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B. Citv Manager Recommendation # 13 : To Eliminate one Full Time employee in the Nature Center <br />Im�act Statements: The elimination of the full time Naturalist position will: <br />Result in a complete change in Center focus from environmental enrichment to a basic, self guided <br />interpretive center or other community use. <br />o An education center becomes a visitor center. <br />o Lost daily supervision and immediate direction far the Center. <br />o Lost program credibility— programs need the guidance and expertise of a lead naturalist. <br />o Loss of much of the anticipated revenues <br />. Eliminate the long standing arrangement with the Roseville Area Schools to provide hands-on <br />environmental learning experiences. <br />o Lost revenues <br />o No opportunity to showcase and develop new programs, classes and partnerships <br />o Environmental education would be minimized <br />• Reduction in significant volunteer opportunities. <br />o Display/exhibit constructionwill be hampered <br />o Special events will be minimized <br />o Volunteer contact i.e., recruitment, training, orientation, supervision would be minimized. <br />• Loss of the Nature Center will result in the elimination of recreation opportunities for a segment of <br />population that chooses to be involved with the out of doors rather than athletics or the arts. <br />• Loss of positive opportunities for our youngsters, oldsters and families to get involved in. The <br />alternatives are many times not good. <br />. Unfulfilled community responsibilityfor teaching stewardship of our natural resources. <br />o Public information and community service will be reduced. <br />Recent developments on Dale Street south of County Road C have given the City a potential future <br />opportunity that would be difficult to match anywhere in the Twin Cities metro area. The close proximity <br />of the Muriel Sahlin Arboretum, the Harriet Alexander Nature Center and the Wild Life Rehabilitation <br />Center blend nicely into an "Environmental Complex". The potential for partnerships and collaborative <br />efforts to promote environmental programming, enhance community opportunities, provide hometown <br />expertise are an invaluable neighborhoodresource. The loss of the Nature Center and a full time <br />naturalistwould jeopardize the "EnvironmentalComplex" concept. <br />� <br />