2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)

C. Special Achievements The Greensboro-High Point metropolitan area ranked in the top ten for the past nine years for regions of its size by Site Selection magazine for metro areas enriched by corporate capital investment. The ranking is based on the number of projects with capital investments of at least $1 million, related floor-space expansion, and the number of new jobs created.

The Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department received the 2019 North Carolina Marvin Collins Planning Award in the “Outstanding Planning Award – Innovation in Planning Services, Education and Public Involvement” category for its Master Plan, Plan2Play . This system-wide comprehensive master plan, adopted in February 2019, provides not only the vision, goals, strategies and recommendations for enhancing and expanding park and recreational opportunities for residents, but also includes a maintenance management plan for the next 20 years. During the community engagement period from March to June 2018, the City received over 3,000 online surveys, 870 ideas from eleven community events and over 2,000 ideas from public participation boards at local libraries and recreation centers.

Greensboro’s Parks and Recreation Department was one of four finalists for the 2019 National Gold Medal Awards for Excellence in Park and Recreation Management, awarded by The American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration. The City is also a three-time winner of the National Gold Medal for Excellence in Leisure Services. The City of Greensboro won a 2018 Silver Circle award from the City-County Communications and Marketing Association, a recognized network of local government communications. Greensboro ranked second among cities with a population of more than 180,000. This award recognizes the City’s website (Greensboro-nc.gov) for its digital interactivity of the overall website in the Communication and Marketing Tools category. Among cities with a population larger than 250,000 people, the City of Greensboro was ranked as one of the top 10 digital city governments in 2017 and 2018 by the Center for Digital Government (CDG), a national research and advisory institute focused on information technology polices and best practices in state and local government. The CDG praised the City for its emphasis on resident services as its central mission. Greensboro's Procurement Services Division, a section of the Financial and Administrative Services Department, has received the Sustained Professional Purchasing Award (SPPA) for eleven of the past twelve years, from 2007-18. The award is presented by the Carolinas Association of Governmental Purchasing to agencies having demonstrated overall excellence in a variety of purchasing standards including staff education, technology integration, product innovation, vendor relations, and exceptional stewardship of taxpayer funds. The award exemplifies the Purchasing Division's commitment to its profession and the residents it serves.

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