GFOAT
President's Welcome

Hello Colleagues and Friends –

On behalf of the GFOAT board, I would like to once again thank the program committee and leadership for their work on another outstanding conference! We had over 300 attendees at the beautiful Renaissance Arboretum in Austin. For those attending, evaluations should be arriving shortly for your feedback.

We have already started on plans for the fall conference in Galveston, so watch for those updates in the newsletters. And, give us your ides on the evaluation forms on how to make these conferences more useful to you. We have a task force at work, led by Kathy DuBose, to identify possible improvements to our conferences and member benefits. Be sure and use the evaluation and upcoming survey tools as a means of communicating your ideas.

Of course, we hope to see everyone in Fort Lauderdale for national GFOA conference. The program looks exciting and national always promises something new to think about.

For Texas, we have particular bragging rights on our CGFO program. Last week we had 27 candidates taking 36 exams! We recognized several new CGFOs at the conference: Phil Bray and Sarah Mangham passed on earlier tests, while Brian Hogan and Sandra Mattick passed at the conference, pushing them past the 375 point requirement. Further, we later determined that Joyce Herring completed enough points to earn her certification, so are please to announce her accomplishment as well.

In addition, we have stepped up our payment and continuing education enforcement, such that several of you have received probation notices for 2006 and 2007. While this may not be great news individually, you should feel encouraged that we are trying to ensure continuous quality in our program. At this time, it would also be appropriate to recognize a new co-chair for the Professional Development committee in Carl Wessels. Carl assists Laurie Brewer and replaces Linda Symank as co-chair, both of whom have done an outstanding job this year accomplishing many of our program objectives! Thanks ladies for all your work and thanks Carl for stepping up in this important leadership role.

Finally, a word of congratulations to our new slate of officers that take effect July 1:
President – Karen Rhodes
President Elect – Kent Pfeil
Micki Rundell – Secretary
Treasurer – Beverly Queen
At Large Rep – Corrine Steeger
South Rep – Keith Nelson
North Rep – Kent Austin
GFOA Rep – Roger Roecker
TML Rep – Cynthia Alexander-Pearson

On behalf of all of these organization and industry leaders, please feel free to give us a call with your ideas and suggestions.
Max

GFOAT
Job Postings and Resource Directory

City of Live Oak-Asst Finance Director or Accounting Supervisor
Job Posted on: 5/8/2008
Closing Date: 6/8/2008
Salary: $43,945 - $56,085 dependent on position offered

Arlington Water Utilities Department-Assistant Director Utilities Business Services
Job Posted on: 5/6/2008
Closing Date: 7/5/2008
Salary: Not specified

City of Carrollton-Senior Budget & Mgmt Analyst
Job Posted on: 5/5/2008
Closing Date: 5/23/2008
Salary: 47603.00

City of Hutto-Accountant
Job Posted on: 5/1/2008
Closing Date: 6/30/2008
Salary: $46,000 - $55,000

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GFOAT
Committees and Regions

 

Regional News 14: Gulf Coast (14) Upcoming Meeting May 15.  Contact Chapter Vice President – Renea Dobbs, City of Baytown  at renea.dobbs@baytown.org

 

Regional News 8 & 13: DFW upcoming Meeting May 16.  Guest speaker, Don Holzwarth of Dallas County, on "Intergovermental Agreements * smooth start or prelude to train wreck?" Contact Alan Dickerson at adickerson@cityofsachse.com

 

Program Committee: Evaluations out for 2007 Spring Institute; Presentations in progress of being posted on line.

 

Professional Development: Congratulations to these NEW CGFOs: Phil Bray, Sarah Manghum, Brian Hogan, Sandra Mattick, Joyce Herring. Probation letters are out for FY06 and FY07.

 

Newsletter/Website Committee: Soliciting articles for upcoming months. Please submit your ideas or articles!

 

Ethics Committee: Update application for the Lewis F. McLain, Jr. Ethics in Leadership award, download here. Due August 2008

 

GFOAT
Training Calendar/News

GFOAT NEWS TO USE......

Pics from the Oasis....

 

UPCOMING  EVENTS...

 

GOVERNMENT FINANCE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION GFOA's 102nd Annual Conference, June 15-18, 2008, at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  See www.gfoat.org/GFOA-102Conference.pdf

 

 

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT ON ....

... enjoys fishing, golfing, sports, and traveling

... music favorites are James Taylor and Aerosmith; favorite actor is Bing Crosby

... reminds colleagues that hard work and strong character will take them far

... has impressive credentials of CGFO and CIA certifications; as well as BS, MS, and MPA education

... doesn't want to remember tiered water rates; learned much from her Y2K conversion; appreciates many mentors in her career

... serves GFOAT as website/newsletter co-chair

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GFOAT
Articles

Cost of Services Lessons Learned in a Fleet Operations Analysis
By Lewis F. McLain, Jr., President, CityBase.Net, Inc.

Can you get excited about a Cost of Service Analysis (COSA)? You can if you have an inquiring mind, a basic set of analytical skills and a desire (or directive) to help management understand the story behind numbers not often or easily explained in the budget. This article is about lessons in a Fleet Operations COSA that can be applied to just about any service in the city. The purpose also includes encouragement for finance and budget shops to add value to their services – particularly when it may go beyond the call of duty in your job at the present time. However, you will soon see that the ability to conduct a COSA may, in fact, be the needed rationale to keep your job. In other words, I am making the argument to prevent a career-ender event, even for the finance official.

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GFOAT
Sponsors Link

For more information on our sponsors: List of Sponsors | New Sponsor Pac

FINAL FY2007-08 payments are due. FY2008-09 renewal forms and packets will be sent in June.  Please click on the above link to download the packet and update your sponsorship.  We are also soliciting articles from sponsors for the upcoming four months.  Please contact Becky at bbgrimm@gfoat.org

Welcome New Sponsors:

BRONZE

 - Patterson & Associates

 - Regions Bank

 - Neptune Technologies

Welcome Renewing Sponsors:

BRONZE

 - Frost Bank