Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Agency overview
FormedJuly 1979 (1979-07)
JurisdictionState of Tennessee
Employees23
Agency executives
Websitehttps://www.tn.gov/content/tn/tacir.html

The Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR) is an intergovernmental body of state and local governments in the U.S. state of Tennessee that has the purpose of providing a forum for discussion and resolution of intergovernmental problems and providing research support to improve the overall quality of government in that state. TACIR was established as a permanent nonpartisan body in 1978 by action of the Tennessee General Assembly.[1][2]

Tennessee was one of several states that formed commissions on intergovernmental relations, patterned to some extent on the United States Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, during the 1970s and 1980s.[3]

  1. ^ Mission, TACIR website, accessed December 29, 2016
  2. ^ Rodney E. Stanley and P. Edward French (2007), Tennessee's John S. Wilder: The longest tenured state legislator in Tennessee history, University Press of America. Page 32.
  3. ^ Richard Cole (2010), The State of State Advisory Commissions on Intergovernmental Relations: Do They Continue to Have a Role in the U.S. Federal System?, The Book of the States 2010, pages 36-44. The Council of State Governments website, retrieved April 19, 2011.