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SOUTH FLORIDA BRANCH AMERICAN PUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATION

 2020 AWARDS PROGRAM

Deadline for Submittal is January 20, 2020. 


Applicants are responsible for submitting all materials on time. Incomplete or late applications will not be evaluated.


Please download the 2020 Awards Application form HERE


The South Florida Branch of the American Public Works Association (SFLAPWA) Florida Chapter

Awards Program offers an excellent opportunity to recognize a specific person, a specific company or

firm you work with for a job well done. Each year the Branch recognizes our finalists at the SFLAPWA luncheon.

The SFLAPWA awards are listed below:

1. Professional Manager of the Year

  • Professional Manager of the Year Award – Public Fleet
  • Professional Manager of the Year Award – Solid Waste
  • Professional Manager of the Year Award –Stormwater
  • Professional Manager of the Year Award– Water and Wastewater
  • Professional Manager of the Year Award –Facility and Grounds
  • Professional Manager of the Year Award – Landscaping

Purpose: The Professional Manager of the Year Award seeks to inspire excellence and dedication by recognizing the outstanding career service achievements of professionals in different areas of Public Works services. The primary focus of this award is the recognition of exceptional leadership and management.

Eligibility: Any APWA member whose primary responsibility in the management of Public Works to include Fleet, Solid Waste, Stormwater, Water and Wastewater, Facility and Grounds and Landscaping and other related activities. Candidates may be employed by either the public or private sector. However, their career service must have an impact in the public sector. The SFLAPWA Board of Directors are not eligible during the time they serve on the Board.

Criteria: The criteria used in the selection process include:

Profession: Significant contributions to the advancement of Public Fleet, Solid Waste, Stormwater, Water and Wastewater, Facility and Grounds, and Landscaping management.

Leadership: Outstanding leadership and vision evidenced by employing progressive management techniques in the area of Public Works to include Fleet, Solid Waste, Stormwater, Water and Wastewater, Facilities, Grounds and Landscaping, and/or any other related Public Works management area.

Innovation: Implementation of new and innovative ideas and technology resulting in the advancement of the effectiveness of Public Works to include Fleet, Solid Waste, Stormwater, Water and Wastewater, Facilities, Grounds and Landscaping, and/or any other related Public Works management area.

Agency Service: Implementation of effective methods to optimize fiscal management of Public Works to include Fleet, Solid Waste, Stormwater, Water and Wastewater, Facilities, Grounds and Landscaping, and/or any other related Public Works management area.

Customer Service: Maintenance of a high degree of satisfaction among customers and other stakeholders.

Community Service: Promotion of the field of Public Works to include Fleet, Solid Waste, Stormwater,
Water and Wastewater, Facilities, Grounds and Landscaping, and/or any other related Public Works
management area with direct impact to the community, agency or customers served.

Sustainability: Supporting the advancement of sustainable contributions in public works.

2. Exceptional Public Works Performance Award

  • Branch Contractor of the Year Award
  • Branch Consultant of the Year Award
  • Administrative Support Award
  • The Branch Chairman’s Award
  • Branch Sustainability Practices Award

Branch “Contractor of the Year”
This award is presented to contractors with documented success in the field of public works to include, but not limited to, projects related to building and grounds, roads and highways, solid waste, wastewater/water, facilities, and stormwater. Also, this award gives recognition to contractors who have provided exceptional and continued service to Public Works. It is recognition for those contractors, large or small, who are always available to provide help and assistance in both scheduled activities and emergency situations.

Branch “Consultant of the Year”
This award is presented to consultants with documented success in the field of public works to include, but not limited to, projects related to building and grounds, roads and highways, solid waste, wastewater/water, facilities, and stormwater. Supporting documentation for these nominees should include project successes, as well as client/customer/public agency endorsements.

Administrative Support Award
This award is presented to a professional administrative manager or support staff and seeks to recognize outstanding achievement in the area of public works administration. Candidates must have a minimum of 10 years’ experience and meet the following criteria: significant contributions to the advancement of administrative management; outstanding leadership and vision evidenced by employing progressive management techniques; employment of new and innovative ideas and technology in advancing the effectiveness of administrative management; implementation of effective methods to optimize fiscal management of administrative services; maintenance of a high degree of satisfaction among customers and other stakeholders.

