BUDGET & STRATEGY

City welcomes new Budget Manager

Ileana Petrone, Budget Manager for the City of Coral Springs, is GreekCypriot and was born in New York City. She joined the city in March 2021 after 19 years working in various roles for Nova Southeastern University where she was most recently the Payroll Information & Business Systems Manager.

Of the new hire, Assistant City Manager of Budget, Strategy and Sustainability Catherine Givens said, “We are thrilled to have Ileana Petrone join the team. She comes with a wealth of experience and extensive background regarding budgeting work, which gives us confidence that she will serve as a great asset for the city.”

Petrone will oversee the General Fund for Coral Springs and will remain committed to the Budget and Strategy mission of long-term financial sustainability.

The city has been recognized as one of only 22 local government in the nation to receive the ICMA Certificate of Excellence for FY2020. This certificate is the highest level of recognition for exemplary performance management processes.

Recognizing the department for their unwavering commitment to organizational success, City Manager Frank Babinec said, “The Department of Budget & Strategy continuously goes above and beyond, committed to surpassing strategic goals and objectives, while ensuring public trust by enhancing transparency; a testament of this was the launch of our first-ever Community Dashboard. I commend Assistant City Manager of Budget, Strategy and Sustainability Catherine Givens for her leadership and her teams’ significant contributions to our organization.”

Receiving any of the certificate levels: Excellence (highest level), Distinction, and Achievement, requires the leadership and staff to subscribe to a notion of a high performing organization. For the city to achieve the “excellence” designation is an affirmation to our dedication for organizational success. Criteria to be awarded the certificate include data collection and verification, training and support, public reporting, accountability and process improvement, networking, and leadership.

ICMA Certificate of Excellence presented to city

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Visit the Community Dashboard at CoralSprings.clearpointstrategy.com to see current goals and results for city-wide strategies.