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In case you are interested, the City of Clive, Iowa is looking a finance director. Their current finance director is retiring.
I'm seeking Comptroller job descriptions for School Districts. If you have one that you can share, can you please email them to
[email protected]! Thanks in advance.
Can anyone share experience with grants recipient software systems that helps with the ongoing administration of state/federal grants?
So, our county received a bunch of CARES Act money and isn’t doing much sharing with cities. They’ve given some to the school districts. Does anyone out there have any creative ideas for eligible projects/expenditures? We’ve requested the basic stuff (public safety, etc.) to no avail.
The City of Winnipeg is researching funding models for its police service to ensure they have predictable and sustainable funding. 1) We would like to know if your jurisdiction uses a funding model to determine the police services annual budget and 2) if you do use a model can you share some details. You can contact me at
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What are you using to track debt payment (principal and interest)?
Is anyone using or going to use lease accounting software to implement and maintain compliance with GASB 87? If so, which software and why? Thank you in advance for your input.
Cities needs to pass a resolution declaring BLM as a terrorist organization
Has anyone done a 'mass' request for customers to make payments via ACH due to COVID-19? We are looking to reduce the number of paper checks especially since we are all working remotely. If so, do you have a letter/email you used that I could see as an example?
I follow bond rating changes for local governments in New York such as counties, cities, towns, villages and school districts.
Up to March 27 Moody's has not downgraded the bonds of any local governments this month due to the virus. These governments are at risk because they may lose portions of their operating revenue such as sales tax. A number of entities in New York City are being placed on a "negative credit watch" status by Moody's. This can lead to bond downgradings.
With the current COVID-19 crisis, Finance’s efforts are completely diverted from implementing the new GASBs that are coming out, especially for GASB 87 for leases. The time available, resources, and funding needed to already implement this new GASB standard timely has exponentially declined and diverted to support operations for the current crisis and will have long lasting impacts on our State and local governments. Can GFOA and the State GFOA chapters work with GASB to encourage them to give us more time while the States’ and localities’ finance departments focus on supporting current emergent operations and supporting the plans for economic recover rather than implementing new GASB standards with significant changes? Is any other County, Town, City, District, Municipality, or utility feeling the same way?