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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 31
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, 2021. 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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