Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) Board Meeting
December 12, 2024 This meeting was for the sole purpose of approving the Adopted Budget for 2025. This was approved unanimously with no discussion. However, there is one more step in the budget process before the 2025 budget will be finalized: on December 19, the Board will consider any final amendments which could impact the numbers given below. Beth McElroy Kirkwood was appointed by Governor J.B. Pritzker to fill the empty Commissioner position as a result of former Commissioner Mariyana Spyropoulos’ election as Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court on Nov. 5. Ms. McElory Kirkwood will serve as a Commissioner until November 2026 when someone will be elected to serve the remaining two years of Comm. Spyropoulos’ 6-year term. The Adopted Budget of $1.695 Billion:
Observer: Priscilla Mims Length of meeting: 30 minutes
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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) Board Meetings
December 14 and December 21, 2023 MWRD APPROVES FINAL 2024 BUDGET 2024 Appropriation vs (2023) 2024 FTEs vs (2023) $1,428 Billion $1,432 B (- .2%) 1,967 1,957 (+10) $131.5 Million $ 129 M Stormwater 100 99 (-1) 2024 Tax Levy: $693.7 M (2.1%) Board Action
Items Deferred
Observer: Diane Edmundson Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) Board Meeting
December 15, 2022 Board Action
Absent: Yumeka Brown Observer: Diane Edmundson Length of Bd meeting: 75 min. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) Board Meeting
December 16, 2021 Budget:
Other Board Action:
New Business:
Observer: Priscilla Mims Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board Meeting
March 4, 2021 All Commissioners present Board Action: All agenda items were approved, except for Agenda Item #19 (21-0181), authority to advertise a contract for testing and repairing underground storage tanks, which was deleted by the Executive Director. Only a few items were pulled out for discussion, and most of the discussion related to remembering former MWRD Commissioner and President Terrence J. O’Brien who recently died and celebrating 14-year old Dorothy Jean Tillman from the Chicago south side who received her Masters degree in environmental science in 2020. Ms. Tillman has created the Dorothy Jeanius STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) Educational Leadership Institute to create an environment where adolescents can pair arts with technology. During the pandemic she has created at home STEAM kits for adolescents, and has also reached out to South African youth. Following are a few items noted from the agenda and meeting:
Observer - Priscilla Mims Length of meeting: 1 hour and 20 minutes Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) Board Meeting
December 17, 2020 All Board members in attendance at various times After amending the budget passed on December 10 to include a small salary increase for non-union employees, the Board approved a $1.2 billion budget for 2021 - an increase of $52,812 million over 2020. FTE’s are budgeted at 1,941 which is a decrease of 12 employees. All agenda items were passed. Items of Interest:
Green Alley Projects - Intergovernmental Agreements:
Intergovernmental Agreement with Chicago
New Business
Biosolids Request
Observer: Diane Edmundson Length of Meeting 3 hrs. |
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