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Citizen and Business Person of the Year Criteria for nomination The following is the EDC report to the City Council on the nomination criteria for the Citizen and Business Person of the Year. ❑ Citizen of the Year- This person would need to be a resident of the city within the calendar year of nomination. ❑ Business Person of the Year- Would not have to be a resident of Centerville, but would need to be business owner conducting business within the city during the calendar year of nomination. ❑ The Citizen or Business Person being nominated should be nominated for volunteer efforts or accomplishments that they have made to the city for the calendar year that the nomination is for. The lifetime achievement award may better honor nominations for things done years before. ❑ We would like to see the voting for these honors done by all City Staff and City Committees, i.e. Planning and Zoning, Economic Development, Parks and Recreation. This would open the voting to 30 or more votes making it a better across the board ratio than having just one committee responsible for the vote. ❑ The actual voting process would take place by paper ballot that would be placed in sealed envelopes and tabulated by the EDC or City Staff. The ballots would be numbered in order to keep track as to which ballots have been returned or as indication of voting, if needed. If an individual voting serves on more than one committee or is on a committee and a staff member they would be allowed only one ballot for voting. ❑ If a member of any of the city committees or city staff were nominated for an award they would be removed from voting for that award. For example if Ted Red was nominated for Business Person of the Year and he also served on the Planning and Zoning Board he would be removed from voting for Business Person of the Year, but would be included in the voting of Citizen of the Year. This would be beneficial in avoiding any conflict of interest regarding the voting. ❑ We also believe that no one should be excluded from the process if they have received the award in the past. An example would be that if Ted Red won Citizen of the Year in 1997 and was nominated again in 1998 they should still be considered for the 1998 award.