MTAS was asked whether the County School Board is subject to the city's zoning ordinance with respect to the baseball/softball field it wishes to build on school property.
| Zoning Nuisances Schools |
An ordinance and accompanying letter addressing the procedures and requirements for carrying electonic communications devices, including pagers.
| Wireless communication systems--Municipal ordinances Wireless communication systems Telecommunications--Municipal ordinances Communications |
Where the mayor and four aldermen were present on a vote, and two aldermen voted yes, one voted no, and two abstained or did not vote, did the vote pass?
| City council--Procedure Meetings--Planning and management |
MTAS was asked about the authority of the mayor to introduce legislation for formal consideration of the city council.
| Mayor City council--Procedure Meetings--Planning and management |
Job description for the position of Animal Control Attendant.
| Animal control Police--Personnel Personnel--Classification |
University of Tennessee MPPA Graduate Student Dane Morgan conducted a survey of Tennessee municipalities with the assistance of MTAS Librarian Frances Adams-O'Brien. The attached report is a section of a report originally completed for the City of Knoxville Rules of Procedure and Charter Review Task Force in May 2025. The section organizes and briefly discusses the results of the survey sent out in April 2025.
The survey primarily asked questions pertaining to 1) rules of procedure during meetings of the governing body and 2) workshops across Tennessee municipalities (with many municipalities referring to workshops as work sessions). We received responses from 72 municipalities before the survey closed. Of these respondents, 66 completed the survey in its entirety.
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Survey_Report_2025.pdf
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| City council--Procedure Meetings Meetings--Planning and management Open meetings |