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Thank You 2023 Budget Reviewers!

Wednesday, April 24, 2024  
Posted by: CSMFO Recognition Committee
 
CSMFO’s Recognition Committee would like to express its deepest gratitude to everyone who volunteered to review 147 award submissions between September 2023 and January 2024. For the Budget Award Program, the Recognition Committee assigns budgets among the committee and volunteer reviewers to determine if they meet the award criteria. Volunteer reviewers’ time, effort, and contributions are critically important in helping the Recognition Committee and CSMFO to encourage governments to improve the quality of budget documents. In addition to the potential for budget quality improvements, reviewers are helping to encourage governments to improve the transparency of budget documents, which is one of CSMFO’s Guiding Values.
 
Sonia Agostini
Esteban Alvarez
Josefina Alvarez
Ashley Aparicio
Barbara Arenado
Carol Atwood
Amar Bains
Carina Baksa
Fabiola Barrita
Shannon Brangan
Megan Bressem
Libby Bretthauer
Jodi Brown
Katie Bruner
Christa Buhagiar
Carolyn Bunt
Claudia Carlos
William Castrillon
Karina Cervantes
Claudia Chang
Sandee Chiswick
Calvin Cho
Bryan Chua
Paul Chung
Krys Clark
Angela Courter
Krystle Covarrubias
Jemelyn Cruz
Stephanie Cuff
Hiromi Dever
Shiela Dilayre
Stephanie DiSerio
Tiffany Dominguez
Christie Donnelly
Catlin Dorset
Ashley Doyle
Brigid Drury
June Du
Nicole Espinoza Roa
Javier Estrada
David Faraone
Nadia Feeser
Samuel Feldman
James Frigo
Felicia Galindo
John Garbowski
Edwin Gato
Erika Gomez
Michelle Gomez
Vivian Gong
Melissa Green
Renee Halcon
Lupe Hernandez
Paula Hooven
Lynda Horejsi
Nora Howard
Cathy Jaramillo
Brian Jewett
Michele Jordan
Jeanette Juarez
Toni-Marie Kahre
Susan Knudson
Steve Kwon
Art Landeros
Wally Lauzon
Lisa Leach
Melissa Leanza
Jen Lee
Jennifer Legaspi
Thomas Leung
Pak Lin
Sandra Llamas
Natalia Lopez
Liz Lydic
Maxine Magahiz
Jim Malberg
Brenda Manriquez
Fred Marsh
Barbara Martin
Maria Mata
Jenny McConville
Brittney Melo
Roland Neil Mendoza
Joan Michaels Aguilar
Spencer Morrison
Luis Navarro
Leah Nazaroff
Vivi Nguyen
Danny Nguyen
Jonathan Nih
Cynthia Orozco
Dave O’Toole
Chaitali Paliwal
Rochelle Patterson
Dawn Patterson
Isarel Perez-Hernandez
Ryan Phelps
Domenico Piazza
Amy Pinion
Stephanie Pinto
Gilbert Punsalan
Brendan Rafferty
Autumn Reberger
Sandra Repede
Thomas Retchless
Mary-Ann Rexroad
Ryan Roman
Lisa Rossi
Nancy Rothlisberger
Seleen Saiid
Mirthala Santizo
Kim Sao
Matthew Schenk
Shruti Shah
Rosemarie Souto
Sheetal Talwar
Dominic Tartaglia
Chris Tavarez
Jeri Tejeda
Jennifer Tell
Alfredo Tello
Neil Tomlinson
Brian Tompkins
Allison Tong
Ann Trinh
Liberty Urban
Jennifer Ustation
Kat Valencia
Nicole Valentine
Anudeep Vanjavakam
Vanessa Velasquez
Nicholas Walker
Sylvia Wells
Sue Wier
Natasha Woolford
Mario Xuereb
Kaden Young
William Yu


Thank you to the 2023 Award season budget reviewers!

Interested in being a volunteer budget reviewer? Here are just a few of the many great reasons to participate as a budget reviewer:
  • Budget reviewers can be at the forefront of the most recent trends in budget documents for CA local governments.
  • Reviewers can see how other agencies present information and return ideas to their agencies!
  • Reviewing budgets is a great way to become involved with CSMFO.
  • Network and collaborate with peers and other reviewers.
  • Professional recognition and development.
Wondering what it’s like to be a reviewer? Find your colleagues in the list of names above and ask them to share their experiences. If you are interested in volunteering as a budget reviewer or joining the Recognition Committee, please contact James Russell-Field (jfield@fssd.com) and Natalia Lopez (natalial@moval.org).