January 2016

Tab 1 - Minutes of October 2015 Meeting

Tab 2 - Commission Staff Update

Memo to Commission

Tab 3 - Broadband Internet Technologies, Their Capabilities and Availability in Tennessee

Memo to Commission (Revised)
Attachment A1 - Maximum Downstream Speed as Reported by Providers for Census Blocks in Southwest Tennessee Development District
Attachment A2 - Typical Downstream Speeds as Reported by Providers for Census Blocks in Southwest Tennessee Development District
Attachment B - 2015 Survey on the Percentage of Americans with at Home Broadband Connections and Factors Affecting Adoption, by the Pew Research Center
Attachment C - Presentation by Victor Hazlewood, COO, University of Tennessee Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (Revised)
Attachment D - Technology Guidelines by the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration's division of Strategic Technology Solutions

Tab 4 - County Employees Serving on Their County Commissions—Final Report for Approval

Memo to Commission
Final Report for Approval
Appendix A - Survey Results by County
Appendix B - Positions that Can and Cannot Be Held at the Same Time
Appendix C - Senate Bill 466 by Bell, House Bill 985 by Rogers
Appendix D - Senate Bill 1288 by Hensley, House Bill 1278 by Butt
Appendix E - Summary of States' County Structures and Laws
Appendix F - States' Conflict of Interest Law Citations

Tab 5 - Lodging Taxes—Final Report for Approval

Memo to Commission (Revised)
Final Report for Approval
Appendix A - Senate Bill 850 by Tate, House Bill 951 by White M.
Appendix B - Public Chapter 395, Acts of 2015
Appendix C - State and Local Combined Lodging Tax Rates and Authorized Rates in Tennessee
Appendix D - Authorized State and Local Tax Rates on Lodging by State

Tab 6 - Adjusting the Homestead Exemption to Reflect Cost of Living (Public Chapter 325, Acts of 2015)—Final Report for Approval

Memo to Commission
Final Report for Approval (Revised)
Appendix A - Public Chapter 326, Acts of 2015
Appendix B - American Bankruptcy Institute: Bankruptcy Filings 2015
Appendix C - Comparison of Federal Bankruptcy Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
Appendix D - United States Department of Justice Summary of Bankruptcy Chapters
Appendix E - Comparison of Federal and Tennessee Bankruptcy Exemptions
Appendix F - Homestead Exemption as a Percentage of Median Housing Prices in Tennessee and the US, 1975 through 2015
Appendix G - Homestead Exemption in Tennessee Bankruptcy (Public Chapter 325, Acts of 2015)—Panel Discussion
Appendix H-1 - Comparison of States' Sets of Exemptions (Alphabetical Order)
Appendix H-2 - Comparison of States' Sets of Exemptions (Ascending Order by Real and Personal Property Individual Exemptions)

Tab 7 - Tennessee Valley Authority Payments in Lieu of Taxes—Annual Report for Approval

Memo to Commission
Annual Report for Approval
Appendix A - Tennessee's Allocation Formula
Appendix B - Distribution of Counties' Share of TVA Payments in Lieu of Taxes to Tennessee
Appendix C - Distribution of Cities' Share of TVA Payments in Lieu of Taxes to Tennessee
Appendix D - TVA 2015 IRP Recommendations by Resource Type
Presentation by Dr. Reuben Kyle, Senior Research Consultant, TACIR