| Mr. Hartner presented some broad ideas for discussion regarding a stewardship |
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| management plan. Last August, City Council representative Ravi Yalamanchi |
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| requested that this Board present a stewardship management plan for green |
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| space parcels purchased with the millage funds and also left the door open for |
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| other stewardship ideas as well. City Council created the GSAB in 2005 and |
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| can expand its role and purpose if they so choose. Mr. Hartner proposed that |
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| GSAB explore the possibility of a city-wide stewardship plan that not only |
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| encompasses green space parcels, but includes other open space and public |
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| land in Rochester Hills such as the Clinton River along the trail, city parkland |
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| open space, and perhaps public open space, in general. |
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| Stewardship activites including signage, natural features preservation, |
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| conservation easements, steep slope protection, river log jam removal, |
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| prescribed burns, aerial sprays, and normal maintenance could all be |
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| considered, however require funding that is currently not available. The current |
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| Green Space millage language would have to be changed by a vote of the |
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| residents in order to repurpose the funds to continue to include green space |
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| purchases and add a stewardship management plan, however that becomes |
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| defined and approved. A comprehensive stewardship management plan would |
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| be a long term benefit as well as a tremendous legacy left by the GSAB to |
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| Rochester Hills. He also distributed an article called, "We're In It for the Long |
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