So, You’re Attending Your First NACo Conference?
Available On-Demand
This webinar is available on-demand. If you have issue accessing the recording, please email nacomeetings@naco.org.
NACo’s upcoming 2025 Legislative Conference will see a record number of attendees who are attending their first major NACo event. This webinar will be an introduction into all the conference has to offer: policy committee meetings, general sessions, receptions, navigating the hotel and more. Join us for this overview and to ask any questions you have before traveling to Washington, D.C.!
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Speakers
Eryn Hurley
Jack Peterson
Allegheny County, Pa.'s ‘Forward with Families’ supports childcare providers
Allegheny County, Pa.'s “Forward with Families” initiative aims to create an additional 5,000 childcare and after-school slots across the county over the next five years.
BUILD America 250 Act looks good for county bridge funding prospects
Counties stand to receive a healthy infusion of funding to address bridges under the surface transportation bill, BUILD America 250 Act.
Telling the County Infrastructure Story
County budgets are being eroded by unrelenting cost inflation, federal permitting delays stalling projects and competition for labor and materials often directed to federally subsidized state projects. It's time to fix federal funding for infrastructure.
Holmes County, Miss.’s first strategic plan opens opportunities for industrial park
A $50,000 grant through NACo's Rural Leaders for Economic Mobility program helped a rural county start planning to grow.
Treasury publishes new Do Not Pay matching program notice; NACo evaluating for comment
On May 18, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) published a Federal Register notice establishing a new computer matching program under the Privacy Act of 1974. The notice authorizes Treasury to compare records held by about 40 of its programs against the Do Not Pay (DNP) Working System, a centralized verification portal operated by Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service. NACo will be submitting comments.
OMB proposes major overhaul of federal grant rules
On May 29, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in coordination with all federal grantmaking agencies, published a proposed rule in the Federal Register rewriting 2 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 200 which is commonly referred to as Uniform Guidance, 2 CFR Part 200. This is the regulation that governs federal grants administered by all federal agencies that applies to counties and other entities. Teh proposed ruling includes substantial changes to federal code.