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    Hello, We don't have a summer policy, rather our office is closed to the public on Fridays. Office staff have the option to work from home or come to the office and work. We have internet based phones, so they can be routed to our cell phones or answered ...

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    RE: NeoGov Payroll

    Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    Hi Chris, We use NeoGov for Payroll as well as have them process payroll and it does have some pros and cons. To give general insight, the HR department picked NeoGov since they were already using it for things such as onboarding. Otherwise, I'm not ...

  • Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    Thank you for bringing up this topic. As our organization grows, we have over and over again fine-tuned and streamlined our processes, which has produced updated manuals and SOP's. We are trying to find the best way to document these processes in one(1) ...

  • Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    Good morning GFOA community, We're looking at updating our unit costing spreadsheet that has been used say the last 20 years or so. What we're wondering is how other entities are approaching their unit costing. We currently take the higher of bid or ...

  • Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    Good morning, Leslie! The City of Olympia uses Workiva to compile our operating budget, capital budget, and ACFR. I work on the budget-side and can tell you from our experience we like using the software. I've had experience working with Gravity in ...

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