{"id":148,"date":"2013-01-28T10:29:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=148"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T20:51:36","slug":"yakima-citycounty-buyer-receives-top-state-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/yakima-citycounty-buyer-receives-top-state-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakima City\/County Buyer Receives Top State Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Purchasing Manager Sue Ownby \u2013 576-6695<br \/>\nCommunity Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 Community Re \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov\">randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maria Mayhue, a senior buyer for the combined City of Yakima\/Yakima County Purchasing office, has been named Buyer of the Year by the Washington State Chapter of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing.\u00a0 Mayhue received a plaque marking the accomplishment during ceremonies held at Seattle City Hall on January 17<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>An NIGP committee uses a four-part criteria, which emphasis personal and professional development, to determine each year\u2019s winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very proud of Maria,&#8221; said City of Yakima\/Yakima County Purchasing Manager Sue Ownby.\u00a0 \u201cThis is a prestigious award.\u00a0 Maria is very good at what she does and the committee clearly recognized that,\u201d said Ownby.<\/p>\n<p>Mayhue started working for what was then the City\u2019s Purchasing Division more than 16 years ago.\u00a0 Since then, she has been intricately involved in helping to navigate significant changes in procurement, including the 2009 consolidation of City and County purchasing functions, which resulted in formation of the current City of Yakima\/Yakima County Purchasing office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to customer service, Maria really gets it,\u201d said Ownby.\u00a0 \u201cHer customer service skills are second to none.\u00a0 This award is a testament to Maria\u2019s strong commitment to meeting the needs of our customers,\u201d said Ownby.<\/p>\n<p>The combined City of Yakima\/Yakima County Purchasing office handles more than $50 million in business every year.\u00a0 Mayhue is second in command to Ownby and supervises four other employees.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington State Chapter of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing was formed in 2003 and has around 375 members.\u00a0 The national organization has nearly 16,000 members and has been developing, supporting, and promoting the public procurement profession since 1994.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Mayhue-Buyer-of-the-Year-1-25-13.pdf\">Mayhue Buyer of the Year (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: Purchasing Manager Sue Ownby \u2013 576-6695 Community Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 Community Re \u2013 randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov Maria Mayhue, a senior buyer for the combined City of Yakima\/Yakima County Purchasing office, has been named Buyer of the Year by the Washington State Chapter of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing.\u00a0 Mayhue received a plaque marking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}