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Item Infrastructure X-Ray: Piloting Asset Management in Ramsey(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2017) Walburg, Lauren; Guo, Yuxuan; Pattsner, MaxThis project was completed as part of the 2017-2018 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Ramsey. Cities own and maintain a large amount of infrastructure, which can be difficult to track for purposes of maintenance and replacement. To better understand the condition and location of each asset the City owns, the City of Ramsey asked students in Dr. Fernando Burga’s Land Use Planning class to investigate various asset management programs, their functionality, and their usefulness for tracking infrastructure and other public assets. The students interviewed staff in other cities that use four popular asset management programs--PubWorks, CityWorks, Infraseek, and Cartegraph--and piloted several of the programs using City data. The report concludes with recommendations for further investigating several of the most promising asset management programs. The students’ final report is available.Item Lake of the Woods Sustainability Assessment(2019-05-17) Dix, Alec; Freesmeier, Claire; Helgesen, Erik; Pattsner, MaxThis report is intended to provide the Lake of the Woods Keep it Clean Committee with an improved understanding of the environmental management challenges related to increased ice fishing pressure on Lake of the Woods, particularly in relation to the use of independent wheelhouses on the lake. Uncertainty about the extent and nature of the impacts from ice fishing and wheelhouse use is currently impeding the effective management of lake usage and the delivery of public services. Based on a synthesis of qualitative research, case studies, and literature on environmental management, this report provides the following policy and process recommendations that the Keep it Clean Committee can utilize to help address pollution concerns, protect their fisheries, reinforce strong local governance systems, support a robust ice fishing economy, and serve both residents and visitors to LOW now and in the future: • Develop and implement a lake access surcharge to secure additional project funding • Focus educational efforts on the lake access point-of-contact with wheelhouse users • Expand the role of resorts in the work of the Keep It Clean Committee • Continue community engagement through surveys, town halls, or other methods We have also identified two specific project directions that could form the basis for continued collaboration between the Keep It Clean Committee and the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. These projects are: • Educational program design for angler orientation on sustainable ice fishing • Case study research on local governance approaches to environmental managementItem Lake of the Woods Sustainability Assessment(The Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2019-05-19) Dix, Alec; Freesmeier, Claire; Helgeson, Erik; Pattsner, Max