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Finding Money For Municipal Water And Wastewater Projects In Tennessee, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

No abstract provided.

How To Conduct A City Council Meeting Based On Roberts' Rules Of Order, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Surplus Property Disposal, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses surplus property disposal. Included is a sample resolution establishing procedures for a municipality to dispose of its surplus property.

Technical Bulletins: A City Attorney's Guide To Distance Restrictions In Beer Regulations, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the two principal methods (straight-line and by-the-streets) of measuring distance requirements between beer establishments and churches, schools and, occasionally, other institutions.

The Executive Director As Keeper Of The Past, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This paper outlines a rationale for the materials which ought to be preserved by executives of local agencies, identifies some of the legal issues involved in record keeping for historical issues and resources available at local and state levels and discusses access issues.

Technical Bulletins: Cities And The Hazardous Right To Know Law, Harold R. Yungmeyer

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) 50-3-2001- 2019, the Hazardous Chemical Right-To-Know Law, became a law in 1985. The stated purpose of the law was to "provide access to information regarding hazardous chemicals to enhance the ability of manufacturing and non-manufacturing workers to minimize hazardous exposure to such chemicals; to provide information to emergency personnel to protect the public health, safety and welfare; and to provide information to citizens to enable them to make informed decisions regarding their safety, health, and welfare." This Technical Bulletin goes over the main points of the law and its implications for cities.

Technical Bulletins: Veteran's Reemployment Rights, Leslie Shechter

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

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.

Charting Migration And Miscalculation, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"There was cause for celebration last March 6 at the Department of Commerce building in Washington, D.C. The achievement was the recording of 250 million on the bureau's "population odometer," a device which records the population of this nation at any moment.

Based upon average births, deaths, immigration and emigration, a number is added every 14 seconds to the odometer, for a daily increase of about 6300. It was expected that the population total of 250 million would be confirmed with the results of the April 1 census. But preliminary figures indicate that the country has not yet reached this …

Technical Bulletins: State And Federal Petroleum Tax Refunds And Exemption Options For Local Governments, Dick Phebus

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin updates a previous bulletin dated April 14, 1988, and describes new procedures for avoiding the payment of state taxes and an update on federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel.

Looking Up Times Vol 6 No 2 (1990), Looking Up Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

A Note To Candidates: Look At Housing, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"The 1980s will be remembered as the time of the federal government's decimation of housing policies and programs that previous administrations had sought so diligently to design and implement. Candidates for federal and state offices need to be aware of current housing problems and possible measures that will improve housing in the state. The following are major concerns and suggested action proposals to help alleviate the housing plight of state residents.

Citizens, Development Interests, And Local Land-Use Regulation, Arnold Fleischmann, Carol A. Pierannunzi

Faculty and Research Publications

Local governments confer significant benefits and costs on individuals and businesses through their power to regulate private land use. This article analyzes such regulation by using discriminant analysis to test a model of rezoning decision making. The results indicate that the best predictor of a local governing body's decision in a rezoning case is the recommendation of the appointed planning commission. This is contrary to both scholarly and popular expectations that pressure by developers or public protest is the major factor influencing elected officals in rezoning cases. The results suggest that citizen advisory boards may have significant effects on local …

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1990 (Revised), 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 1990. (Revised, July 1990 Edition)

Technical Bulletins: Flsa: Administrative Exemptions Revisited, Richard M. Ellis

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses FLSA administrative exemptions. One of the most difficult problems faced by local governments in complying with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is in the area of administrative exemptions. Under section 213(a)(1) of the Act, administrative personnel may be exempted from the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the law. The problems exist with what constitutes an administrative exemption.

Respected Charlotte Needs No Touting, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"In 1761 when Princess Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz became the wife of George III, during whose reign the American Revolution took place, little could she imagine how important the city that honored her name would become in the United States of today. Mecklenburg County is the center of a metropolitan area that now embraces one million residents."

