| Education |
|
| Searching
for a Fiscal Capacity Model: Why No Other State is Comparable
to Tennessee |
September
2006 |
264
KB |
| Equalizing
Education Funding: The Average Tax Rate Approach |
August
2006 |
316
KB |
| Improving
the Achievement of Tennessee Students: Analysis of the National
Assessment of Educational Progress, RAND Technical Report |
May
2006 |
|
| School
System Consolidation |
November
2005 |
221
KB |
| A
Prototype Model for School-System-Level Fiscal Capacity in
Tennessee: Why & How |
October
2005 |
883
KB |
| A
Users' Guide to Fiscal Capacity in the Basic Education Program |
November
2004 |
737
KB |
| Gains
in Education Spending Equity Continue Four Years After Fully
Funding the Basic Education Program |
September
2003 |
142
KB |
|
April
2003 |
423
KB |
| Do
K-12 School Facilities Affect Education Outcomes? |
January
2003 |
480
KB |
| RAND
Reports - Money Matters in Education: Depending on How It's
Spent |
May
2001 |
242
KB |
| Why
pre-k? A Legislative Staff Briefing Paper by the Office
of Education Accountability Comptroller of the Treasury, and
TACIR |
March
2001 |
149
KB |
| Gains
in Education Finance Equity: How has the BEP Changed Things?
|
October
2000 |
140
KB |
| Teacher
Mobility Among Tennessee's School Districts: A Survey of Causes |
February
2000 |
74
KB |
| Classroom
Teacher Salary Disparity Among Tennessee's School Systems |
April
1999 |
74
KB |
| |
| Fast
Facts |
|
| Personal and Family Economic Well-Being: Status and Momentum of Tennessee Counties (Vol. 5, Issue 1) |
May 2008 |
664
KB |
| Three
Interrelated and Frequently Confused Concepts That Affect
Local Funding Requirements for Education. Volume 4, Issue
1 (Update of Fast Fact Vol. 2, Issue 2) |
January
2005 |
153
KB |
| TACIR's
Fiscal Capacity Model: Equalizing Funding for Education. Volume
3, Issue 1 |
May
2004 |
82
KB |
| Three
Interrelated and Frequently Confused Concepts That Affect
Local Funding Requirements for Education. Volume 2, Issue
2 |
October
2003 |
333
KB |
| TACIR's
Fiscal Capacity Model Helps Determine Funding for Education.
Volume 2, Issue 1 |
June
2003 |
803
KB |
| The
Sales Tax "Bite" in Tennessee Approaches One and One-half
Times the National Average. Volume 1 Issue 5 |
April
2002 |
543
KB |
| Tennessee
Should Close the Education Gap - Everyone's Financial Well-being
Depends on it! Volume 1 Issue 4 |
March
2002 |
523
KB |
| Understanding
Budget Growth. Volume 1, Issue 3 |
March
2002 |
455
KB |
| How
Does Tennessee's Budget Work? Volume 1 Issue 2 |
March
2002 |
451
KB |
| Minimizing
Risk Factors Key to Kindergarten Success. Volume 1,
Issue 1 |
March
2002 |
280
KB |
|
|
| Growth
Policy |
|
| Fiscal
Effort, Fiscal Capacity, and Fiscal Need: Separate Concepts,
Separate Problems |
June
2007 |
238
KB |
| Fiscal
Flexibility: Low Growth/High Pressure |
January
2007 |
195
KB |
| Cost
of Community Services Study (Robertson County) |
2006 |
268
KB |
| Growth
Plans and Infrastructure Needs in Tennessee: A Nine-County
Analysis |
August
2006 |
1,502
KB |
| Growing
Pains: Fiscal Challenges for Local Governments |
August
2006 |
561
KB |
| Planning
for Growth and Paying for It: TACIR Recommendations on 2005
Growth-Related Bills |
February
2006 |
566
KB |
| Financing
Growth in Tennessee: Local Development Taxes and Impact Fees |
August
2004 |
450
KB |
| Forming
a Metropolitan Government: The Hows and Whys of Local Government
Consolidation |
September
2003 |
329
KB |
| Tennessee's
Growth Policy in 2001: Promises and Progress |
June
2002 |
324
KB |
| Paying
for Growth: General Assembly Authorizations for Development
Taxes and Impact Fees |
April
2002 |
82
KB |
Implementation
of Tennessee's Growth Policy Act in CY 2000: A Year of Progress
Counties with approved growth plans (As of 1/1/2006) |
January
2001 |
8
KB |
| Planning
for Rural Areas in Tennessee Under PC 1101 |
January
