Call for Nominations—Prudential Financial Davis Productivity Awards

Kyle Cavanaugh, Senior Vice President for Administration

Presented annually, the Davis Productivity Awards honor state government employees throughout Florida who have significantly increased productivity in delivering state services and products. Awards are also made to individuals and work units for adapting and implementing previous years’ award-winning achievements to create added value. Nomination categories include:

• State Employee Teams, Work Units, and Partnerships
• Individual
• Sustained Exemplary Performance by a Work Unit, District, Institution, or Comparable Organizational Unit (over a period of five or more years)
• Sustained Exemplary Performance by an Individual Employee Exemplary Achievement of a State Agency or a Division, Large Bureau, District, Institution, or Comparable Organizational Unit
• Recognition of Long-Time Nominators (over a period of 10 or more years)
• Recognition of Adaptation and Implementation of a Previous Davis Productivity Award or Other State Government Innovation

The program presents cash awards ranging from $250 to $2,500 as well as commemorative plaques and certificates of commendation. A committee of Florida TaxWatch staff and a panel of judges make award decisions, and winners are announced in March 2008.

This year, the committee has created a new online application process to make form submission easier. The deadline for submissions to the UF Agency Coordinator is Friday, September 28, 2007. For a link to the online nomination form or to contact the Agency Coordinator, Amanda Moore, please visit http://www.hr.ufl.edu/davis/default.htm