Being a member of CSMFO means you are a family member of one of California’s biggest collectives for professional connections, engaged career support, authentic peer to peer guidance, and many discounted training opportunities.

You also become part of a movement of fiscal thought leaders who are dedicated to investing and giving back to our local government agencies. Plus, you get access to some pretty cool CSMFO conference and wearable swag.

2020 Membership Drive

November 1st marked the kick-off for the 2020 membership campaign and an email renewal went out to everyone. Simply follow the link into your online CSMFO account to renew. It’s that easy.

And here’s just some of the benefits you’ll get in 2020:

• Discount pricing for conference registration (this alone will pay for your annual membership)
• Discount pricing for local CSMFO chapter chair trainings
• Discount pricing for sweet CSMFO gear from LandsEnd [https://business.landsend.com/store/csmfo/]
• Access to our premier and active list serve- where you can post any question and expect many responses
• Access to exclusive training events (i.e., annual Weekend Training, recurring core courses)
• Free webinar training and FREE CPE for all webinars
• And for NEW 2020 members, you get to choose either:
  • One free chapter meeting, or
  • Half off the cost of Introduction to Governmental Accounting or Investment Accounting courses.

• CSMFO members get exclusive access to our custom designed, live training courses that include:
  • Introduction and Intermediate Government Accounting
  • Investment Accounting, Successful Skills for Finance Directors
  • Fundamentals of Fees, Rates, Charges and Land Based Financing Tools
  • Fundamentals of Tax Revenues
  • Power of Fiscal Policies/Long Term Financial Planning

In addition, at our 2020 Conference, we’ll be introducing the newest course as an exclusive pre-conference session: Building a Better Budget.

Speaking of annual conferences, as a member you save $160 off the registration fee for our upcoming Anaheim conference in Disneyland (Yesterday, Tomorrow and Finance) Once again, our conference discount alone covers the full cost of your annual membership.

Best of all, for 2020, membership fees are staying the same at $110. And, as yet another exclusive CSMFO discount, the fourth and subsequent member(s) at an agency get a 30%+ discounted membership rate of $75 each. This is in place to support succession development throughout all our member agencies.

Membership is open to finance professionals in all types of government, including, but not limited to, cities, special districts, counties, and state agencies. We also have membership categories for our partner commercial members, retired government staff who were formally members of CSMFO, we have free membership for students, and other special membership categories (such as school districts and other associations).

So we encourage you to invest in your agency and yourself by joining CSMFO to take advantage of everything CSMFO has to offer. For more details about being a member, go to our membership site.To renew your membership, use your CSMFO secure account and look under announcements or click your account picture for your Renew Now option.