About The Service Efforts and Accomplishments (SEA) Reporting
Program
Stimulate state and local governments to issue
reports on performance, assist governments to strengthen their reports
on performance and recognize those reports that meet certain
requirements with the Certificate of Achievement.
The purpose of the
SEA program is to evaluate how well the government reports its
performance to management, governing bodies, citizen taxpayer groups and
the citizens. The review is not intended to evaluate the quality of the
government or its performance. Rather the focus is entirely on the
report's usefulness to decision makers, management, citizen taxpayer
groups and citizens who have or want a stake in the effectiveness of the
government's services. Governments are encouraged to use the GASB's 16
suggested criteria as the framework for creating a report - these
criteria equip the report preparers with elements that make a
comprehensive, useful, readable report for effective communication.
Listen to Drummond Kahn's, CGFM, CIA, CGAP, MS,
Director of Audit Services, Portland, OR, interview
on KATU
about Portland Oregon's
Latest Service
Efforts and Accomplishments Report
|
The review process
has three major components:
1. The
review team - composed of 3 individuals who possess knowledge and
experience in state and local government performance reporting.
2. The guidelines
- based on GASB's 16 suggested criteria, these guidelines provide the
framework for preparing a report and the basis for the review of the
report.
3.
The communication from AGA to the government - predicated on
recommendations from the review team, these comments assist the preparer
in making adjustments to produce a more readable and useful report.
The real value is
participating in the program and being able to benefit from the
self-improvement that can result from developing a performance report
that receives public recognition for producing a truly useful report but
also being a leader in communicating to its citizens. If not us, then
who?
Interested in learning more about reporting
on performance? Why not participate as a reviewer of a report?
Eveanna B. Barry, Director of Performance Reporting
ebarry@agacgfm.org
Chris Ryan, Technical
Consultant
christopher.s.ryan@accenture.com
New Award
Structure Adopted for Certificate of Achievement in Service
Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting
Numerous governments are just getting started in performance
reporting so to recognize those entities, AGA's Certificate of
Achievement in Service Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting
Program has changed its award structure by adding three new
awards, two for performance reporting and one for continuous
honors.
The BRONZE
award or the "Winning Beginning Award" will be given to reports
that receive a minimum of 17 points based on the GASB's 16
suggested criteria. NOTE: AGA's review structure separates GASB
suggested criterion 15, Easy to Find, Access and Understand into
two distinct criteria for a total of 17 criteria.
The SILVER
award will be given to those entities that receive a minimum of
24 points with all criterion meeting at least expectations (one
or more points).
The GOLD award
will be given to those entities that fully apply 13 of 17
criteria and receive no scores of zero from more than one
reviewer. The GOLD award is the current award structure.
Finally, the
CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE award recognizes those governments that
have received the "GOLD" award (or the former award) for five or
more consecutive years.
If you have
questions please contact
Eveanna Barry, director of performance reporting, AGA.