Blue Notes by Kevin Shafer - MMSD's 2025-27 Strategic Plan

I am pleased to present MMSD’s 2025-2027 Strategic Plan. This Plan, with input from staff throughout the organization, outlines our goals and strategies to help us realize our vision of a cleaner, healthier, resilient region. Our region’s development and history are built on water and MMSD is committed to protecting this crucial resource. As we reflect on an era disrupted with powerful and damaging weather events, we are reminded of the power of nature and our role in adopting resiliency for the southeastern Wisconsin area. We are also mindful of the importance of providing affordable services in an environmentally responsible way.

This three-year Plan recommits MMSD to investing in our region and adapting it to growing challenges while practicing financial responsibility and transparency. The all-encompassing goal of this three-year Plan is to reaffirm the core mission of the District well into the future: to protect public health and the environment through world-class, cost-effective water resource management, leadership, and partnership.

This Plan aims to set our priorities, focus our energy and resources, strengthen and modernize our operations, and ensure that employees and stakeholders are working toward common goals. The public counts on us to prepare for and handle any crisis that comes along, while meeting their evolving needs in a rapid-changing world. This Plan defines the next steps towards the 2035 Vision yet maintains necessary flexibility so that we can pivot for uncertainty.

We look forward to implementing the Plan and will continue to deliver reliable services, support our region’s water resources, adapt to a changing climate, and anticipate and respond to our public’s needs. As always, we welcome your feedback.

Kevin L. Shafer, P.E.
Executive Director - Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District 

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