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Education
Capital Expenditures for Public Schools - Staff Education Brief
October 2009
Gains in Education Spending Equity—Ten Years After Fully Funding the BEP - Staff Education Brief
August 2009
The Local Government Response to the Basic Education Program: Equity, Spending, and Local Tax Effort - Joint Publication of TACIR and UT CBER
September 2008
Education Crossroads
Presented by Dr. Matthew Murray, Associate Director and Professor of Economics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, at the September 2008 TACIR Commission Meeting (Link to UT-CBER web site)
September 2008
Fiscal
Capacity and Fiscal Equity - Brief
August 2008
A Primer on the Prototype Developed by Staff Working Group - Presentation
November 2006
Searching for a Fiscal Capacity Model: Why No Other State is Comparable to Tennessee - Brief
September 2006
Equalizing Education Funding: The Average Tax Rate Approach - Brief
August 2006
K-12
Education Standard Best Served With Revised Fiscal Model,
by Harry A. Green
County News (Link to Tennessee County Services Association web site)
May-June 2006
Improving the Achievement of Tennessee Students: Analysis of the National Assessment of Educational Progress - RAND Technical Report
May 2006
Equity
in Education Funding: A Tale of Two Cities, by Harry A.
Green
Tennessee Town &
City
April 10, 2006
School System Consolidation - Brief
November 2005
A Prototype Model for School-System-Level Fiscal Capacity in Tennessee: Why & How - Staff Report
October 2005
System-level Fiscal Capacity for Funding Education in Tennessee: Workshop for State Agency Staff - Presentation
February 2005
Three Interrelated and Frequently Confused Concepts That Affect Local Funding Requirements for Education. Vol. 4, Issue 1 (Update of Fast Facts Vol. 2, Issue2) - Fast Facts
January 2005
A Users' Guide to Fiscal Capacity in the Basic Education Program - Staff Report
November 2004
Prototype System-Level Fiscal Capacity Model - Presentation
September 2004
TACIR's Fiscal Capacity Model: Equalizing Funding for Education, Volume 3, Issue 1 - Fast Facts
May 2004
Three Interrelated and Frequently Confused Concepts That Affect Local Funding Requirements for Education. Vol. 2, Issue 2 - Fast Facts
October 2003
Gains in Education Spending Equity Continue Four Years After Fully Funding the Basic Education Program - Brief
September 2003
TACIR's Fiscal Capacity Model Helps Determine Funding for Education, Volume 2, Issue 1 - Fast Facts
June 2003
The Funding of Higher Education in Tennessee - Staff Report
April 2003
Do K-12 School Facilities Affect Education Outcomes? - Staff Report
January 2003
Equalizing Teachers' Salaries - Presentation
October 2002
Tennessee Should Close the Education Gap: Everyone's Financial Well-being Depends on it! Vol. 1 Issue 4 - Fast Facts
March 2002
Minimizing Risk Factors Key to Kindergarten Success. Volume 1, Issue 1 - Fast Facts
March 2002
RAND Reports - Money Matters in Education: Depending on How It's Spent - Staff Report
May 2001
Why Pre-K? A Legislative Staff Briefing Paper by the Office of Education Accountability Comptroller of the Treasury and TACIR
March 2001
Gains in Education Finance Equity: How Has the BEP Changed Things? - Brief
October 2000
Teacher Mobility Among Tennessee's School Districts: A Survey of Causes - Brief
February 2000
Classroom Teacher Salary Disparity Among Tennessee's School Systems - Staff Working Paper
April 1999
Growth Policy
Population Projections for the State of Tennessee 2010-2030 - Joint Publication of TACIR and UT CBER
June 2009
Growth Concentration in Tennessee Regions - Staff Report
September 2008
Corroding and Failing Sewer Lines: How Big a Problem? - Brief
March 2008
Cost of Community Services Study - Prepared by American Farmland Trust
2006
Growing Pains: Fiscal Challenges for Local Governments - Staff Report
August 2006
Growth Plans and Infrastructure Needs in Tennessee: A Nine-County Analysis - Joint Report with UT EERC and TACIR
August 2006
Planning for Growth and Paying for It: TACIR Recommendations on 2005 Growth-Related Bills - Staff Report
February 2006
Population Projections for the State of Tennessee: 2005-2025 - Joint Publication TACIR and UT CBER
December 2003
Forming a Metropolitan Government: The Hows and Whys of Local Government Consolidations - Staff Report
September 2003
Tennessee's Growth Policy in 2001: Promises and Progress
June 2002
Implementation of Tennessee's Growth Policy Act in CY 2000: A Year of Progress - Commission Report
Counties with Approved Growth Plans (as of 1/1/2006)
January 2001
Planning for Rural Areas in Tennessee Under PC 1101 - Staff Report
January 2001
Tennessee's Growth Policy Act: A Vision for the Future - Staff Report
April 2000
Joint Economic and Community Development Boards: A Guide for Future Action - Staff Report
February 2000
Growth Policy, Annexation, and Incorporation Under PC 1101 of 1998: A Guide for Community Leaders - Joint Publication with UT Institute for Public Service and TACIR
May 1999
Implementation of Tennessee's Growth Policy Act: The History of PC 1101 and the Early Stages of Its Implementation - Staff Report
March 1999
Infrastructure
Building Tennessee's Tomorrow: Anticipating the State's Infrastructure Needs - Commission Report
September 2009
Financing Transportation in the 21st Century
Presented by Senator Mark Norris at the September 2008 TACIR Commission Meeting
September 2008
Building Tennessee's Tomorrow - Anticipating the State's Infrastructure Needs - Commission Report
September 2007
Building Tennessee's Tomorrow - Anticipating the State's Infrastructure Needs - Commission Report
October 2005
Building Tennessee's Tomorrow: Anticipating the State's Infrastructure Needs - Commission Report
March 2004
Do K-12 School Facilities Affect Education Outcomes? - Staff Report
January 2003
Infrastructure Finance Brief: Local Financing Techniques for Capital Projects - Brief
August 2002
Building Tennessee's Tomorrow: Anticipating the State's Infrastructure Needs - Commission Report
March 2002
Building Tennessee's Tomorrow: A Survey of Infrastructure Needs - Commission Report
February 2001
Tax
Taxing Utilities in Tennessee: Ongoing Challenges in Providing a Level Playing Field for Telecommunication Businesses - Staff Research Brief
October 2009
The Importance of the Property Tax Among Tennessee Counties - Staff Research Brief
May 2009
Property Tax Disparity Among Tennessee Counties - Staff Research Brief
March 2009
Greenbelt Revisited - Staff Report
February 2009
Tax Increment Financing - Presentation
March 2008
Local Realty Transfer Taxes - Staff Report
February 2008
Getting It Right: The Effect on the Property Tax Base of Economic Development Agreements and Property Tax Incentives for Businesses - Brief
January 2008
Changing Nature of the Property Tax in Tennessee - Presentation
November 2007
Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County - Staff Report
August 2007
Local Taxing Authority - Staff Report
July 2007
Property Tax Reduction and Relief Programs - Brief
June 2007
Fiscal Effort, Fiscal Capacity, and Fiscal Need: Separate Concepts, Separate Problems - Staff Report
June 2007
Tax Increment Financing: Opportunities and Concerns - Brief
March 2007
Fiscal Flexibility: Low Growth/High Pressure - Staff Report
January 2007
Local Government Property Tax Revisited: Good News and Bad News - Brief
July 2006
State Highway Aid to Local Governments in Tennessee - Staff Report
February 2005
State-Shared Tax Findings - Letter to General Assembly
February 2005
Hall Income Tax Distributions and Local Government Finances - Staff Report
April 2004
Property Tax Abatements and Payments in Lieu of Taxes: Impact on Public Education - Commission Report
February 2004
State Tax Sharing, Fairness, and Local Government Finance in Tennessee - Staff Report
(Report) (Appendices)
January 2004
Financing Growth in Tennessee: Local Development Taxes and Impact Fees - Brief
August 2004
State-Shared Taxes and Cities Without Property Taxes: A Source of Inequity - Staff Report
October 2004
State Tax Sharing with Cities: Premier Type Tourist Resort Cities as Models - Staff Report
September 2004
Directory of Select Reports and Studies on Tennessee's Tax System
March 2003
The Structure of State Taxes in Tennessee: A Fiscal Primer - Joint Publication with TACIR/UT CBER
February 2003
Highway Finance in Tennessee - Staff Report
October 2002
The Local Government Finance Series Volume III, Miscellaneous Local Taxes and Fees - Staff Report
August 2002
The Local Government Finance Series Volume II, The Local Option Sales Tax in Tennessee - Staff Report
Local Option Sales Tax Update
Map of State and Local Option Sales Tax Rates (Jan 2005)
June 2002
Paying for Growth: General Assembly Authorizations for Development Taxes and Impact Fees - Brief
April 2002
