GFOA - Finance Cert. of Achievement
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MEMORANDUM
May 30,2006
TO:
The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM:
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: GFOA Certificate of Achievement
Finance Director Ken TeKippe reports that the City of Dubuque has received the
Government Finance Officers Association Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in
Financial Reporting for the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the eighteenth
consecutive year.
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Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager
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TO: Mike V8fI Milligen, City Manager
Dawn Lang, Budget Director
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GFOA Certificate of Achievement
RE:
DATE:
May 16, 2006
The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) notified me yesterday that our
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the fiscal year ended June 30,
2005 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 eighteenth 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
May II, 2006
Kenneth J. TeKippe
Finance Director
City of Dubuque
City Hall, 50 West 13th Street
Dubuque IA 52001-4805
Dear Mr. TeKippe:
We are pleased to notifY you that your comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR) for the fiscal year ended June 30,
2005, 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 2004 representing the most recent statistics available.
\l current holder of a Certificate of Achievement may include a reproduction of the award in its immediately subsequent
CAFR. A camera ready copy of your Certificate is enclosed for that purpose. If you reproduce your Certificate in your next
repmt, please refer to the enclosed instructions. A Certificate of Achievement is valid for a period of one year. To continue
to' participate in the Certificate of Achievement Program it will be necessary for you to submit your next CAFR to our review
process.
In order to expedite your submission we have enclosed a Certificate of Achievement Program application form to facilitate a
timely submission of your next report. This form should be completed and sent (postmarked) with three copies of your
report, three copies of your application, three copies of your written responses to the program's comments and suggestions for
improvement from the prior year, and any other pertinent material with the appropriate fee by December 31, 2006.
Your continued interest in and support of the Certificate of Achievement Program is most appreciated. If we may be of any
further assistance, please contact Delores Smith (dsmith@gfoa.org or (312) 578-5454).
Sincerely,
Government Finance Officers Association
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Stephen J. Gauthier, Director
Technical Services Center
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Government Finance Officers Association
203 N. LaSalle Street - Suite 2700
Chicago, II. 6060 I
Phone (3 I 2) 977-9700 Fax (312) 977-4806
May 11,2006
The Honorable Roy D. Buol
Mayor
City of Dubuque
City Hall, 50 West 13th Street
Dubuque IA
52001-4805
Dear Mayor Buol:
Weare pleased to notify you that your comprehensive annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005
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.
The Certificate of Achievement plaque will be shipped to:
Kenneth J. TeKippe
Finance Director
under separate 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. To
assist with this, enclosed are a sample news release and the Certificate Program "Results" for reports with fiscal years
ended during 2004 representing the most recent statistics available.
We hope that your example will encourage other government
appropriate standard of excellence in financial reporting.
officials in their efforts to achieve and maintain an
Sincerely,
Government Finance Officers Association
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05/11/2006
NEWS RELEASE
For Information contact:
Stephen Gauthier (312) 977-9700
(Chicago)--The Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting has been
awarded to City of Dubuque by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United
States and Canada (GFOA) for its comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR). The Certificate
of Achievement is the highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and
financial reporting, and its attainment represents a significant accomplishment by a government
and its management.
An Award of Financial Reporting Achievement has been awarded to the individual(s),
department or agency designated by the government as primarily responsible for preparing the
award-winning CAFR. This has been presented to:
Kenneth J. TeKippe, Finance Director
The CAFR has been judged by an impartial panel to meet the high standards of the program
including demonstrating a constructive "spirit of full disclosure" to clearly communicate its
financial story and motivate potential users and user groups to read the CAFR.
The GFOA is a nonprofit professional association serving approximately 16,000 government
finance professionals with offices in Chicago, IL, and Washington, D.C.