The Livermore Area Recreation and Park District has filed a claim against the East Bay Regional Park District over allegedly misusing shared tax revenue.

The two park districts have held a tax-sharing agreement since 1992. According to a statement by LARPD General Manager Mathew Fuzie, his district shares a portion of its property tax revenue with EBRPD for the acquisition and development of new regional parks, open space, and trails within LARPD’s service area.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.