Barbara Harrington-McKinney, District 20 Alder

The Core Alder Job

• Advocate for your district and your constituents in the City process.
• Serve on City committees as appointed and be active, prepared and equal participant.
• Communicate actively with your constituents in multiple ways about City resources and issues, policy debates, development proposals, policy debates, development proposals, and other relevant information.
• Participate fully in the process of developing and approving the annual City Budget.
• Communicate the needs and views of your constituents to City staff, committees and the Council. (City Committee Information: www.cityofmadison.com/mayor/mycommit. City Budgets: www.cityofmadison.com/finance/budget)
• Act as a liaison between the committees you serve on and the Council, and sponsor legislation for those committees. Advance policy/issues important to your district and the City. Participate in the development and implementation of a Council Legislative Agenda.
• Prepare and educate yourself and your constituents on city-wide and/or controversial policy topics or issues that come before the Council, and engage in the debate and decision-making process around them.
• Help make City government accessible and welcoming to all Madison residents. (Resident Information: www.cityofmadison.com/residents).

WHY I SERVE?

Genuine politics - even politics worthy of the name - the only politics I am willing to devote myself to - is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole. - Vaclav Havel (Czech politician).

Finally, to District 20 Constituents: 

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve you.  Alder Barbara Harrington-McKinney