2001 |
227
KB |
| Tennessee's
Growth Policy Act: A Vision for the Future |
April
2000 |
382
KB |
| Joint
Economic and Community Development Boards: A Guide for Future
Action |
February
2000 |
176
KB |
| Implementation
of Tennessee's Growth Policy Act: The History of PC 1101 and
the Early Stages of its Implementation |
March
1999 |
433
KB |
| Growth
Policy, Annexation, and Incorporation Under PC 1101 of 1998:
A Guide for Community Leaders |
May
1999 |
488
KB |
|
|
| Infrastructure |
|
| Building
Tennessee's Tomorrow - Anticipating the State's Infrastructure
Needs |
September
2007 |
|
| Building
Tennessee's Tomorrow - Anticipating the State's Infrastructure
Needs |
October
2005 |
|
| Building
Tennessee's Tomorrow - Anticipating the State's Infrastructure
Needs |
March
2004 |
|
| Infrastructure
Finance Brief: Local Financing Techniques For Capital Projects |
August
2002 |
72
KB |
| Building
Tennessee's Tomorrow - Anticipating the State's Infrastructure
Needs |
March
2002 |
|
Building
Tennessee's Tomorrow: A Survey of Infrastructure Needs
 |
February
2001 |
|
|
|
| Taxes |
|
| Local
Realty Transfer Taxes |
February
2008 |
318
KB |
| Getting
It Right: The Effect on the Property Tax Base of Economic
Development Agreements and Property Tax Incentives for Businesses |
January
2008 |
435
KB |
| Who
Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County |
August
2007 |
442
KB |
| Local
Taxing Authority |
July
2007 |
150
KB |
| Property
Tax Reduction and Relief Programs |
June
2007 |
1,132
KB |
| Fiscal
Effort, Fiscal Capacity, and Fiscal Need: Separate Concepts,
Separate Problems |
June
2007 |
238
KB |
| Tax
Increment Financing: Opportunities and Concerns |
March
2007 |
164
KB |
| Cost
of Community Services Study (Robertson County) |
2006 |
268
KB |
| Growing
Pains: Fiscal Challenges for Local Governments |
August
2006 |
561
KB |
Local
Government Property Tax Revisited
Good News and Bad News |
July
2006 |
161
KB |
| State
Highway Aid to Local Governments in Tennessee |
February
2005 |
530
KB |
| State-Shared
Tax Findings |
February
2005 |
132
KB |
| State-Shared
Taxes and Cities Without Property Taxes: A Source of Inequity |
October
2004 |
395
KB |
| State
Tax Sharing with Cities: Premier Type Tourist Resort Cities
as Models |
September
2004 |
1529
KB |
| Hall
Income Tax Distributions and Local Government Finances |
April
2004 |
471
KB |
| Property
Tax Abatements and Payments in Lieu of Taxes: Impact on Public
Education |
February
2004 |
1080
KB |
| State
Tax Sharing, Fairness, and Local Government Finance in Tennessee
(Report
(1535 KB) and Appendices
(835 KB) |
January
2004 |
|
| Directory
of Select Reports and Studies on Tennessee's Tax System |
March
2003 |
49
KB |
| The
Structure of State Taxes in Tennessee: A Fiscal Primer |
February
2003 |
1897
KB |
| Highway
Finance in Tennessee |
October
2002 |
620
KB |
| The
Local Government Finance Series Volume III, Miscellaneous
Local Taxes and Fees |
August
2002 |
686
KB |
The
Local Government Finance Series Volume II, the Local Option
Sales Tax in Tennessee
Map of
State and Local Option Sales Tax Rates (Jan.05)
Local
Option Sales Tax Update
|
June
2002 |
1056
KB |
| An
Analysis of the Fiscal Structure of Non-Income Tax States |
April
2002 |
651
KB |
| The
Citizens' Guide to the Tennessee Budget |
February
2002 |
419
KB |
| The
Local Government Finance Series Volume 1, The Local Property
Tax in Tennessee |
February
2002 |
6248
KB |
| State
Shared Taxes in Tennessee (Report
(231 KB) and Appendices
(672 KB) |
March
2000 |
|
| Taxation
of Services in Tennessee |
January
2000 |
337
KB |
| Sales
Tax on Food: Targeting Relief to the Working Poor and Elderly
Poor |
May
1999 |
379
KB |
| Financing
Tennessee Government in the 21st Century (Executive
Summary) |
January
1999 |
47
KB |
| National
Perspectives on Tennessee Taxes |
April
