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Workshop:
2010 Municipal Budgets: Overcoming the Challenges
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Southington, CT
9:00 a.m. – 12 noon, Registration 8:30 a.m.
This workshop is full and registration is now closed.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Moderated and led by Glenn Klocko, City of Bristol Comptroller
and Mike Guarco, Town of Granby Board of Finance Chair, this
session will prepare you for the most difficult budgeting season
you’ve faced in many years.
This vital workshop provides details on what you need to know from
the basics to understanding the details behind the numbers.
This includes:
- Nationally recommended governmental financial practices that can
help you understand your unique municipality;
- The dos and don’ts of budgeting;
- The basics of fund balance, expenses vs expenditures and mill
rates;
- GAAP, GASB, and OPEB, and how they affect your town --
the good and the bad.
After covering the basics, you will learn how to apply that
information directly to the challenges you are now facing.
In laymen’s terms, instruction will be provided for:
- Preparing the budget in this challenging economy;
- What effect the current economy will have on your budgets;
- How past recessions have impacted budgeting in FY09-10 and now
for FY10-11;
- Learn what state concessions you must consider;
- Bringing it all together - general government and boards of
education
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Find out how to stretch municipal dollars –
state and federal funds
- Understand budgeting terms and definitions
- Learn how to develop budget priorities
- Discover the latest on choosing an independent auditor; bond
rating; pension funds
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
First Selectmen / Mayors
School Superintendents
Finance Directors
School Business Managers
Boards of Finance
Boards of Education
Town / City Managers
Department Heads
PRESENTERS
Michael B. Guarco, Jr., Chairman, Board of Finance, Town of Granby
Mike Guarco, a life-long resident of Granby, Connecticut
became involved in local government service in Granby, first on
Economic Development Boards and then in 1982 joining the Board of
Finance. He has chaired the BOF since 1989. He has played key roles
in developing long range forecasting plans and computer models, and
in becoming one of the initiators behind the CT Municipal Consortium
for Fiscal Responsibility - a broad alliance of Boards of Education,
Finance, and Selectmen who feel that mandates without money are a
critical problem for towns and cities that end up squeezing good programs
out of budgets statewide.
Glenn Klocko, Comptroller, City of Bristol
Glenn Klocko has held the position of Comptroller for the City of
Bristol for the past twelve years and has previously served as Director
of Finance for the Town of Avon. He is a Certified Public Finance
Officer and is a past president of the Connecticut Government Finance
Officers Association (GFOA). He taught Public Financial Administration
at the University of Connecticut at the graduate level and served ten
years, three of them as chair, on the Southington Board of Finance.
WHERE
Southington Police Department
69 Lazy Lane
Southington, CT
COST per attendee
CCM Member Town/City: NO CHARGE, Non-Member: $120
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For more information, or to register, call the CCM Training hotlines at (203) 498-3018 at any time or call (203) 498-3000 during business hours.
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DIRECTIONS
From I-84 West (Hartford/Farmington): Take exit 32, Queen St. - Rte. 10. Turn right and head south on route 10 (Queen St.) for approximately 1 mile. Turn Right on Lazy Lane just after Wal-Mart. Police Headquarters will be located approximately 500' on your right
From I-84 East (Waterbury): Take exit 32, Queen St. - Rte. 10. Turn left and head south on route 10 (Queen St.) for approximately 1 mile. Turn Right on Lazy Lane just after Wal-Mart. Police Headquarters will be located approximately 500' on your right
From I-691 (Meriden): I-691 West. Take exit 4 (Southington). At the end of the ramp turn right on route 322. At your first traffic light, turn right on route 120 (Meriden Av.) Follow route 120 approx. 3 miles to the end where it intersects with route 10 (Main St.) At the intersection with Main St. (Rte. 10), turn right. Follow Rte. 10 for approximately 2 1/2 miles. Turn left on Lazy Lane. Police Headquarters will be located approximately 500' on your right
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