Mission

Specific job outputs of the board as an informed agent of the Madison Water Utility's ownership are those that ensure appropriate performance of the Madison Water Utility. These are:

1. A credible and authoritative linkage between the ownership and the Madison Water Utility.

2. Written governing policies that realistically address the broadest levels of all organizational decisions and situations.
a. Outcomes: Expected organizational performance desired by owners framed in terms of benefits, recipients of those benefits, and their relative worth in cost or priority.
b. Executive Limitations: Constraints on executive authority that establish the prudence and ethics boundaries within which all executive activity and decisions must take place.
c. Board–Executive Delegation: How power is delegated and its proper use monitored; the General Manager's role, authority, and accountability.
d. Board Process: Specification of how the board conceives, carries out, monitors, and ensures long-term competence in its own tasks.

3. Assurance of successful performance of the Madison Water Utility on Outcomes and Executive Limitations.


The Board meets the 4th Tuesday of the month; 4:30pm at 119 E. Olin Ave.

Watch Water Utility Board Tuesdays at 8am and Fridays at 5pm.

Resources

• Water Utility Board
• Madison Water Utility