s I said at the Georgia Excellence in Public Service Award ceremony on November 6th, it was an incredibly humbling experience to receive this award. The Carl Vinson Institute of Government and Georgia Trend magazine developed this award to:
• “publicly honor outstanding state and local elected, appointed, and career public-sector service professionals;
• to foster a culture of recognized excellence in Georgia’s professional public service, drawing attention to exemplary service and distinguished achievements in government; and
• to help raise the public profile of state and local public service as a career pursuit, while enhancing the prospects of future service by potential and already serving public-sector professionals.”
This award is a tribute to our whole system and to all of you who labor with me in this part of the public sector. I appreciate all you do, and I look forward to the work ahead.
—K. B.