1998 |
188
KB |
| |
| Other
Issues |
|
| Corroding
and Failing Sewer Lines: How Big a Problem? |
March
2008 |
149
KB |
| Trust
But Verify: Increasing Voter Confidence in Election Results
- Brief |
January
2008 |
123
KB |
| Trust
But Verify: Increasing Voter Confidence in Election Results
- Staff Report |
January
2008 |
658
KB |
Intergovernmental
Challenges and Achievements
Biennial Report of TACIR FY 2005 and FY 2006 |
August
2007 |
520
KB |
| Beyond
Capacity: Issues and Challenges Facing County Jails |
March
2007 |
823
KB |
| Fiscal
Federalism: The Looming Federal Fiscal Crisis and Its Effect
on Tennessee |
March
2007 |
388
KB |
| Analysis
of Pole Attachment Rate Issues in Tennessee |
March
2007 |
1110
KB |
| Intergovernmental
Challenges and Achievements: Twenty-five Years in Review |
April
2006 |
189
KB |
| Emergency
Challenge: A Study of E-911 Technology and Funding Structure
in Tennessee |
February
2006 |
935
KB |
| Intergovernmental
Challenges and Achievements: Biennial Report of TACIR FY 2003
and FY 2004 |
February
2006 |
532
KB |
Population
Projections for the State of Tennessee
2005 to 2025 |
December
2003 |
|
| Intergovernmental
Challenges and Achievements: Biennial Report of TACIR FY 2001
and FY 2002 |
December
2003 |
307
KB |
| Issues
Relating to the Appointment of Utility Districts Boards of
Commissioners (Interim Report) |
March
2003 |
143
KB |
| The
Office of the Property Assessor in Tennessee |
March
2003 |
891
KB |
| Intergovernmental
Challenges and Achievements: Biennial Report of TACIR FY 1999
and FY 2000 |
November
2001 |
200
KB |
| Potential
Impacts of Electric Utility Restructuring on Local Governments
in Tennessee |
October
2001 |
582
KB |
| Tennessee
and the Knowledge Economy |
May
2001 |
188
KB |
| Intergovernmental
Challenges and Achievements: Biennial Report of TACIR FY 1997
and FY 1998 |
January
2001 |
201
KB |
| Local
Government Tort Liability Issues in Tennessee |
January
1999 |
244
KB |
| |
| Presentations |
|
| Tax
Increment Financing |
March
2008 |
35
KB |
| Dickson
County Peer Evaluation |
February
2008 |
256
KB |
| Tennessee's
Water Resources: Balancing Resources and Needs |
February
2008 |
|
Tennessee's
Water Resources: A Regional Concern
If Ever There Was One |
December
2007 |
3.9
MB |
| Tennessee's
Water Resource: A Regional Concern |
December
2007 |
4.9
MB |
| Changing
Nature of the Property Tax in Tennessee |
November
2007 |
216
KB |
| Tennessee's
Water Resources: Managing Current and Future Challenges |
October
2007 |
1810
KB |
| Trust
but Verify: Toward Increasing Voter Confidence in Election
Results |
May
2007 |
153
KB |
| Free
and Fair Elections: Twenty-first Century Challenges |
February
2007 |
210
KB |
| A
Primer on the Prototype Developed by Staff Working Group
|
November
2006 |
370
KB |
| System-level
Fiscal Capacity for Funding Education in Tennessee - Workshop
for State Agency Staff |
February
2005 |
|
| Prototype
System-Level Fiscal Capacity Model |
September
2004 |
|
|
Equalizing
Teachers' Salaries |
October
2002 |
|
State Shared Taxes in Tennessee
State Shared Tax Distribution Appendix |
June
2002 |
49
KB |
|
Accountability
Through Performance-Based Budgeting (HB253/SB1504) |
March
2001 |
754
KB |
| |
| News
Articles |
|
| TACIR
to Study Future Water Supply Challenges, by TACIR Staff,
Tennessee Municipal League - Tennessee Town & City |
October
8, 2007 |
Link
to TML |
K-12
Education Standard Best Served With Revised Fiscal Model,
by Harry A. Green, Tennessee County Services Association -
County News
|
May-June
2006 |
Link
to TCSA |
| Equity
in Education Funding: A Tale of Two Cities, by Harry A.
Green, Tennessee Municipal League - Tennessee Town &
City |
April 10, 2006 |
18
KB |
|
These publications received the Certificate of Merit or Award
for Most Distinguished Research from the Governmental Research
Association. |
