Left to right: Human Resources Manager / Risk Manager Audrey Cray with the City of Sand City, Assistant City Manager Alexa Davis with the City of Rolling Hills Estates, California JPIA Administrative Services Director Nikki Salas
Left to right: Parks and Recreation Director Manuel Enriquez with the City of Duarte, Assistant City Manager Alexa Davis with the City of Rolling Hills Estates, Human Resources Manager Dorna Farhadi with the City of Laguna Niguel, District Arborist Mary Kingman with Rossmoor Community Services District
The California JPIA presents the Capstone Award each year to an individual whose efforts promote risk management and minimize workplace exposure. The Capstone Award is open to all employees, at a member agency, who promote positive improvements in risk management for their agency and, ideally, would be someone who:
- Works to support or improve risk management within their agency
- Influences others in developing or maintaining positive risk management efforts in the work environment
- Coordinates support systems that serve the member’s risk management goals and needs
- Exhibits positive risk management
The nominees judged to be the worthiest of recognition will be selected as finalists and invited to attend the Authority’s Risk Management Educational Forum. A brief presentation will introduce each of the finalists during an award ceremony, with the announced winner receiving the Capstone Award.
To nominate someone for the Capstone Award, please click on the button below (members may nominate themselves).
Nominations are currently open through April 4, 2025.
For questions about the Capstone Award, contact Chief Administrative Officer Nikki Salas by email or at (562) 467-8700.
The 30th Annual Risk Management Educational Forum will be held October 1–3, 2025, at the Omni La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, California.
Capstone Award Recipients
2023 – Audrey Cray, City of Pacific Grove
2022 – Shannon Buckley, City of Lake Elsinore
2021 – Arabo Parseghian, City of La Cañada Flintridge*
2019 – Stephen Y. Aryan, City of Palm Desert
2018 – Teri Davis, City of Moorpark
2017 – Isaac Etchamendy, City of San Marcos
2016 – Susan Crumly, City of Bellflower
2015 – Nikki Salas, Town of Apple Valley
2014 – Rayna Ospina, City of San Gabriel
2013 – Debra Garcia, City of Pismo Beach
* The Capstone Award was not presented in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.