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2025-04-10 Fiscally Ready Communities: Capital Asset Management and Planning	Local Government	Recurring annual expenses are simple to budget, but repair and replacement of big-ticket items can be much more difficult. A Capital Improvement Program (CIP) will help your local government organize those major projects and forecast the expenses to make long-term planning simpler. This session will cover the basics of a CIP, best practices, and give participants a chance to share techniques that have worked for their community, as well as policies, procedures, and accounting for capital asset management and planning.	Details and Registration	Presentation

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Fiscally Ready Communities: Capital Asset Management and Planning

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Recurring annual expenses are simple to budget, but repair and replacement of big-ticket items can be much more difficult. A Capital Improvement Program (CIP) will help your local government organize those major projects and forecast the expenses to make long-term planning simpler. This session will cover the basics of a CIP, best practices, and give participants a chance to share techniques that have worked for their community, as well as policies, procedures, and accounting for capital asset management and planning.

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Name	Category	Summary	Webinar Resources
2025-04-10 Fiscally Ready Communities: Capital Asset Management and Planning	Local Government	Recurring annual expenses are simple to budget, but repair and replacement of big-ticket items can be much more difficult. A Capital Improvement Program (CIP) will help your local government organize those major projects and forecast the expenses to make long-term planning simpler. This session will cover the basics of a CIP, best practices, and give participants a chance to share techniques that have worked for their community, as well as policies, procedures, and accounting for capital asset management and planning.	Presentation and Recording
2025-03-10 Fiscally Ready Communities: Budgeting for Fiscal Sustainability	Local Government	The Michigan Department of Treasury and Michigan State University Extension (MSU Extension) are reminding you of our next Fiscally Ready Communities training opportunity. This FREE training is an hour-and-a-half webinar that's designed to assist appointed and elected officials with entry and intermediate level budgeting knowledge.	Presentation and Recording
2025-01-16 Chart Chat Webinar	Local Government	The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with critical information related to accounting and auditing topics, measuring local government fiscal health, and other important updates. Topics covered will include, Numbered Letters and F65 Update, Qualifying Statements, Retirement Reporting (PA 202 of 2017).	Presentation and Recording
2024-10-21 MSU Extension Fiscally Ready Communities Webinar	Local Government	This program focuses on implementing financial best practices, measuring fiscal health, and local government financial management fundamentals. It will include material on reconciling a bank account, how to read and interpret governmental financial statements, audit prep umbrella, how to complete and file an F65 Report, remitting taxes timely, and how to craft an appropriate and effective audit finding Corrective Action Plan. Participants will also receive resources to support best practice implementation and assess their local unit fiscal health.	Presentation and Recording
2024-09-16 MSU Extension Fiscally Ready Communities Webinar	Local Government	This program focuses on implementing financial best practices, measuring fiscal health, and local government financial management fundamentals. It will include material on reconciling a bank account, how to read and interpret governmental financial statements, audit prep umbrella, how to complete and file an F65 Report, remitting taxes timely, and how to craft an appropriate and effective audit finding Corrective Action Plan. Participants will also receive resources to support best practice implementation and assess their local unit fiscal health.	Presentation and Recording
2024-09-05 Chart Chat for Local Governments	Local Government	The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with critical information related to accounting and auditing topics, measuring local government fiscal health, and other important updates from Treasury.	Presentation and Recording
2024-08-22 Fiscally Ready Communities: From Fundamentals to Best Practices	Local Government	This program focuses on implementing financial best practices, measuring fiscal health, and local government financial management fundamentals. It will include material on reconciling a bank account, how to read and interpret governmental financial statements, audit prep umbrella, how to complete and file an F65 Report, remitting taxes timely, and how to craft an appropriate and effective audit finding Corrective Action Plan to name a few items.	Presentation and Recording
