2022 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report

The Downtown Greenway was awarded the Great Place for Public Art award in 2021 by the NC Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA-NC). The award honors places that showcase their community’s creative side. The APA-NC awards committee judges were impressed by the quality and thoughtfulness of the nomination, submitted by the City of Greensboro Planning Department and Action Greensboro, which oversaw the development of the art on the greenway. For the fifth consecutive year, the City of Greensboro ranked in the top 30 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. The Greensboro Television Network (GTN), the City’s government cable channel, received a national Telly Awards in 2022, a national television competition recognizing excellence in broadcast production. The GTN Station Manager won a silver Telly Award for work on the Greensboro Police Department (GPD) Case Profile Series. GTN has won 27 Telly Awards since 2000. The City of Greensboro’s Budget and Evaluation Department received the national Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for Fiscal Year 2021-22 budget from the Government Finance Officers Association. This is the fifth 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 14 of the past 15 years, from 2007-21. 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 a perfect score of 100 points in the 2021 Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI). The score ranks Greensboro first among all cities in North Carolina, tied with Chapel Hill and Durham. This also marks the first time Greensboro has recorded a perfect score and the seventh consecutive year it ranked first or second among NC cities. 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 2021, ESRI, the global leader in mapping and location intelligence, presented the City of Greensboro with its Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award . The SAG awards recognize organizations use of GIS to understand complex data and meet challenges around the world. Greensboro received the honor for its implementation of Enterprise GIS and advancements in spatial analytics technology. The City of Greensboro was one of 193 organizations, from more than 300,000 eligible candidates, to be honored. 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

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