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Technical Bulletins: Incorporation: Things To Consider Before And After, Pat Hardy

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This document is intended to address the process of incorporation under the mayor-aldermanic charter. However, if you are considering incorporation, you would be wise to look at incorporating under one of the other general law charters such as the city manager-commission charter - one of the other charters may better fit your area's needs.

Tennessee Public Acts 1996: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication summarizes the year's public acts that have the most significant impact on municipal operations. Users of this publication are cautioned that much judgment is involved in determining which Public Acts to summarize and how to summarize them. Before taking action or giving advice based upon any Public Act summarized here, one should consult the act itself and not rely on the summary.

Surveying Citizens: A Handbook For Municipal Officials Who Want To Know What Their Citizens Think (1995), David H. Folz Phd

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

Doing a citizen survey can be as simple as determining a random sampling and making some phone calls - or it can be a time-consuming and costly project to help decision makers set the direction for your community's future. The approach you take depends on the results you want. Some chapters of this publication are simple and offer easy-to-understand instructions for less-complicated surveys. Other chapters, particularly 5 and 6, offer for those interested much more detail, including statistical explanations and detailed descriptions of software uses. Don't let it throw you if we've got more information here than you need. Simply …

Tennessee Public Acts 1995: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication summarizes the year's public acts that have the most significant impact on municipal operations. Users of this publication are cautioned that much judgment is involved in determining which Public Acts to summarize and how to summarize them. Before taking action or giving advice based upon any Public Act summarized here, one should consult the act itself and not rely on the summary.

Tennessee Public Acts 1994: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication summarizes the year's public acts that have the most significant impact on municipal operations. Users of this publication are cautioned that much judgment is involved in determining which Public Acts to summarize and how to summarize them. Before taking action or giving advice based upon any Public Act summarized here, one should consult the act itself and not rely on the summary.

Tennessee Public Acts 1993: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication summarizes the year's public acts that have the most significant impact on municipal operations. Users of this publication are cautioned that much judgment is involved in determining which Public Acts to summarize and how to summarize them. Before taking action or giving advice based upon any Public Act summarized here, one should consult the act itself and not rely on the summary.

Getting To Know And Maybe Love Your Municipal Charter, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication explains what a municipal charter is, what it does, and how it may be changed.

Determining Wastewater User Service Charge Rates, Haig Farmer, William J. Finane Jr., Sharon H. Fitzgerald

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

Good financial management is a critical part of all wastewater operations. It allows you to establish the user service charge rates necessary to keep your utility financially healthy and running smoothly. This publication was designed to help small to medium-sized wastewater utility operations decide how much they should be charging their residential, commercial, and industrial customers for wastewater services. It includes a Lotus 1-2-3 computer model program and manual procedures to help you calculate specific values for your system's user service charges. [The computer program referenced throughout this document is not available.]

Tennessee Public Acts 1992: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication summarizes the year's public acts that have the most significant impact on municipal operations. Users of this publication are cautioned that much judgment is involved in determining which Public Acts to summarize and how to summarize them. Before taking action or giving advice based upon any Public Act summarized here, one should consult the act itself and not rely on the summary.

Municipal Law Enforcement Management Report 1989 No. 2: Managing Liability Exposure: A Model For Law Enforcement, Phillip E. Keith

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Learning methods to address liability exposure are required for municipal managers to act effectively. This report is intended to heighten the awareness of local municipal managers by reviewing causes of liability and outlining risk reduction strategies.

Municipal Law Enforcement Management Report 1989 No. 3: Weapons Retention, Phillip E. Keith

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Weapons Retention will assist elected officials, city managers, and law enforcement administrators to identify issues when selecting weapons for their police departments and to recognize the importance of training and legal issues that must be considered. This report also discusses the selection of weapons, the minimum training required by the State of Tennessee, and the legal issues surrounding their use.

Workplace Substance Abuse: What Employers Can Do, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

Workplace Substance Abuse: What Employers Can Dodiscusses substance abuse problems. Options on how municipal employers can minimize exposure to lawsuits are outlined. Steps in establishing a comprehensive substance abuse policy are provided.

MTAS Personnel Report, no. 2

Municipal Courts In Tennessee - A Constitutional And Statutory Primer, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This paper will first examine the constitutional and statutory underpinnings of municipal courts in Tennessee. Then it will briefly review the jurisidiction of municipal courts, the selection of municipal court judges, and municipal court penalties. Finally, it will take a look at the recent case of Summers v. Thompson, Tenn. Sup. Ct., No. 23, filed May 23, 1988. That case has a significant bearing on all of those topics, and it has some implications for what municipal courts will look like in the future. No pretense is made that every important thing is said or every important case is cited …

Observations On The Relationships Between Population Changes, Tax Rates And Levels Of Debt, Thomas A. Brant

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This report is intentionally characterized as "Observations" in its title. It does not pretend to be a definitive analytical study that leads to unshakable or hard conclusions. It is exactly what it claims to be, i.e. "observations". This does not mean that it cannot be useful. The intent was to present appropriate information in a way that will facilitate a better understanding of an important and complex subject. The purpose was to provide a factual basis for considering the relationships between population growth, local property taxes and levels of debt in Tennessee cities and counties.

