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Education
Searching for a Fiscal Capacity Model: Why No Other State is Comparable to Tennessee
September 2006
264 KB
Equalizing Education Funding: The Average Tax Rate Approach
August 2006
316 KB
Improving the Achievement of Tennessee Students: Analysis of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, RAND Technical Report
May 2006
 
School System Consolidation
November 2005
221 KB
A Prototype Model for School-System-Level Fiscal Capacity in Tennessee: Why & How
October 2005
883 KB
A Users' Guide to Fiscal Capacity in the Basic Education Program
November 2004
737 KB
Gains in Education Spending Equity Continue Four Years After Fully Funding the Basic Education Program
September 2003
142 KB
April 2003
423 KB
Do K-12 School Facilities Affect Education Outcomes?
January 2003
480 KB
RAND Reports - Money Matters in Education: Depending on How It's Spent
May 2001
242 KB
Why pre-k? A Legislative Staff Briefing Paper by the Office of Education Accountability Comptroller of the Treasury, and TACIR
March 2001
149 KB
Gains in Education Finance Equity: How has the BEP Changed Things?
October 2000
140 KB
Teacher Mobility Among Tennessee's School Districts: A Survey of Causes
February 2000
74 KB
Classroom Teacher Salary Disparity Among Tennessee's School Systems
April 1999
74 KB
 
Fast Facts
Local Economic Activity: Status and Momentum of Tennessee Counties (Vol. 5, Issue 2)
August 2008
362 KB
Personal and Family Economic Well-Being: Status and Momentum of Tennessee Counties (Vol. 5, Issue 1)
May 2008
664 KB
Three Interrelated and Frequently Confused Concepts That Affect Local Funding Requirements for Education. Volume 4, Issue 1 (Update of Fast Fact Vol. 2, Issue 2)
January 2005
153 KB
TACIR's Fiscal Capacity Model: Equalizing Funding for Education. Volume 3, Issue 1
May 2004
82 KB
Three Interrelated and Frequently Confused Concepts That Affect Local Funding Requirements for Education. Volume 2, Issue 2
October 2003
333 KB
TACIR's Fiscal Capacity Model Helps Determine Funding for Education. Volume 2, Issue 1
June 2003
803 KB
The Sales Tax "Bite" in Tennessee Approaches One and One-half Times the National Average. Volume 1 Issue 5
April 2002
543 KB
Tennessee Should Close the Education Gap - Everyone's Financial Well-being Depends on it! Volume 1 Issue 4
March 2002
523 KB
Understanding Budget Growth. Volume 1, Issue 3
March 2002
455 KB
How Does Tennessee's Budget Work? Volume 1 Issue 2
March 2002
451 KB
Minimizing Risk Factors Key to Kindergarten Success.  Volume 1, Issue 1
March 2002
280 KB
 
Growth Policy
Fiscal Effort, Fiscal Capacity, and Fiscal Need: Separate Concepts, Separate Problems
June 2007
238 KB
Fiscal Flexibility: Low Growth/High Pressure
January 2007
195 KB
Cost of Community Services Study (Robertson County)
2006
268 KB
Growth Plans and Infrastructure Needs in Tennessee: A Nine-County Analysis
August 2006
1,502 KB
Growing Pains: Fiscal Challenges for Local Governments
August 2006
561 KB
Planning for Growth and Paying for It: TACIR Recommendations on 2005 Growth-Related Bills
February 2006
566 KB
Financing Growth in Tennessee: Local Development Taxes and Impact Fees
August 2004
450 KB
Forming a Metropolitan Government: The Hows and Whys of Local Government Consolidation
September 2003
329 KB
Tennessee's Growth Policy in 2001: Promises and Progress
June 2002
324 KB
Paying for Growth: General Assembly Authorizations for Development Taxes and Impact Fees
April 2002
82 KB

Implementation of Tennessee's Growth Policy Act in CY 2000: A Year of Progress

Counties with approved growth plans (As of 1/1/2006)

January 2001
8 KB
Planning for Rural Areas in Tennessee Under PC 1101
January 2001
227 KB
Tennessee's Growth Policy Act: A Vision for the Future
April 2000
382 KB
Joint Economic and Community Development Boards: A Guide for Future Action
February 2000
176 KB
Implementation of Tennessee's Growth Policy Act: The History of PC 1101 and the Early Stages of its Implementation
March 1999
433 KB
Growth Policy, Annexation, and Incorporation Under PC 1101 of 1998: A Guide for Community Leaders
May 1999
488 KB
 
Infrastructure
Building Tennessee's Tomorrow - Anticipating the State's Infrastructure Needs
September 2007
 
Building Tennessee's Tomorrow - Anticipating the State's Infrastructure Needs
October 2005
 
Building Tennessee's Tomorrow - Anticipating the State's Infrastructure Needs
March 2004
 
Infrastructure Finance Brief: Local Financing Techniques For Capital Projects
August 2002
72 KB
Building Tennessee's Tomorrow - Anticipating the State's Infrastructure Needs
March 2002
 
