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By Bob Downing
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 07:50 p.m. EDT, Oct 21, 2009
Metro Parks, Serving Summit County, and the city of Green might work together to preserve, manage and improve the city's Southgate Park.
Metro Parks commissioners on Wednesday heard requests for help from Green Service Director Randy Monteith and Parks and Recreation Superintendent Michael Elkins. They then directed Keith Shy, Metro Parks' director-secretary, to begin formal negotiations to see what kind of an agreement can be reached.
Elkins said the city needs the park district's help in managing the 205-acre natural area off Mount Pleasant Road.
Jim Bissell of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has told the city that the park has two special habitats that are at risk: a bog and a black oak savannah, Elkins said.
Green wants to use the park district's expertise to prepare a needed reforestation and land-management plan for those areas and the rest of Southgate Park, he said.
There are rare native plants at the park that are threatened by invasive species, he said.
The park includes two streams, four lakes, wetlands, rolling meadows and a pine plantation. There is also an old farmhouse — once the home of Henry and Barbara Belden — and a barn that date to the 1880s.
Shy said the park district and the city have been informally discussing options at Southgate Park for six or seven years.
In other action, the park district:
• Approved a 2010 budget of $17.1 million and set aside $414,999 for equipment purchases.
• Agreed to spend up to $50,000 to build a front desk for the refurbished Seiberling Nature Realm in North Akron. The desk will be created by Splitrock Studios of St. Paul, Minn. The desk is to look like a fallen log and will be one of the first things that visitors see. The back will have desk space, drawers and cabinets for staffers.
• Approved a $29,900 contract with Thorson Baker & Associates of Richfield to build an access road and parking lot to serve the new Ledges Trail at Liberty Park off Cannon Road in Twinsburg. The parking lot will also serve a nature center that might be built at the park.
• Learned that the park district won a $250,000 Clean Ohio Fund grant to build a hike-and-bike trail from Akron's Northside Station through Tallmadge to Kent. It also got a $57,000 state grant for solar panels at the Seiberling nature center.
• Saluted retiring ranger Johannes J. Heeling after 28 years with the park district. He retired Sept. 30.
Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.
Metro Parks, Serving Summit County, and the city of Green might work together to preserve, manage and improve the city's Southgate Park.
Metro Parks commissioners on Wednesday heard requests for help from Green Service Director Randy Monteith and Parks and Recreation Superintendent Michael Elkins. They then directed Keith Shy, Metro Parks' director-secretary, to begin formal negotiations to see what kind of an agreement can be reached.
Elkins said the city needs the park district's help in managing the 205-acre natural area off Mount Pleasant Road.
Jim Bissell of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has told the city that the park has two special habitats that are at risk: a bog and a black oak savannah, Elkins said.
Green wants to use the park district's expertise to prepare a needed reforestation and land-management plan for those areas and the rest of Southgate Park, he said.
There are rare native plants at the park that are threatened by invasive species, he said.
The park includes two streams, four lakes, wetlands, rolling meadows and a pine plantation. There is also an old farmhouse — once the home of Henry and Barbara Belden — and a barn that date to the 1880s.
Shy said the park district and the city have been informally discussing options at Southgate Park for six or seven years.
In other action, the park district:
• Approved a 2010 budget of $17.1 million and set aside $414,999 for equipment purchases.
• Agreed to spend up to $50,000 to build a front desk for the refurbished Seiberling Nature Realm in North Akron. The desk will be created by Splitrock Studios of St. Paul, Minn. The desk is to look like a fallen log and will be one of the first things that visitors see. The back will have desk space, drawers and cabinets for staffers.
• Approved a $29,900 contract with Thorson Baker & Associates of Richfield to build an access road and parking lot to serve the new Ledges Trail at Liberty Park off Cannon Road in Twinsburg. The parking lot will also serve a nature center that might be built at the park.
• Learned that the park district won a $250,000 Clean Ohio Fund grant to build a hike-and-bike trail from Akron's Northside Station through Tallmadge to Kent. It also got a $57,000 state grant for solar panels at the Seiberling nature center.
• Saluted retiring ranger Johannes J. Heeling after 28 years with the park district. He retired Sept. 30.
Bob Downing can be reached at 330-996-3745 or bdowning@thebeaconjournal.com.
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Posted 03:13 PM, 11/16/2009
Not that the city doesn't know what they are doing, but Metro Parks are the experts on natural area parks. Plus, they have a lot larger arena of grants to apply for, saving the county and city money.
