The Hutchinson Public Schools Business Office is batting 100 percent for telling its financial story.

For the seventh consecutive year, the district received the award from the Government Finance Officer Association for a budget document Lori Blakesley, executive director of fiscal management for the district, and the Business Office produced for the 2010-11 school year.

Known as the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the document reviews in-depth district finances for the 2010-11 school year. The GFOA gave the document its Certificate of Achievement, the highest award the organization grants.

The 2010-11 CAFR was the seventh the district produced. The district received the certificate for its six previous budget publications as well.

Unlike most school districts and other governmental units, USD 308 does not waive Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The CAFR provides the public with budget information that would be comparable to that provided by any major business.

Blakesley works hand-in-hand with district auditors to produce the CAFR.

This was the second award Blakesley received this spring. At the recent annual meeting of the Kansas Association of School Business Officials, Blakesley received the organization’s top honor, the KASBO Distinguished Service Award.

Blakesley joined the district July 1, 2001.