(Credit to the City of Madison - Mayor's and link: https://cityofmadison.com/mayor/blog/)
Continuing the City of Madison’s bimonthly tradition, this week we celebrated five outstanding City of Madison employees and five collaborative teams who live and breathe the City’s mission, vision and values at the 2022 July #TeamCity Awards Ceremony. These recipients that go above and beyond to help their department, other departments and residents were selected from a large pool of candidates that were nominated by their peers, supervisors, residents and everyone in between. This month’s celebration was the first in-person #TeamCity ceremony since the very first one launched in February 2020, taking place in the Madison Room at the Central Library location of the Madison Public Library.
I’m inspired by these nominations to learn about the range and quality of work that we all do as a unified City operation. It makes me grateful to work alongside all of them. You can read about the awardees and their great work below.
Individual Awardees:
The #TeamCity Administration Award goes to Bonnie Chang. Bonnie is a Public Records Information Clerk in the Clerk’s Office. Bonnie plays a key role in every election, from planning and personnel, to logistics and transport, along with the rest of the team. As we all know, elections in Madison and Dane County have morphed in recent years due to the pandemic and increased scrutiny of every voting location and every vote. Safety practices, early voting and mail-in voting opportunities were greatly and successfully ramped up for the public, and new software systems are being implemented to make voting locations efficient. Beyond elections themselves, Bonnie is a leader and tireless advocate in administering mock elections for all ages, and many other voter outreach events. We depend on her and all Clerk’s Office staff to maintain the front lines of our democracy. Thank you for your leadership on behalf of the community, Bonnie. Bonnie was nominated by Taylor Wall from MPD.