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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-11 Town-Gown Relationship1 City of Bozeman and Montana State University Past and Ongoing Town /Gown Partnerships CITY DEPARTMENT I. Administration: a. Explore the possibilities of a MSU-Bozeman Downtown Campus; b. 2011 Catapalooza Event (Finance, PD, FD, Parking, Rec, Building); c. Gallatin Business Resource Network; d. Bozeman’s Public Information Officer Program; e. Children’s International Festival (MSU International Programs); f. Gallatin Earth Celebration (MSU Office of Sustainability); g. City Hall Community Gardens (with MSU’s 1,000 Gardens Project); h. Neighborhoods Program (MSU Office of Communication and Public Affairs); i. Neighborhood Conservation Clubs (MSU Extension); j. Internships (MSU Political Science Dept and College of Business); k. InterNeighborhood Council leadership (MSU Local Govt. Center); and l. Safe Routes to Schools Program (MSU’s WTI). II. Economic Development a. Support for Gallatin College Programs (GCP); b. Department of Political Science – EDT the subject of Dept. of Political Science Organizational Dynamics graduate course; c. Member of the GCP’s Workforce Assessment Task Force; d. Assistance to Tech Ranch; e. Gallatin Business Resource Network (MSU’s Office of Communication and Public Affairs and the College of Business); f. Internships – Department of Political Science; g. Internship – College of Business; and h. Partners with the College of Business’s Students in Free Enterprise Club or SIFE. III. Bozeman Police Department: 2 a. MSU Police Chief is participating in the hiring of a City of Bozeman police Chief; b. MSU Deputy Chief is former City of Bozeman Deputy Police Chief; c. The City of Bozeman currently operates under a Memorandum of Understanding with MSU allowing MSU Police to enforce state law and city ordinances on campus and off and offer each other mutual aid when necessary; and d. MSU cooperation on the City’s Gallatin Project increasing communication between MSU PD, BPD, and the City’s Legal Dept., as well as Victim Services and the Domestic Violence Response Team. IV. Parks and Recreation: a. The Parks and Recreation Department hires many MSU students as seasonal employees, especially MSU athletes. V. City Clerk's Office: a. Several City of Bozeman Advisory Boards and Task Forces include a dedicated MSU membership. They are: i. Community Alcohol Coalition – 1 position for MSU faculty/staff ii. Recreation and Parks Advisory Board – 2 student positions iii. Transportation Coordinating Committee – 1 position for MSU rep. iv. Mayors’ Community Climate Task Force – 1 position for MSU rep. v. Vandalism and Graffiti Task Force – 1 position for MSU rep. b. Annual Clerks Institute and Mayors’ Academy participant and instructor (Sponsored and staffed by MSU’s Local Government Center) VI. Bozeman Fire Department (BFD): a. Currently, the BFD is partnering with the MSU’s GIS department to map critical areas in the city limits. This work the students do ultimately ends up in the 911 maps and is accessible to our responders via our mobile data terminals. This project won an International Association of Fire Chiefs "Award of Excellence"; and b. The BFD is also working with the MSU College of Technology’s welding classes to do all of our welding on our training prop that is in the current CIP. This project will save the City thousands of dollars and provide the students with great real world experience. VII. Planning Department: a. The Planning office recently collaborated with several MSU students to create a digital data layer for the 1984 Historic Structures Inventory. This will allow us to make information available digitally. The Planning Department intends solicit additional assistance from MSU students to help pilot test the new update program and its integration with electronic media and distribution. This will be a 3 cost savings to the City and has provided valuable real world, hands on experience in historic preservation and planning to MSU students; b. The Planning Department is working with two MSU students through the Community Design Center in the Architecture school to develop illustrations for the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). These will help to explain standards and concepts using graphics to enhance understanding and consistency with the public; and c. The Northeast Urban Renewal Board is working with the Community Design Center to help develop a vision document for this urban renewal district. The intent is to have a graphic rich resource to help explain desired outcomes in the district. VII. Human Resources: a. Montana Firefighter Testing Consortium (MFFTC) has been using MSU's facilities each year since about 1999. This partnership involves MSU facilities, food services, testing services, athletics, housing and MSU Police and Parking services. The consortium attracts about 250 participants to Bozeman and the MSU campus for several days each year; b. The City hires many MSU students for seasonal and part time positions; c. Many City employees are proud MSU alumni; d. The City participates in MSU’s Leadership Program through the Extended University; and e. The City