About Municipal Central
Municipal Central is a subsidiary of Business Central Solutions LLC. With over 25 years of experience, Municipal Central led by Danny Lamonte our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is committed to empowering local governments by providing expert solutions and unparalleled support. Our team of skilled Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and seasoned consultants brings decades of experience across multiple disciplines to ensure your municipality operates at its highest potential. We offer a comprehensive suite of services designed to streamline processes, optimize resources, and improve financial health for municipalities and public agencies.
Our licenses and Certifications include:
- Certified Public Accountants (CPA)
- Certified Finance Officer (CFO)
- Property & Casualty Insurance License
- Life & Health Insurance License
- Georgia Economic Development certification
- Certified Technology Service Provider
We are a Part of the following organizations:
- Governmental Finance Officers Association (GFOA)
- Association of Governmental Accountants (AGA)
- Georgia Municipal Association (GMA)
- Georgia Association of Business Tax Officials (GABTO).
Our Services
Our experienced CPAs and consultants deliver comprehensive financial services tailored to meet your municipality’s unique needs. Our offerings include:
– Interim Finance Director services
– Accounts Payable
– Accounts Receivable
– Budgeting
– General Accounting
– Financial Reporting
– Revenue Recovery
– Audit Readiness
– Fixed Assets
– Payroll
With over 20 years as licensed insurance brokers, we are licensed in both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. We specialize in Employee Benefits and Commercial Property & Casualty insurance solutions, ensuring that your municipality secures the best coverage at competitive rates while meeting all regulatory requirements.
Our technology experts offer managed IT solutions to enhance security, efficiency, and the sustainability of your operational infrastructure. Our services include:
– Cyber Security
– Network Management
– Cloud Computing
– IT Support
– VOIP
– Data Cabling
We have extensive experience with various grants available to local municipalities, including CDBG Grants, LMIG, ARPA, and other funding opportunities. Our team helps you secure essential funding while ensuring compliance and successful project execution.
Our auditing professionals conduct a wide range of speciality audits designed to ensure transparency, recover lost revenues, and identify cost-saving opportunities. Specific audits we perform include:
– Purchase Card Audits
– Forensic Audits
– Business License Audits
– Hotel/Motel Tax Audits
– Cost Savings Audits
– New Leadership Audits
We offer comprehensive support to streamline your procurement processes. Our services include:
– Surplus Property Management
– RFP Preparation and Process Management
– Vendor Management
– Purchasing Compliance
Our team specializes in identifying and securing top talent for key positions in Accounting & Finance, as well as City and County Manager roles. Having worked in these very roles ourselves, we offer a unique level of insight that ensures your organization is equipped with the right leadership to meet today’s challenges.
Our HR professionals, some of whom have served as Human Resources Directors, fully understand the unique needs of local municipalities in managing personnel. We offer compensation studies, workforce planning, recruitment, benefits administration, and compliance services. Additionally, we provide payroll setup and management services, ensuring efficient and compliant payroll operations.
Our experienced consultants provide strategic advice and operational improvements to help your organization navigate complexities and drive success. We have special management and financial expertise in several programs. Our services include:
– SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax)
– ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act)
– Direct Pay Clean Air Tax Credits
– Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
– Digital Documents Service
– Contracts and Leases Management
Our SPLOST and TSPLOST program management services help your municipality plan, procure, and deliver capital projects with full financial accountability. We support capital program planning, competitive procurement, budget and cash-flow tracking, schedule monitoring, change order review, pay application review, and governing-body reporting through project closeout.
Our revenue recovery services identify missed, underbilled, and recoverable revenue while strengthening your municipality’s future collections. We review billing and collection processes, business license accounts, franchise and utility fees, vendor payments, and aged receivables, then recommend sustainable billing, reconciliation, and compliance practices that protect ongoing revenue.
Our business license audits improve compliance and capture revenue by identifying unlicensed businesses, underreported receipts, misclassifications, and delinquent accounts. We review license databases, verify gross receipts and classifications, test penalties, and reconcile billings and collections, then recommend process improvements to strengthen ongoing licensing compliance.
Our property tax management services support accurate billing, defensible millage, and reliable collections for your municipality. We administer the tax digest, calculate millage and rollback rates, coordinate billing and reconciliation, process mortgage payments, support delinquent tax collection, and provide taxpayer hearings support and staff training.
Our forensic audits analyze transactions, vendors, payroll, purchasing card activity, and banking records to identify irregularities and financial exposure. We test improper payments, review payroll and bank activity, evaluate internal controls, and apply targeted procedures to identify fraud indicators, documenting findings and recommending corrective action.
Our management information technology services provide strategic governance for your municipality’s technology operations. We offer fractional IT leadership, technology roadmaps, cybersecurity governance, vendor management, network and cloud oversight, IT budgeting, business continuity planning, and access controls, aligning your systems and investments with operational needs.
Our surplus property management services help public agencies turn idle assets into revenue. We inventory surplus vehicles, equipment, and technology, prepare surplus declarations, recommend valuation strategies, coordinate advertising and auctions, manage buyer transactions, handle titles and bills of sale, and reconcile proceeds for transparent closeout.
Our website and social media management services keep your public information current, professional, and accessible. We maintain website content and department pages, post public notices and event promotions, develop social media content calendars and campaigns, conduct periodic content reviews, and establish communication procedures and approval workflows.
Our IT recycling and e-waste services provide secure, responsible disposition of outdated technology equipment. We coordinate pickup, hard drive shredding, and secure data destruction, offer on-site destruction options, track assets, and provide certificates of destruction, routing all electronic waste through environmentally responsible recycling processes.
Our digital document and scanning services convert paper records into organized, searchable electronic files. We handle document preparation, bulk scanning, OCR conversion, indexing and file naming, records classification, legacy archive conversion, quality control review, and secure delivery, improving retrieval and reducing physical storage needs.