Tennessee Municipal Handbook Third Edition (1984), Mtas

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This Tennessee Municipal Handbook is intended for use as a reference guide by Tennessee municipal officials. It is primarily a summary of the state's laws affecting municipalities under a rough kind of subject matter classification, with a sprinkling of other information considered to be relevant. It is not a textbook on municipal government.

Budget Manual For Tennessee Cities (1984), Michael Tallent, Robert W. Freson

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This document was designed to assist in the preparation of the typical municipal budget and to provide a basic guideline for the municipal official in budget development.

Technical Bulletins: Timing Of A Special Census, E. W. Meisenhelder

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

To obtain the maximum benefit in state-shared taxes, when are the best times for a municipality to conduct the twice-in-a-decade special censuses authorized by Tennessee law? Covered in this report are the major factors a city must consider in answering this question.

Technical Bulletins: Items To Consider Before And After Incorporation, William R. Bailey, E. W. Meisenhelder

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Section I of this report is designed to assist Tennessee communities considering incorporating as municipalities. It is not intended to be a comprehensive examination of the question, "Should we incorporate?" The report does attempt to respond to some of the most often-expressed concerns of those trying to reach a decision. Included are the major advantages and disadvantages of incorporation, comparisons of the forms of government available to potential municipalities under Tennessee law, and the steps to be taken to place the question of incorporation before qualified voters.

Tennessee Municipal Handbook Second Edition (1980), Mtas

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This Tennessee Municipal Handbook is intended for use as a reference guide by Tennessee municipal officials. It is primarily a summary of the state's laws affecting municipalities under a rough kind of subject matter classification, with a sprinkling of other information consider"ed to be relevant. We have not undertaken to write a textbook on municipal government.

Tennessee Municipal Handbook (1977), Mtas

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This Tennessee Municipal Handbook is intended for use as a reference guide by Tennessee municipal officials. It is primarily a summary of the state's laws affecting municipalities under a rough kind of subject matter classification, with a sprinkling of other information considered to be relevant. We have not undertaken to write a textbook on municipal government.

An Analysis Of The 1953 Tennessee Home Rule Amendment (2nd Edition), Victor C. Hobday

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

Since the first edition of this work was published in 1956 a number of pertinent cases have been decided by the Tennessee courts. This edition includes these cases along with the original material still considered to be relevant.

Procedures Manual - A City Hall Library, Elizabeth F. Sodemann

MTAS History

This manual was prepared in the hope that it would be of some assistance in establishing a library for city hall personnel so that they may have access to material of importance in their respective fields.

Government For Metropolis: A Nashville-Davidson County Proposal, Daniel R. Grant

MTAS History

With the filing on March 28 of a proposed metropolitan government charter, Nashville and Davidson County have moved one step closer toward creating a new species of local government, one that is distinctly metropolitan in its design. The metropolitan charter, to be voted on June 17, would abolish the City of Nashville and Davidson County and consolidate their functions in a single "Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County."

University of Tennessee Newsletter, Vol. 37, No. 2

A Municipal Public Relations Program That Works For Small & Medium-Sized Cities, Pan Dodd Wheeler

MTAS History

The basic aims of municipal public relations are fundamental to democratic municipal government. These involve letting more people know what the city is doing, what problems it is facing, and how it is planning.

Mtas Assistance In Organization Of A New Municipal Government, Mtas

MTAS History

Includes lists of materials to give to City officials and various matters to discuss with them about the organization of a new municipal government.

How To Make Reports, Pan Dodd Wheeler

MTAS History

This publication explains what municipal reports are, why municipal officials should make them, and what to include in them.

Changing Problems And Lines Of Attack, Luther Gulick

MTAS History

This paper was written by public administration expert Luther Gulick, whose keynote address at the Tennessee Municipal League's 9th annual convention included a proposal to establish "a local government technical advisory service." Gulick's proposal resonated with TML Herb Bingham, who carried it to the state legislature leading to the creation of MTAS.

The full text of the document is housed in the MTAS library's archives section. For more information, visit the MTAS library's webpage.

Preface: "This is a strictly preliminary document. It is published for the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in New York City, …

Tennessee's Stepchildren, The Municipalities, Alice L. Ebel

MTAS History

The purpose of this manual is to acquaint municipal, county, and state officials, and state legislators, with the cities' financial needs and the necessity of a better allocation of state-collected revenue. This manual, while not as complete as we would like it, should prove a handy reference manual for all municipal officials, and one in which they can readily find use in discussing municipal financial needs with state legislators, and county and state officials.