ParkTalk_Jan2024

A message from

General Manager | Parks Director Kyla Brown

New year, new opportunities

Happy New Year! The ushering in of 2024 is a good time to re ect on all that we accomplished the past year and what we can look forward to in the year ahead. 2023 was a busy and productive year as we continued to provide quality service to the people of Riverside County. In 2023, we developed our SARB team, expanding from 8 team members to 13, thanks to a combination of grant funding and new contract agreements. The team is making a huge difference already, connecting unsheltered individuals to housing resources and removing waste and vehicles from the Santa Ana River along with our partners. Cleaning the river up is an important step to ensuring this valuable resource is available for recreation and water supply now and into the future. This past year, we also expanded our Planning and Development team to help us design and construct improvements to our regional parks, nature centers, and historic sites. The County Board of Supervisors has generously made RivCoParks a priority by allocating much-needed ARPA funding for everything from water, sewer, and paving improvements to facility “facelifts”, expansions, and reconstructions. It’s exciting to see these projects as they evolve from ideas to reality. Looking ahead, 2024 will kick off with our CAPRA Agency Reaccreditation. This process provides a valuable measure of our quality of operation, management, and service and ensures we meet the national standards of best practice. RivCoParks can be proud of retaining our accreditation for the past 10 years and 2024 will mark the start of another ve years of operational excellence. I look forward to seeing you all in a few short weeks at our All-Staff Conference to share more with you about our future. You each are important to helping us reach our vision of inspiring lifelong connections with RivCo parks, places, and programs.

Here’s to 2024 and beyond!

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