Municipal Budget Workshop, Mtas, The University Of Tennesse Center For Government Training

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This manual provides an up-to-date look at the art of local government budgeting. In spite of the variety of local governments in Tennessee, general descriptions can be offered and analytical patterns discussed. The following topics are covered: why do we budget; the budget cycle; the budget process, including the interaction of the many role players in the process; the many purposes of budgeting; and resource constraints.

Technical Bulletins: Technical Bulletins: Cities Should Be Aware Of Veteran's Reemployment Rights, Joe Muscatello

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses veterans' reemployment rights and the Military Selective Service Act.

Technical Bulletins: Civil Penalties For Wastewater Pretreatment Violations, Edward C. Archer

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides an overview (not a comprehensive analysis) of the Attorney General's opinion concerning the amount of the penalty that a municipality can charge for wastewater pretreatment violations.

Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1990 - May) No. 3, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Systems Integration Analysis And Alternatives Identification For Facilities Planning Branch, Bpa: Task 1: Background Analysis And Data Gathering, Kenneth Dueker, Ric Vrana

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Portland State University has been engaged by the Facilities Planning Branch, Division of Engineering, Bonneville Power Administration, to collect background information, analyze current activities, and provide recommendations for greater Branch efficiencies, and the most timely service to its customers, based on current and projected resources and financial responsibilities. This information is to extend and compliment the efforts of an in-house systems integration team which initially addressed these issues. This study is intended to assist Branch management in its effort to identify Branch strengths and increase productivity.

The Facilities Planning Branch is one of three Branches in the Division of Facilities …

Now We Are Counted, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"There is an unusual clock in the Department of Commerce building in Washington. Looking like an auto's mileage odometer, it records the nation's population. Another single number is added to the total every 14 seconds. On March 6, the population odometer reached 250 million, which should be the number reported from this year's tally by the U.S. Census Bureau, the 21st decennial census in our country's history."

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.

Model Personnel Policies And Procedures, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The personnel rules and regulations combine with the city charter and code to form a legal basis of operations for your municipality. Model Personnel Rules And Regulations can be a municipality's statement of policy and procedure.

MTAS Municipal Personnel Report no. 3

Technical Bulletins: Minimum Wage Changes, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin focuses on specific sections of the Fair Labor Standards Act Amendment: Section 2. Minimum Wage Increase; Section 5. Tip Credit; Section 6. Training Wage; and Section 7. Maximum Hours Exemption for Employees Receiving Remedial Education. President Bush signed legislation (P.L. 101-157) amending the Fair Labor Standards Act (FlSA) and the minimum wage provisions provided by the Act. This represents the first increase in the minimum wage since 1981.

Cape Cod's Drive To Curb Overdevelopment, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

The mid 1980s in Rhode Island will be long remembered as a time of intensive real estate development, explosive house process and manmade growth sprawling over the countryside. These phenomena also generated a reaction in the form of environmental concerns, the NIMBY syndrome, affordable housing issues and the passage of the 1988 Comprehensive Planning and Land Use Regulation Act.

Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1990 - March) No. 2, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Fire (And Police) Departments Liable For Negligent Response, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Under the Tennessee Tort Liability Act municipalities are liable for the negligence of their employees, with some exceptions. One of those exceptions is "discretionary functions" (Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) 29-20-205). However, the act does not define that term. The Tennessee Supreme Court recently grappled with both a definition and application of the term in Gordon, et al. v. City of Henderson, 766 S.W.2d 784 (1988). Although that case involved the delivery of municipal fire services, it contains some language that should cause Tennessee municipalities to look closely at the way they deliver all public safety services.

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1990, 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 1990.

Commonwealth's Choice: Results From The Massachusetts Public Opinion Survey, Barry Bluestone, Mary Ellen Colten, Thomas Ferguson

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

From November 11 through December 4, 1989, the Center for Survey Research of the University of Massachusetts at Boston conducted a random digit dial survey of adults aged 18 and over in Massachusetts. A total of 423 individuals were interviewed in a sampling procedure that yielded a 63 percent response rate. In contrast to most media polls, this survey was carried out over a period of four weeks permitting extensive efforts at locating and interviewing difficult-to-reach, reluctant, or less interested respondents. This survey is likely to be more representative of the true population of Massachusetts than most state polls.