The Branch Chairman’s Award
This special award is selected solely at the discretion of the Branch Chairman. It is to be presented to individual(s) or organization who have supported the Chairman before and during his/her tenure, who were instrumental in his/her success or the success of the Branch during the past year. This award does not have to be issued to an APWA member. Board members and committee members are qualify are eligible for this award.

Branch “Sustainability Practices Award”
This award recognizes individuals, teams or organizations that have made outstanding contributions to promoting sustainability in public works. Sustainability is accomplished by the efficient delivery of infrastructure in an environmentally and socially responsible way that ensures the best choice in the long. The submitter must include a cover letter describing how nominee addressed and/or met sustainable goalswhich can be defined as follows:
  • “Sustainability in public works means seeking a balanced approach to a vibrant community today and tomorrow, and it is accomplished by the efficient delivery of infrastructure in an environmentally and socially responsible way that ensures the best economic choice in the long term.”
  • A narrative explaining how you addressed the following categories. The items listed below each category are provided as examples.
- Economy:
  • Economic development
  • Financial stability
- Community
  • Education
  • Safety
  • Enjoyment
  • Livability
- Environment
  • Pollution prevention or cleanup
  • Natural resource uses and conservation
  • Energy efficiency

3. Branch Project of the Year

  • Branch “Transportation Project of the Year” Award
  • Branch “Stormwater Project of the Year” Award
  • Branch “Water / Wastewater Project of the Year” Award
  • Branch “Structures Project of the Year” Award
  • Branch “Beautification Project of the year “Award

Propose:
The APWA Public Works Project of the Year Award was established to promote excellence in the management and administration of public works projects by recognizing the alliance between the managing agency, the consultant/architect/ engineer, and the contractor who, working together, complete public works projects.

Eligibility:
Public Works is defined as the physical structures and facilities that are developed, owned, and maintained by public agencies to house governmental functions and provide water, power, waste disposal, transportation, and similar public services in accordance with established public policy. To be eligible for nomination, a project must have been “substantially completed” and available for public
and/or agency use within one year prior to nomination. If a project has multiple phases or segments, then “substantially completed” will be construed as that point when the final phase or segment is 90% completed and available for public and/ or agency use. A project may only be nominated once for recognition as “Project of the Year” under any category.

Criteria to be used in the selection process include:

1. Use of good construction management techniques and completion of the project on schedule.
2. Safety performance and demonstrated awareness of the need for a good overall safety program during construction.
3. Community relations as evidenced by efforts to minimize public inconvenience due to construction, safety precautions to protect public lives and property, provision of observation areas, guided tours, or other means of improving relations between the agency and the public.
4. Demonstrated awareness for the need to protect the environment during the project. This includes any special considerations given to particular environmental concerns raised during the course of the project.
5. Unusual accomplishments under adverse conditions including, but not limited to age or condition of the facility, adverse weather, soil or other site conditions over which there is no control.
6. Additional conditions deemed of importance to the public works agency, such as exceptional efforts to maintain quality control and, if value engineering is used, construction innovations as evidenced by time and/or money-saving techniques developed and/or successfully utilized.
7. Use of sustainable infrastructure rating system or the equivalent (such as the Envision rating system) to ensure project is sustainable.

SUBMITTALS:

A. An award application to be considered for review includes the following:

  1. Complete Application Form (signed and dated)
  2. Reference letter from a public official, resident, or a business owner that specifically identify accomplishments that attest to the nominee’s positive performance in the area of diversity and that are relevant to the criteria for the award.
  3. A narrative letter from a Public Works Director or his/her designee explaining the basis for the nomination: project accomplishments, construction period and budget, and pictures (before, during and after construction).
B. Return the application and scanned required documentation via email or hard copy format to the South Florida Chapter Scholarship Committee Chairperson in one of the following ways:

     1. Mariana Pitiriciu, Scholarship Chair: mpitiriciu@yahoo.com or mpiti001@fiu.edu
C. Deadline for Submittal is January 20,2020. Applicants are responsible for submitting all materials on time. Incomplete or late applications will not be evaluated.

D. The total number of awards in each category may vary each year.

E. the SFLAPWA Branch Chair shall conduct the presentation of the awards at the South Florida Branch Luncheon Meeting in Tamarac on February 14, 2020.
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