually. Fire hazard reduction and sustainable forest management is the top spending priority of Measure FF. Public Access, Trails, and Visitor Use Facilities Measure FF will provide continued funding for trail maintenance and expansion of trails for increased public access, including closing gaps Thinned and Healthy Forest in the Bay Trail which will improve regional Crumpler Marc Photo: connectivity for commuters and safe routes to school for children. Measure FF will also provide funding to keep the Crab Cove Visitor Center in Alameda open year-round and for new interpretive/educational programs at Point Pinole and MLK Jr. Shorelines. Natural Habitat, Urban Creeks, and Shorelines Measure FF will provide funding for ongoing erosion control, watershed protection, redwood conservation, and preservation/restoration of natural habitat, including urban creeks, marshes, and shorelines for endangered species and to prepare parklands for the future impacts of climate change.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, Oakland Photo: Michael Short Michael Photo: Photo: Mitchell Yee Shoreline, Richmond Shoreline, Regional Pinole Point Oakland Park, Redwood Regional Alameda State Beach, Memorial W. Crown Robert Crab Cove Center Visitor Emeryville Berkeley, Park, State Eastshore McLaughlin Measure FF Commitments FF Measure & Albany Wildfire Protection/Forests Management Management Protection/Forests Wildfire (East Bay Hills) – Hills) Bay (East Hazard Reduction and Resource Management Plan. Develop a redwood aredwood Develop Plan. Management Resource and Reduction Hazard forest management plan. plan. management forest Redwood Regional Park (Oakland) – (Oakland) Park Regional Redwood tree history. Provide for creek restoration and erosion control for watershed health and visitor visitor and health watershed for control erosion and restoration creek for Provide history. tree safety. Expand partnership with Save the Redwoods League. League. Redwoods Save the with partnership Expand safety.

Tilden Regional Park (Berkeley) – (Berkeley) Park Regional Tilden Environmental Education Center, Little Farm and Botanical Garden Visitor Center. Increase Center. Visitor Increase Garden Botanical and Farm Center, Little Education Environmental stewardship. Improve access and pedestrian safety at the Brazilian Room and Botanical Botanical and Room Brazilian at the safety pedestrian and access Improve stewardship. Garden Visitor Center. Visitor Garden Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline (Richmond)– Shoreline Regional Miller/Knox level rise. Increase park staffing and upgrade Keller Beach visitor experience. Enhance Enhance experience. visitor Beach Keller upgrade and staffing park Increase level rise. drought tolerant landscapes. drought tolerant Manage forests consistent with Wildfire Wildfire with consistent forests Manage Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach (Alameda) – (Alameda) Beach State W. Memorial Crown Robert facilities. Develop sea level rise interpretation and educational programming. Enhance Enhance programming. educational and interpretation level rise sea Develop facilities. Bay health by upgrading storm water drainage system. Continue year-round Visitor Visitor year-round Continue system. drainage water storm by upgrading health Bay Center services. McLaughlin Eastshore State Park (Berkeley, Emeryville, and Albany) – Albany) and Emeryville, (Berkeley, Park State Eastshore McLaughlin Provide for shoreline and natural habitat protection. Improve visitor use facilities. facilities. use visitor Improve protection. habitat natural and shoreline for Provide Expand park personnel. Protect, enhance, and monitor wildlife habitat. habitat. wildlife monitor and enhance, Protect, personnel. park Expand Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline (Oakland) – (Oakland) Jr. King Shoreline Luther Martin personnel. Provide for educational and expanded recreational programming. Photo: Sukirat Kuar level rise. sea from facilities park and shoreline Protect habitat. marsh Improve Point Pinole – Regional (Richmond) Shoreline Dotson Family Marsh. Improve visitor use facilities and Bay access. Increase Increase access. Bay and facilities use visitor Improve Marsh. Family Dotson educational and recreational programming. Enhance wildlife habitat. Temescal Regional Recreational Area (Oakland) – (Oakland) Area Recreational Temescal Regional quality, habitat and recreational swimming. Provide erosion control for for control erosion Provide swimming. recreational and habitat quality, watershed health and recreational trail safety. safety. trail recreational and health watershed East Bay Gateway Regional Shoreline (Oakland) – (Oakland) Shoreline Regional Gateway Bay East existing paved lands to natural landscape. Provide public access to Bay Bay to access public Provide landscape. natural to paved lands existing Trail and Bay Bridge bike path. Enhance tidal and intertidal habitat. habitat. intertidal and tidal Enhance bike path. Trail Bridge Bay and parcel tax. Measure CC is set to expire soon. expire to set is CC Measure tax. parcel – Point (Alameda) Alameda sea level rise. level sea for by preparing facilities park and shoreline, Beach Breakwater wetlands, seasonal Protect park. regional new for personnel Pablo. Measure CC is an existing $12/year ($1/month) $12/year existing an is CC Measure Pablo. San and Richmond, Piedmont, Oakland, Kensington, Emeryville, Sobrante, El Cerrito, El Berkeley, Albany, Alameda, of communities the in 2004 in by voters passed was which CC Measure of extension an is FF Measure Partial For list. full list visit ebparks.org/MeasureFF.

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