1998 CenTex ASPA Award Winners

Administrator of the Year:

Kirk Watson, Mayor, City of Austin

James W. McGrew Research Award:

Rebecca Short, A Content Analysis of Texas State Agency Handbooks (award for academic)

Alice Zimmerman and David Eaton, Ann Bright, Rose Ann Reeser, Philip Presley, and C. H. Mah, How Much Is Tort Reform Worth: A Real-Time Study of Changes in Insurance Regulation Cause by Tort Reform Legislation (award for practitioner)

Outstanding Contribution to Public Administration:

Frank Sturzl, Executive Director, Texas Municipal League




1998 CenTex ASPA Award Nominees

Administrator of the Year:

Jerome Lindsay, Deputy Commissioner for Regional Operations, Texas Department of Human Services

Robert Miller, City Manager, City of Smithville

Terry Trimble, former Comissioner, Texas Department of Human Services

Kirk Watson, Mayor, City of Austin


James W. McGrew Research Award:

Katherine Shriver, City of Austin Sidewalk Task Force Report: Setting the Pace for a Walkable Austin

Katherine Shriver, Marilyn Rogers, Steve Rogers, WALK Austin Newsletter and Website

Reuben Leslie, Using External Innovations Award Competitions to Promote Internal Innovation and Improve Productivity and Public Perception of a Public Agency

Alice Zimmerman and David Eaton, Ann Bright, Rose Ann Reeser, Philip Presley, and C. H. Mah, How Much Is Tort Reform Worth: A Real-Time Study of Changes in Insurance Regulation Cause by Tort Reform Legislation

Monte Akers, Municipal Telecommunications Franchise Issues

Lane Raffary, The Cascade County, Montana, Community Youth Justice Program: A New Citizen Model

Rebecca Short, A Content Analysis of Texas State Agency Handbooks

Kaye Woodard, Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs: Are They Working?

Surface Transportation Policy Project and Environmental Working Group, Mean Streets: Pedestrian Safety and Reform of the Nation's Transportation Law

Outstanding Contribution to Public Administration:


Howard Balanoff, Professor, Southwest Texas State University & Director of Texas Certified Public Manager Program

Charles Matthews, Chairman, Texas Railroad Commission

CenTex ASPA, Austin League of Women Voters, and Austin Chapter of the LBJ School Alumni, (Joan Lava, project chair) for joint project to sponsor the televised Austin Mayoral Candidate Forum in April 1997.

Charles Garafalo, Professor, Southwest Texas State University - MPA Program

Debbie Hiott, Reporter, Austin American Statesman

Jerome Lindsay, Deputy Commissioner for Regional Operations, Texas Department of Human Services

Jeff Lund, Personnel Representative, Southwest Texas State University

Bobbie Seiferman, Advertising Manager, Round Rock Leader

Pat Shields, Professor, Southwest Texas State University & Director of MPA Program

Frank Sturzl, Executive Director, Texas Municipal League

 



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