Peoria has adopted a number of master plans that address the preservation of archeological and historical resources in the City. The Palo Verde Ruin reflects a long history with the Hohokam people, and is now a city-owned site. With a focus on the Palo Verde Ruin, Peoria would like to conduct a review of its […]
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Employee Handbook Review
As a historic community, the Town of Clarkdale has long demonstrated its commitment to providing the most cutting-edge and up-to-date amenities for its residents and its employees. The Town’s employee handbook, Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual, has received minor updates since its adoption in 2006. However, the employee handbook is due for a thorough review […]
Tiered Water Rates Study
As a desert community, water is a precious resource for the City of Peoria. The City has consistently shown it is a forward-thinking community through its sustainability planning efforts. Peoria’s general planning document, PlanPeoriaAZ 2040, outlines the City’s commitment to ensuring the best quality of living for Peoria residents through the Livability Initiatives. As part […]
A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Expanding Access to Child Care in La Crosse County
At the request of La Crosse County, we completed a benefit-cost analysis of three potential alternatives to current policy to increase the availability and affordability of child care. Two of these alternatives involve creating new employer-sponsored child care facilities and one entails a wage subsidy for child care providers. Ultimately, on average, none of the […]
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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Harvesting Blue-Green Algae in Brown County, Wisconsin
This report provides a cost-benefit analysis of the removal of blue-green algae (BGA)from the waterways of Brown County. BGAis a common but toxic bacteriaprone to rapid and uncontrolled growth.Itcan be found in waters around the world,includingthose inBrown County. These algal bloomshave become increasingly frequent and sizeable in Brown County and pose threats to human and […]
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Lifecycle Cost Benefit Analysis Project- Road to Smart City
The utilidor is an environmentally and financially sustainable infrastructural solution for subsurface public right of way (PROW) congestion, known as the “subsurface spaghetti” problem, that has been created by utilities’ historical ad hoc practice of direct subsurface burial of transmission infrastructure. With the appropriate financial structure, the utilidor solution can capture the value of the […]
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Nonprofit and Government Partnerships:Addressing Specific Needs of the City of Lemon Grove through Nonprofit Collaboration
The research in this report was created through a partnership between the City of Lemon Grove and the Sage Project at San Diego State University during the spring of 2017. This research was completed by students in an upper division Public Administration class, titled Nonprofit Organizations and Government. This work sought to understand how the […]
Designing National City
Five teams of graduate students in the Urban Design and Land Use Planning Studio class at San Diego State University prepared design concepts for various project sites around National City, California. In this project, students and faculty collaborated with city representatives to identify core areas of potential “smart growth” development opportunities within National City. The […]
Resident and Nonresident Views on Potential Improvements to the City of Lemon Grove
This report details the findings of research commissioned by the City of San Diego and carried out by student-researchers at San Diego State University on the issue of ways to improve the City of Lemon Grove and what improvements participants were most highly interested in. To answer this question, we interviewed both nonresidents and residents […]
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