AGENDA #1

MEMORANDUM

 

TO:                  Mayor and Town Council

 

FROM:            W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager

 

SUBJECT:       Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for the Town of Chapel Hill’s 1998-99 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

 

DATE:             May 8, 2000

 

BACKGROUND

 

The Government Finance Officers Association has announced that the 1998-99 comprehensive annual financial report for the Town of Chapel Hill 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.

 

The Town also received the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for the same fiscal year.  Only 34 of North Carolina’s 627 units of government received both the Certificate of Achievement and the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award.

 

The Certificate of Achievement plaque will be shipped to the Town in approximately eight weeks.

 

 

ATTACHMENTS

 

1.                  April 21 Letter from the Government Finance Officers Association to W. Calvin Horton (p. 2)

2.                  News Release from the Government Finance Officers Association (p. 3)