City Service Awards Program

Is your City interested in honoring city employees or elected officials who have faithfully served your community? Since 1926, the League of Kansas Municipalities (League) has provided a city service awards program to recognize devoted public servants at a number of tenure levels.

The program options include a listing in the Service Awards program and an individualized certificate printed on parchment paper for each recipient. The League hosts an event at the Annual Conference where we will honor the 40 year and above recipients with a framed certificate and their photo and biography in the Service Awards program. Click here to order certificates.  Cities have until Friday, August 30 to place their order.

If your city would like to purchase gift cards to present to your city's employees for their years of service, please consider participating in the League's new Employee Recognition Program.

Section 2. Continuous Service. Cities may establish local policies regarding whether a person has been in continuous service to city government in Kansas. The League recommends the following as a guideline for making such determination:

Continuous Service Guidelines

Continuous service will be defined as having been continuously on the payroll of a city, continuously under appointment to a responsible position of trust for a city, continuously elected to an office of a city, or having been continuously in the service of one or more cities of Kansas through any combination of these three services; provided, that any period of 93 days or less discontinuance or break in the service to a city in any one year may be allowed for in calculating continuous service. Official leaves of absence may be counted as time served. Any time spent in the armed services of the United States during military leave may be counted as time served, provided the applicant resigned from a city position to enter such service and re­entered city employment immediately upon return from such service. No employee will be eligible for a city service award who has not been in active service of a city within a year of the date of their application. Any discontinuance in city service for more than 93 days in any one year will disqualify an applicant for a 10-year service award; any discontinuance in city service for more than 186 days will disqualify an applicant for a 25-year service award; any discontinuance in city service for more than one year will disqualify an applicant for a 40-year award; provided, that no person will be eligible for a service award whose total time out of service for any purpose except service in military leave exceed 10 percent of the total continuous service required for a service award.