President’s Award

President’s Awards Special Recognition by the President of NPZA for outstanding service to the organization and planning and zoning in the state.


Prior Years Recipients:

  • Chris Solberg, City of La Vista (2023)
  • LaLene Bates, Stanton County (2022)
  • Lincoln/Lancaster Planning Department (2020)
  • Nebraska Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) (2020)
  • Pilger Village Board and Pilger Planning Commission, Village of Pilger (2018)
  • Darla Svoboda, Zoning Administrator, Hamilton County (2016)
  • Char Carpenter, Zoning Administrator, Antelope County (2016)
  • Marvin Krout, Planning Director, Lincoln & Lancaster County (2015)
  • Boone County (2014)
  • Rick Koelsch, Assistant Dean Agricultural & Natural Resources Program UNL Extension (2013)
  • Rick Stowell, Associate Professor Biological Systems Engineering, University of
    Nebraska Lincoln (2013)
  • Agricultural & Natural Resources Program, UNL Extension (2013)
  • Bill Jones, CFM, Floodplain Management Specialist Nebraska Department of Natural
    Resources (2013)
  • State Senator David Landis, Director of Urban Development, Lincoln, Nebraska (2011)
  • Steven Jensen, AICP, Jensen Consulting (2010)
  • UNL Planning Studio Class (2009)
  • Box Butte Development Corporation (2008)
  • Char Carpenter, Antelope County (2007)
  • Katherine Colburn, Clay County (2005)
  • Gary Mathis, Merrick County (2005)
  • Karen Eidenmiller (2000)
  • Ann Birch (2000)