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The Bureau of Local Government and School Services (BLGSS) provides fair and efficient services, support, and oversight for local governments, school districts, and partners to promote long-term fiscal health and stability.
This page brings together upcoming BLGSS webinars and training opportunities focused on current topics impacting local units and schools.
Some training opportunities are offered through dedicated programs with their own resources and schedules. For program-specific training, visit the Fiscally Ready Communities page and Treasury’s Continuing Education and Certification opportunities for assessors. Check back regularly for new and updated offerings.
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2026-02-09 Fiscally Ready Community: Budgeting for Fiscal Sustainability |
Local Government |
This training covers best practices for local governments’ fiscal health, including budgeting, long-term planning, financial policies, and managing uncertainty. Participants will learn how revenue is generated and forecasted, how to understand fund balance and volatile revenue, and how to track and amend budget performance. The training also emphasizes how current spending decisions affect future financial stability. |
Webinar Resources |
Search for additional webinars, trainings, and presentation materials below using keyword, date, or category.
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2026-02-09 Fiscally Ready Communities: Budgeting for Fiscal Sustainability |
Local Government |
This training covers best practices for local governments’ fiscal health, including budgeting, long-term planning, financial policies, and managing uncertainty. Participants will learn how revenue is generated and forecasted, how to understand fund balance and volatile revenue, and how to track and amend budget performance. The training also emphasizes how current spending decisions affect future financial stability. |
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2026-01-15 Chart Chat and Resources for Local Governments |
Local Government |
The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with timely, practical information on accounting and auditing requirements, fiscal health measurement, and key operational updates. Upcoming sessions will cover a digital accessibility overview, an introduction to the Analytics and Outreach Section within the Local Audit and Finance Division, and the latest updates to the Chart of Accounts. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2025-10-20 Fiscally Ready Communities Webinar: Getting Grant Ready |
Local Government |
This training helps local governments align grant opportunities with community goals, assess capacity to manage grants, and develop proactive policies and procedures. Participants will learn best practices for identifying, applying for, and managing grants to strengthen fiscal sustainability and maximize funding impact. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2025-09-25 Fiscally Ready Communities Webinar |
Local Government |
Getting Grant Ready - This training helps local governments align grant opportunities with community goals, assess capacity to manage grants, and develop proactive policies and procedures. Participants will learn best practices for identifying, applying for, and managing grants to strengthen fiscal sustainability and maximize funding impact. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2025-09-11 Chart Chat Webinar |
Local Government |
The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with essential updates on accounting, auditing, and fiscal health, while also covering timely topics such as cybersecurity, investment policy best practices, and the MI Rural Water Association. |
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2025-08-21 Fiscally Ready Communities Webinar: From Fundamentals to Best Practices |
Local Government |
This program focuses on implementing financial best practices, measuring fiscal health, and local government financial management fundamentals. It will include material on reconciling a bank account, how to read and interpret governmental financial statements, audit prep umbrella, how to complete and file an F65 Report, remitting taxes timely, and how to craft an appropriate and effective audit finding Corrective Action Plan. |
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2025-06-16 Nuts and Bolts: Fees, Fines, Purchasing, and Receipting |
Local Government |
Building a culture of fiscal sustainability is essential to local government fiscal health. Well-thought-out policies on fees, fines, purchasing, and receipting lead to clear rules and fair treatment, which are essential pillars to that culture of fiscal sustainability. This webinar will include a deep dive into best practices related to fees, fines, purchasing, receipting, and more. It will cover what they are, why such policies are necessary, how they contribute to local fiscal health, and how to get started on implementation. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2025-05-29 Fiscally Ready Communities: Managing Internal Controls |
Local Government |
This training will include a deep dive into internal controls. It will cover what internal controls are, why you need them, how they help your community, how to implement them, and where to start. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2025-05-08 Chart Chat Webinar |
Local Government |
The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with critical information related to accounting and auditing topics, measuring local government fiscal health, and other important updates such as Earned Sick Time Act Update, Reading Financial Statements, and Data, Statistics, and Ratios. |
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2025-04-10 Fiscally Ready Communities: Capital Asset Management and Planning |
Local Government |
Recurring annual expenses are simple to budget, but repair and replacement of big-ticket items can be much more difficult. A Capital Improvement Program (CIP) will help your local government organize those major projects and forecast the expenses to make long-term planning simpler. This session will cover the basics of a CIP, best practices, and give participants a chance to share techniques that have worked for their community, as well as policies, procedures, and accounting for capital asset management and planning. |
