FORNEY, Texas (Forney ISD) – The State of Texas Comptroller’s Office awards school districts and other governmental organizations across the state for their efforts to meet a high standard of financial transparency online.
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For the second year in a row, Forney ISD was awarded the Gold Leadership Circle Award for having a high standard of financial transparency online per the State of Texas Comptroller’s evaluation.
“For the past three years, through the direction of the Forney ISD Board of Trustees, the District has worked very hard to ensure that we have been as transparent as possible regarding the District’s finances,” said Lucas Janda, the Forney ISD Chief Financial Officer for the District. “For the District to receive the Gold Leadership Circle Award from the State Comptroller two years in a row is a confirmation that the District is working in the right direction to make sure that the parents, community and tax payers in Forney have easy access to all of the District’s financial information.”
The Leadership Circle Award is given to organizations that are financially transparent and provide information in a way that is easy to use and access. There are two levels of criteria to earn a Leadership Circle Award, a major section and a minor section.
The major criteria section involves a web presence that includes easy access to information such as an official adopted budget, an annual financial report or comprehensive financial report, a check register and a financial transparent webpage.
The minor criteria for the Leadership Circle Award includes a web presence that includes data such as local government contact information, elected officials contact information, public information request contacts and instructions, easy access to financial documents in three clicks or less, budgets for the three most recent financial years, annual financial reports for the three most recently completed reports, check registers for the three most recent fiscal years, searchable check registers, descriptive check registers, visual representation of financial data, current tax rates for local option taxes and a raw format budget.
For more information about Forney ISD’s Gold Leadership Circle Award from the State Comptroller, contact Lucas Janda, Chief Financial Officer for the District at 972-564-4055 or by email at lucas.janda@forneyisd.net.
“For the past three years, through the direction of the Forney ISD Board of Trustees, the District has worked very hard to ensure that we have been as transparent as possible regarding the District’s finances,” said Lucas Janda, the Forney ISD Chief Financial Officer for the District. “For the District to receive the Gold Leadership Circle Award from the State Comptroller two years in a row is a confirmation that the District is working in the right direction to make sure that the parents, community and tax payers in Forney have easy access to all of the District’s financial information.”
The Leadership Circle Award is given to organizations that are financially transparent and provide information in a way that is easy to use and access. There are two levels of criteria to earn a Leadership Circle Award, a major section and a minor section.
The major criteria section involves a web presence that includes easy access to information such as an official adopted budget, an annual financial report or comprehensive financial report, a check register and a financial transparent webpage.
The minor criteria for the Leadership Circle Award includes a web presence that includes data such as local government contact information, elected officials contact information, public information request contacts and instructions, easy access to financial documents in three clicks or less, budgets for the three most recent financial years, annual financial reports for the three most recently completed reports, check registers for the three most recent fiscal years, searchable check registers, descriptive check registers, visual representation of financial data, current tax rates for local option taxes and a raw format budget.
For more information about Forney ISD’s Gold Leadership Circle Award from the State Comptroller, contact Lucas Janda, Chief Financial Officer for the District at 972-564-4055 or by email at lucas.janda@forneyisd.net.