In response to a request for assistance from Gilt Edge Fire Chief Brandon Fletcher, MTAS conducted a review of the city’s 2020 Insurance Service Office (ISO) evaluation in preparation for an anticipated Public Protection Classification review estimated to occur in the 2025 calendar year. MTAS reviewed Gilt Edge’s Public Protection Classification Summary Report, prepared by ISO in November of 2019 to be effective in March of 2020, against the current (2012/2013) edition of the ISO Fire Suppression Rating Schedule (FSRS), and reviewed the fire protection area. This report includes recommendations based upon the observations and comparisons made during the review.

The Model Stormwater Ordinance, as written, is not a stand-alone document. The local government must adopt design storm events and incorporate them into the ordinance as well. Also, no Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMP’s) are incorporated in the body of the ordinance. The Model Ordinance rather adopts BMP Manuals by reference. The Model Ordinance will not be complete without the adoption by reference of these BMP manuals. BMP’s may be drafted and inserted into the body of the Model Ordinance, although MTAS recommends adoption by reference.

This is a draft in that the final MTAS legal formatting has not been done.

Sample contracts for (1) solid waste disposal between Greene County and Greeneville, Tennessee and (2) water purchase between Lawrenceburg Utility Systems and Summertown Water District.

These documents include (1) a contract between the Cities of Munford, Tennessee, and Atoka, Tennessee, dated 11 April 1988, which defines the terms, covenants, and conditions under which the two cities agreed to share the costs and responsibilities for construction, maintenance, and operation of a wastewater treatment facility; (2) an agreement between the Towns of Atoka, Tennessee, and Sunbright, Tennessee, dated 5 November 1990, which defines the terms of an agreement for Brighton's wastewater to pass through Atoka's wastewater collection and transmission system in order for it to reach Munford's wastewater treatment facility; and (3) an agreement between the Cities of Bristol, Tennessee, and Bristol, Virginia, dated May 1996, defining the terms under which the cities would act as joint equitable owners of a wastewater treatment plant and transmission system (sewerage system).

This addition to municipal code Title 10 (Animal Control) provides a definition of a feral cat, commonly known as a stray cat. The ordinance outlines the health hazards related to feral cats and grants authority to animal control officers to investigate potential cat hoarding and to rescue, retrieve, round-up, corral, or humanely trap feral cats roaming at large.

Several cities, housing authorities, and an airport authority were asked about their early retirement incentive programs.