Department News - This month we are featuring the Fiscal Department.
By Danny Thomas, Fiscal Officer

Mahoning County is in the process of converting their accounting system from PeopleSoft to a more user friendly system called Munis. Marilyn, Robin and I have attended several trainings at the County Administration building. The conversion to the new software will go “live” on September 1, 2009. At that time, all accounting applications will be done in Munis. The nice feature about this application is that our department has the capability to familiarize ourselves in what we have learned through a training component set up on our computers (SACWIS users, does this sound familiar?). As we go through the process we will be uploading our specific information into the new system and by September 1, 2009, will be using the new system completely. As part of the conversion for this year, the agency budget must be done in both PeopleSoft and Munis. The payroll component of Munis will be implemented in January 2010. We have not seen that component of the system to date.

Marilyn and Robin have done an excellent job in adapting to the new applications and I am sure will have this mastered by September 2nd!!

We have been in the process of placing the 1 mill levy on the November 2009 general election ballot. The Children Services Board adopted the resolution to go forward with the renewal and the Board of County Commissioners approved our request to place the levy on the ballot at their meeting on Thursday, August 6, 2009. Our three levies generate over ½ of the agency’s revenue and the 1 mill levy makes up over 50% of levy collections; therefore this is one of our largest sources of revenue.

Passage of this renewal will help stabilize our finances as state and federal allocations have seen reductions in the current state budget.