What is the Bravo Award?

The Bravo Award is the city of Houston’s highest recognition program for city employees. This recognition program calls attention to employees who do outstanding work, improve services to the public and/or increase employee productivity. The recognition ceremony will be a quarterly public event at City Council.

Any nonelected city employee, whether probationary, part-time or full-time, is eligible for the Bravo Award.

The Bravo Award is for city employees who go above and beyond their job description to provide extraordinary services to the city and/or its citizens in these areas:

• outstanding internal and/or external customer service,
• service during extraordinary working conditions like Tropical Storm Allison,
• volunteerism that helps others in the community and special projects.

Up to three Bravo Awards will be presented to outstanding employees at the second Tuesday City Council meeting in December, March, June and September. Winners of the Bravo Award will receive a framed Mayor’s Office certificate. Also, employees’ names will be engraved on a plaque that will hang in the City Hall Annex first floor lobby. The employees’ photos will be displayed next to the plaque for three months following their recognition.