GFOA Certificate of Achievement - Finance Award
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MEMORANDUM
July 25, 2005
TO:
The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM:
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: GFOA Certificate of Achievement
Finance Director Ken TeKippe has received notification that the City of Dubuque's
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the fiscal year ended June 30,
2004, qualified for a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting.
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Michael C. Van Milligen
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cc: Barry Lindahl, Corporation Counsel
Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager
Ken TeKippe, Finance Director
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Memorandum
FROM:
Mike Van Milligen, City Manager
Dawn Lang, Budget Director
Ken TeKippe, Finance Director ~ U ~
TO:
RE:
GFOA Certificate of Achievement
DATE:
July 20,2005
The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) notified me today that our
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the fiscal year ended June 30,
2004 qualified for a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. A
copy of the notification is enclosed. A news release was also received which will be
provided to Randy Gehl. This is the seventeenth consecutive year that the City has
received the certificate.
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Government Finance Officers Association
203 N. LaSalle Street - Suite 2700
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone (312) 977-9700 Fax (312) 977-4806
ruly 14,2005
K.enneth J. TeKippe
Finance Director
8ity of Dubuque
8ity Hall, 50 West 13th Street
Dubuque ~ 5200l~805
Dear Mr. TeKippe:
We are pleased to notify you that your comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR) for the fiscal year ended June 30,
2004, qualifies for a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. The Certificate of Achievement is
the highest form of recognition in governmental accounting and financial reporting, and its attainment represents a significant
accomplishment by a government and its management.
Each entity submitting a report to the Certificate of Achievement review process is provided with a "Summary of Grading"
form and a confidential list of comments and suggestions for possible improvements in its financial reporting techniques.
Your list has been enclosed. You are strongly encouraged to implement the recommended improvements into the next report
and submit it to the program. If it is unclear what must be done to implement a comment or if there appears to be a
discrepancy between the comment and the information in the CAFR, please contact the Technical Services Center (312)
977-9700 and ask to speak with a Certificate of Achievement Program in-house reviewer.
Certificate of Achievement program policy requires that written responses to the comments and suggestions for improvement
accompany the next fiscal year's submission. Your written responses should provide detail about how you choose to address
each item that is contained within this report. These responses will be provided to those Special Review Committee members
participating in the review.
When a Certificate of Achievement is awarded to a government, an Award of Financial Reporting Achievement (AFRA) is
also presented to the individual(s) or department designated by the government as primarily responsible for its having earned
the Certificate. As the designated individual we have enclosed your AFRA.
Your Certificate of Achievement plaque will be shipped to you under seperate cover in about eight weeks. We hope that you
will arrange for a formal presentation of the Certificate and Award of Financial Reporting Achievement, and that appropriate
publicity will be given to this notable achievement. A sample news release has been enclosed. We suggest that you provide
copies of it to local newspapers, radio stations and television stations. In addition, enclosed is the Certificate Program
"Results" for reports with fiscal years ended during 2003 representing the most recent statistics available.
\. (~UlTent holder of a Certificate of Achievement may include a reproduction of the award in its immediately subsequent
:;AFR. A camera ready copy of your Certificate is enclosed for that purpose. If you reproduce your Certificate in your next
'eport, please refer to the enclosed instructions. A Certificate of Achievement is valid for a period of one year. To continue
o participate in the Certificate of Achievement Program it will be necessary for you to submit your next CAFR to our review
>rocess.
n order to expedite your submission we have enclosed a Certificate of Achievement Program application form to facilitate a
imely submission of your next report. This form should be completed and sent (postmarked) with three copies of your
'eport, three copies of your application, three copies of your written responses to the program's comments and suggestions for
mprovement from the prior year, and any other pertinent material with the appropriate fee by December 31,2005.
I{ our continued interest in and support of the Certificate of Achievement Program is most appreciated. If we may be of any
urther assistance, please contact Delores Smith (dsmith@gfoa.org or (312) 578-5454).
~incerely,
Jovernment Finance Officers Association
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Stephen J. Gauthier, Director
Technical Services Center
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