Sponsors

Tidalwave Holdings, based in Chattanooga, TN, offers comprehensive screen printing and e-commerce fulfillment services tailored for fast-growing brands. By combining design, sourcing, printing, and logistics under one roof, Tidalwave ensures a seamless journey from concept to customer delivery. Their transparent pricing, rapid order dispatching, and dedicated communication channels provide businesses with reliable and efficient solutions to meet their operational needs.

Tim Leeper Roofing stands out as a trusted leader in the Middle Tennessee roofing industry by delivering unmatched quality, integrity, and customer care. With offices in Clarksville, Franklin, and Old Hickory, Tim Leeper Roofing has earned a reputation for excellence by combining skilled craftsmanship with premium materials and an unwavering commitment to satisfaction. Whether it’s a minor repair or a full roof replacement, the team brings deep industry knowledge and hands-on experience to every project. With a focus on both residential and commercial properties, they tailor their services to meet the unique needs of each customer—ensuring long-term performance and peace of mind.

What truly sets Tim Leeper Roofing apart is their commitment to lasting value and trust. As an Owens Corning Platinum Preferred Contractor, they meet the highest standards in workmanship and professionalism—an elite distinction that also allows them to offer exclusive warranties, including a 20-year roof warranty. Backed by high-quality materials from trusted manufacturers and a team that stays on the cutting edge of roofing innovation, Tim Leeper Roofing is more than just a contractor—they're a dependable partner in protecting what matters most.

Tim Leeper Roofing is also proud to be Middle Tennessee’s premier commercial roofing contractor, offering comprehensive solutions to businesses throughout Clarksville, Franklin, Old Hickory, and the surrounding areas. With over two decades of industry experience, our commercial division brings the same dedication to quality, integrity, and customer satisfaction that defines our residential services. From office buildings and retail centers to industrial facilities and multi-unit complexes, we have the expertise to handle commercial roofing projects of all sizes and complexities.

Our commercial services include everything from new roof installations and replacements to routine maintenance and emergency repairs. We work with a variety of commercial roofing systems—including TPO, EPDM, PVC, metal, and built-up roofing—and tailor our approach to fit each client’s unique needs. At Tim Leeper Roofing, we recognize that a reliable roof is critical to your business’s operations and protection, which is why we offer customized, cost-effective solutions and timely project completion. Our team is committed to ensuring your investment is secure, functional, and built to last.

TIPS is a leading national governmental purchasing cooperative, connecting members and awarded vendors through competitively bid contracts. With a proven, streamlined process, TIPS eliminates the purchasing stress for over 12,000 members in the education, government, and nonprofit sectors by contracting with vendors across the nation. Our ability to provide competitively priced purchasing contracts results in greater efficiency in the delivery of goods and services, therefore, causing both Members and Vendors to benefit economically!”  TIPS - Purchasing Made Personal"

At UKG, our purpose is people. We are on a mission to inspire every organization to become a great place to work through HCM technology built for all. Powered by AI and the world’s largest collection of people, workforce, and culture data, our HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solutions drive great workplace experiences and better business outcomes for more than 80,000 organizations across all sizes, industries, and geographies. To learn more, visit ukg.com.

Veregy is an award-winning NAESCO-Accredited decarbonization company focusing on accelerating and simplifying the Energy Transition. We provide turnkey engineering and construction services designed to reduce our clients' energy and operating costs through the implementation of energy efficiency and infrastructure upgrades, smart building technology, fleet EV infrastructure, clean energy generation, and sustainability.

WM, based in Houston, Texas, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste management environmental services in North America, providing services throughout the United States and Canada. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides collection, transfer, disposal services, and recycling and resource recovery. It is also a leading developer, operator and owner of landfill gas-to-energy facilities in the United States. The Company’s customers include residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers throughout North America. To learn more information about WM, visit www.wm.com.

Gallagher's Public Sector and K-12 Education practice leverages its knowledge and expertise to help organizations safeguard public assets, operate efficiently and fulfill their public mandate. We understand that different public entity exposures require different solutions to manage their risk and we don't expect you to settle for anything less. When you partner with Gallagher, we'll use our expertise, knowledge and access to the worldwide insurance market to design a unique plan that works for you; a plan that helps you handle risk effectively and efficiently so that you can better serve your mission.

•       Our Public Sector & K-12 Education practice works with: government entities, K-12 schools, pools, consortiums and captives
•       10,640+ Public Sector & K-12 Education Clients Globally 
•       2,670+ U.S. Public Sector & K-12 Education Clients
•       40+ years serving those who support our students and communities 
•       300 Public entities participated in our 2023 Benefits Strategy & Benchmarking Survey

TLM is a professional architectural and engineering design firm serving the Mid-South since 1964. Headquartered in downtown Jackson, TN, we partner with multiple towns and cities across West Tennessee, designing sustainable spaces for community livability and future growth. Our projects range from municipal planning to creating new facilities, infrastructure improvement, parks and recreation, utilities, revitalization, and more.

Our team consists of licensed professional architects and engineers, experienced design professionals, and technical personnel specializing in architectural, civil and structural engineering, and interior design services. Building new or renovating old, our team has the professional staff and project-specific knowledge to make your vision a reality.

GovCard specializes in electronic payments for over the counter and online transactions to various industries such as government, municipalities, and utilities.  

Benefits include:

• Multiple (ACH, Credit and Debit) customer payment options
• Reduce receivables
• Reduce demands on municipal employees
• Recurring payments
• No processing cost incurred by the municipality
• Easy to implement
• Get paid faster

GovCard can also create online forms to allow residents to pay their taxes. For an example, check out these forms for Lebanon, KY.

Approval Payment Solutions, Inc. is registered 1S0/MSP of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Walnut Creek, CA, Synovus Bank, Columbus, GA, and Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati. OH 

Formed during the hard insurance markets of the 1970s, Public Entity Partners came to the aid of Tennessee municipalities when the commercial industry abandoned local governments.

With Staff experience in local government, as well as the commercial insurance industry, we pride ourselves in providing exceptional service to our members. Our staff includes past city managers, city recorders, and building inspectors, as well as insurance professionals with decades of experience.

We are able to relate to governmental entities because we work with them on a daily basis and we understand the unique challenges they face. We strive to be a valuable resource.

While Public Entity Partners has seen many changes over the years, our mission has never wavered. Our mission continues to be to passionately provide the very best in Risk Management products and services, expert claims administration and comprehensive insurance options with absolute integrity.