Finance award for South Lake Tahoe
To the community,
The city of South Lake Tahoe has been notified that for the second year in a row, it has been awarded the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance Officers’ Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA). This national award ranks the proficiency of the city’s budget document in terms of a policy document, a financial plan, an operations guide, and a communications device.
This year’s award rated “Outstanding” the following categories:
1. Financial policies;
2. Major Revenues (descriptions, assumptions, forecast);
3. Changes in Fund Balance/Equity;
4. Organizational Chart; and
5. Summary position Information
I am proud of the work of the Finance Director and her staff, the city’s department managers, and the strong City Council commitment to maintaining fiscal integrity of the City as we move forward in these uncertain economic times. Maintaining our strong commitment to serving our community, working on programs and relationships to diversify and build a stronger local economy, and maintaining the financial integrity of our city government will be a hallmark for future success.
Dave Jinkens, South Lake Tahoe city manager
Well done, if you go to the GOFA website there was 1700 more of these handed out.
What exactly has the city done to “strengthen local economy”? Hiring temp workers from Nevada to fill the layoffs? Contracting with a lobbyist from Sacramento that has done nothing for revenue? Giving blight status to many homes within zone #2? Get real, you are failing miserably at economic development let alone economic stability.
The city budget has been late, budget assumptions have been wrong and the projections have been off the mark.
I went to the city manager hiring meeting where we talked about who hire, etc. I want someone who was there to be city manager and clean up the mess including the finance department. This guy would do a good job for us and obviously cares about us locals. His name is Austin Sass. I hope he throws his hat in.
Is this one of those faux awards that if you request it, you get it?
Carl, you are completely on the mark! Perhaps the “Excellent” awards the Tribune receives every year also comes from the same company that just awarded the city?
Membership in GFOA- clearly just another waste of public funds.
Meanwhile, our streets remain unrepaired and inadequately maintained, and sidewalks just a fantasy.
This is like BP getting an environmental award! If the City’s finances are so great then let’s cut the City’s excessively high sales tax and business license fees?! Let’s put more money in people’s pockets and stimulate the private sector! Then maybe we can reduce our absurdly high unemployment rate of 17.7% to maybe just the state’s very high rate of 12.6%!