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Hot Topic: Changes In Federal And State Reimbursement Rates For Travel (2008), Dick Phebus

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

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

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials (2008), Mtas

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

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.

Tennessee Public Acts 2008: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Josh Jones, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication summarizes the year's public acts that have the most significant impact on municipal operations.

Dawnbreaker Vol 56 No 1 (Fall 2008), Dawnbreaker Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Model Identity Theft Policy And Facta Compliance, Josh Jones

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

Includes background information on FACTA, model identity theft policy, and resolution.

Your Municipal Code: Adopting It And Keeping It Up-To-Date, Steve Lobertini

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This guide explains code adoption and requirements and how to keep municipal codes current.

Purchasing Guide For Tennessee Municipalities (2008), Rick Whitehead, Ralph Cross, Mike Tallent

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This guide is designed to answer questions about purchasing and to save cities money. Includes sample forms and ordinances.

City Recorder Certification Update (2008), Margaret Norris

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

In 1994 Chapter 648 of Public Acts of 1994 added a law that required municipal clerks and recorders to become certified by completing 100 hours of education. The legislation also required that the certification be maintained by obtaining 18 hours of continuing education every three years.

Organizational Credibility Counts, Christine G. Springer

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications

As economic stressors increase and voting participation decreases, it is important for public administrators to find ways to minimize the negative consequences of distrust in government and to rebuild credibility by making the necessary changes to organizational culture, improving business practices, working with the media to build new more positive relationships, and by accentuating the good news about progress made. Events like Hurricane Katrina tragically teach us how long lasting one negative event can truly be because it is truly a disaster not only for those directly affected but also for those indirectly involved due to its negative affect on …

Empowering The Public Health Service, Louis Graham

Louis F Graham

Panel Iv: The Visible Hand: Government's Role In The Clean Energy Transformation: Opportunities To Accelerate Deployment Of Energy Efficiency And Renewable Energy, Bill Ritter, Jon Wellinghoff, Steven Chu, David Overskei, Jim Thomas

National Clean Energy Summit

Panel discussion Moderator: John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress Action Fund

National Clean Energy Summit Midday Keynote, Jon Huntsman

National Clean Energy Summit

Midday keynote

An Economic Development Plan For Boulder City, Mel Barosay, Amber Z. Cunningham, Dollinda Fields, Silas Prince

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Boulder City is rich with natural resources such as abundant land, 50% of Hoover Dam's power generation at cheap rates, and a high priority right of Colorado River Water. In addition to low utility rates, Boulder City residents have the lowest property taxes by far compared to other cities in southern Nevada. Unfortunately due to needed infrastructure replacement and new expenses facing Boulder City, such as paying for a portion of the third intake at Lake Mead, revenue is no longer covering the city's expenses.

Through the previous group's (grad students of the Spring 2008 Semester) research, we combined both …

Hot Topic: Public Chapter 779 Water And Sewer Rate Study, Randy Gustafson

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

MTAS will be assisting the Water and Wastewater Funding Board in surveying cities about water rates, sewer rates, and tap fees, as well as sanitation and recycling efforts, following the MURTS format.

Finding Money For Municipal Water, Wastewater And Solid Waste Projects In Tennessee (2008), Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This guide provides an overview of various financing programs available to Tennessee's local governments for water, wastewater, solid waste, and other project needs.

Confronting Fiscal Stress In Municipal Governments: Support By Michigan Residents For Eight Common Strategies, Jered Carr

Working Group on Interlocal Services Cooperation

This report discusses findings from a survey of 660 randomly selected Michigan residents in winter 2007. The survey examined attitudes of Michigan residents toward eight strategies to resolving situations where current revenues are inadequate to support local services at past levels. The strategies examined fall into two broad categories. The first set (tax increases, state and federal aid) seeks to increase local revenues available to support services at previously existing levels and quality. The second set of strategies focus on reducing the costs of providing services with the objective of maintaining previous levels at a lower cost. This set includes …

Book Review 16 Wellness Leadership: Creating Supportive Environments For Healthier And More Productive Employees By Judd Allen, Ph.D., William C. Mcpeck

William C. McPeck

This is my personal review of Wellness Leadership: Creating supportive environments for healthier and more productive employees by Judd Allen, Ph.D. which was published in 2008 by Healthycultures.com.

