The Walnut Creek Park, Recreation and Open Space (PROS) Commission held its regular meeting on Monday, February 2, 2026, at 6:00 pm in the City Hall Council Chamber. Chair Jason Cooke presided, with Vice Chair Sharon Pinkstaff and Commissioners Fran Garland, Art Oller, and Gloriann Sasser present. Commissioner Eli Konson was absent. The meeting featured presentations from six community non-profit partners, public comments on open space and recreation issues, and recognition of outgoing commissioners.
The commission heard 15-minute presentations from six non-profit organizations, followed by public comment and commissioner questions.
Good evening. I'm Jason Cook and welcome to the Monday, February 2nd, 2026 regular meeting of the Walnut Creek Park Wreck and Open Space Commission. Start with uh roll calls. Secretary Vickers, would you please call roll? Yes. Commissioner Sasser. Here. Commissioner Oler. Commissioner Garland. Here. Vice Chair Pinkstaff. Here. Chair Cook. Here. And let the record show that uh Commissioner Conson is not but uh present tonight. Next on the agenda is public communication. This portion of the meeting is reserved for comment on items not on the agenda. Under the Brown Act, the Commission cannot act on items raised during public communications, but may respond briefly to statements made or questions posed. Request clarification or refer the item to staff. Written comments submitted have posted to the city's website for public review and are included in the meeting record, but will not but will be will not be separately read into the record. So this is a portion for items public comment not on the agenda. We have a busy schedule tonight. So is there anybody who has uh not on the agenda? Yes, sir. Come up and chat, two minutes. Two minutes. Uh hey there, folks. Uh my name is Jared King, born and raised here in Walnut Creek, lived here my entire life. Um, and I am here to uh voice a desire, and I think there's a need for this. Um, a mountain bike pilot project in Lime Ridge. Uh, most of you guys are probably aware that we tried to get a trail built in 2021, didn't really go well, but there is a large group of kids that ride and race in this area and that utilize Lime Ridge as a training ground, and the trails that they legally can ride do not necessarily serve what they need them to be. Um, and I think Lime Ridge would be a great solution for a pilot project. Um I would urge all of you guys to look into the success of the Briones pilot project that was been running for the last two years in Brioney's uh East Bay Regional Park District. Um I was largely a part of getting that up and running, and I would love to help you guys get a pilot project up and running here in Walnut Creek because I think it's desperately needed. Um I brought in a bunch of Contra Costa composite riders, these are all of our kids that race here in the area. There's a small group of them, but the team is comprised of over 120 riders, and that's just one team. Uh, there's teams at San Roma Valley, teams at Miramonte, teams in Oakland, and they all come over to Lime Ridge and to Walnut Creek to ride bikes, and I think we need to build them some trails. Um, and that's my comment for y'all today. Thank you. Great, thank you very much. Any other uh public comment before we okay, yes. Good evening. I'm Glenn McBee. I'm the city liaison for the Walnut Creek Racket Club. Been for many years. Um I missed Chris's welcome party. I wanted to come down and introduce myself and uh again get reacquainted with you guys, pump up our club a little bit. We got one meet I want to talk about in a little bit, but just to remind the group, the crowd, Walnut Creek is a destination for a lot of things. It is definitely for tennis. We have over 1,200 members, active members in our public club, largest in Northern California on probably one of the smaller venues that we have centrally located at Heather Farm.