City of Weatherford hosts MC&T training

If a perfect workshop ever happened, it would have been the MC&T Training in Weatherford on Feb. 26. About 45 clerks, treasurers, finance officers and a mayor “braved up” to drive through a snow storm, which actualized into a sunny 60° late February day. This was a fantastic group of people.

Mayor Mike Brown welcomed our group, and the City of Weatherford proved to be a kind and friendly host to us.

Bryan Drummond’s informative and entertaining Minutes, Meetings & Agendas kept us learning and laughing until all questions were answered. Having attended hundreds of public meetings, Drummond is a meetings expert with an anecdotal delivery that wows the house. He is an attorney with the law firm Rosenstein, Fist & Ringold, whose offices are in Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

The MainStreet Exchange, an MC&T regular vendor, sponsored our lunch. The Coffee Cup catered while MainStreet utilized breaks and the lunch session to disperse their signature lottery tickets and discuss the advantages of GovProBid, their quoting program which costs zero for municipalities and brings available contractors immediately to the viewing screen.

Weatherford’s Tony Davenport, Finance Director, and Lisa Root, the Clerk/Treasurer and Court Clerk of Eakly brought the afternoon training home with Purchasing, New Revenue, and Internal Controls. These great sessions generated much discussion and proved valuable, particularly in the economic climate we are currently experiencing.

It was The Perfect Training. It came together beautifully, and at the end of the day we drove home under a shining warm winter sun. How good does it get?