ICMA Annual Award recipients will be honored at ICMA’s 99th Annual Conference in Boston, Massachusetts,  Wednesday, September 25, 2013.

 Professional Awards

• Marc Anthony Ott, city manager, Austin, TX (Award for Career Excellence in Memory of Mark E. Keane)

• Pamela L. Brenner, town administrator, Peterborough, NH  (Award for Career Development in Memory of L. P. Cookingham)

• Rudy P. Acosta Jr., community health & wellness project manager, Desert Hot Springs, CA (Assistant Excellence in Leadership Award in Memory of Buford M. Watson, Jr.)

• William Spelman, professor, University of Texas at Austin, TX (Academic Award in Memory of Stephen B. Sweeney)

program awards

• Community Health and Safety Program Excellence Award (populations under 10,000): Community Services Auspiced Program—Uralla Shire, NSW, Australia, and general manager Thomas P. O’Connor.

• Community Health and Safety Program Excellence Award (populations 50,000 and greater): Evidence Based Fire Reduction Strategy—Surrey, BC, Canada, and city manager Murray Dinwoodie.  

• Community Partnership (populations under 10,000): Sharing Supper—Mauston, WI, and city administrator Nathan R. Thiel and Sharing Supper, and CEO Margie Strouse and Mauston Public Schools and assistant principal Doug Kryder.

• Community Partnership (populations 10,000 to 49,999): Greentree Health Science Academy—Middletown, OH, and city manager Judith A. Gilleland.
• Community Partnership (populations 50,000 and greater): South Correctional Entity-SCORE Jail—Des Moines, WA, and city manager Anthony A. Piasecki, and Renton, WA, and chief administrative officer Jay Covington, and SeaTac, WA, and city manager Todd Cutts, and Tukwila, WA, and city administrator David Cline, and Auburn, WA, Burien, WA and Federal Way, WA.
• Community Sustainability (populations under 10,000): Deploying Geo-Thermal Energy in Historic Building, Clarkdale, AZ, and town manger Gayle L Mabery.
• Community Sustainability (populations 10,000 to 49,999): zHome— Issaquah, WA and city administrator Robert Harrison.
• Community Sustainability (populations 50,000 and greater): Austin Energy Green Building—Austin, TX, and city manager Marc Anthony Ott.
• Strategic Leadership and Governance (populations under 10,000): Strategic Issues-Focused Governance Systems (SIGS)—Westlake, TX, town manager Thomas E. Brymer, and assistant town manager Amanda DeGan.
• Strategic Leadership and Governance (populations 50,000 and greater): Improving Accountability & Transparency—Rock Hill, SC, city manager David B Vehaun, and budget and performance manager Monica D. Croskey.