CCM Provides Savings for Members
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CM provides valuable information and educational opportunities. We also provide a variety of programs that are designed to save municipalities money and reduce administrative burdens on local officials. Some of them include: • IT-in-a-Box is an a la carte program of IT services like data protection, firewalls, storage and more. This beneficial program gives municipalities all the resources it needs to avoid ransomware attacks, to store sensitive data, and to even help with municipal websites. • CCM’s Municipal Consulting Services assists members with a variety of essential services, including grant research and writing, RFP drafting, project management, finance and budgeting, purchasing, temporary staffing and much more. The program is provided by highly qualified consultants with a variety of experience working with and for local government and school districts. As no other entity understands local governments better than CCM. A new consulting service is our executive recruiting program to ensure that only the best qualified candidates are part of local governments.
dents regardless of their health insurance status. This is a free program for all residents within a municipality and has produced an average savings of 45% on prescription drug costs for residents. • CCM Drug and Alcohol Testing Consortium assists members with all the testing and management services necessary for compliance with the Federal DOT drug and alcohol testing regulations. Our program is typically provided at a much lower cost than other testing services because CCM pools the resources with other municipalities to reduce the administrative and financial burden of the random testing process. • CCM Energy is a multi-service program that helps municipalities and schools save money on annual energy-related costs. This is accomplished through reducing costs of electricity and natural gas through strategic competitive energy purchasing, assisting municipalities with purchasing, maintaining and upgrading streetlights to LED technology, as well as offering long-term Power Purchasing Agreements and Virtual Net Metering Credit Agreements.
• Prescription Discount Card Program provides municipalities access to prescription savings for their resi-
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