ICMA's Program Excellence Award for Citizen Involvement recognizes successful strategies designed to inform citizens about the local government services available to them and to include citizens in the process of community decision making. The award concentrates on such areas as community consensus building and adult (nonstudent) citizenship education. In 2005, ICMA presented one of two awards in the 10,000-to-49,999 population category to the city of Kent, Ohio, City Manager Lewis J. Steinbrecher [now with Moline, Illinois], and Community Development Director Charles V. Bowman for the city’s Bicentennial Plan. The city provided its citizens four opportunities to engage in the plan, assuring that the direction of the community will be guided by its residents. Learn more about ICMA's Annual Awards program.