August 2016
Tab 1 - Minutes of May 2016 Meeting
Tab 2 - Commission and Staff Update
Tab 3 - Update on Tennessee's Lawsuit Challenging FCC Preemption
Tab 4 - Biennial Report for Fiscal Years 2014-15 and 2015-16—Final Report for Approval
Tab 5 - The Economic Impact of Open Space on Residential Property Values in Tennessee—Report to the Commission
- Memo to Commission
- Presentation - Dr. Charles Sims, University of Tennessee Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy & Department of Economics
Tab 6 - Annual Report on Tennessee's Public Infrastructure Needs—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: Public School Infrastructure Needs by School System
- Glossary
- Development Districts
Tab 7 - Fiscal Capacity for Fiscal Year 2016-17
- Memo to Commission
- Excerpt from A Users' Guide to Fiscal Capacity in the Basic Education Program
- Table 1 - Fiscal Year 2017 Fiscal Capacity Variables and Index with FY 2016 Index for Comparison
- Table 2 - Long Term Fiscal Capacity Trends by County—5-year Average Compared with 15-year Average
- Table 3 - Time Series Analysis of Fiscal Capacity—5-year Average Compared with 15-year Average
- Table 4 - Long Term Fiscal Capacity Trends by County—5-year Average Compared with 15-year Average
- Map - County Trends
- Presentation - Michael Mount, Senior Research Associate
Tab 8 - The Privilege Tax in Tennessee: Taxing Professionals Fairly—Draft Report for Review and Comment
- Memo to Commission
- Draft Report for Review and Comment
- Appendix A - Public Chapter 1024, Acts of 2016
- Appendix B - Original Language of Public Chapter 1024 (Senate Bill 556 by Bowling, House Bill 678 by Van Huss
- Appendix C - Senate Bill 167 by Bowling, House Bill 601 by Durham
- Appendix D - Senate Bill 1919 by Bowling, House Bill 1951 by Hazlewood
- Appendix E - Professions Taxed by States and the Amount of Taxes
Tab 9 - Legislative Compensation: Comparing Tennessee to Contiguous and Peer States—Draft Report for Review and Comment
- Memo to Commission
- Draft Report for Review and Comment
- Appendix A - Senate Joint Resolution 463
- Appendix B - Number of Cities and Counties per Tennessee Senator, 2016
- Appendix C - Number of Cities and Counties per Tennessee Representative, 2016
- Appendix D - Previous Legislation, 1995-2016
- Appendix E - National Conference of State Legislatures 50 State Survey: Questions, 2016
- Appendix F - 2016 National Conference of State Legislatures Survey Results
- Appendix G - Distance Tennessee General Assembly Members Report Living from the Capitol
Tab 10 - Broadband Internet Deployment, Availability, and Adoption in Tennessee—Updates and Panel Discussion
- Memo to Commission
- Attachment A - Summary of ECD's Findings
- Attachment B - Strategic Networks Group: Internet Connectivity and Utilization in Tennessee 2016
- Attachment C - Strategic Networks Group: Tennessee eStrategy Report
- Attachment D - Strategic Networks Group: State of Tennessee Considerations and Best Practices for Statewide Broadband Initiatives
- Attachment E - Strategic Networks Group: The 50 States of Broadband
- Presentation - Michael Ramage, Director of the Center for Telecommunications Systems Management, Murray State University, and Former Director of Connected Tennessee
- Presentation - Amanda Martin, Special Projects Director, Department of Economic and Community Development
- Presentation - Charles A. Sherrill, Tennessee State Librarian and Archivist, Office of Secretary of State
- Presentation and Handout - Keith Durbin, Information Technology Services Director and Chief Information Officer, Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
Other Business