Tampa Bay Water Recognized for Meeting the Highest Principles in Governmental Budgeting

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Tampa Bay Water has been awarded the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) for its 2010 fiscal year budget.

The Distinguished Budget Presentation is awarded to government agencies that meet stringent criteria for government budget and reporting. According to the GFOA, “Award recipients have pioneered efforts to improve the quality of budgeting and provide an excellent example for other governments throughout North America.”

Tampa Bay Water was acknowledged for satisfying nationally recognized guidelines and for how well its budget served as a policy document, financial plan, communications device and an operations guide.

Koni Cassini, Tampa Bay Water’s Director of Finance and Administration said, “Our staff worked diligently to achieve this award, and Tampa Bay Water is extremely proud of them for their work in, not only meeting the criteria for the award, but, meeting the needs of the agency’s member governments and their citizens.”

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The Government Finance Officers Association is a nonprofit professional association serving over 17,600 government finance professionals throughout North America. The GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards Program is the only national awards program in governmental budgeting. The guidelines are established by the National Advisory Council on State and Local Budgeting and the GFOA’s recommended practices on budgeting.