Councilmember asked for opinion on Mayor's authority to set employee schedules.

A comprehensive manual on municipal government.

MTAS was asked about allowing employees on military leave to use accrued vacation or annual leave with pay during military service.

MTAS was asked about an ordinance that prohibits the carrying of a variety of weapons "with the intent to go armed," except the "army or navy pistol in the open hand."

Material that the Fire Service Coalition is giving to legislators on sprinklers for nursing homes.

MTAS provided examples of retirement plans from several cities and information from TCRS.

Section 1000 of the ISO Fire Suppression Rating Schedule evaluates the community risk reduction efforts in a community. Part of Section 1032B1, Fire Safety Education in Schools, evaluates fire safety efforts in schools, including the conducting of monthly fire drills. This section requires that “Each school must conduct 1 fire exit drill, in accordance with the general criteria of NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, or the ICC International Fire Code each month that the campus is in session.”

Because the sales tax rate increase became effective July 15, 2002, reporting sales may be complicated due to the fact that a municipality may have taxable sales from July 1-14 at the old state rate of 6% and sales from July 15-31 at the new state rate of 7%.

This publication is intended to provide guidance, especially to smaller cities, in the creation and implementation of a practical and cost-effective archiving policy for Electronically Stored Information (ESI).

MTAS was asked to provide information to a territory that wishes to incorporate.