2012-2013 Budget - City of Saginaw MI

NATIONAL, STATE, LOCAL RECOGNITIONSOF CITY ACHIEVEMENTSTree City USA Award: The City of Saginaw received a Tree City USA designation from the TreeCity USA® program, sponsored by The National Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with theUSDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters. Requirements include, a treeboard or department, tree care ordinance, community forestry program with an annual budget of atleast $2 per capita and an Arbor Day observance and proclamation.SCENIC (Saginaw Code Enforcement Neighborhood Improvement Co-Operative): SCENIC is acombination of the Saginaw Fire Department, Department of Development, and Saginaw PoliceDepartment. Specific areas of the community have been designated, prioritized, and a cooperativeeffort among these departments has reduced the financial and workload burden on a single department,providing a broader base of expertise. In May 2010 the SCENIC team received the EnvironmentalCrime Award of Excellence from the Michigan Association of Police.City of Saginaw’s Green Team: The Green Team was a recipient of theRegion 4 Michigan Municipal League 2010 Community Excellence Award,which was held in Dewitt, MI on May 19, 2010. Our Green Team will nowcompete for the statewide Community Excellence Award against six otherregions at the MML’s Annual Convention in Dearborn, MI to be heldSeptember 24 – 24, 2010.July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2011: Distinguished Budget Award – For the fourth year in a row, the City ofSaginaw received the Government’s Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Distinguished BudgetAward. The GFOA established the Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards Program (BudgetAwards Program) in 1984 to encourage and assist state and local governments to prepare budgetdocuments of the very highest quality that reflect both the guidelines established by the NationalAdvisory Council on State and Local Budgeting and the GFOA’s recommended practices on budgetingand then to recognize individual governments that succeed in achieving that goal.429