2021 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report

The City of Greensboro’s Budget and Evaluation Department received the national Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for Fiscal Year 2020-21 budget from the Government Finance Officers Association. This is the fourth consecutive year the City has received this honor. The award reflects the commitment to meet the highest principles of governmental budgeting. In order to receive the budget award, Greensboro had to satisfy nationally recognized guidelines for effective budget presentation. These guidelines are designed to assess how well the City’s budget serves as a policy document, financial plan, operations guide and communications device. Greensboro's Procurement Services Division, a section of the Financial and Administrative Services Department, has received the Sustained Professional Purchasing Award (SPPA) for 12 of the past 13 years, from 2007-19. 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. The City of Greensboro received the second highest Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI) score for 2020 among all North Carolina cities and the highest score for 2015 through 2019. 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. In 2020, the City of Greensboro earned the LEED Silver® certification from the US Green Building Council for its

sustainability efforts. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the world’s most widely used green building rating system and promotes strategies to reduce environmental harm, enhance human health and support economic development. As part of the LEED certification process, the City tracks and verifies

performance on a wide range of sustainability indicators including energy, water, transportation, education, health and more. LEED provides a consistent rating system and independently verified data analysis, allowing for comparison across peer cities. A citywide renewable energy and sustainability plan is also underway. 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. 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.

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