WRENTHAM — Town Manager Kevin Sweet is pleased to share that the Town of Wrentham has received the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) for its Fiscal 2025 budget.
The award is a significant achievement in governmental accounting and financial reporting. The GFOA judges budgets on four criteria:
- As a policy document
- As a financial plan
- As an operations guide
- As a communications device
This is the first time Wrentham has received this award. The award-winning budget can be viewed here.
“It is an honor to be recognized nationally for creating a transparent, easy-to-follow budget document,” Town Manager Sweet said. “Thank you to Finance Director Michael King, Town Accountant Christine Dupras and Assistant Town Accountant Emily Kelly for their hard work in developing timely budgets that reflect fiscal reality and the Town’s vision for success.”
“Receiving the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the GFOA is the highest form of recognition in governmental budgeting,” Finance Director King said. “This award reflects a commitment to sound financial practices and is a testament to our efforts to continually improve upon Wrentham’s budgeting process.”
The GFOA established the Budget Awards Program in 1984 to encourage and assist state and local governments to prepare budget documents of the very highest quality that reflect both the guidelines established by the National Advisory Council on State and Local Budgeting and the GFOA’s best practices on budgeting and then to recognize individual governments that succeed in achieving that goal.
About the GFOA
The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), founded in 1906, represents public finance officials throughout the United States and Canada. The association’s more than 20,000 members are federal, state/provincial, and local finance officials deeply involved in planning, financing, and implementing thousands of governmental operations in each of their jurisdictions. GFOA’s mission is to advance excellence in public finance.
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