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Technical Bulletins: Good Service Request Systems Keep Customers Happy, Beth Birmingham

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Essential elements to ensure a successful system handling daily service requests and complaints.

Eminent Domain In Tennessee: An Attorney's Guide, James L. Murphy

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

A comprehensive guide to eminent domain in Tennessee.

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.

Technical Bulletins: Mutual Aid And Emergency Assistance: An Update, Tennessee Municipal League Risk Management Pool

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin was prepared by the Tennessee Municipal League (TML) Risk Management Pool loss control staff, and it discusses the importance of mutual aid agreements. With these pacts, cities and various other governments (other cities, counties, etc.) agree beforehand about helping each other when aid is needed. Most importantly, these agreements authorize such aid and thus protect the entities from unlimited liability.

Technical Bulletins: Public Meeting, Open Record Laws, Mark Pullen

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the Tennessee Public Meeting Law - better known as the Sunshine Law. The law (Tennessee Code Annotated 8-44-101--106) provides that "all meetings of any governing body are declared to be public meetings open to the public at all times, except as provided in the Tennessee Constitution."

Technical Bulletins: Veterans Re-Employment Rights, Leslie Shechter

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the Federal Veterans Reemployment Rights Law (VRR), under which a person leaving a civilian job, voluntarily or involuntarily, to enter active duty in the Armed Forces, has a right to return to that job after discharge, if that person meets a given set of criteria.

General Fixed Asset Accounting, Dick Phebus

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A MUNICIPALITY'S FIXED ASSETS are tangible assets bought or obtained through past transactions or events. They include buildings, equipment, improvements other than buildings, and land. In the private sector, these assets are generally referred to as property, plant, and equipment.

Technical Bulletins: Improving Financial Responsibility Through Budget Amendment Control, Ken Joines

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information intended to help city councils and their individual members be more financially responsible. Included is a sample ordinance that establishes a requirement that any additional expenditures resulting from an amendment to a city's budget must be accompanied by a resolution identifying a corresponding increase in income and/or expenditure reduction.

Managing Your Utility's Money: The Participant's Manual, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

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No abstract provided.

Managing Your Utility's Money: The Trainer's Manual, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

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No abstract provided.

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

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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.]

Technical Bulletins: Maternity Leave In Tennessee, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

In 1988, Tennessee joined a growing list of states with legislation requiring employers to provide maternity leave to female employees. Under the Tennessee act, a female employee who has been employed for at least 12 consecutive months as a full-time employee by the same employer may be on leave from work up to four months for the purpose of pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing the infant. The law doesn't require employers to provide paid leave to pregnant employees but allows a general right to reinstatement to their former position or a similar position in the organization.

A Look At The Americans With Disabilities Act: A Guide To Compliance For Tennessee Local Governments (3rd Edition), Leslie Shechter, Marie Allen Murphy

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Includes an overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), its requirements, and how local governments can prepare for compliance with the act.

Technical Bulletins: The 1991 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefits Survey: Salaries Out-Pace Inflation, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

From December 1990 to December 1991, salaries of workers in Tennessee's cities and towns out-paced inflation while total numbers of employees declined. That's just one of the findings of the comprehensive salary and·fringe benefits survey conducted annually by The University of Tennessee's Municipal Technical Advisory Service. This summary of the 1991 findings is designed to help towns, cities, and others evaluate and compare the data and prepare budgets based on the most up-to-date information.

Records: What To Save, What To Toss...And When, Harold R. Yungmeyer

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This manual is a guide to record retention and disposal, and meets generally accepted standards. Its use isn't mandatory, and a municipality may deviate from the suggested retention periods.

Technical Bulletins: Conducting A Special Census, Carol C. Hewlett, Judith D. Forkner

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about the two types of special censuses (census of annexed territory and citywide census) and their costs.

Technical Bulletins: Urban Forestry Assistance Available To Tennessee Cities, Ann O'Connell

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about urban forestry, including two grant programs available to assist local governments in managing their urban forests.

Elements Of A Utility Rate Study, Sharon Rollins

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How can communities protect their multi-billion dollar water and wastewater treatment investments and give citizens clean, safe water? The key lies with municipal officials' ability to acquire sufficient operating revenues.

Sound financial management allows communities to acquire the necessary revenues to maintain financially self-sufficient water and wastewater operations. The best source of revenue for paying water and wastewater treatment costs is user fees. Unfortunately, raising user fees is one of the most dreaded actions undertaken by local officials. If it is not done correctly, the resulting political backlash and public resistance can be harmful for water and wastewater operations.

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.

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1992, Mtas

Municipal Directories

A directory of Tennessee cities that includes personnel and municipal data, such as number of employees, population, charter form, size in square miles, and election date, for 1992.