Fifteen Tennessee cities responded to a request for information regarding annual salaries and benefits offered to elected officials.

A legal opinion regarding whether a city is responsible for refunding (1) beer license fees, (2) beer sales tax, and (3) city property tax in the case of an annexation being declared void.

MTAS was asked what the relative powers of the mayor and the board of aldermen are in personnel matters.

MTAS was asked whether the city is required to provide handicap access to the second floor walking track in its new recreation building, if the Electric Company can change its monthly in-lieu of tax payments to a single annual payment, and whether the City can put 'liquor by the drink' back on the ballot during the next election since the measure was approved in the last election.

MTAS provided several approaches that have been successfully employed in other Tennessee cities to accomplish this objective.

A program and ordinance to provide tax relief for elderly low-income homeowners.

MTAS was asked what the statute of limitations is on a clerical error in the office of the county property tax assessor that saw a piece of property within the City left off the city's property tax rolls.

Five cities responded to an MTAS survey that was sent to 20 cities in the region about public use of right of way.

The Fund Balance Policy is intended to provide guidelines during the preparation and execution of the annual budget to ensure that sufficient reserves are maintained for unanticipated expenditures or revenue shortfalls. The sample policy contains percentages and dollar thresholds for illustrative purposes thus each city should determine the levels of fund balance which best suit their government operations.

In this study, the main issue is the safety of the children who walk to and from school; secondary concerns were those of vehicles needing to turn against the traffic flow.