Schedule
Sunday, September 8, 2019
10:00 AM - 6:30 PM Registration Desk Open
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Speaker Ready Room
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Statutory Requirements and Ethical Considerations for Public Officials
12:00 – 1:00 PM Informal Lunch and Networking
1:00 – 3:15 PM Football Tailgate
1:00 - 1:50 PM Borrowing with Bonds: New SEC Rules and Related Practical Considerations
1:00 - 1:50 PM Using Ratios and Other Indicators to Assess Fiscal Well Being
1:00 - 1:50 PM Shared Services for Technology: Opportunities and Challenges to
Maximizing Taxpayer Value
2:00 - 2:50 PM Understanding New Changes to the Minimum Wage Law and
Other Wage-Related Statutes
2:00 - 2:50 PM Investment Accounting and Reporting Meets Strategy
2:00 - 2:50 PM Defending Your Organization Against Cyber Thugs
3:00 - 3:50 PM General Session: Financial Leadership – Excellence Can Only Be Achieved By You!
4:00 - 5:00 PM New Member & First Time Attendee Reception -
hosted by IGFOA President Melissa Gallagher
4:00 - 5:00 PM Sustaining and Associate Partners' Happy Hour
5:00 - 6:30 PM Vendor Showcase Welcome Reception
6:30 - 9:00 PM Dinner on Your Own or Optional Dinner Alternative: IGFOA Hospitality Room
Monday, September 9, 2019
7:30 AM - 4:30 PM Speaker Ready Room
7:45 AM Buffet Breakfast
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Registration Desk Open
8:00 - 8:30 AM Welcome and GFOA Update – GFOA President-Elect, Marion M. Gee
8:30 - 9:20 AM Keynote Address: The Fundamentals of Winning – “For Each Other”
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Vendor Showcase Open
9:30 - 10:20 AM New Developments and Credit Trends in the Illinois Municipal Bond Market
9:30 - 10:20 AM Fraud, Fraud, Everywhere: Stories from the Fraud Frontline!
9:30 - 10:20 AM It’s Not Just Math: How Water Rates Drive Policy and Shape
your Community's Future
10:40 - 11:30 AM The Basics of Bonds for Park Districts and Non-Home Rule Communities
10:40 - 11:30 AM Accounting for TIFs
10:40 - 11:30 AM Blockchain: Preparing for Disruption
11:40 AM - 12:20 PM Roundtable Breakout Sessions:
• The GFOA’s CPFO Certification Program
• Park Districts: What are the Current Issues You’re Dealing With…or Should Be?
• County Revenues and Cost Drivers
• Utility Billing Challenges for Finance Directors
• Millennials in Public Finance
• Mental Toughness, Leadership, and Team First: A Conversation with Jason Kuhn
12:30 - 1:30 PM Luncheon and Annual Business Meeting
1:30 - 6:15 PM Vendor Showcase Open
1:45 - 2:35 PM Factors Impacting the Rate Environment –
Implications for Illinois Public Funds Investors
1:45 - 2:35 PM GASB Update - Part 1
1:45 - 2:35 PM On-line Payments: Self-Reported Taxes
2:00 - 5:30 PM Complimentary Headshots
2:35 - 3:00 PM Dessert in the Vendor Showcase
3:00 - 4:15 PM GASB Update - Part 2
3:00 - 4:15 PM Planning and Responding to Active Shooter/Violent Incidents
4:25 – 5:15 PM IDOR - The Local Tax Allocation Division and Your Local Government
4:25 – 5:15 PM Who Wants to be a Pension Expert?
4:25 – 5:15 PM Five Tools to Help Local Governments Bridge the Strategic Planning
and Execution Gap
5:15 - 6:15 PM Reception - Closing of the Vendor Showcase
6:45 - 10:00 PM Social Event - Destihl (shuttle buses begin at 6:25 PM from the Bloomington-
Normal Marriott Hotel, Broadway Street entrance)
Between all Monday sessions, breaks are available in the Vendor Showcase - Redbird Ballroom.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
7:30 - 11:00 AM Registration Desk Open
7:30 - 11:30 AM Speaker Ready Room
8:00 AM Breakfast Buffet
8:30 - 9:45 AM Illinois Municipal League 2019 Legislative Update
10:00 - 11:15 AM GATA - An Overview of Indirect Cost
10:00 - 11:15 AM Leading by Example – Success Stories of Innovation, Growth and Engagement,
and Ethical Fortitude
11:25 AM - 12:15 PM Safely Utilizing Credit in a Public Portfolio
11:25 AM - 12:15 PM Demystify Finances for Your Elected Officials
11:25 AM - 12:15 PM The Importance of Fleet Management
IGFOA reserves the right to modify the agenda and/or speakers. Unless noted, all events are held at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center. Questions about the 2019 Annual Conference, please contact the IGFOA at (630) 942-6587 or info@igfoa.org.