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MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

1992

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Technical Bulletins: Good Service Request Systems Keep Customers Happy, Beth Birmingham Dec 1992

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

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

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Technical Bulletins: Mutual Aid And Emergency Assistance: An Update, Tennessee Municipal League Risk Management Pool Nov 1992

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

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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.

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Technical Bulletins: Public Meeting, Open Record Laws, Mark Pullen Oct 1992

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

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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."

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Technical Bulletins: Veterans Re-Employment Rights, Leslie Shechter Sep 1992

Technical Bulletins: Veterans Re-Employment Rights, Leslie Shechter

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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.

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Technical Bulletins: Improving Financial Responsibility Through Budget Amendment Control, Ken Joines Aug 1992

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

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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.

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Technical Bulletins: Maternity Leave In Tennessee, Richard Stokes Jul 1992

Technical Bulletins: Maternity Leave In Tennessee, Richard Stokes

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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.

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Technical Bulletins: The 1991 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefits Survey: Salaries Out-Pace Inflation, Richard Stokes May 1992

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

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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.

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Technical Bulletins: Conducting A Special Census, Carol C. Hewlett, Judith D. Forkner Mar 1992

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

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

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Technical Bulletins: Urban Forestry Assistance Available To Tennessee Cities, Ann O'Connell Mar 1992

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

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

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