City & Town Newsletters

This article provides guidance to assist local officials in budgeting, costing and forecasting salary and wage costs by establishing a position control spreadsheet.

This article reviews key components and resources local officials can utilize to build stronger budget documents.

This article provides useful guidance to communities seeking to achieve a proactive, data-driven, and organized capital budget and capital improvement plan.

In this article the Financial Management Resource Bureau provides guidance on town administrator role in a municipality.

This article is a helpful guide for local officials related to town by-laws and sustaining efforts by policymakers that ensure local by-laws remain complete, cohesive and up-to-date.

This article examines the potential benefits of municipalities merging physical-asset-managing departments into a consolidated department of public works (DPW).

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.