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Technical Bulletins: Revenue Sharing Extended Three Years; Rs Handicapped Regulations Become Final, William Gary Head

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses key features of the Local Government Fiscal Assistance Amendments of 1983.

Technical Bulletins: Vehicle Use Regulations, William R. Bailey

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses various issues related to municipally-owned vehicles, including disciplinary action for misuse/abuse of vehicles.

Future Issues Facing Boston: The Assessing Department, Janet L. Hunkel

John M. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Publications

Taxpayers' opinions of municipal government often focus on the property tax. Taxpayers are stingy, and they are critical as to whether their money is purchasing competent services. For citizens to have faith that government is democratic, taxes must be equitable — everyone must pay their fair share. For government to function efficiently, tax administration must be efficient in order to support city services.

The property tax is a complex, difficult tax to administer; it is vulnerable to misuse. However, there have been recent, dramatic changes to the tax laws. Municipal government in Massachusetts now has the political and legal wherewithall …

Future Issues Facing Boston: Financing Of The City's Operating And Capital Construction Program, J. Chester Johnson

John M. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Publications

This paper reviews the important factors affecting the current status of debt finance and debt management by the City of Boston, including the City's significant credit problems and the financing implications. While significant challenges to Boston's finance and debt management have recently been met in part through a combination of fiscal austerity measures and altered operating and financing approaches, there are important new debt financing challenges facing Boston in 1984 and beyond.

Technical Bulletins: Steady: A System Providing For The Direct Deposit Of State-Shared And State-Collected Taxes, Jim Leuty

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about STEADY (Shared Tax Earnings Automatic Deposit for You). STEADY involved the distribution of routinely allocated funds, such as State Sales Taxes, State Gasoline and Motor Fuel Taxes, State Gas Inspection Fees (Street and Transportation Funds), State Income Taxes, State Beer Taxes and T.V.A. Gross Receipts Taxes.

Boston's Fiscal Future: Prognosis And Policy Options For 1984 To 1986, Joseph S. Slavet, Raymond G. Torto

John M. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Publications

The finances of the City of Boston have been variously affected throughout its long history by regional and national economic cycles, by legal constraints and changes in the state-local tax system and by inter-municipal resource and expenditure disparities.

In more recent years, however, a series of tremors converged to propel Boston's seemingly chronic fiscal problem to the crisis stage. As inflation climbed to unprecedented double-digit levels, an overwhelming majority of the state's populace supported specific limits on property taxes, the primary source of municipal revenue. As a result, Boston was forced to reduce property tax levies by $144 million during …

The Local Sales Tax Handbook For Local Officials, Municipal Technical Advisory Service, County Technical Assistance Service Agencies Of The Institute For Public Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

No abstract provided.

Regulating Video Arcades Is No Game, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Improvement on Washington Street is needed. The Providence Board of Licenses is about to determine if the Saturn's Rings video arcade on Washington street should have its license renewed. The issue is as critical as it is controversial."

Work-Related Perceptions Of Social Workers Versus Administrators: More Grist For The "Is Social Work A Profession?" Mill, Robert A. Snyder, Jane M. Ridolphi

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The work-related perceptions of 683 employees of a federally funded public assistance agency were examined by occupational classification. The results show that persons employed as social workers report distinctively different patterns of attitudes and values than do those employed as administrators. These distinctions were most dramatic for the younger members of each group. The overall results fail to refute previous predictions of an evolving anc critical duality in the field of social work.

Technical Bulletins: Municipal Purchasing Law Of 1983: An Explanation, Jim Leuty

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

During the 1983 legislative session, Public Acts Chapter 451 was enacted to amend Title 6, Chapter 56, Tennessee Code Annotated, to establish the "Municipal Purchasing Law of 1983." This Technical Bulletin gives an overview of this legislation.

Technical Bulletins: Estimate Of 1983-84 State Shared Funds For Cities, Ken Joines

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

A summary of what cities could expect to receive from the state shared taxes for the 1983-84 fiscal year.

Losing Downtown Mall By Default, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Firmly cemented in the ground at the meeting of Westminster and Union Streets in downtown Providence is a plaque with the following inscription: Westminster Center dedicated by Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. 1980."

Technical Bulletins: Urban Forestry Assistance Available To Tennessee Cities, Carol C. Hewlett

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about the Tennessee Urban Forestry Program, a service available to Tennessee municipalities, designed to help cities with a variety of tree-related problems and projects.

Technical Bulletins: Meeting The End-Of-Fiscal-Year Budget Crunch, E. W. Meisenhelder

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses three techniques that could be used to mitigate some of the adverse effects of economic recession on municipal budgets.

Housing Issues In Boston: Guidelines For New Policy And Program Perspectives, Joseph S. Slavet, Boston Urban Observatory, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Boston Urban Observatory Publications

Urban stagnation and turbulence, the roller-coaster trends In the national and local economy and the vicissitudes of national, state and local public policies have left their mark on Boston's residential neighborhoods and housing markets.

Boston's response to the new opportunities of public policy during the sixties and seventies was to take full advantage of urban renewal, assis ted-housing production and housing rehabilitation. Large-scale activities reshaped the occupancy patterns and market strengths of residential neighborhoods. By mid-1975, however, except for continuing growth in the City's subsidized housing stock, Boston's housing future looked bleak. There was pervasive evidence of a growing housing …

The Service Orientations Of Social Service Administrators: Towards A Normative Model, Walter Lamendola, Patricia Yancey Martin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The service orientations of 28 administrators of social service agencies are examined as part of a normative model of service delivery. Six service issues are identified, and their interrelationship is described and examined. The service orientation issues include: effectiveness, efficiency, responsiveness to constituency interests, agency autonomy, community involvement, and services integration. In part, the results show that, as a group, the executives rank effectiveness (or the setting and achievement of programmatic goals) as of greatest concern. Community involvement and responsiveness follow in importance. Efficiency ranks fourth and autonomy, fifth. Services integration is of least concern. Service orientation is examined in …

Technical Bulletins: Revenue Sharing Actual Use Report: Public Notice, Michael Tallent

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin served as a reminder of the requirement for cities to publish a notice that their revenue sharing actual use report had been filed. The publication requirement was noted on Page 5 of the TN-2 form received by Tennessee cities. Included is a sample notice.

Budget Preparation Manual, The University Of Tennessee Center For Government Training, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The purpose of this handbook, which can be used after the completion of the workshop, is to provide an overview into the budget preparation process. With the staff and other resources available in City Hall, you will be able, to develop a "plan for spending money" which enables you to show to the public how you intend to spend their tax dollars, as well as show the controls you'll establish by the spending limits you set. The budgetary controls become the yardstick by which the progress of spending money can be measured. Also, the budget serves as a yard stick …

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1983-84, 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 1983-84.

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.

Business And Public Administration, Clair D. Rowe

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

A Survey Of Computer Utilization In Cities And Counties In The East Central Florida Region, Gary Herbert Gotwalt

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Government Administration In The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, George T. Fitzgerald

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Political Campaign Expenditure Limitations And Unconstitutional Condition Doctrine (Symposium: Money In Politics: Political Campaign Finance Reform), Marlene Nicholson

Marlene Nicholson

No abstract provided.