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Rep. Mark Miloscia, serving the 30th District Serving Federal Way, Milton, Algona, Pacific, and part of southwest King County. |
Rep. Miloscia selected to join Baldrige Award Board of Examiners
April 6, 2009
OLYMPIA – Rep. Mark Miloscia’s commitment to quality and performance
in the state of Washington has garnered national recognition.
The
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program has selected Miloscia
(D-Federal Way) to serve as a member of the 2009 volunteer Board of
Examiners, a panel of experts from throughout the nation with expertise
in the field of quality and performance capable of evaluating
organizations eligible for the award. There are currently just 14 expert
examiners in the state of Washington.
Miloscia will be engaged in
nationwide performance evaluations of companies and organizations up for
consideration for the Baldrige Award. He and his fellow examiners will
then serve as consultants to the Baldrige Panel of Judges.
“This
is both an honor and an opportunity,” Miloscia said. “The Baldrige Award
is internationally recognized as the leading performance award for
organizations of all sizes that display the best quality and performance
practices and results in the world.”
The Baldrige Award is
awarded each year by the President of the United States to those in the
fields of business, education, health care, government and nonprofit
organizations for achievements in quality and performance. Award winners
are judged to be the most outstanding in the nation in several areas:
leadership; strategic planning; customer and market focus; measurement,
analysis, and knowledge management; workforce focus; process management;
and results.
Miloscia’s Baldrige Award selection is just the
latest honor for the fifth-term Representative. He recently was asked to
chair the new Audit Review & Oversight Committee in the Washington House
of Representatives during the coming interim. The committee is
responsible for providing reviews of performance and fiscal audits.
Miloscia was instrumental in passing legislation requiring all
Washington state and certain local government agencies to take a
Baldrige Evaluation to improve their quality and results to among the
best in the nation.