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Municipal E-News: Issue 66: December 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 66: December 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Municipal E-News: Issue 65: November 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 65: November 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Municipal E-News: Issue 64: October 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 64: October 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Tennessee Public Acts 2014: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Mtas
Tennessee Public Acts 2014: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Mtas
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 E-News: Issue 63: September 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 63: September 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Citizen Confidence In The Public Service: An Examination Of Established And Emerging Democracies In North America And Eurasia, Nurgul Ryskulovna Aitalieva
Citizen Confidence In The Public Service: An Examination Of Established And Emerging Democracies In North America And Eurasia, Nurgul Ryskulovna Aitalieva
Doctoral Dissertations
How do levels of confidence in the public service differ across countries? Are these attitudes about the public service determined by similar individual-level attributes across countries? Do country-level correlates explain variation between countries in citizen attitudes toward the public service? Data from the 2005-2009 World Values Survey for 21 North American and Eurasian countries, in addition to aggregate-level measures of national context, are analyzed using multilevel binary logistic regression.
The study shows that there is a significant amount of variation in the confidence attitudes not only within each country but also across countries. Citizens of Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and Finland …
Municipal E-News: Issue 62: August 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 62: August 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Municipal E-News: Issue 61: July 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 61: July 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Municipal E-News: Issue 60: June 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 60: June 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Municipal E-News: Issue 59: May 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 59: May 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
2014 Annual Report, Mtas
2014 Annual Report, Mtas
MTAS Annual Reports
This annual report highlights the mission and goals of MTAS and how it worked towards those goals in 2014. Projects discussed include the Eagleville public sewer system; the Tennessee Municipal Benchmarking Project (TMBP); the Tennessee Renewable Energy Economic Council (TREEDC); and a project for the Memphis Division of Public Works to help develop a system to track and repair potholes and utility cuts.
Municipal E-News: Issue 58: April 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 58: April 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Exchange April 2014, Institute For Public Service
Exchange April 2014, Institute For Public Service
The Exchange Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Tennessee Municipal Benchmarking Project Fy2013, Sarah Young, Frances Adams-O'Brien, John Crawford, Joyanna West
Tennessee Municipal Benchmarking Project Fy2013, Sarah Young, Frances Adams-O'Brien, John Crawford, Joyanna West
Tennessee Municipal Benchmarking Project
This report marks the eleventh year of the Tennessee Municipal Benchmarking Project (TMBP). The report provides performance and cost data for the period July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013 (Fiscal Year 2013 or FY2013). In this FY2013 annual report, there are a total of ten service areas measured and analyzed:
1) Building Code Enforcement 2) Employment Benefits 3) Finance 4) Fire 5) Human Resources 6) Parks and Recreation (new for FY2013) 7) Planning and Zoning 8) Police 9) Property Maintenance Code Enforcement 10) Refuse Collection, Disposal, and Recycling
Municipal E-News: Issue 57: March 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 57: March 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Exchange March 2014, Institute For Public Service
Exchange March 2014, Institute For Public Service
The Exchange Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Municipal E-News: Issue 56: February 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 56: February 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Annexation Handbook For Cities And Towns In Tennessee Iii, Sid Hemsley
Annexation Handbook For Cities And Towns In Tennessee Iii, Sid Hemsley
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
Annexation Handbook III is divided into 11 chapters, each of which discusses a discrete subject in the area of annexation. Following those chapters are a number of appendices that contain various annexation forms, including a joint MTAS-CTAS publication on how comprehensive growth plans are amended (as modified by Public Acts 2014, Chapter 707). Annexation Handbooks I and II contained a copy of the annexation laws found in Tennessee Code Annotated; Annexation Handbook III omits that copy because current copies of the annexation law are generally available from numerous local sources and because Tennessee’s annexation law has changed significantly in recent …
Local Government Public Works Standards And Specifications, John Chlarson, Sharon Rollins
Local Government Public Works Standards And Specifications, John Chlarson, Sharon Rollins
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
This document is designed to aid in the development of standards for construction specifications and in the design and bidding of public works improvements and should not be used in lieu thereof.
Local Government Public Works Standards and Specifications was developed to provide Tennessee cities with guidelines for construction projects. MTAS recommends, and T.C.A. § 62-2-107 requires, that public works projects over $25,000 have plans and specifications prepared by a registered architect, engineer, or landscape architect. Therefore, users should be careful in adopting and using these guidelines. They are not intended to be all-inclusive. The construction standards and specifications presented …
Municipal E-News: Issue 55: January 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News: Issue 55: January 2014, Mtas
Municipal E-News
The “Municipal E-News” was created by MTAS in 2009 as part of our continuing efforts to meet our mission of providing timely, valuable information and assistance to Tennessee cities.
Exchange January 2014, Institute For Public Service
Exchange January 2014, Institute For Public Service
The Exchange Newsletter
No abstract provided.