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- Electronic Payment Outreach Program
- Rapid Response/Gov T.E.C. Teams
- Financial Management System (FMS)
Electronic Payment Outreach Program
The MMSA and the Local Community Stabilization Authority (LCSA) are wroking to ensure local units of government are receiving the state reimbursements the legislature has worked hard to protect. These reimbursements include personal property tax (PPT) reimbursement, Fire Protection Grants, ELPHA and Metro Act payments.
The LCSA issues thoughts of checks each year to local units of government, and a number of these remain uncashed. Issuing physical checks means there's a greater chance of those funds being lost. While we do work with the local units to try to locate checks and/or reissue them if necessary, this process can take months. We want to ensure our local units of government are receiving thier reimbursements promptly.
As a result, we are commencing an electronic payment outreach program with the goal of ensuring local units of government receive payments required under state statutes. Our partners at Plante Moran are launching an outreach effort to contact local units of government to directly set up electronic payment. LCSA offers two options for electronic deposit: through an ACH or through a Michigan CLASS participant-to-participant transfer.
If you would like to begin the simple process to convert to electronic payment please email us at electronicpayment@lcsami.gov to get started.
We look forward to working with you and ensuring you get the reimbursements you're owed quickly, easily and effectively.
For questions please contact MMSA's CEO Samantha Harkins at ceo@michiganmsa.org
Rapid Response/Gov T.E.C. Teams
CONNECTING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND STATE AGENCIES
By going beyond the webinar, the MMSA works with local governments and state agencies to find and facilitate opportunities for collaboration and improved services. Many local governments see opportunities to increase efficiency, however, these opportunities can be complex. MMSA will serve as a guide through such complexities.
RAPID RESPONSE TEAMS
This on-call service provides short-term assistance through operational and financial analysis, response to state requirements, hands on training, staffing capacity challenges, project assistance, strategic facilitation, communication and engagement, and more. Services will be right sized to suit the needs of individual communities. No one-sized-fits-all approaches.
GOV T.E.C. TEAMS (TACTICAL, EFFECTIVE, AND COLLABORATIVE)
MMSA provides community analysis and needs based assistance that is tactical, effective, and collaborative. Assistance will be delivered by vetted subject matter professionals who have direct, boots on the ground, local government experience. Services will be tailored to suit the needs of individual communities. Gov T.E.C. teams have the ability to support the longer-term needs of local governments of all types.
Have questions or want to utilize this service? Contact Samantha Harkins, MMSA CEO.
Financial Management System (FMS)
By going beyond the webinar, the MMSA works with local governments and state agencies to find and facilitate opportunities for collaboration and improved services. Many local governments see opportunities to increase efficiency, however, these opportunities can be complex. MMSA will serve as a guide through such complexities.
RAPID RESPONSE TEAMS
This on-call service provides short-term assistance through operational and financial analysis, response to state requirements, hands on training, staffing capacity challenges, project assistance, strategic facilitation, communication and engagement, and more. Services will be right sized to suit the needs of individual communities. No one-sized-fits-all approaches.
GOV T.E.C. TEAMS (TACTICAL, EFFECTIVE, AND COLLABORATIVE)
MMSA provides community analysis and needs based assistance that is tactical, effective, and collaborative. Assistance will be delivered by vetted subject matter professionals who have direct, boots on the ground, local government experience. Services will be tailored to suit the needs of individual communities. Gov T.E.C. teams have the ability to support the longer-term needs of local governments of all types.
Have questions or want to utilize this service? Contact Samantha Harkins, MMSA CEO.
Financial Management System (FMS)
Local governments are seeking to improve efficiency and citizen services while reducing the capital investment and organizational challenges of modernizing and maintaining Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. The Financial Management System (FMS) Program provides ERP software “out of the box”, designed for local government organizations.
The development of the FMS software is the result of a collaboration between the Authority and the FMS Project Team. Their work highlighted nearly 4,000 specifications for an ERP system. The results of this collaboration are summarized in Best Practices for Michigan Local Government Business Process.
Ultimately the Authority and the FMS Project Team selected CGI Advantage, to develop an ERP solution based on their specifications. The FMS Project Team determined that it meets more than 90% of the specifications based on the best practices outlined in their research. The result of this process is a comprehensive governmental financial management and human resources software system to help standardize business processes for local units of government..
The CGI Advantage ERP suite includes:
- Financial management to provide organization-wide accountability through consistent accounting rules across all financial transactions.
- Performance budgeting to automate the budgeting process for better planning to improve financial and operational performance.
- Human resource management to streamline the HR and payroll process from hire to retire, including online recruiting, timekeeping and employee self-service.
- Procurement to automate purchasing via catalog-based ordering and paperless approval processes that link directly to the government accounting system
- Business intelligence to unlock data quickly for more effective decisions and increased measurement of key performance indicators
The FMS program is open to any local government in Michigan and the Authority is responsible for marketing the system and recruiting participants.