Rochester Hills Will Consider Committee's Recommendations for Managing City's Deer

The Rochester Hills Deer Management Advisory Committee will recommend increased education and also an emphasis on the city's three-year-old ban on feeding deer to help manage the deer in the city.

Rochester Hills City Council members will consider these recommendations at the council's regular meeting at 7 tonight.

The deer advisory committee will not recommend deer culling this year.

However, according to the committee's report, deer culling should be reconsidered for 2013 if, in 2012, there are more than 200 deer-vehicle collisions in the city and if an aerial deer count survey shows a 20 percent increase in deer population in the city.

In 2010 there were 122 deer crashes in Rochester Hills, down from 163 in 2009.

This year, an aerial survey found 132 deer in five surveyed sites; this was up from 107 in 2010.

Also on the city council agenda tonight: a series of blanket purchase orders for supplies and equipment and a request for a one-year agreement between the city and the Oakland County Sheriff's Department.

Council members will also consider appointments to the Historic Districts Study Committee, the Historic Districts Commission, the Construction/Fire Prevention Board, the Brownfield Redevelopment Authority and the Citizens Pathway Review Committee.

The meeting is open to the public. For the agenda, visit the legislative center on the city's website.