2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

Unauthorized bond funding represents $466 million or 30.4% of the current plan. The CIP also includes $72 million categorized as other revenue.

C. Awards and Special Recognition 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 11 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. 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. For the third consecutive year, the City of Greensboro ranked in the top 20 of WalletHub’s Best-Run Cities in America report. To determine the effectiveness of local leadership, 150 of the largest US cities were compared based on their operating efficiency. For each city, A “Quality of City Services” score was constructed, comprising 37 key performance indicators grouped into six services categories and measured against the city’s total per-capita budget. As the result of a collaborative effort between the City of Greensboro, local university students and the FBI, the City of Greensboro received the 2019 Cyber Security CS050 Award by COS, a security media brand and website that specializes in IT and corporate security, compliance and risk concerns. The City was recognized for its work in connecting security initiatives to business value. The City of Greensboro received the highest Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI) score among all North Carolina cities for the fifth consecutive year. The MEI evaluates the laws, policies and services of municipalities and rates them based on their inclusivity of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people who live and work in the city.

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