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2005

Facility Design Award

The Ohio Parks and Recreation Association (OPRA) honored the new Fairfield Community Arts Center with its 2005 Facility Design Award with a rating of Superior, the Association’s highest level of recognition. The OPRA 2005 Awards of Excellence recognized the new Center in the $5,000,001 to $10,000,000 category. The 40,000 square foot center, which opened in May 2005, houses a 250-seat, state-of-theart theater, a multi-purpose community/banquet room with a terrace overlooking the Village Green Park, an arts and crafts studio, a dance and fitness room, a Senior Citizens lounge, children’s activity room, classroom and art gallery.

Project of the Year

Two separate accolades were earned by the Fairfield Public Works Department for emergency repairs to East River Road after torrential rainstorms caused the Great Miami River to undermine the roadway near Cincinnati’s Bolten Water Plant in 2004. The road was impassable and was immediately closed to all traffic. Recognizing the importance of the road to the 6,000 motorists using it daily, a temporary road was installed around the damaged area to carry traffic while extensive repairs were undertaken.

The project was recognized nationally by the American Public Works Association as its “Project of the Year” for projects requiring an expenditure of less than $2 million. That same project also received recognition from the American Society of Highway Engineers.

National Aquatic Safety Award

For the eighth consecutive year, the Center received the National Aquatic Safety Award from the Ellis and Associates Aquatic Safety Consultants/National Safety Council.

2004

National Program Excellence Award for Outstanding Public Private Partnerships

The City of Fairfield and Village Green of Fairfield, LTD, were the 2004 recipients of the National Program Excellence Award for Outstanding Public Private Partnerships for the Fairfield Village Green Project. The award is given by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) in recognition of a local government and its private sector partner that have demonstrated the value of effective public-private partnerships to foster greater efficiency, innovation, and civic awareness in the delivery of local government services.

Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting

The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) gave an Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Financial Reporting to the City of Fairfield for its Popular Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003.

The Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting is a prestigious national award recognizing conformance with the highest standards for preparation of state and local government popular reports. In order to receive an Award for Outstanding Achievement in

Popular Financial Reporting, a government unit must publish a Popular Annual Financial Report, whose contents conform to program standards of creativity, presentation, understandability and reader appeal.

National Aquatic Safety Award

For the seventh consecutive year, the Center received the National Aquatic Safety Award from the Ellis and Associates Aquatic Safety Consultants/National Safety Council.

2003

Silver Circle Awards

The Fairfield eInfo team of Ben Warner, IT Manager, and Yvette Scott, the former webmaster behind Fairfield’s electronic communications, earned two highly prestigious Silver Circle Awards from the City-County Communications and Marketing Association (3CMA). The Silver Circle Award is second only to the highly coveted SAVVY Award, regarded as the pentacle of government communications.

The awards were given in recognition of Fairfield’s Web site, referred to as the eGovernment Center, and in recognition of the City’s electronic newsletter.

Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting

The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) gave an Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Financial Reporting to the City of Fairfield for its Popular Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002.

Growth Award

The City was named as Tree City USA for the ninth consecutive year by the National Arbor Day Foundation. The Foundation also awarded Fairfield with the prestigious Growth Award for ongoing programs that preserve its urban forest.

Golden Guard Awards

For the sixth consecutive year, the Fairfield Aquatic Center was recipient of the National Aquatic Safety Award from Ellis and Associates Aquatic Safety Consultants/National Safety Council. In addition, staff members Katie Argus, Heather Seyfried and Tom Harnden were singled out for their professionalism by winning prestigious Golden Guard Awards.

2002

Citizen Participation Award

Creating Insight 2010, Fairfield’s future strategic planning project, received the first annual Citizen Participation Award from the Ohio City/County Management Association (OCMA). The Award was given based on the scope, importance, effectiveness, and quality of the community enhancing program. The OCMA is a professional and educational association for appointed administrators serving cities, villages, townships and counties within Ohio.

Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting

The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) gave an Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Financial Reporting to the City of Fairfield for its Popular Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001.

SAVVY Award

The City of Fairfield’s nationally acclaimed website, www.fairfield-city.org, received a second place SAVVY Award in 2002. The national award recognizes outstanding local government achievements in communications, public sector marketing, and citizen-government relationships, and salutes professionals who have creatively planned and carried out successful innovations. The City of Fairfield received the award given to cities with websites that are user-friendly and informative.

Ambassador Award for the Arts

For its contributions to arts in the community, the City of Fairfield received the Ambassador Award for the Arts from the Fitton Center for Creative Arts. The award recognizes the City for its public contribution to the arts in Butler County.

Gold Star Chili Fire Station of the Year Award

Fairfield Fire Headquarters received the Gold Star Chili Fire Station of the Year Award in 2002 and was named the outstanding station in the greater Cincinnati area.

Ellis Associates Award

The Parks and Recreation Department earned the Ellis Associates Award in 2002 for outstanding aquatics center management and safety.