Robert (Bob) E. Doyle

General Manager
East Bay Regional Park District

Welcome to the East Bay Regional Park District. As I look at the growth of this agency over the past decades, I am extremely proud of this agency. The Park District was founded in 1934 in the middle of the Great Depression by everyday citizens who wanted to protect open space and offer recreation for their health and well-being. They were visionaries before their time. Nearly eighty years later, the result is the current East Bay Regional Park District which provides the green fabric of the East Bay with more recreation opportunities than those citizens of yesteryear could have ever imagined.

We have had an exciting, busy, and challenging 2011. We are engaged in the multi-year process of updating of our Master Plan, which will be our planning guide over the next 10 years. In March, we opened a new boating center at Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline in Oakland, with kayaking, canoeing and other water-oriented activities offered to residents, especially our urban youth. The Delta came to life with the opening of our new Delta Discovery Experience outdoor hands-on educational exhibit at Big Break Regional Shoreline Park in Oakley.

As always, we continued our unwavering commitment to protecting open space and the environment. And this year we introduced the national movement of Healthy Parks Healthy People to the East Bay, an initiative founded by Parks Victoria in Australia that seeks to foster understanding about the benefits parks and open space have on individual physical and mental health, as well as on the health of our communities and the environment as a whole.

In these difficult economic times, the benefits of parks are more evident than ever; parks give families a chance to enjoy nature and stay healthy together with free and very low-cost options for recreation and exercise. The Park District is committed to maintaining its standard of sound financial management to ensure that families continue to have opportunities to get healthy outdoors.

I hope you will explore our website and discover our wonderful East Bay Parks. 

Sincerely,

Robert E. Doyle
General Manager
East Bay Regional Park District