participates, through the Local Government Center, sponsors Ethics Training to all City employees, elected officials and board members. XI. Finance Department: a. The City Sustainability Coordinator, is a member of MSU’s Sustainability Team; b. The City’s Controller has been a Governmental Accounting Adjunct Professor for the College of Business; c. The City’s Finance Director has been presenter for local government services and Masters of Public Administration programs on local government finance; d. The City has utalized of an intern for Community Climate Action Plan development; e. Development of joint grant application, MSU/CoB, for recycling education efforts; f. Open communication with MSU Facilities department on projecting utility rate increases; and g. MSU Facilities Manager is a member of the downtown Tax Increment Financing Board. XI. Legal Department: 4 a. MSU criminal law professors invite speakers, including Bozeman Deputy Police Chief and Assistant City Attorney for Prosecutions to lecture classes on criminal law; b. MSU provides a participating member to the Victim Witness Project Team. This Team is the oversight committee for the inter-local agreement Victim Witness program (Victim Services) between the City and Gallatin County; c. The Legal Department hosts two internships per year in cooperation with MSU’s Political Science Department; and d. The City’s ethics training provided by MSU’s Local Government Center. IX. Bozeman Public Library (BPL): a. The BPL works with the MSU Libraries and the General Studies Program on a semester internship that brings in a student interested in becoming a librarian; s/he spends about 7 hours a week with us and does a project. b. Many BPL programs involve MSU—the Film Department, International Programs and Foreign Languages to name a few. c. The BPL works with the former Dean of the College of Arts and Architecture, and extensively utilized the expertise of students and faculty on the Library’s building project. d. The BPL staff meets regularly with the MSU Libraries Reference Department to share ideas and learn from each other and currently the BPL is working with the MSU Libraries staff on coordinating the Montana Library Association Conference. e. BPL staff teaches several classes on storytelling and literacy and library services in the education department at the request of the instructor and the BPL is currently working with two interns from an early literacy class who are observing some children’s programs. f. Collaboration with the Center for Bio-Inspired Nano Materials to create science programs for kids and partnerships with the Science Outreach and Education Specialist at MSU Extension on science programs for libraries. g. One Book - One Bozeman h. Engineers without Borders, an MSU-based student activity, contacted the Library about displaying a photo exhibit in the Atrium Gallery of their work in Kenya. The show was up for over a month to rave reviews, and the BPL Foundation hosted an opening reception with a noted Kenyan architect who helped the students get the project underway. i. Participation in MSU’s Parent's Weekend j. Children's Festival of the Book k. Rural Community Conference l. Author visits m. Musician visits n. Volunteers o. The Library Foundation currently has an MSU Marketing intern this semester to assist with outreach and marketing studies; and 5 p. Partnership with the Montana Center for International Visitors (MCIV) for tours to international students studying English at the ACE Language Institute at MSU. X. Public Services: a. Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP): i. Many WWTP plant tours are given to MSU Civil Engineering Students, Microbiology Students, and Environmental Science Students, Film and Photography Students and others each year; ii. Partnership with MSU’s film production department to help produce water conservation and environmental science videos; iii. Collaboration with MSU on the development of a Constructed Wetlands Demonstration Site; iv. Collaboration with MSU engineering student senior class projects, including a class project in which students were asked to develop mock water reclamation facility (WRF) "facilities plans" for the construction of a new UV disinfection systems and other plant components; and v. Collaboration with several engineering professors from the MSU Biofilm Research Center to discuss the feasibility of constructing a pilot-scale lagoon system from which MSU would harvest algae for the purpose of producing bio-diesel products and other plant-based fuels. b. Solid Waste: i. The Solid Waste Division collaborates with MSU specialists on landfill gas related engineering projects. c. Engineering: i. The City’s Engineering Division has successfully worked through right- of-acquisition with MSU Facilities staff for the future round about at the intersection of 11th and College Streets; ii. Engineering will also complete an MOU addressing MSU's use of the center roundabout island for a themed campus entrance, i.e. monument sign and landscaping; and iii. MSU’s partnership in public outreach and education for proper navigation of the roundabouts by pedestrians, bikes and vehicles is an extremely important public safety campaign.