City & Town Newsletters

This article emphasizes the importance of coordination among financial offices within municipalities, highlighting the interdependence and collaboration required between accounting, assessing, collection, and treasury offices to ensure effective financial management and operations.

This article is an overview of the roles and functions of the town administrator who serves as the chief executive local official in a town.

This article discusses digital accessibility awareness for municipalities. It highlights the importance of designing and developing publications, social media, websites and applications so everyone, including people with visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive disabilities, can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with digital content independently.

This article highlights the benefits of a community getting its tax rates set punctually each fiscal year. It provides important details related to the approval process and identifies factors that could increase the chances of missing process deadlines.

This article provides helpful guidance to local officials in a community seeking to establish a special purpose capital stabilization fund dedicated to funding regular, required capital repairs and maintenance.

This article provides insights into the evolution of municipal government structures, highlighting changes such as the adoption of charters, establishment of chief administrative positions, adjustments in select board membership size, consolidation of departments, and the transition from elected to appointed officials.

This article highlights the importance of multi-year financial forecasting as a critical tool that allows local policymakers to analyze and evaluate the long-term impact of financial decisions.

This article highlights the importance of adopting financial policies as a best practice essential to sound, long-term budgeting for municipalities.

Importance of building financial reserves using sound formal policies governing their funding, use and replenishment.

This article emphasizes the importance of developing sound financial policies in communities and provides a general roadmap for local officials to reach consensus on those policies for their community.