MTAS was asked to compile a list of qualifications for a contractor to manage residential garbage collection.

An ordinance created for the City of Rutledge, Tennessee to establish rules and regulations for the Rutledge City Park.

MTAS was asked about the legality of asking personal questions of police applicants when administering polygraph tests.

MTAS was asked to provide assistance to this committee that was established by the City of Mt. Juliet to study home rule.

MTAS was asked whether the city can pay the legal fees and court costs of an employee who was placed on pretrial diversion for misuse of city funds.

MTAS was asked for an explanation of the process for starting a municipal school system in Tennessee.

A resolution authorizing MTAS to conduct a comprehensive management review (CMR) of the departments of the City of Kingston, establishing procedures for maintaining the objectivity of the study, and requiring its presentation in a work session before the mayor and city council.

MTAS performed a management evaluation of the Building and Zoning Department for the City of Lakesite. The management evaluation revealed a significant disparity existed between plan review, permitting and inspection fee revenues and associated expenditures. The governing body expressed desire for development to more adequately cover expenditures through adjustments that would be needed in the current fee schedule. Because of the significant disparity that existed, MTAS recommended a multi-year approach be undertaken to adjust fees incrementally each year following performing a financial analysis to determine the effectiveness of prior fee schedule adjustments in reducing the gap between revenues and expenditures. MTAS prepared a comparison exhibit illustrating the current fee schedule and the adjusted fee schedule to provide for a side-by-side comparison. MTAS also prepared an ordinance that contained the adjusted fee schedule as an exhibit. Adoption of the ordinance and subsequent ordinances to further adjust the fee schedules will provide the opportunity to increase plan review, permitting, and inspection fee revenues to more adequately cover corresponding expenditures for development related services.

Four cities responded to an MTAS survey about their salary range for an entry level police officer.

Thirty exempt cities and forty-one non-exempt cities were asked whether they license building trade personnel.