MMC study plan

Explain the difference between home-rule and general-law authority by analyzing three hypothetical municipal actions and identifying which body or officer holds decision authority.

Map at least 10 recurring clerk statutory duties - meeting notice, agenda posting, ordinance adoption, minutes, oaths, bids, and filings - to purpose, deadline, and responsible role in a citation table.

Compare open-meetings and public-records obligations when a governing body discusses personnel and pending litigation, then write the compliant procedure for each situation.

Draft a 15-question self-test on municipal law and statutory duties, answer it closed-book, and score at least 80%.

Build a retention schedule for 12 record series that states the retention period, trigger event, disposition method, and legal-hold flag for each series.

Design a records lifecycle workflow from creation through destruction, including metadata capture, storage location, destruction approval, and audit trail.

Differentiate archival from non-archival records by writing five criteria and applying them to six sample record types.

Apply a public-records request workflow to three scenarios - routine, redaction-required, and litigation-hold - and document each response step within the statutory timeline.

Diagram the election cycle from candidate filing through certification, labeling at least 10 clerk responsibilities and public-notice points.

Explain voter-registration list maintenance, provisional-ballot handling, and canvass procedures in a one-page process map with decision points.

Build a budget calendar with at least eight milestones and identify the clerk’s role in budget adoption, publication, and record retention.

Reconcile a sample budget by classifying 10 expenditures by fund, flagging variances above 10%, and drafting three questions for finance staff.

Apply parliamentary procedure to six common motions by stating the motion, whether it requires a second, debate limits, amendment rules, vote threshold, and disposition.

Draft a compliant meeting packet for a regular meeting and a special meeting, including notice, agenda, presiding-officer script, and minutes template.

Resolve three procedural scenarios - loss of quorum, tie vote, and motion to reconsider - using the body’s adopted rules and citing the controlling provision.

Audit a sample set of minutes against a 12-point checklist covering approvals, motions, votes, attendance, and required attachments.

Analyze eight ethics scenarios using a four-step decision framework covering conflict of interest, gifts, confidentiality, and use of public office.

Draft a personal ethics checklist and disclosure protocol for clerk interactions with elected officials, staff, vendors, and the public.

Build a public communication plan for a controversial records or meeting decision, specifying audiences, channels, key messages, timing, and an FAQ.

Design a community engagement feedback loop with two measurable indicators and a process for reporting results to the governing body.

Re-take the week 1 and week 2 self-tests and write a correction rationale for every missed item.

Create 30 flashcards for high-risk deadlines and statutory triggers, then complete two review passes with at least 90% recall.

Complete 60 mixed practice questions across domains 1 through 4 in 75 minutes and categorize each error by cause.

Reduce the error log to the five highest-risk gaps and write a targeted remediation action for each.

Complete a 100-question timed simulation covering all seven domains and record the score by domain.

Identify the three weakest subareas from the simulation and complete focused review for each.

Rehearse two procedural scripts aloud - handling a motion and responding to a records request - and self-score against a checklist.

Rewrite the 20 most frequently missed facts into a concise review sheet and verify each against source material.

Complete two 50-question timed half-exams and score at least 80% on each.

Review every remaining missed item and close each gap with a written rule statement or procedure step.

Condense high-yield deadlines, statutory triggers, and meeting procedures into a one-page final review sheet.

Deliver a five-minute verbal walkthrough of the clerk’s core duties from records request through meeting minutes and election certification.