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Helping Cities For Half A Century: A History Of The Municipal Technical Advisory Service, 1949-1999, Rob Parkinson

MTAS History

This history of the Municipal Technical Advisory Service looks to examine several aspects of the organization’s first 50 years; more specifically in several areas: the historical context out of which MTAS operated, the bureaucratic or structural changes that have come over 50 years, the people who shaped and breathed life into the organization, and the specific issues and problems MTAS consultants were called on to help Tennessee cities with. These topics fit together to give the reader a larger view of what the Municipal Technical Advisory Service has accomplished since 1949 and what the future holds for the next 50 …

Municipal Technical Advisory Service 50th Anniversary Packet, Rob Parkinson

MTAS History

Includes a year-long series of articles celebrating MTAS's 50th anniversary in 1999.

General Fixed Asset Accounting, Dick Phebus

MTAS History

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.

The Mtas Library: Tennessee's Resource Center On Municipal Government, Carol C. Hewlett

MTAS History

A description of the MTAS library's collection and services.

Municipal General Management Report 1989 No. 1: Final Irs Regulations On Employer-Provided Vehicles, Richard M. Ellis

MTAS History

The Internal Revenue Service published final regulations on the taxation of personal use of city-owned vehicles on July 6, 1989. This report summarizes the new regulations and offers suggestions on municipal compliance with the regulations.

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)

Problem Solving For Tennessee Municipal Officials: An Expert Team Approach, Mtas

MTAS History

This pamphlet describes the structure of and services provided by the University of Tennessee Municipal Technical Advisory Service.

Procedures Manual - A City Hall Library, Elizabeth F. Sodemann

MTAS History

This manual was prepared in the hope that it would be of some assistance in establishing a library for city hall personnel so that they may have access to material of importance in their respective fields.

Municipal Technical Advisory Service - Helping Municipal Officials Build A Better Tennessee, Mtas

MTAS History

These pamphlets briefly describe the history and purpose of the University of Tennessee's Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS), including descriptions of the assistance that MTAS can provide to Tennessee cities and towns.

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.

Government For Metropolis: A Nashville-Davidson County Proposal, Daniel R. Grant

MTAS History

With the filing on March 28 of a proposed metropolitan government charter, Nashville and Davidson County have moved one step closer toward creating a new species of local government, one that is distinctly metropolitan in its design. The metropolitan charter, to be voted on June 17, would abolish the City of Nashville and Davidson County and consolidate their functions in a single "Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County."

University of Tennessee Newsletter, Vol. 37, No. 2

Mtas Assistance In Organization Of A New Municipal Government, Mtas

MTAS History

Includes lists of materials to give to City officials and various matters to discuss with them about the organization of a new municipal government.

The Tennessee Utility District: A Problem Of Urbanization, Arthur B. Winter

MTAS History

One of the most characteristic features of life in the United States at present is the incomplete and unsatisfactory condition of urban-type services in the fringe areas of cities. Attempts to remedy this condition have often been made in the form of special districts with limited functions. T ennessee has not escaped this type of activity. Dr. Winter's study describes the Tennessee development.

Published for THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION and MUNICIPAL TECHNICAL ADVISORY SERVICE THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

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.

Style Manual For Municipal Technical Advisory Service, The University Of Tennessee, Joyce H. Williams, Katherine W. Thompson

MTAS History

This Manual of Technique and Style for the Municipal Technical Advisory Service is, primarily, an attempt to establish consistent and uniform usage of style within the office. Its purpose is not to elevate any one form as the best, others may be equally desirable, but to designate one form only for MTAS use.

Municipal Technical Advisory Service (A New Agency Created To Serve Tennessee's Cities), Gerald W. Shaw

MTAS History

In this article, Gerald W. Shaw, the first Executive Director of the Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS), discusses MTAS's work and goals, including technical and legal assistance to cities, research projects, and publications. From the November 1949 issue of The Tennessee Engineer.

Municipal Technical Advisory Service (A New Agency Created To Serve Tennessee's Cities), Gerald W. Shaw

MTAS History

An overview of the creation of the UT Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS), written by the agency's first executive director, Gerald W. Shaw.

Guide To Technical Services Available To State And Local Agencies In Tennessee, Division Of University Extension, University Of Tennessee

MTAS History

This handbook is one of the products of a cooperative program of study of government in the South. For several years the Universities of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, along with the Tennessee Valley Authority, have been working together in an effort to obtain more information about governn1ent in the southern states, and to 1nake that inforn1ation available to public officials and other interested individuals. The General Education Board, a philanthropic foundation, has helped finance this progran1, and those who have participated in the enterprise greatly appreciate 'its assistance.