2023 Annual Comprehensive Report

Greensboro's Procurement Services Division, a section of the Financial and Administrative Services Department, has received the Sustained Professional Purchasing Award (SPPA) for 15 of the past 16 years, from 2007-22. 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 2022 and 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 marks the second consecutive year Greensboro has recorded a perfect score and the eighth 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.

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