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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 …

Study On Investment In Water And Wastewater Infrastructure And Economic Development, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center For Public Management, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Edward J. Collins Center for Public Management Publications

The Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management in the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston was tasked by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority Advisory Board (MWRAAB) with asking and answering a very fundamental question relating to public infrastructure: “What is the relationship between investment in water and wastewater infrastructure and economic growth?” To do so, Center staff not only researched the positive results of investing in infrastructure, but also took time to consider what failing to invest in adequate water and wastewater infrastructure might mean. Additionally, the Center …

Public Works Department Organizational And Operational Analysis: Town Of Saugus, Massachusetts, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center For Public Management, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Edward J. Collins Center for Public Management Publications

This report presents the results of the management assessment of the Saugus Public Works Department conducted by the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Collins Center for Public Management (“the Center”). This first Section introduces the analysis – outlining principal objectives and how the analysis was conducted – and presents an Executive Summary.

The project team conducted a comprehensive organization and management analysis of the Department’s existing operations, service levels, infrastructure management, organizational structures and staffing levels. The analysis was to be fact-based and include all aspects of service provision by the Department.

Staffing And Organizational Assessment Of The Public Works Department Of The Town Of Watertown, Ma, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center For Public Management, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Edward J. Collins Center for Public Management Publications

This report presents the results of the management assessment of the Watertown Public Works Department (the “Department”) conducted by the Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston (“the Center”). This first section introduces the analysis, outlining principal objectives and how the analysis was conducted, and it offers a summary of the recommendations described in detail later in the document.

The project team conducted a comprehensive organizational and management analysis of the Department’s existing operations, service levels, infrastructure management, organizational structure, and staffing levels.

Public Works Projects As Vehicles For Engineering Education And Outreach, Shannon Weiss, David Heil, Thalia Anagnos

Faculty Publications

America is built on small and large feats of public works engineering that, although often taken for granted, affect almost every aspect of our daily lives. So how can we celebrate these marvels of utilitarian infrastructure and use them to teach public audiences about the engineering principles, materials, and human innovations that make them possible? This case study will share how one project addressed these questions by leveraging informal learning strategies, multi-agency collaborations, and new media technologies to explain the history and engineering of one of the world’s most recognizable public work sites: the Golden Gate Bridge. This paper will …

Owners’ Satisfaction Level With The Use Of Alternative Project Delivery Methods In Water And Wastewater Infrastructures, Pramen Shrestha, Jacimaria R. Batista

College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs

In 2013, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Report Card for America’s Infra-structure stated that the US needs up to $1.3 trillion in capital investments to replace the aging water pipes and repair the wastewater infrastructures. It is further believed by the industry that the streamlined approach of alternative project delivery methods, such as Design-Build (DB), and Construction Manager At-Risk (CMAR) helps ensure the economical and timely design and construction of the water and wastewater infrastructures.

Local Government Public Works Standards And Specifications, John Chlarson, Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This document was developed to provide Tennessee cities with guidelines for construction projects. It includes guidelines for construction standards, materials specifications, design criteria, and contract documents to be used for streets, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, and water distribution systems.

Utility Manual (2012), Bill Young, Steve Wyatt

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The purpose of this manual is to provide cities with a better understanding of funding water and sewer utility operations.

Management Assessment Of The Public Works Department: City Of Lowell, Massachusetts, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center For Public Management, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Edward J. Collins Center for Public Management Publications

This report presents the results of the management assessment of the Lowell Public Works Department conducted by the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Collins Center for Public Management.

The project team conducted a comprehensive organization and management analysis of the Department's existing operations, service levels, infrostructure management, organizational structures and staffing levels. The analysis was to be fact-based and include all aspects of service provision by the Department.

Technical Bulletins: Biomonitoring For The National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit (Npdes) (2008), Steve Wyatt

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Biomonitoring is one requirement of the NPDES permit for a large number of publicly owned treatment works.

Local Government Public Works Standards And Specifications (2007), John Chlarson

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This document was developed to provide Tennessee cities with guidelines for construction projects. It includes guidelines for construction standards, materials specifications, design criteria, and contract documents to be used for streets, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, and water distribution systems.

Technical Bulletins: Primer On Performance Measurements For Municipal Public Works Departments, Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This publication defines performance measurement and related terms as they apply to public works tasks.

Explaining Local Government Cooperation On Public Works: Evidence From Michigan, Kelly Leroux, Jered B. Carr

Working Group on Interlocal Services Cooperation

In recent years, analysts have begun to study cooperation on public services among local governments. These studies have often concluded that services with scale economies are likely candidates for shared service delivery. This article contributes to the emerging literature on this topic by examining interlocal service arrangements for ten public works services in Michigan. Despite the fact that public works exhibit substantial scale economies, many local governments do not cooperate on these services. Empirical studies of local government contracting suggest four groups of factors that may help explain why local governments opt to collaborate on public services: local economic factors, …

The Road To The Antiquities Act And Basic Preservation Policies It Established, Francis P. Mcmanamon

Celebrating the Centennial of the Antiquities Act (October 9)

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Technical Bulletins: Primer On Performance Measurements For Municipal Public Works Departments, Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This publication defines performance measurement and related terms as they apply to public works tasks.