2024-06-03 Fiscally Ready Communities: Nuts and Bolts: Fees, Fines, Purchasing, and Receipting	Local Government	Building a culture of fiscal sustainability is essential to local government fiscal health. Well-thought-out policies on fees, fines, purchasing, and receipting lead to clear rules and fair treatment, which are essential pillars to that culture of fiscal sustainability. This webinar will include a deep dive into best practices related to fees, fines, purchasing, receipting, and more. It will cover what they are, why such policies are necessary, how they contribute to local fiscal health, and how to get started on implementation.	Presentation and Recording
2024-05-30 Chart Chat and Resources for Local Governments	Local Government	The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with critical information related to accounting and auditing topics, measuring local government fiscal health, and other important updates from Treasury.	Presentation and Recording
2024-05-09 Fiscally Ready Communities: Managing Internal Controls	Local Government	This training will include a deep dive into internal controls. It will cover what internal controls are, why you need them, how they help your community, how to implement them, and where to start.	Presentation and Recording
2024-05-02 Updates and Resources for Local Governments	Local Government	The Updates and Resources for Local Governments webinar series is designed to provide local governments with the information, tools, and resources necessary to make important decisions at the local level. Topics include, but not limited to, Lead Service Line Replacement, MIC and the AM Champions, and the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program.	Presentation and Recording
2024-04-22 Fiscally Ready Communities: Capital Asset Management and Planning	Local Government	Recurring annual expenses are simple to budget, but repair and replacement of big-ticket items can be much more difficult. A Capital Improvement Program (CIP) will help your local government organize those major projects and forecast the expenses to make long-term planning simpler. This session will cover the basics of a CIP, best practices, and give participants a chance to share techniques that have worked for their community, as well as policies, procedures, and accounting for capital asset management and planning.	Presentation and Recording
2024-02-22 Chart Chat and Resources for Local Governments	Local Government	The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with critical information related to accounting and auditing topics, measuring local government fiscal health, and other important updates from Treasury.	Presentation and Recording
2023-11-13 Fiscally Ready Communities: Nuts and Bolts: Fees, Fines, Purchasing, and Receipting	Local Government	Building a culture of fiscal sustainability is essential to local government fiscal health. Well-thought-out policies on fees, fines, purchasing, and receipting lead to clear rules and fair treatment, which are essential pillars to that culture of fiscal sustainability.	Presentation and Recording
2023-10-11 Fiscally Ready Communities: Nuts and Bolts: Fees, Fines, Purchasing, and Receipting	Local Government	Building a culture of fiscal sustainability is essential to local government fiscal health. Well-thought-out policies on fees, fines, purchasing, and receipting lead to clear rules and fair treatment, which are essential pillars to that culture of fiscal sustainability.	Presentation and Recording
2023-10-05 Chart Chat and Resources for Local Governments	Local Government	The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with critical information related to accounting and auditing topics, measuring local government fiscal health, and other important updates from Treasury.	Presentation and Recording
2023-09-11 Fiscally Ready Communities: Nuts and Bolts: Fees, Fines, Purchasing, and Receipting	Local Government	Building a culture of fiscal sustainability is essential to local government fiscal health. Well-thought-out policies on fees, fines, purchasing, and receipting lead to clear rules and fair treatment, which are essential pillars to that culture of fiscal sustainability.	Presentation and Recording
2023-08-17 Fiscally Ready Communities: Nuts and Bolts: Fees, Fines, Purchasing, and Receipting	Local Government	Building a culture of fiscal sustainability is essential to local government fiscal health. Well-thought-out policies on fees, fines, purchasing, and receipting lead to clear rules and fair treatment, which are essential pillars to that culture of fiscal sustainability.	Presentation and Recording
2023-07-20 Updates and Resources for Local Governments	Local Government	The Updates and Resources for Local Governments webinar series is designed to provide local government leaders and officials with the information, tools, and resources necessary to make important decisions at the local level. The upcoming webinar will focus on the State's 2024 budget.	Presentation and Recording
