October 6 - 8, 2025 Warren

Each year public works officials and municipal engineers from around the state come together at the Public Works School to share ideas, learn from practitioners and develop successful strategies. Being held at the Fort William Henry Hotel in Lake George. OSC will be presenting and available for technical assistance. For more information, visit www.nycom.org.

October 8 - 9, 2025 | 8:45 AM - 3:00 PM Virtual

This multi-day school is designed to familiarize participants with accounting and financial reporting requirements for local governments in New York. The course provides guidance on certain operational issues, such as cash management, purchasing, processing claims for payment, accounting for capital projects and utilizing reserve funds.

October 15, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Virtual

This webinar will walk through prevalent phishing tactics to help enable anyone across an organization to identify and respond to potential phishing attempts. We will also discuss advanced and unique avenues that attackers may use in persuading individuals to provide personal information or IT system access. Though less commonly known, staying current on emergent phishing tactics is crucial to keeping pace with the dynamic cyber threat landscape.

November 5, 2025 Virtual

Fund balance is an important element of a municipality’s financial condition. This session will define the components of fund balance, factors to consider when determining availability and reasonable levels of fund balance, and the need of a fund balance policy for effective monitoring and communication.

November 12, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Virtual

This webinar will explain how the New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS) determines service credit for Elected and Appointed Officials. Officials, who are not in a time-keeping system, are required to keep a Record of Activities (ROA). The purpose of an ROA is to establish an Official’s service credit in NYSLRS. During this training, we will go over what is required on an ROA, as well as walk you through how to complete an ROA utilizing a template, available on the NYSLRS website.

November 19 - 20, 2025 | 8:45 AM - 3:00 PM Virtual

This multi-day school is designed to familiarize participants with the basic concepts of governmental accounting and give them a working knowledge of basic bookkeeping procedures such as understanding debits and credits, a discussion of the modified accrual system of accounting, the practice of maintaining the books and records, developing and accounting for the annual budget, as well as the year-end closing process.