Technical Bulletins: Biomonitoring For The National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit (Npdes), Steve Wyatt

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Biomonitoring is one requirement of the NPDES permit for a large number of publicly owned treatment works.

Finding Money Iii For Municipal Water, Wastewater, And Solid Waste Projects In Tennessee, Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This document is an overview of various financing programs available to Tennessee's local governments for water, wastewater, solid waste, and other project needs.

Managing The Central Artery/Tunnel Project: An Exploration Of Potential Cost Savings, Allan K. Sloan

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

The John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston is an institution whose primary mission is public service. Through public policy research, educational programs, policy practice and the dissemination ofknowledge, the Institute seeks to have a constructive impact on policy formulation, problem solving and public discourse concerning urgent civic challenges facing state and local government in the New England region.

In 1996, under Chapter 205 of the 1996 Acts and Resolves, the Massachusetts legislature authorized the Institute to undertake a study *to review and explore possible cost savings within the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel project" …

Public Works Standards & Specifications, Edward C. Archer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The goal and intention of this publication is for cities to have guidelines of some of the standards and specifications on construction projects. Readers should be careful in their adoption and use as these guidelines are not all-inclusive of the standards and specifications which may be necessary in a specific local community situation. It is recommended that all public works projects be developed, designed and constructed under the direction of a registered professional engineer.

Technical Bulletins: Public Chapter 509 Slaps Cuffs On Utility Revenues, Al Major

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about Public Chapter 509, which phased out the practice of transferring surplus revenues from utility sales to a city's general fund. The comprehensive law, which went into effect July 1, 1993, amended Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.) § 9-21-308 and T.C.A. § 7-34-105, also known as the Revenue Bond Law.

The Boston Harbor Cleanup, Paul F. Levy, Michael S. Connor

New England Journal of Public Policy

Boston Harbor earned a widespread reputation as "the dirtiest harbor in the nation" during the 1988 presidential campaign. Well before that campaign began, though, efforts were under way to reduce the amount of pollution entering the harbor. The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority was created in 1985 to undertake a massive public works program — including construction of a 1.3 billion-gallon-per-day sewage treatment plant and a sludge fertilizer processing plant — to end the decades-old practice of dumping sewage wastes into the ocean. The program will also cause water and sewer charges to rise dramatically during a fifteen-year period.

The project …

Bibliography Of Holdings On Urban Stormwater Management And Erosion And Sediment Control At The Mtas Library, Knoxville, Tennessee, Cathy Moore-Jansen

MTAS History

This is a bibliographic guide to materials on urban stormwater management housed in the Municipal Technical Advisory Service Library, University of Tennessee at Knoxville. (1985)

Technical Bulletins: Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Chapter 692 of the Public Acts of 1978, an act relating to the prevention of negligent or .unsafe excavation or demolition operations resulting in damage to underground utilities, is reprinted in its entirety in this Technical Bulletin.

Technical Bulletins: Summary: 1977 Public Works Employment Act, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

In this Technical Bulletin, MTAS reproduced the latest summary of a new Public Works Bill (May 1977). The bill covered the period up to Dec. 31, 1978, and provided $4 billion.

Technical Bulletins: Amendments To Public Works Regulations, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Reproduced in this Technical Bulletin are amendments to the original regulations of EDA for the Local Public Works Program, published in the Federal Register on August 23, 1976, previously distributed by MTAS.

Technical Bulletins: Improving Productivity In The Smaller City, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Because of the growing interest in productivity improvement (getting the most for your money), MTAS District Consultant E. W. Meisenhelder developed a basic checklist for officials in cities under 10,000 population to use as a starting point in evaluating their own operations. It is divided among the four general subjects of finance, public works, public safety, and general administration.

Municipal Water Works Operating Data For Tennessee, Inslee Burnett, L. J. Henry

MTAS History

This is a tabulation and interpretation of the results of a survey made by MTAS in the spring of 1964 designed to obtain statistical information on the operation of municipally-owned water utilities in the State.

Municipal Water Works Operating Data For Tennessee, W. T. Chaffin, M. U. Snoderly

MTAS History

This is a tabulation and interpretation of the results of a survey made by MTAS in the fall of 1959 designed to obtain statistical information on the operation of municipally-owned water utilities in the State.

Municipal Water Works Operating Data For Tennessee, W. T. Chaffin, M. U. Snoderly

MTAS History

In August 1957 Mr. W. G. Thomas, General Manager, Athens Utility Board, requested MTAS to obtain certain statistical information on the operation of municipally-owned water utilities in the State. In replying to our survey questionnaire, so many officials requested a copy of the results that it was decided to print them in this form and to give the report a wide distribution.

Technical Bulletins: Parking Meters In Tennessee: Their Number, Use, Yield, Successful Practices And Model Meter Ordinance, E. W. Meisenhelder

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This technical bulletin, for the information of Tennessee municipal officials, reports the number, use, yield and successful practices employed in the operation of parking meters in Tennessee, and offers a model parking meter ordinance.

Technical Bulletin Number 16