The Greenland Board of Selectmen heard June 16 that training for a new MRI municipal financial system is largely complete and town staff are targeting a July go‑live, while Plodzik & Sanderson will begin fieldwork on the 2024 audit next week.

Town staff said MRI trainer Heidi conducted on‑site training with Linda and Tracy and that Christian — described in the meeting as the program overseer — will be updated on status. A staff member told the board, “we probably will not start July 1, but we will start sometime in July. That is the target date,” and later described the overall rollout as “progressing right on track.”

Why it matters: the MRI implementation will change how the town records payables, credit‑card receipts and the chart of accounts, and auditors will review the new system during their 2024 work. Selectmen were told staff are preparing account breakdowns needed for the conversion and plan to provide read‑only system access to department heads.

Board members and staff discussed specific conversion steps: moving accounts previously kept in QuickBooks, creating separate TD Bank credit‑card accounts for the tax collector, town clerk and billing department to improve audit trails, and sequencing payroll conversion for the start of the calendar year. Plodzik & Sanderson were announced as the firm that will “do their walk through updates” and gather information Tuesday and Wednesday next week to begin the 2024 audit.

Members noted the 2023 audit contained a list of critical follow‑up items; staff said some items relate to late‑2023 and early‑2024 account breakouts that are being corrected as part of the MRI transition. The board also approved a consent agenda that included the year‑end final payment to the school district of $886,071.

Board direction and next steps: staff will continue training, finalize account mappings and provide department‑level, read‑only logins; auditors will perform their walkthrough next week and report findings. No formal policy decision was taken at the June 16 meeting on conversion dates beyond the staff target window.

A closing administrative note: staff said that once the accounting numbers are settled ‘‘it’ll just be a flip the switch’’ to put accounts payable and other functions into MRI.