Recommendations and plans

Strategic plan

• Clean Water Council Strategic Plan, approved April 20, 2020 (wq-cwc1-26)

Budget recommendation process

The Clean Water Council approved the timeline and process for considering proposals from the Clean Water Fund for the FY22-23 budget cycle.

• FY22-23 Clean Water Fund recommendations: Funding process timeline (wq-cwc1-24)
• FY22-23 Clean Water Fund recommendations: Process (wq-cwc1-25)
• Summary of public comments to Clean Water Council proposals to the Clean Water Fund FY22-23 (wq-cwc1-27)

Budget and policy recommendations - Legislative report 

The Clean Water Council’s Biennial Report includes budget recommendations for the Legislature and Governor on how FY18-19 Clean Water Fund dollars should be appropriated, policies for clean water, and progress on Clean Water Fund activities. The Council’s FY18-19 Clean Water Fund recommendations, totaling $220.514 million, reflect the priority of providing resources to on-the-ground actions that improve and protect Minnesota’s water.

• FY18-19 Clean Water Fund and Policy Recommendations (lr-cwc-1sy16) (December 1, 2016)
• Past biennial reports of the Clean Water Council

The Clean Water Council requested state agencies and other entities to complete a form as part of their process to develop budget recommendations. See Appendix A of the Council’s Report. 

FY18-19 Program information forms (wq-cwc1-18)