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Workshop:
2009 Municipal Budgets: Overcoming the Challenges
April 2, 2009
Bristol CT
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm, Registration 5:30 pm
This workshop has been POSTPONED and will be rescheduled at a later date
DESCRIPTION
CCM has teamed up with leading experts to provide you with
the tools and guidance to overcome today's budget difficulties.
Join us for this very important session.
Join this roundtable discussion on the most recent budget challenges you're facing. Moderated and led by Glenn Klocko, City of Bristol Comptroller and Mike Guarco, Town of Granby Board of Finance Chair, you'll join discussions on how to tackle your new budgeting problems - for now and the future. Bring your own questions and share your experiences.
Topics covered, but not limited to:
- Accept the budget facts and get to the solution of the problem
- Develop budget priorities: what's the hottest issue
- Understand the realities of sharing goods and services regionally
- Bring it all together: general government and Boards of Education
- Prepare for contingencies
SPEAKERS
Michael B. Guarco, Jr., Chairman, Board of Finance, Town of Granby
Mike Guarco is a life-long resident of Connecticut and the town of Granby in the north central part of our state. After graduating from the Wharton School at UPENN, he immediately 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.
As a Board of Finance member, he has played key roles in developing long range forecasting plans and computer models, in formatting multi-year budget guideline processes, 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 and their chairmen 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 nine years. He previously served ten years as Director of Finance for the Town of Avon. While serving Avon, Glenn was a part of the management team that received a credit rating upgrade to TRIPLE A (AAA) from Moody's and Standard & Poors bond rating services. The first triple A in Hartford County in more than 20 years. He is a Certified Public Finance Officer and is a past president of the Connecticut Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA). He is currently teaching Public Financial Administration at the University of Connecticut at the graduate level.
Mr. Klocko received his undergraduate degree from Central Connecticut State University and his master's degree from the University of Hartford. He is currently serving his second 6-year elected term on the Southington Board of Finance. He previously served as chairman for two years.
WHERE
Bristol City Hall
111 North Main Street
Bristol, CT 06010
Tel (860) 584-6100
COST per attendee
CCM Member Town/City NO CHARGE, Non-Member $120
This workshop is open to CCM Member Municipalities only.
DIRECTIONS
From Meriden, Waterbury or Danbury – TAKE I-84 EAST
Take Exit 31 off I-84. Take left onto West St. a/k/a Rte. 229.
Go approximately 4.4 miles - you will pass ESPN, Radisson Inn, Otis Elevator Tower, and Aldi's Market.
Take left at traffic light onto Memorial Boulevard a/k/a Route 72, just before the railroad overpass.
Go straight down Memorial Boulevard 1.1 miles through 2 stop signs and 3 traffic lights.
Take a right at 3rd traffic light on North Main St. The building is one block up on the left. It is a 3 story brown brick building (111 North Main Street)
Directions from New Britain, Hartford and I-84 West
Take 84 West
Take Exit 33 "Rt 72 West" to Bristol
Take a right at the traffic light at the end of the highway
Go .6 miles to your second traffic light and take a left (This is Forestville Center).
Go straight 1.2 miles to your second traffic light and take a left on King Street (Rt. 229).
Stay in the right lane and take an immediate right at the next traffic light. (You go under a railroad overpass.)
Go straight down Memorial Boulevard 1.1 miles through 1 stop sign and 3 traffic lights.
Take a right at 3rd traffic light on North Main St. The building is one block up on the left. It is a 3 story brown brick building. (111 North Main St.)
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