Technical Bulletins: Interviewing And The Law (2008), Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Congress provided Federal legal enforcement for equal employment in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with strengthening amendments added in 1972.

The Competitive Cable And Video Services Act: Increasing Competition And Diminishing Local Authority, Melissa Ashburn

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This legislation is part of the national trend to diminish or eliminate the franchising authority of cities by granting cable companies the right to provide services without negotiating agreements with local governments.

Municipal Personnel Report: Recruiting And Selecting Management And Professional Personnel, Warren Nevad

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication provides local governments with basic information and a general framework for recruiting, interviewing, and selecting managerial and professional personnel.

August Roundtable: Introduction

Human Rights & Human Welfare

An annotation of:

"Still knocking, as the doors close." The Economist. June 19, 2008.

Evaluating Organizational Effectiveness, Wesley A. Martz

Dissertations

If organizations are to survive and achieve long-run viability, they must be effective. Yet organizational effectiveness evaluation has been limited by a variety of factors--especially the ambiguity surrounding the concept of organizational effectiveness itself. The long-established approaches used by organizational theorists to define organizational effectiveness have emphasized different perspectives with respect to the organization type and degrees of importance of the various constituency groups comprising the organization. Moreover, definitions of the organization and organizational effectiveness have focused primarily on the dissimilarities among organizations and their constituencies, conceding efforts to identify commonalities . This has led to increased fragmentation of the …

Sustainability Evaluation: Development And Validation Of An Evaluation Checklist, Daniela C. Schroeter

Dissertations

Sustainability permeates many levels of human activity. Interest in sustainability is grounded primarily in the sustainable development field which is concerned with the survival of humans on planet earth, and with the growing demands of meeting people's long-term needs. In the North American evaluation literature, however, sustainability is primarily thought of in terms of continuing program activity beyond initial funding cycles via diversification of funding streams or institutionalization.

Two distinct perspectives for evaluating sustainability were identified. The first is concerned with micro-level issues related to the continuation of programs, policies, and other types of human action. The second is a …

Cooperative Federal Structure: A Workable Political-Economy Approach For A New Nepal, Alok Bohara

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

The two main ethnocentric proposals for a federal structure –9 ethnic enclaves [CPN (M)] and the 1000 KM long east-west narrow corridor(s) [e.g., Madhesi parties’ demand for a single Terai state] as state(s)— are the two formal proposals that have drawn much attention of the lawmakers. Many, including this author, are of the view that the restructuring of the state needs to go beyond the cultural sentiment to incorporate many other issues such as: ecological interdependence, economy of scale, ethnic harmony, and comparative resource endowments. To that end, a cooperative federal structure proposed here takes the twelve ethnic regional enclaves …

Technical Bulletins: Considerations For Any City Thinking About Developing A New Sewer System, Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Ask lots of questions and get answers you can live with before building a centralized sewer system.

Hot Topic: New Reporting Requirement For Traffic Courts, Rex Barton

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The purpose of the law is to create a database of traffic offenders who have had their traffic offenses dismissed upon completion of a driver improvement class or traffic school.

Hot Topic: Flsa Reminder: Congress Increased Minimum Wage (2008), Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The FLSA has been amended to increase the federal minimum wage in three steps.

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

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

A guide to conducting city council meetings that includes the duties of the mayor and the city recorder, handling of motions, and keeping the minutes.

Who Benefits? : A Multilevel Analysis Of The Impact Of Oregon's Volunteer Mentor Program For Postsecondary Access On Scholarship Applicants, Alisha Ann Lund-Chaix

Dissertations and Theses

Despite four decades of national policy interventions, equal access to postsecondary education has not been achieved. Though gains have been made, students of color, low-income students, and first generation students are still excluded from postsecondary participation. Early intervention programs and privately funded scholarships are among the many public and private voluntary responses to this problem.

Oregon's state-supported, school-based, volunteer mentoring program for equalizing postsecondary opportunities grew out of a long-standing partnership between a state administrative agency and statewide community foundation. Key program features reflect its origin: open eligibility for any student who wants to participate and reliance on a primary …

A Public Policy Institute Year Of Discovery: Building Capacity For Citizen Dialogue, Gary Petree

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

“A year of discovery” best describes the first year of Public Policy Institute (PPI) activity at the University of Tennessee Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS).