June 2015
Tab 1 - Minutes of January 2015 Meeting
Tab 2 - Commission Updates
Tab 3 - Legislative Update
Tab 4 - Work Program Amendment, New Research Plans
- Memo to Commission
- Tab A1 - Public Chapter 325, Acts of 2015, Homestead Exemption
- Tab A2 - Public Chapter 395, Acts of 2015, Hotel Occupancy Taxes
- Tab A3 - Public Chapter 478, Acts of 2015, Clean Power Plan
- Tab B - Senate Bill 466 and House Bill 985, County Employees Serving on County Commission
- Tab C - Senate Bill 549, Zoning Amendments
- Tab D - House Bill 477, Stair Step Safety
- Tab E - House Bill 967, Preference to Tennessee Vendors
- Tab F - House Bill 241, Local Funding for Public Defenders and District Attorneys
- Tab G - Court Fee Study
Tab 5 - FY 2014-2015 Accomplishments
Tab 6 - Hotel Motel Tax Earmark and Impact Study
Tab 7 - Sustainable Competitiveness for Tennessee's Counties: Collaboration Between TACIR and TSU
- Memo to Commission
- Sustainable Competitiveness for Tennessee's Counties Findings Overview
- Presentation by Tennessee State University
Meg Streams, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration
Soumen Ghosh, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics & Finance
Tab 8 - Education Funding and Fiscal Capacity
- Memo to Commission
- Excerpt from A Users' Guide to Fiscal Capacity in the Basic Education Program
- Table 1- Variables Used to Calculate Fiscal Capacity Per Pupil and the Fiscal Capacity Index for Each County Area
- Table 2 - Historical Comparison of County Fiscal Capacity Indexes for Fiscal Year 1996 through Fiscal Year 2015-16
- Table 3 - Five and Fifteen Year Averages of the Indexes for Each County Area
- Table 4 - Compares the 5- and 15-year Averages
- Map - County Trends
- Presentation - Michael Mount, Senior Research Associate
Tab 9 - Annual Report on Public Infrastructure Needs Inventory - Final Report for Approval
- Memo to Commission
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Infrastructure Needs Statewide
- Infrastructure Needs by County
- Funding the State's Infrastructure Needs
- School Infrastructure Needs
- Appendix A: Enabling Legislation
- Appendix B: Project History
- Appendix C: Inventory Forms
- Appendix D: Reported Public Infrastructure Needs by County
- Appendix E: Estimated Cost of Infrastructure Needs Completed by County
- Appendix F: 2013 Property and Sales Tax Bases by County
- Appendix G: Reason Given for Needing Infrastructure Improvements in the Current Inventory
- Appendix H: Reason Given for Needing Infrastructure Improvements Completed Since 2008
- Appendix I: Public School System Infrastructure Needs by School System
- Glossary
- Development Districts