A City agency practitioner working on a large New York City infrastructure project requiring the importation of significant amounts of soil approached Town+Gown:NYC with a project idea about how to communicate, to the public, that re-use of soil excavated from other City projects would not only be environmentally good, but also safe. Around that time, […]
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The Town+Gown:NYC’s Urban Resource Recovery Working Group has been developing an initiative to leverage the City’s capital program to close construction and demolition waste (CDW) material loops. It is called Closing Loops City Program Initiative or CLCPI. At several Working Group meetings, members raised the issue of needing CDW material and volume data to inform […]
The City of Sullivan identified the downtown area as an area for improvement and needed a way to depict areas. In ENVI 610, one graduate student was able to address the agreed upon goals of developing a 3D model of the downtown square. Some recommendations for future use of the 3D model were made for […]
The Sullivan County Tourism Commission set forth the objective to identify strategies for increasing tourism year-round in Sullivan County and Sullivan. The BUS401 course students were placed in three groups and set to provide end-deliverables of these strategies. The demographics of the population underscored some important populations to target with identified strategies of surveying and […]
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Sullivan County and Sullivan, IN identified a need to increase tourism to the county and incorporated city limits. Seven students in ECON351 were tasked with performing SWOT analyses of Sullivan County’s tourism industry and providing recommendations to improve tourism. Three dimensions of tourism were analyzed: Eco-Tourism, Entertainment, and Historical/Heritage. Recommendations for improving tourism centered on […]
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Raiders Who Code is a summer camp offered by Texas Tech University that aims to increase the interest in coding and programming for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students who qualify as low socio-economic, have a learning disability, or are foster care youth. The primary goal of the the camp is to provide hands-on experiences […]
Public sector organizations create strategic plans as a public management tool to outline long–term goals and missions for the organization. Most often, strategic plans are creat-ed and adopted in conjunction with the city’s annual budget process to ensure that long-term goals correspond with the organization’s financial environment. National City has experienced economic ups and downs […]
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National City is interested in breaking into the lucrative craft brewing industry. The objective of this project was to examine the sustainability of city services and revenues through policy analyses concentrated on attracting craft brewers. Included in this scope of analyses are policy options that may deter brewers and possible negative implications of an increased […]
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On June 6, 2006, the voters of National City approved Proposition D, a District Sales Tax increase of 1%, raising the sales tax rate in the City from 7.75% to 8.75%. The need for this tax increase was based on a few temporary changes to the City’s revenue. The first was rising General Fund expenditures […]
The Serial Inebriate Program (SIP) was created 16 years ago as a new and forward thinking pilot program for the City of San Diego. Its purpose has always been to help the population of homeless who are so often incapable of finding help for themselves—chronic homeless individuals who are serial inebriates. This report provides a […]
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