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Hot Topic: State Revises Travel Reimbursement Rates, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

Summary of changes in the federal and state reimbursement rates for travel.

Technical Bulletins: Satellite Dishes: Regulation Is No Simple Task, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses some of the difficulties of regulating satellite television antennas.

Technical Bulletins: How To Conduct A City Council Meeting Based On Roberts' Rules Of Order, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides guidelines for conducting a city council meeting, based on Roberts' Rules of Order. Included are rules for handling motions, as well as a list of the recorder's and mayor's duties.

Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - November) No. 5, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Making American Cities Work, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Visiting a city in a foreign country can be revealing about the culture of that country, can make one realize that cities are places of enjoyment and fulfillment, and that people prize living in them. From such experiences one has to ponder why American cities cannot be viewed in the same manner."

The Internet As Commons: A Tale Of Enclosure, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The original model of the internet developed as an electronic commons for scientists and academics. It will be only a matter of time before the same rich and powerful information barons who already control such "fourth estate" communication industries as newspaper, magazine and book publishing, television networks and movie production facilities establish their toll-booths on the information superhighway as well. Fortunately, within this electronic ocean of corporate and proprietary feudalism, there may also be room for an archipelago of freistaaten; "free citystates" functioning as autonomous and self-governing islands for the arts, sciences, humanities, social service and community.

Helping Tennessee Cities Move Ahead, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Cable Tv: Cities Must Act To Control Rates And Set Consumer Protection Standards, Jim Finane

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 and how to implement it.

Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - August) No. 4, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Providence: Visionary And Bold, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Future historians who examine Rhode Island's capital city will likely single out the last 20 years of this century as the most explosive period of construction and change for the city center that has ever taken place during Providence's long history."

Providence's Unending Quest For Cash, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"The mayor of Providence has a big problem. How can he balance a budget that addresses the needs of an increasingly large number of people, yet deal with a declining tax base that is less able to pay for theses extra services?"

The 1993 Mtas Publications Catalog, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

No abstract provided.

Why Not 'Soak' The Visitors?, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Providence Mayor Vincent Cianci has a financial problem, which is not uncommon these days for just about any mayor. Center cities are faced with a host of problems that require sizable expenditures to address. And with the downturn in an economy making a feeble effort to recover, available resources are in scarce supply."

What's In Store For Social Security?, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Health-care costs are commanding considerable attention these days. From Washing, D.C., to Providence and state capitals across the nation, the burning questions are, "How much?" and "Who pays?""

Technical Bulletins: The 1992 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefits Survey: Inflation Outpaces Pay, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

In 1992, salary increases for city employees slowed from the accelerated rate of last year to more accurately reflect the figures reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index. This Technical Bulletin summarizes the findings of the annual salary and fringe benefit survey conducted by The University of Tennessee's Municipal Technical Advisory Service.

Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - April) No. 3, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - March) No. 2, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Work Order Systems Mean Better Financial Management, Al Major

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the components of both financial management systems and work order systems, and the benefits of each.

Technical Bulletins: Cable Tv Bill Carries Significant Changes, Jim Finane

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, which Congress passed over President George Bush's veto. Rate increases, a lack of competition among cable operators, and other changes in the cable and broadcast television industry were the driving forces behind Congress' action. The 1992 act used two definitions of effective competition.

A Comparative Analysis Fire, Police, And Public Works Departments Pelham, Massachusetts, Center For Economic Development

Center for Economic Development Technical Reports

In an ongoing effort to evaluate the effectiveness of its operations, the Town of Pelham engaged the services of the Center for Economic Development (CED) at the University of Massachusetts to examine the Highway (DPW), Police and Fire departments.

To that end, CED produced a detailed matrix comparing Pelham's three departments with those of three other communities; contacted professional and government organizations for potentially useful trends and researched additional information requested by the town. Herewith are the results of these efforts.

It was agreed that a comparative analysis of an extensive list of descriptive characteristics between Pelham's and three other …

Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - January) No. 1, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

The Vermont State Office Of Economic Opportunity : A Case Study In Organizational Relationships, Mary Carlson

Center for Research on Vermont Occasional Papers

Occasional paper (University of Vermont. Center for Research on Vermont) ; no. 16..

Foreword / Frank Smallwood -- Introduction -- Historical background -- State OEO today : a descriptive analysis -- State OEO today and tomorrow : an organizational analysis -- Epilogue -- Appendix.

Tennessee Public Acts 1993: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication summarizes the year's public acts that have the most significant impact on municipal operations. Users of this publication are cautioned that much judgment is involved in determining which Public Acts to summarize and how to summarize them. Before taking action or giving advice based upon any Public Act summarized here, one should consult the act itself and not rely on the summary.

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1993, 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 1993.

Effective Communication In The Intranational Workplace: Models For Public Sector Managers And Theorists, John F. Kikoski

Political Science & Global Affairs Faculty Publications

This article discusses theoretical models for effective interpersonal communication in the intranational workplace for public sector managers in the U.S. Effective communication is complete when the message has been understood. A message has been understood when it has been both clearly sent and received. Effective communication is a requisite to every step in the organizational process--from the mutual recognition and understanding of a topic or problem that triggered the communication in the first place to its final resolution. The second classical model of interpersonal communication was published by David Berlo. Berlo elaborated upon the Shannon-Weaver model. He recognized that interpersonal …