During this session, we will discuss the “Fraud Triangle” and review ways you can identify and detect fraud within your organization. We will also dive into workplace fraud case studies and discuss the measures management could have taken to prevent it. You will leave with best practices you can implement now to set your organization up for success. Taylor M. Rote, CPA, Supervisor with SEK, CPAs & Advisors, will be the presenter.

Join us for this two-session presentation which discusses such topics as fire service, emergency management, police, ambulance service, mutual aid, homeland security, and municipal liability for volunteers.

Learn how your municipality can accelerate project completion, reduce costs, and utilize data collection for future developments with the help of 3D Laser Scanning. This webinar will explore the 3D Laser Scanner equipment and software, application usages, and the advantages of this digital surveying technology method. Do not miss your chance to be entered in a drawing to win one of three giveaway prizes!

Join us for this three-session virtual class for in-depth training on how to use QuickBooks Payroll . You will learn the proper way to have your Chart of Accounts set up along with Setting up Payroll items and mapping them correctly. We will learn about Employee Preferences to make setting up new employees easier.Most importantly, we will learn how to set up Payroll Liability schedules, epay and efile forms to make it seamless when doing your payroll using QuickBooks .

In light of such hot topics as climate change and natural disasters, townships need to address floodplain management and mitigation internally and externally with the public. This webinar, presented by John Luciani of FirstCapital Engineering, Inc., will address the continuous improvement processes that need to be performed and how to address floodplain ordinance changes. Topics will include 100-year floods, the watershed approach, and hazard mitigation.

With e-commerce generating more distribution and fulfillment centers and delivery to nearly every property, the scope and importance of planning for land use and freight has greatly expanded. Considerations range from downtown deliveries to intersection turning radii, and from industrial park access to truck parking. Presenters will demonstrate how land use and transportation planning can better accommodate the movement of goods from production to consumer.

In this webinar Scott Blissman of Eckert Seamans will review some of the biggest sources of confusion and frustration for municipalities when handling labor and HR issues. Some of the topics to be covered include police chief contracts, managing injured employees, terminating at-will employees, collecting bargaining, what to do when an employee is arrested, and the pros and cons of offering compensatory time.

Dan Cohen and Mike Roberts of the Cohen Law Group will discuss recent federal and state developments regarding local regulation of wireless facilities and how municipalities can best prepare for requests to deploy wireless facilities both inside and outside the public rights-of-way. Topics of discussion will include the Federal Communications Commission’s recent Small Cell Order and subsequent federal appeal, the Pennsylvania case Crown Castle v. PA PUC regarding the public utility status of wireless providers, and the future of wireless deployment and regulation.

This webinar will educate participants on how fire and emergency medical services (EMS) operate in Pennsylvania. Among the topics to be covered include the different types of fire-related services that may be offered, the different components of EMS and how they are structured and operated, and how municipalities can assist fire and EMS in handling the issues currently facing them, whether financial, operational or due to a lack of volunteers or staffing issues.

Join PSATS and your colleagues from around the state for this two session, newly REVISED virtual class where Diana Patton, who has spent 30 years as a township secretary/treasurer and the last 19 years as a Certified QuickBooks Instructor and Trainer, will show you all the ways you can use QuickBooks to better serve the financial needs of your municipality.