Criteria
The nominee should be an imaginative and creative individual who possesses outstanding administrative or technical ability and exercises leadership and initiative. The involvement of the nominee should have directly resulted in one or more of the following:
- A significant improvement in program administration and management;
- A marked improvement in the quality of services provided;
- A significant savings or cost avoidance;
- Significant technological progress.
In addition, the following factors should be considered when making a nomination:
- Benefits realized have applicability and can be transported for use in other states;
- Accomplishment would have been lessened or not achieved without direct involvement of nominee;
- Accomplishment was self-generated;
- Nominee exercised overall direction and control;
- Accomplishment has long-term or lasting benefit;
- The impact of the nominee on the budget agency, or government as a whole;
- General technical, professional, and managerial competence of the nominee; and
- Performance over a period of time or connected with a singular accomplishment.
The broadest reasonable interpretation will be given to the term "budgeting and management," which includes, but is not limited to, the areas of:
- Budgeting
- Accounting
- Management Analysis
- Cost Reduction
- Productivity Measurement and Improvement
- Financial Systems Development
- Auditing
- Program Services Fiscal Management
- Automated Data Processing
- Cash Management
- Planning
- Legislative Fiscal Policy
- Reporting--Financial and Performance
- Control and Allocation of Resources