The Livermore Area Recreation and Park District wants out of a 1992 tax-sharing agreement with the East Bay Regional Park District, and it has filed a lawsuit with the Alameda County Superior Court to do that.

For 33 years, the LARPD agreed to share a portion of its property tax revenues with the East Bay park district, and EBRPD would use it to acquire and develop “additional” and “future” regional parks, open spaces, and trails within the Murray Township. The Murray Township, originally established in 1853, once encompassed most of Livermore Valley. Today, it spans the eastern portion of Alameda County, including the Livermore park district and the city of Livermore.

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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.