2024 Annual Comprehensive Report

In June 2023, the Greensboro History Museum received the prestigious Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) for its “NC Democracy: Eleven Elections” exhibit which explores choices and changes across 11 state elections between 1776 and 2010 highlighting the factors that influenced voting decisions and how they continue to shape democracy today. The Award of Excellence is part of the AASLH Leadership in History Awards, the national organization’s most prestigious recognition for achievement in the preservation of state and local history.

The City of Greensboro’s Budget and Evaluation Department received the national Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for Fiscal Year 2022-23 budget from the Government Finance Officers Association. This is the sixth 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 16 of the past 17 years, from 2006-23. 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 2023 Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI). The score ranks Greensboro first among all cities in North Carolina, tied with Chapel Hill. This marks the third consecutive year Greensboro has recorded a perfect score and the ninth 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.

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