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City of Edina • 4801 W. 50th St. • Edina, MN 55424
Contact: Lauren Siebenaler, Communications Assistant
Phone 952-833-0343 • LSiebenaler@EdinaMN.gov • EdinaMN.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Finance Department Receives Reporting Award
Edina, Minn., Dec. 5, 2017 – Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada
(GFOA) has given an award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting to the City of
Edina for its Popular Annual Financial Report for the 2016 fiscal year. The Award is 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.
“Our biggest goal is to make this readable and usable to our residents,” said Assistant Finance Director Kyle
Sawyer. “Getting the award is a great accomplishment, but our main purpose is to put out a usable document
for everybody is the community to benefit from.”
In order to receive an Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual 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.
The City of Edina has received an award for its Popular Annual Financial Report for the last three years. The
report is published in the June issue of Edition: Edina.
For more information, contact Kyle Sawyer at 952-826-0420.
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