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Petroleum Underground Storage Tanks: What You Need To Know, M. Elizabeth Mccroskey

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Hotel/Motel Tax In Tennessee Municipalities, Dick Phebus

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The proceeds from the hotel/motel tax can be used for most general purposes, ranging from economic and tourist development to retirement of outstanding debt.

Keeping The Pols Honest With Regionalization, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"The New England Governor's Conference will hold a meeting in Hartford on December 6 to address regional economic issues that are common to the six states located in the northeast corner of the country. During that same week, the towns of Warren and Bristol in Rhode Island will hold public sentiment for the sharing of schools in the two towns. As disparate as these two meetings appear to be, there is a commonality of purpose that marks both: regionalism."

Technical Bulletins: Social Security Coverage For Local Government Employees, Dick Phebus

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA), passed by Congress in November 1990, placed new requirements on local governments for withholding Social Security taxes on wages paid to employees. Final regulations were issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service on June 28, 1991. These regulations affect all public sector employees who are not part of , a qualified retirement plan. Because of uncertainties I.and questions regarding the provisions of the law, this Technical Bulletin offers answers on how the act affects municipal governments in Tennessee.

Redistricting Law And Minority Rights, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"It has been referred to as "probably the most important civil rights law on the books," and the results of that legislation are most impressive. But more importantly, the Voting Rights Act promises to have an even greater influence in the coming decade."

Watch The Process, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"The reason for the 1990 census is now at hand: The Reapportionment Commission is in place, and the process has just begun. The redrawing of local state and congressional boundary lines that define districts by populations to be represented at these three levels of government is upon us, and bears close watching."

Technical Bulletins: Tennessee Environmental Legislation Of 1991: Solid Waste Management And Environmental Fees, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

In 1991, the Tennessee General Assembly passed two major pieces of environmental legislation. The acts paved the way for improved solid waste management and more stable funding for the regulation of solid waste, water, and wastewater operations. This Technical Bulletin is designed to walk readers through each act individually.

The Benefits Of Regionalization, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Bristol County is unusual among Rhode Island's five counties. Not only is it contiguous with a county of the same name in an adjoining state, but it also consists of only three towns--Barrington, Warren and Bristol--and is one of the smallest of the 3,141 counties in this country."

A Comparison Of The Training Priorities Of Clerical Employees And Their Supervisors, Peter J. Haas

Faculty Publications

Determines whether and in which ways the priorities of local government employees differ from those of their supervisors using data from employees in the Santa Clara County, California. Respondent profiles; Priorities of employees and supervisors among specific training topics for employees.

Technical Bulletins: Attention General Law Mayor-Aldermanic Municipalities: Your Revised Charter Is Effective July 1, Leslie Shechter

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

An improved charter for 52 Tennessee towns and cities is the result of Public Chapter 154, 1991, signed by the governor in April.

Census: To Recount Or Not To Recount?, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Whether to adjust or not to adjust, that is the critical question facing the US Census Bureau in the next six weeks, when it decides if it is necessary to make some type of accommodation in the figures form the April 1, 1990, census count.

Deemed "not the best census ever" by the New York Times, the count, as detailed by an embarrassed Census Bureau, missed between four and six million of the country's residents, an undercount even greater than that of 1980. Sadly, more than one half of the undercount included blacks or Hispanics, a population that needs to …

Technical Bulletins: The 1990 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefits Survey: A Look At Compensation Of Tennessee Municipal Employees, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The salaries of workers in Tennessee's cities and towns are keeping pace with inflation. That's just one of the findings of the comprehensive salary and fringe benefit survey conducted annually by The University of Tennessee's Municipal Technical Advisory Service. This summary of the 1990 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.

Technical Bulletins: Do Your Executives Pass The Flsa's Salary (And Duties) Test?, Sid Hemsley, Richard M. Ellis

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Certain battalion chiefs in the Kern County, California fire department are not executives under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). That's what the 9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in Abshire v. County of Kern, 908 F.2d 483 (1990). In March, the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review that decision, in effect upholding it. Some newspapers called that case an expensive disaster for municipalities. The real question is whether the executives in a city's municipal departments are executives as defined by FLSA.

Technical Bulletins: State And Federal Gasoline Tax Refunds (Revisited), Dick Phebus

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1990 (Act) passed by Congress imposed increases in federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. The tax on gasoline was increased to 14.1 cents per gallon while the tax on diesel fuel was raised to 20.1 cents per gallon. The new rates became effective December 1, 1990.

Technical Bulletins: 1990 Census Update, Joe Walsh

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Includes a list of Tennessee cities, their 1990 populations, and the census impact on state shared taxes.

Census Numbers May Mean Money To Cities, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"It looks like we're nearly there. The results of America's most costly census have been announced and many cities and states are not happy with them. A possible adjustment of figures will likely do little to placate them."

Technical Bulletins: The Tennessee Contractors Licensing Act And Why Your City's Building Inspector Could Go To Jail, Leslie Shechter, Randy Williams

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information intended to help clarify the provisions of the Tennessee Contractors Licensing Act of 1976. On October 4, 1989, the state attorney general (in opinion number 89-130) concluded that a county assessor was personally liable for fines and penalties in violation of the act.

Municipal Capital Maintenance And Fiscal Distress, Mary K. Bumgarner, Jorge Martinez-Vazques, David L. Sjoquist

Faculty and Research Publications

This paper formalizes and empirically tests the hypothesis that the deficient maintenance of public infrastructure is caused by fiscal distress. We utilize a production-decision framework in which public officials combine maintenance and new capital to produce a desired level of capital services. The behavior implied in the fiscal distress hypothesis is treated as perverse deviations from the optimal production path. The empirical findings from cross-sectional expenditures data give support to the fiscal distress hypothesis.

Technical Bulletins: At-Large Electoral Systems And Voting Rights, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses at large electoral systems and voting rights.

Technical Bulletins: Redistricting And The Cities, Harold R. Yungmeyer

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Redistricting is a process that ensures each voting district within a political entity will contain substantially equal populations.

Technical Bulletins: Update On Technical Bulletin 31 (State And Federal Petroleum Tax Refunds And Exemption Options For Local Governments), Dick Phebus

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1990 (Act) recently passed by Congress imposes new federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. This raises the tax on gasoline to 14.1 cents per gallon and the tax on diesel fuel to 20.1 cents per gallon. The new rates are effective December 1, 1990.

Looking Up Times Vol 7, No 1 (1991), Looking Up Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1991 - January) No. 2, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Municipal Law Report 1991, Dennis W. Huffer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

During the 1991 session of the Tennessee General Assembly, more than 1,500 bills were introduced in each house. From these bills, our legislature adopted 523 new public acts. This publication, a joint effort of the Municipal Technical Advisory Service and the 1ML Risk Management Pool, summarizes those acts that affect municipalities and municipal officials. These two organizations feel that if municipal officials know about new laws, they are more likely to conform their actions to those laws.

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1991, 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 1991.

Foreword: Managing Contracted Services In The Nonprofit Agency, By Susan Bernstein, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Susan Bernstein's qualitative research of the New York City system of social service contracting between public and nonprofit organizations offers a unique and troubling look at the system of social service contracting.