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This message was sent from Georgia Magazine (http://uga.edu/gm/). Building a better government - Feature Stories September 2011 Issue While others get up for a bathroom or cookie break, Nancy Mikell stays at the table looking at the Clinch County audit. In the first hour of a training class on financial reporting, Mikell has learned a lot about how to read an internal audit and has found some things in her county’s document that she doesn’t understand. “This (course) is providing me with a lot of questions to go back and ask,” says Mikell, a first term Clinch County commissioner, who took office in January. “I really don’t know how people can do their jobs effectively without this training.” More than 800 county officials gathered in Savannah in May for the annual meeting of the Association County Commissioners of Georgia. In addition to programs put on by the association, a big part of the three-day event was the training offered by UGA’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Over the course of the event, county representatives, including elected officials and employees, … Read full article at http://uga.edu/gm/ee/index.php?/single/2011/09/1257/.