E-Help 05/03/2007
INCLUDES:
Utility Bills sent via Email (Highland)
General Business License (Gurnee)
Tax Exempt Certificate (Lockport)
Seeking User Group of Civic System software (Cortland)
APT’s Listserv
Program
“Thanks again to everyone that has contributed information in the past. If
you have questions, please feel free to send me your request. If you are
responding to a request, please send your response to the requester and
include me as a “cc”. Thanks again!”
Michael Peterson
mpeterson@villageofgrayslake.com
www.imtausa.org
www.aptusc.org
www.publictreasuryinstitute.com/bookshop/catalog.do
UTILITY BILLS SENT VIA EMAIL
Looking for feedback from municipalities that send utility bills via email.
Any and all information on your experience and vendor would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Scott E. Borror, CIMT
Asst. Director of Finance
City of Highland, IL.
www.ci.highland.il.us
GENERAL BUSINESS LICENSE
For those municipalities that require
general business license registration, do you post businesses names, addresses,
and phone numbers on-line or make that list public in any other way? If so, do
you make such disclosure up front to the business thru the application process
or some other mechanism?
Thanks,
Tina Smigielski
Village of Gurnee
tinas@village.gurnee.il.us
TAX EXEMPT CERTIFICATES
I have a question about
Tax Exempt Certificates. Is it acceptable for a vendor of ours to
use our tax exempt status for purchases they make in relation to a
Village
contract? Seems like a dangerous thing to do.
Thanks.
RESPONSE:
I talked with Jerry 217.785.8661 at the Dept of Revenue and he gave me the IL
Dept of Revenue Regulation that allows a contractor to use the municipality’s
tax exemption for municipal purposes. In very brief, it can be used for
materials for a project, but a contractor can not use it for the purchase of
tools and equipment used on a project.
http://www.revenue.state.il.us/legalinformation/regs/part130/130-2076.pdf
Michael
SEEKING USER GROUP FOR
CIVIC SYSTEM UB SOFTWARE
Cortland has a population of approximately 3800. I used to handle utility
billing for the municipality, but about a year and a half ago we hired a Utility
Billing Clerk who now handles the process over at the Water Department. We bill
approximately 1400 sewer users, of which about 1300 have public water. We bill
on a quarterly basis using Caselle’s Civic software.
Our Utility Billing Clerk would like to find a Utility Billing Users’ Group to meet other people doing the same type of work and share information on what works and doesn’t work in terms of disconnection procedures, liens, etc. Anyone who knows of such a group, especially one in Northern Illinois, please let me know at sdockus@cortlandil.org. Thanks!
Susan
Dockus,
Treasurer
Town of Cortland
APT’s LISTSERV IS UP AND RUNNING!!!
Dear Members of APT US&C,
I would like to introduce you to a new service that is being offered to all
members of APT US&C. This new technology that is being offered is called a
Listserv. A Listserv is an interactive email discussion group between all
members of APT US&C. The APT Listserv is hosted at APT US&C headquarters and
will allow each member to benefit from the experience, knowledge, and wisdom of
your peers.
The staff and members of APT US&C have developed several lists to help everyone begin discussions on various topics that are related to the field of treasury management. The discussion lists can be found below:
1.
Accounting, Audit, and Financial Reporting
2.
Budgeting and Financial Planning.
3.
Cash Flow Management
4.
Cash Management Investing.
5.
Debt Management.
6.
Human Resources Payroll
7.
Management Policy
8.
Pensions and Benefits
9.
Technology and Digital Government.
10.
Treasury Management.
To participant in the APT List Server, email the list(s) you are interested in from above to membership@aptusc.org. Once we receive your e-mail we will process your request immediately and you will receive an introductory welcome message from each topic you sign up for. Once you receive each of these messages you can begin discussing any related topic by simply responding to the topic’s welcome email. Rather than receiving e-mails during the day you can also request that you receive one condensed e-mail during the day that will include all e-mails that occurred during the day. Within the next two weeks, you will be able to automatically manage your user preferences by logging into the member’s only portion of the APT US&C website.
The staff at headquarters hopes that this new technology service will help all members of our association expand their knowledge capital by having a direct connection with all other members of the APT US&C community.
If you have any difficulty with these discussion lists, please contact APT US&C at membership@aptusc.org.
Sincerely
Kelley Noone
Executive Director
Association of Public Treasurers United States & Canada
962 Wayne Avenue Suite 910
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301- 495 -5560
Phone
http://www.aptusc.org
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