Free Training Opportunity! Successful Connections

News Date

02/15/2022

County Technical Assistance Service (CTAS), Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS), and the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury are excited to announce a new training opportunity open to all local government officials of counties, cities, and utility districts, Successful Connections.

Successful Connections is a state and local government partnership program geared toward networking, best practices sharing, and relationship building. This program will consist of quarterly meetings at 11:30am CT that include panel discussion and facilitated breakout sessions. This program offers 1.5 hours of CPE credit toward CMFO, CCFO, and utility board training -- be sure to request this credit when registering.

A kick-off meeting for the program is scheduled for Friday, February 25, 2022, at the UT IPS Training Facility at Polk Ave (193 Polk Ave, Suite D, Nashville, TN 37210). Web-based attendance at this kick-off meeting will be available via Zoom.

Comptroller of the Treasury Jason Mumpower will deliver the kick-off meeting introduction followed by a panel moderated by Chris Caldwell, Knox County Chief Financial Officer/Co-Chief of Staff.

Panel members include:

Mayor Holland, City of McKenzie
Mayor Jacobs, Knox County
Mayor Huffman, Tipton County
Bruce Giles, Utility District Manager
Rebecca Hunter, Utility District Commissioner

Potential topics:

Managing stress of public office
Government-owned hospitals
Budgets, debt, & audits
Utility capital asset planning
Solid waste & landfills
Public safety
Working with school boards
Succession planning
State & local elected officials' relationships
Flexible work environments

Click HERE to read biographies of Comptroller Mumpower, moderator Chris Caldwell, and the panelists.

Registration Link