Building Tennessee's Tomorrow: A Survey of Infrastructure Needs
February 2001
 
 
Taxes
Local Realty Transfer Taxes
February 2008
318 KB
Getting It Right: The Effect on the Property Tax Base of Economic Development Agreements and Property Tax Incentives for Businesses
January 2008
435 KB
Who Pays More? Local Tax Burdens on Tennessee Households by County
August 2007
442 KB
Local Taxing Authority
July 2007
150 KB
Property Tax Reduction and Relief Programs
June 2007
1,132 KB
Fiscal Effort, Fiscal Capacity, and Fiscal Need: Separate Concepts, Separate Problems
June 2007
238 KB
Tax Increment Financing: Opportunities and Concerns
March 2007
164 KB
Cost of Community Services Study (Robertson County)
2006
268 KB
Growing Pains: Fiscal Challenges for Local Governments
August 2006
561 KB
Local Government Property Tax Revisited
Good News and Bad News
July 2006
161 KB
State Highway Aid to Local Governments in Tennessee
February 2005
530 KB
State-Shared Tax Findings
February 2005
132 KB
State-Shared Taxes and Cities Without Property Taxes: A Source of Inequity
October 2004
395 KB
State Tax Sharing with Cities: Premier Type Tourist Resort Cities as Models
September 2004
1529 KB
Hall Income Tax Distributions and Local Government Finances
April 2004
471 KB
Property Tax Abatements and Payments in Lieu of Taxes: Impact on Public Education
February 2004
1080 KB
State Tax Sharing, Fairness, and Local Government Finance in Tennessee (Report (1535 KB) and Appendices (835 KB)
January 2004
 
Directory of Select Reports and Studies on Tennessee's Tax System
March 2003
49 KB
The Structure of State Taxes in Tennessee: A Fiscal Primer
February 2003
1897 KB
Highway Finance in Tennessee
October 2002
620 KB
The Local Government Finance Series Volume III, Miscellaneous Local Taxes and Fees
August 2002
686 KB
The Local Government Finance Series Volume II, the Local Option Sales Tax in Tennessee
Map of State and Local Option Sales Tax Rates (Jan.05)
Local Option Sales Tax Update
June 2002
1056 KB
An Analysis of the Fiscal Structure of Non-Income Tax States
April 2002
651 KB
The Citizens' Guide to the Tennessee Budget
February 2002
419 KB
The Local Government Finance Series Volume 1, The Local Property Tax in Tennessee
February 2002
6248 KB
State Shared Taxes in Tennessee (Report (231 KB) and Appendices (672 KB)
March 2000
 
Taxation of Services in Tennessee
January 2000
337 KB
Sales Tax on Food: Targeting Relief to the Working Poor and Elderly Poor
May 1999
379 KB
Financing Tennessee Government in the 21st Century (Executive Summary)
January 1999
47 KB
National Perspectives on Tennessee Taxes
April 1998
188 KB
 
Other Issues
Corroding and Failing Sewer Lines: How Big a Problem?
March 2008
149 KB
Trust But Verify: Increasing Voter Confidence in Election Results - Brief
January 2008
123 KB
Trust But Verify: Increasing Voter Confidence in Election Results - Staff Report
January 2008
658 KB
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements
Biennial Report of TACIR FY 2005 and FY 2006
August 2007
520 KB
Beyond Capacity: Issues and Challenges Facing County Jails
March 2007
823 KB
Fiscal Federalism: The Looming Federal Fiscal Crisis and Its Effect on Tennessee
March 2007
388 KB
Analysis of Pole Attachment Rate Issues in Tennessee
March 2007
1110 KB
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements: Twenty-five Years in Review
April 2006
189 KB
Emergency Challenge: A Study of E-911 Technology and Funding Structure in Tennessee
February 2006
935 KB
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements: Biennial Report of TACIR FY 2003 and FY 2004
February 2006
532 KB
Population Projections for the State of Tennessee
2005 to 2025
December 2003
 
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements: Biennial Report of TACIR FY 2001 and FY 2002
December 2003
307 KB
Issues Relating to the Appointment of Utility Districts Boards of Commissioners (Interim Report)
March 2003
143 KB
The Office of the Property Assessor in Tennessee
March 2003
891 KB
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements: Biennial Report of TACIR FY 1999 and FY 2000
November 2001
200 KB
Potential Impacts of Electric Utility Restructuring on Local Governments in Tennessee
October 2001
582 KB
Tennessee and the Knowledge Economy
May 2001
188 KB
Intergovernmental Challenges and Achievements: Biennial Report of TACIR FY 1997 and FY 1998
January 2001
201 KB
Local Government Tort Liability Issues in Tennessee
January 1999
244 KB
 
Presentations
Tax Increment Financing
March 2008
35 KB
Dickson County Peer Evaluation
February 2008
256 KB
Tennessee's Water Resources: Balancing Resources and Needs
February 2008
 
Tennessee's Water Resources: A Regional Concern
If Ever There Was One
December 2007
3.9 MB
Tennessee's Water Resource: A Regional Concern
December 2007
4.9 MB
Changing Nature of the Property Tax in Tennessee
November 2007
216 KB
Tennessee's Water Resources: Managing Current and Future Challenges
October 2007
1810 KB
Trust but Verify: Toward Increasing Voter Confidence in Election Results
May 2007
153 KB
Free and Fair Elections: Twenty-first Century Challenges
February 2007
210 KB
A Primer on the Prototype Developed by Staff Working Group
November 2006
370 KB
System-level Fiscal Capacity for Funding Education in Tennessee - Workshop for State Agency Staff
February 2005
 
Prototype System-Level Fiscal Capacity Model September 2004
Equalizing Teachers' Salaries
October 2002
 
State Shared Taxes in Tennessee
State Shared Tax Distribution Appendix
June 2002
49 KB
Accountability Through Performance-Based Budgeting (HB253/SB1504)
March 2001
754 KB
 
News Articles
TACIR to Study Future Water Supply Challenges, by TACIR Staff, Tennessee Municipal League - Tennessee Town & City
October 8, 2007
Link to TML
K-12 Education Standard Best Served With Revised Fiscal Model, by Harry A. Green, Tennessee County Services Association - County News
May-June 2006
Link to TCSA
Equity in Education Funding: A Tale of Two Cities, by Harry A. Green, Tennessee Municipal League - Tennessee Town & City
April 10, 2006
18 KB
These publications received the Certificate of Merit or Award for Most Distinguished Research from the Governmental Research Association.