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Government Finance Officers Association of Texas

The mission of the Government Finance Officers Association of Texas is to enhance the quality of local government finance, to assist and support local government finance professionals in Texas, and to promote the public service profession. The Government Finance Officers Association of Texas (GFOAT) is a professional association whose objectives are the promotion of the professional practice of municipal financial management through sponsorship of educational opportunities for its members. The GFOAT seeks to represent its membership by active study of the problems of financial management and the encouragement of high professional standards. Although not formally affiliated with the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada, GFOAT shares many of the goals of this international organization and seeks to extend the same educational and professional opportunities to its members on a state‐wide level.

The GFOAT is affiliated with the Texas Municipal League (TML), an organization dedicated to excellence in all aspects of municipal management. The TML representative serves as the GFOAT's liaison with this organization. To be appointed TML representative, a member must have served as President of GFOAT within the past five years. GFOAT conducts an annual meeting each year as part of the TML Annual

Conference and Exhibition.

GFOAT sponsors or co‐sponsors several educational meetings each year, including, but not limited to, the GFOAT Fall Conference, the Governmental Accounting and Finance Institute held annually in Austin, and the Southwest School of Governmental Finance held annually at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Both the Governmental Accounting and Finance Institute and the Southwest School of Governmental Finance attract a nationally prominent faculty and broad attendance from Texas and other states. Numerous regional seminars are conducted by regional directors whose regions include large

concentrations of finance officers.

The GFOAT also sponsors an annual fellowship/scholarship for graduate students whose career goals include municipal financial management.

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