Browsing by Author "Walburg, Lauren"

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    Infrastructure X-Ray: Piloting Asset Management in Ramsey
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2017) Walburg, Lauren; Guo, Yuxuan; Pattsner, Max
    This 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.
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    St Paul Climate Action and Resilience Plan: Building Equity Through Community Engagement
    (2019-05-13) McNiel, Daniel; Morgan, Jordan; Soczka, Chris; Walburg, Lauren
    Our team researched emerging practices in public engagement for the City of St. Paul Climate Action and Resilience Plan (CARP). We discovered that the city is excelling at applying many best practices for public engagement. There are opportunities, however, for St. Paul to implement an innovative engagement strategy. Our research of other Climate Action Plans found that Cleveland and Portland take an intentional approach to reaching out to vulnerable communities and considering equity issues in climate change policy. Based on this research, we recommend that the city strive to incorporate an engagement structure that includes a more iterative process of evaluation and work to frame their engagement around the 2025 review of the CARP. We created a toolkit that provides resources to support ongoing engagement as well as the long-term success of CARP initiatives. Finally, we provide several recommendations to assist the city in engaging vulnerable communities and supporting collective community action.