MTAS was asked to provide advice and to draft a private act on levying adequate facilities tax.
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Lebanon Adequate Facilities Tax Act.pdf
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| Taxes--Privilege Public facilities Budgets--Capital--Municipal Budgets--Capital--Tennessee |
MTAS conducted a written survey of Tennessee cities to research early retirement programs.
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Sevierville Early Retirement Data.pdf
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| Personnel--Retirement Personnel--Retirement--Tennessee |
MTAS received questions regarding the adoption of plumbing codes in a city.
| Building codes Code enforcement--Building inspection Liability |
MTAS was asked for an opinion regarding the deduction of union dues from firefighter's paychecks.
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Deducting Union Dues from Paychecks.pdf
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| Fire--Administration Fire--Personnel Personnel--Employee relations Personnel--Labor relations |
Several questions are raised in this opinion, including, do the property owners who granted the easement have any remedy against the city and are there issues of liability of the electrical cooperative to the city and to the owners of the property.
| Easements Right of way Utilities--Construction Liability |
A cluster mailbox, or cluster box unit (CBU), is a multi-unit mailbox centralized for common use by the occupants of a residential or commercial development. When cluster mailboxes are installed in single family developments there are no mailboxes in front of each home. This creates a problem for fire, police, EMS, and other emergency and essential services in finding the address of a home. Every building in every community should have the street address number posted on the building, but this is not always the case. At night, and in bad weather, numbers posted on a building can be hard to find and hard to read. Landscaping may grow and obscure the number. The number may not be placed in a conspicuous place. These factors make it difficult for emergency responders to find the home, which increases response time and delays getting help to the person who needs it.
MTAS created a sample ordinance to require address posts for developments that use cluster box units. The sample ordinance requires a reflective signs and minimum sized numbers to be mounted on a post at the curb to make it easy for emergency responders to locate a home. A municipality may modify the sample ordinance to meet local aesthetic needs, if desired.
| Fire--Municipal ordinances Streets--Names and numbering |
A list of the court costs for selected Tennessee cities.
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2019 Court Cost data.pdf
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| Courts--Municipal |
Three Tennessee cities were surveyed to find out whether or not the school district is managed by the city and debts.
| Schools--Tennessee |
MTAS was asked whether the city can issue a capital outlay note to pay its bill for the design of a sewer project that the city killed.
| Finance--Notes--Capital outlay Finance--Use of public funds Public works--Finance Sewers |
A survey of selected cities regarding the public use of police training rooms.
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Police_training_rooms_survey_2019.pdf
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Application to use police community room.pdf
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| Police--Facilities |