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Local Aid and Finance 200 attend ATFC Annual Meeting
Two hundred local officials from across the state attended the Association of Town Finance Committees’ annual meeting on Nov. 3 in Westford.
Educational workshops were offered on the following topics: a new member seminar, revenue and expenditure forecasting, regionalizing services, energy cost-saving initiatives, a finance committee potpourri, the school building assistance program, and the Group Insurance Commission.
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation President Michael Widmer opened the meeting with a discussion of the state’s fiscal outlook.
Administration and Finance Secretary Leslie Kirwan, the keynote speaker, focused on the state-local partnership and the state budget.
The following are copies of the presentations from the meeting (all are PDF files):
Energy Cost-Savings
• Powerpoint presentation and related articles (940 K)
Revenue Forecasting
• Charlie Foskett's Powerpoint presentation (224K)
• Christopher Ketchen's Powerpoint presentation (2.4M)
New Member Seminar
• Powerpoint presentation (132K)
• Sample budget information (176K)
• Budget guidelines (88K)
Collective Bargaining and the GIC
• GIC background (164K)
• GIC FAQs for municipalities (364K)
• Collective Bargaining guidelines (148K)
School Building Authority Update
• MSBA Presentation (284K)
Local Aid and Finance 200 attend ATFC Annual Meeting
200 attend ATFC Annual Meeting
Two hundred local officials from across the state attended the Association of Town Finance Committees’ annual meeting on Nov. 3 in Westford.
Educational workshops were offered on the following topics: a new member seminar, revenue and expenditure forecasting, regionalizing services, energy cost-saving initiatives, a finance committee potpourri, the school building assistance program, and the Group Insurance Commission.
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation President Michael Widmer opened the meeting with a discussion of the state’s fiscal outlook.
Administration and Finance Secretary Leslie Kirwan, the keynote speaker, focused on the state-local partnership and the state budget.
The following are copies of the presentations from the meeting (all are PDF files):
Energy Cost-Savings
• Powerpoint presentation and related articles (940 K)
Revenue Forecasting
• Charlie Foskett's Powerpoint presentation (224K)
• Christopher Ketchen's Powerpoint presentation (2.4M)
New Member Seminar
• Powerpoint presentation (132K)
• Sample budget information (176K)
• Budget guidelines (88K)
Collective Bargaining and the GIC
• GIC background (164K)
• GIC FAQs for municipalities (364K)
• Collective Bargaining guidelines (148K)
School Building Authority Update
• MSBA Presentation (284K)
Written by MMA Senior Member Services Coord. Denise Baker