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2025-03-10 Fiscally Ready Communities: Budgeting for Fiscal Sustainability |
Local Government |
The Michigan Department of Treasury and Michigan State University Extension (MSU Extension) are reminding you of our next Fiscally Ready Communities training opportunity. This FREE training is an hour-and-a-half webinar that's designed to assist appointed and elected officials with entry and intermediate level budgeting knowledge. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2025-01-16 Chart Chat Webinar |
Local Government |
The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with critical information related to accounting and auditing topics, measuring local government fiscal health, and other important updates. Topics covered will include, Numbered Letters and F65 Update, Qualifying Statements, Retirement Reporting (PA 202 of 2017). |
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2024-10-21 MSU Extension Fiscally Ready Communities Webinar |
Local Government |
This program focuses on implementing financial best practices, measuring fiscal health, and local government financial management fundamentals. It will include material on reconciling a bank account, how to read and interpret governmental financial statements, audit prep umbrella, how to complete and file an F65 Report, remitting taxes timely, and how to craft an appropriate and effective audit finding Corrective Action Plan. Participants will also receive resources to support best practice implementation and assess their local unit fiscal health. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2024-09-16 MSU Extension Fiscally Ready Communities Webinar |
Local Government |
This program focuses on implementing financial best practices, measuring fiscal health, and local government financial management fundamentals. It will include material on reconciling a bank account, how to read and interpret governmental financial statements, audit prep umbrella, how to complete and file an F65 Report, remitting taxes timely, and how to craft an appropriate and effective audit finding Corrective Action Plan. Participants will also receive resources to support best practice implementation and assess their local unit fiscal health. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2024-09-05 Chart Chat for Local Governments |
Local Government |
The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with critical information related to accounting and auditing topics, measuring local government fiscal health, and other important updates from Treasury. |
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2024-08-22 Fiscally Ready Communities: From Fundamentals to Best Practices |
Local Government |
This program focuses on implementing financial best practices, measuring fiscal health, and local government financial management fundamentals. It will include material on reconciling a bank account, how to read and interpret governmental financial statements, audit prep umbrella, how to complete and file an F65 Report, remitting taxes timely, and how to craft an appropriate and effective audit finding Corrective Action Plan to name a few items. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2024-06-03 Fiscally Ready Communities: Nuts and Bolts: Fees, Fines, Purchasing, and Receipting |
Local Government |
Building a culture of fiscal sustainability is essential to local government fiscal health. Well-thought-out policies on fees, fines, purchasing, and receipting lead to clear rules and fair treatment, which are essential pillars to that culture of fiscal sustainability. This webinar will include a deep dive into best practices related to fees, fines, purchasing, receipting, and more. It will cover what they are, why such policies are necessary, how they contribute to local fiscal health, and how to get started on implementation. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2024-05-30 Chart Chat and Resources for Local Governments |
Local Government |
The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with critical information related to accounting and auditing topics, measuring local government fiscal health, and other important updates from Treasury. |
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2024-05-09 Fiscally Ready Communities: Managing Internal Controls |
Local Government |
This training will include a deep dive into internal controls. It will cover what internal controls are, why you need them, how they help your community, how to implement them, and where to start. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2024-05-02 Updates and Resources for Local Governments |
Local Government |
The Updates and Resources for Local Governments webinar series is designed to provide local governments with the information, tools, and resources necessary to make important decisions at the local level. Topics include, but not limited to, Lead Service Line Replacement, MIC and the AM Champions, and the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. |
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2024-04-22 Fiscally Ready Communities: Capital Asset Management and Planning |
Local Government |
Recurring annual expenses are simple to budget, but repair and replacement of big-ticket items can be much more difficult. A Capital Improvement Program (CIP) will help your local government organize those major projects and forecast the expenses to make long-term planning simpler. This session will cover the basics of a CIP, best practices, and give participants a chance to share techniques that have worked for their community, as well as policies, procedures, and accounting for capital asset management and planning. |
Presentation and Recording |
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2024-02-22 Chart Chat and Resources for Local Governments |
Local Government |
The Chart Chat webinar series provides local governments with critical information related to accounting and auditing topics, measuring local government fiscal health, and other important updates from Treasury. |
Presentation and Recording |
