The Municipality of Chatham-Kent has announced it has been honoured with the prestigious Distinguished Budget Presentation Award by the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA).
This award recognizes the Municipality’s Budget & Performance Services division and their commitment to upholding the highest standards of governmental budgeting.
By adhering to nationally recognized guidelines for effective budget presentation, Chatham-Kent has achieved a significant accomplishment in budgetary excellence.
“Our team put forward tremendous effort to enhance our budget book documents, and I am proud to see that recognized through GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award,” said Steve Brown, Director of Budget & Performance Services, in a media release.
“We sit amongst a strong group of governments who have also achieved this goal and are committed to achieving effective open and transparent government for our taxpayers.”
The award guidelines evaluate the effectiveness of an entity’s budget in serving various essential functions.
Chatham-Kent’s budget documents were awarded a “proficient” rating across all four key categories, including the fourteen mandatory criteria within.
The Municipality of Chatham-Kent takes immense pride in this achievement, which underscores an ongoing commitment to transparent and effective budgeting practices, Municipal officials say.
The GFOA established the Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards Program (Budget Awards Program) in 1984 to encourage and assist state and local governments to prepare budget documents of the very highest quality that reflect both the guidelines established by the National Advisory Council on State and Local Budgeting and the GFOA’s best practices on budgeting and then to recognize individual governments that succeed in achieving that goal.
Approximately 1,700 governments, including states, cities, counties, special districts, school districts, and more have been recognized for transparency in budgeting.
