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Arizona’s Gregory D. Hyland, CPM,
Selected as 2010 Henning Award Recipient
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OKLAHOMA CITY,
OK – An Arizona public sector manager has
been recognized by the American Academy of
Certified Public Managers® (AACPM)
for his career accomplishments, community
service, and contributions to state and
national public manager organizations and
the public manager profession as a whole.
Greg Hyland,
Director of Community Relations for the City
of Yuma, AZ, was presented the Henning Award
at the AACPM’s 22nd Annual Professional
Development Conference on October 19. |
The first public manager
from Arizona to be recognized with the Henning Award,
Hyland receiving his Certified Public Manager®
credential in 1992 after completing all CPM training
offered through the College of Public Programs at
Arizona State University. Hyland has served as
President of both the Arizona Society of Certified
Public Managers® (ASCPM) and the American Academy.
Prior to serving as AACPM President, he had served as
the AACPM Member at Large for Conferences &
Communications, in addition to serving as an Arizona
delegate to the AACPM’s governing body, the House of
Delegates, from 1996 through 2005.
Hyland served as AACPM
President-elect in 2007, President in 2008 and Immediate
Past President in 2009. He remains a member of the
House of Delegates as a Past President through 2013.
"Greg was the unanimous
choice of the selection committee," said Julie Rupp
Felice, CPM of Utah, 2009 AACPM Henning Award recipient
and Chairman of the Henning Award Committee. "His career
accomplishments, community activities, and efforts for
both the Arizona CPM Society and the American Academy,
set a standard that his peers should strive to achieve.
He truly represents the very best in Certified Public
Managers®."
Hyland leads and manages
the City of Yuma's award-winning Community Relations
Team, providing information to a bilingual community of
approximately 200,000 full-time and 100,000 part time
residents. He was a finalist for the City of Yuma's
Employee of the Year in 1994, 1996, 1997 and 2000,
before being recognized as the City's Manager of the
Year in 2002. Beyond his professional activities, Hyland
served as a Kiwanis Club Board of Directors member from
1989 through 1994. From 1990-1993, he served as Club
Vice President, President-Elect, President and Past
President. He was been recognized as Kiwanis
International's "Distinguished President" for all terms
as President (1992, and 1994 through 1996.). Greg
served as a Girl Scout volunteer for 10-plus years and
has also been a school volunteer and mentor.
"Greg brings an extensive
knowledge of the community to his day-to-day duties,
knows the people, has an ability to create friends
easily, and uses that to get information out there in a
way that actually connects with our residents," said
Yuma City Administrator Greg Wilkinson.
"He's put in place a number
of unique programs than enable City residents to stay in
touch with the City of Yuma organization," Wilkinson
added. "Having built a high-quality production facility
used to televise our Council meetings and other
important City meetings, he's added a number of programs
on that channel. He helped start a weekly radio program,
where the City gets information out to our residents and
also gets direct feedback from them. On top of that,
he's also very active in the community."
In Yuma, Greg is known for
leading by example. He manages 12 employees and
oversees a total annual operating budget of more than $1
million. Several of Hyland’s employees have been
recognized by the City for their performance efforts.
Hyland is noted for
continuously attempting to find new and innovative
methods to communicate with a diverse population in
their region. These efforts include:
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serving as a Project
Co-Coordinator for a community sponsored and
constructed Stewart Vincent Wolfe Playground (the
largest playground built by a community over an
18-month period from design to construction,
involving more than 5,000 local school children and
8,000 volunteers). The playground project helped
the City of Yuma receive the national Playful City
Award in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
In 1995 and 2009, he
trained as a Public Information Officer and City
Administrator at FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute
in Emmitsburg, Maryland, for presenting disaster
(natural or manmade) related information. He had
opportunities to utilize this training during the recent
crash of a jet in a city neighborhood with live,
unexploded ordinance, in addition to two hurricanes, and
several medium scale earthquakes.
Joining in Hyland's
recognition, AACPM President-elect Jeffrey A. Kramer, a
fellow Arizonian, emphasized Hyland's willingness to "go
the extra mile to help his peers, his professional
organization, his state society and the American
Academy. Greg's efforts have been a tremendous
contribution to the Arizona Society and the American
Academy, and have helped to strengthen the prestige of
the CPM public image."
"This prestigious award is
awarded by the AACPM to an outstanding member who has
made the greatest contribution to the certified public
management program at the state and/or national level,"
AACPM President, Joyce Doakes Smith, said. "The vision
and leadership displayed by Mr. Henning, remain to this
day embodied in the Certified Public Manager® programs
in the 33 states and jurisdictions and in the American
Academy of Certified Public Managers® and its 19
chartered local societies."
Felice reports that the
judging of the Henning nominees “was very difficult due
to the high caliber of all nominations. Greg’s record
speaks for itself. He is clearly a most deserving
nominee. “
Hyland was one of five
AACPM fellows who were nominated for the 2010 AACPM
Henning Award. Other nominees included Doris S.
Anderson of Arkansas, Carmen Bishop of Kentucky, Stephen
J. Mastro of North Carolina, and Jeffrey R. Roemer of
Wisconsin.
The Henning Award was first
awarded by the AACPM in 1990. Hyland is the 21st
recipient of the annual recognition, and will serve as
Chair of the Henning Selection Committee in 2011, when
the 22nd annual award will be presented in Salt Lake
City, Utah. In addition to being the first recipient of
the Henning Award from Arizona, Hyland is also the first
municipal government manager to
be so recognized by the
Academy.
The Henning Award is named
after Kenneth K. Henning of Athens, Ga., whose vision of
a quality management development program tailored to the
needs of state and local government, resulted in the
design and implementation of the Certified Public
Manager® concept. His hard work and dedication in the
mid-1970s in Georgia was responsible for the
establishment of the Georgia Certified Public Manager®
Program, the American Academy of Certified Public
Managers®, and the movement of the Certified Public
Manager® concept to other states.
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PAST AWARD WINNERS
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2009: Julie Rupp Felice (Utah)
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2008: Gail P. Gibson,
RN MN CPM (Louisiana)
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2007:
Kay Nidiffer Rogers (South Carolina)
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2006:
Edward R. Burt III (North Carolina)
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2005:
Ronald L. Buchholz (Wisconsin)
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2004: Larry
Totten ( Kentucky )
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2003: Thomas H.
Patterson ( Louisiana
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2002:
Barbara Pepper (Mississippi)
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2001:
Craig D. Odekirk (Utah)
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2000:
Haywood Poole (North Carolina)
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1999:
Diana Schouest (Louisiana)
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1998:
Patricia Hagler (North Carolina)
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1997:
Ed Phillips (North Carolina)
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1995-96:
George C. Banks (Florida)
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1994-95:
Margaret J. Bailey (North Carolina)
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1993-94:
George C. Askew (Georgia)
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1992-93:
Richard Blake (New Jersey)
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1991-92:
Bobby Ann Clark (Louisiana)
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1990-91:
Paulette Laubsch (New Jersey)
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1989-90:
Nancy DeWitt (Louisiana)
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