2023-05-26 MI Fire Equipment Grant Webinar	Local Government	Any administrative official representing or assisting a city, village, township, county, or authority that provide fire department services, including clerks, treasurers, elected officials, finance directors, city, township, or village managers, chief executive officers, and fire department chiefs, among others.	Presentation and Recording
2023-05-23 Fiscally Ready Communities: Financial Best Practices	Local Government	This training discusses the fundamental best practices for fiscal and operational planning and provides an overview of best practices in financial policies and good governance.	Presentation and Recording
2023-04-24 Fiscally Ready Communities: Capital Asset Management and Planning	Local Government	Recurring annual expenses are simple to budget, but repair and replacement of big-ticket items can be much more difficult. This session will cover the basics of a CIP, best practices, and give participants a chance to share techniques that have worked for their community, as well as policies, procedures, and accounting for capital asset management and planning.	Presentation and Recording
2023-04-06 Protecting MI Pension Grant Webinar	Local Government	The Michigan Department of Treasury is pleased to announce the initial webinar to review the Protecting MI Pension: Michigan Local Pension Grant Program. This initial webinar will focus on the processes that local governments will use to complete and submit an application, along with the process for review and award distribution.	Presentation and Recording
2023-03-16 Fiscally Ready Communities: Budgeting for Fiscal Sustainability	Local Government	Topics covered will include the budget process and communicating your budget, dealing with uncertainty in a changing economy, understanding key financial variables, forecasting revenue and expenditures, and how finances impact the future.	Presentation and Recording
2022-12-08 Chart Chat and Resources for Local Governments	Local Government	Topics covered will include Numbered Letter Revisions, Uniform Chart of Accounts Revisions, Preventable Accounting Issues in Small Local Governments, and more!	Presentation and Recording
2022-11-03 Updates and Resources for Local Governments: 18th Webinar	Local Government	Topics covered will include Outdoor Public Spaces Grant Opportunity – SPARK, Blight Elimination Grant – State Land Bank, and Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) Grants.	Presentation and Recording
2022-10-04 Fiscally Ready Communities 2022	Local Government	This training will include a deep dive into internal controls. It will cover what internal controls are, why you need them, how they help your community, how to implement them, and where to start.	Presentation and Recording
2022-08-25 Chart Chat and Resources for Local Governments	Local Government	Topics covered will include Numbered Letter Revisions and Updates Project, Auditing Procedures Reports & Resulting Requests for Corrective Action Plans and Deficit Elimination Plans, Budget Planning for Multiple Years (Forecasting), and Preventable Accounting Issues in Small Local Governments.	Presentation and Recording
2022-08-04 Fiscally Ready Communities 2022	Local Government	This training will include a deep dive into internal controls. It will cover what internal controls are, why you need them, how they help your community, how to implement them, and where to start.	Presentation and Recording
2022-07-26 Updates and Resources for Local Government: Capital Asset Management and Planning	Local Government	Covering topics to include Marihuana Regulation and Planning– State and Local Requirements, and Strategic Planning with Plante Moran.	Presentation and Recording
2022-06-14 Fiscally Ready Communities 2022: Capital Asset Management and Planning	Local Government	Covering the basics of a CIP, best practices, and gives participants a chance to share techniques that have worked for their community, as well as policies, procedures, and accounting for capital asset management and planning	Presentation and Recording
2022-05-10 Chart Chat and Resources for Local Government	Local Government	Updates and best practices for Grants Management Best Practices, Treasury Updates, Qualifying Statements, and Budgeting	Presentation and Recording
2022-04-07 Updates and Resources for Local Government	Local Government	Best practices for local government fiscal health	Presentation and Recording
2022-04-05 Fiscally Ready Communities 2022: Financial Best Practices	Local Government	Best practices for local government fiscal health, budgeting for fiscal sustainability	Presentation and Recording
2022-02-24 Fiscally Ready Communities 2022: Budgeting for Fiscal Sustainability	Local Government	Best practices for local government fiscal health	Presentation and Recording
2022-02-16 Updates and Resources for Local Government	Local Government	Updates on local government accounting-related topics, updates from the MI Treasury on sound fiscal management	Presentation and Recording
2022-01-25 Updates and Resources for Local Government	Local Government	Updates for Pension and Retiree for local governments and best practices	Presentation and Recording

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