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ABOUT THE AWARD

The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) is a nonprofit professional association serving over 17,800
government finance professionals throughout North America. The GFOA Distinguished Budget Presentation Award
Program is the only national awards program in government budgeting. GFOA established the Distinguished Budget
Presentation Awards Program (Budget Awards Program) in 1984 to encourage and assist state and local governments to
prepare budget documents of the very highest quality that reflect both the guidelines established by the National
Advisory Council on State and Local Budgeting and the GFOA’s best practices on budgeting and then to recognize
individual governments that succeed in achieving that goal.

The award represents a significant achievement by the City of North Richland Hills. It reflects the commitment of the
governing body and staff to meeting the highest principles of governmental budgeting. In order to receive the budget
award, the North Richland Hills had to satisfy nationally recognized guidelines for effective budget presentation. These
guidelines are designed to assess how well the budget document serves as:

• a policy document • operations guide
• a financial plan • communications device

Budget documents must be rated “proficient” in all four
categories, and the fourteen mandatory criteria within
those categories, to receive the award. Award
recipients have pioneered efforts to improve the quality
of budgeting and provide an excellent example for other
government throughout North America.

The City of North Richland Hills first received this award
in 1991 and has received the award 27 consecutive
years.

The Government Finance Officers Association of the
United States and Canada (GFOA) presented a
Distinguished Budget Presentation Award to the City of
North Richland Hills, Texas for its annual budget for the
fiscal year beginning October 1, 2017. In Order to
receive this award, a governmental unit must publish a
budget document that meets program criteria as a
policy document, as an operations guide, as a financial
plan, and as a communications device.

The award is valid for a period of one year only. We
believe our current budget continues to conform to
program requirements, and we are submitting it to
GFOA to determine its eligibility for another award

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