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  • Commission Meeting

    TACIR's next Commission meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, September 8 at 1:00 p.m. and Thursday, September 9 at 8:30 a.m. in Room 29 at Legislative Plaza.(More)

  • TACIR’s Statewide Public Infrastructure Needs Inventory Program Receives National Recognition

    TACIR's statewide Public Infrastructure Needs Inventory program was recently recognized by the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) as a 2009 Innovation Award winner.(More)

  • Tracking Tennessee's Economic Recovery

    TACIR has partnered with the Middle Tennessee State University Business and Economic Research Center to provide an Internet site to track the state economy during the recovery from the recession that began in December 2007. The site will permit the reader to follow labor force status including employment and unemployment numbers; housing data including a housing price index and construction activity; and sales tax collections. These data are available for the state and for 10 Metropolitan Statistical Areas across the state. Presented graphically, the data may also be downloaded for use at the reader’s convenience. (More)

  • Stability of Tennessee's 911 Fund

    The General Assembly directed TACIR to conduct a comprehensive study of the stability of the 911 Emergency Communications Fund in Tennessee and report back to the House State and Local Government Committee in 2010. TACIR solicited feedback from the primary stakeholders in this issue concerning HB 0204 specifically and Tennessee’s 911 emergency communications funding in general.(More)

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TACIR: The Public Policy Research Standard

The Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR) was created to monitor federal, state, and local government relations and to make recommendations for improvement to the Legislature. The commission is comprised of representatives from the executive and legislative branches of state government, county and municipal governments, and the public. The commission serves as a bipartisan forum for the discussion of intergovernmental issues and may initiate studies resulting in legislative proposals and constitutional amendments. The commission responds to requests for technical assistance from the General Assembly, state agencies, and local governments.