1. Your GFOA
Chris Morrill

5. GFOA Best Practices

8. GFOA Federal Liaison Center
Congressional Advocacy
Tax exempt municipal bonds
Deductibility of State & Local Taxes
Marketplace Fairness Act
Executive Advocacy
SEC
MSRB
Amicus Briefs to the Supreme Court

9. Member resources

10. GFOA Consulting
GFOA nationally recognized leader in the ERP system market generating value for clients through:
Software selection / contract negotiations
Reducing costs
Reducing risk during implementation
Providing best practice recommendations for improving business processes

11. Research Reports

12. Best Practices in School Budgeting

13. Financial Sustainability Framework
GFOA
National Civic League
University of Southern California
University of San Francisco
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Leadership strategies:
Create open communication between all participants
Help stakeholders build trustworthy reputations
Convince participants there can be benefits from collective efforts
Ensure key stakeholders remain engaged
Build long-time horizons into fiscal planning
Maintain capabilities to enforce cooperative behavior
Institutional Design Principles:
Well-defined boundaries
Proportional equivalents between benefits & costs
Collective choice arrangements
Monitoring
Graduated sanctions and credible rewards
Conflict resolution mechanisms
Minimum recognition of rights
Networked enterprises

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