An Analysis of the Fiscal Structure of Non-Income Tax States - Staff Report
April 2002
The Sales Tax Bite in Tennessee Approaches One and One-half Times the National Average Volume 1 Issue 5 - Fast Facts
April 2002
Understanding Budget Growth, Volume 1, Issue 3 - Fast Facts
March 2002
How Does Tennessee's Budget Work? Volume 1 Issue 2 - Fast Facts
March 2002
The Citizens' Guide to the Tennessee Budget - Staff Report
February 2002
The Local Government Finance Series Volume 1, The Local Property Tax in Tennessee - Staff Report
February 2002
State Shared Taxes in Tennessee - Staff Report
(Report) (Appendices)
March 2000
Taxation of Services in Tennessee - Staff Report
January 2000
Financing Tennessee Government in the 21st Century - Commission Report
January 1999
Sales Tax on Food: Targeting Relief to the Working Poor and Elderly Poor - Staff Working Paper
May 1999
National Perspectives on Tennessee Taxes- Staff Report
April 1998
Biennial Reports
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements - Biennial Report FY 2007-2008
December 2009
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements - Biennial Report FY 2005-2006
August 2007
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements: Twenty-five Years in Review - Brief
April 2006
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements - Biennial Report FY 2003-2004
February 2006
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements - Biennial Report FY 2001-2002
December 2003
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements - Biennial Report FY 1999-2000
November 2001
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements - Biennial Report FY 1997-1998
January 2001
Election
Keeping the List: Voter Registration and Eligibility - Staff Report
September 2008
Trust But Verify: Increasing Voter Confidence in Election Results - Brief
January 2008
Trust But Verify: Increasing Voter Confidence in Election Results - Staff Report
January 2008
Trust But Verify: Toward Increasing Voter Confidence in Election Results - Presentation
May 2007
Free and Fair Elections: Twenty-first Century Challenges - Presentation
February 2007
Water/Utilities
Tennessee's Water Resources: Balancing Resources - Presentation
February 2008
Tennessee's Water Resources: A Regional Concern If Ever There Was One - Presentation
December 2007
Tennessee's Water Resources: A Regional Concern - Presentation
December 2007
TACIR
to Study Future Water Supply Challenges, by TACIR Staff
Tennessee Town & City (Link to Tennessee Municipal League)
October 2007
Tennessee's Water Resources: Managing Current and Future Challenges - Presentation
October 2007
Analysis of Pole Attachment Rate Issues in Tennessee -
March 2007
Potential Impacts of Electric Utility Restructuring on Local Governments in Tennessee - Technical Report
October 2001
Issues Relating to the Appointment of Utility Districts Boards of Commissioners (Interim Report)
March 2003
Miscellaneous Reports
Population Projections for the State of Tennessee 2010-2030 - Joint Publication of TACIR and UT CBER
June 2009
Economic and Fiscal Impact Analyses - Staff Research Brief
May 2009
Tracking the Tennessee Economy - Web Publication
May 2009
Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - Presentation
February 2009
Fiscal Impact of Economic Slowdown on Local Governments in Tennessee - Web Publication
December 2008
Telecommuting: Saving Energy and Promoting Progress - Brief
September 2008
Local
Economic Activity: Status and Momentum of Tennessee Counties
(Vol. 5, Issue 2) - Fast Facts
August 2008
Personal
and Family Economic Well-Being: Status and Momentum of Tennessee
Counties (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Fast Facts
May 2008 (Revised May 2009)
Dickson County Peer Evaluation - Presentation
February 2008
Fiscal Federalism: The Looming Federal Fiscal Crisis and Its Effect on Tennessee - Staff Report
March 2007
Beyond Capacity: Issues and Challenges Facing County Jails - Commission Report
March 2007
Emergency Challenge: A Study of E-911 Technology and Funding Structure in Tennessee - Commission Report
February 2006
The Office of the Property Assessor in Tennessee - Commission Report
March 2003
Tennessee and the Knowledge Economy - Staff Report
May 2001
Accountability Through Performance-Based Budgeting (HB 253/SB 1504) - Presentation
March 2001
Local Government Tort Liability Issues in Tennessee - Commission Report
January 1999
