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Working aids you can use this week
A focused set of practical working aids for boards, staff, and civic partners. Use them to structure questions, meetings, and decisions.
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Governance self-check
Cover budgets, oversight, waste/NRW, and fair allocation. Progress count and print-friendly view.
Open self-check → PrintableBudget transparency question set
Ten concrete questions with a short “why it matters” under each.
Open questions → Fillable templateOversight meeting agenda
Quarterly water-governance oversight meeting — fill fields or copy blocks.
Open agenda → Table templateDecision log template
Date, decision, criteria, who decided, public minutes link, review date.
Open log → Four pillarsApproach & next steps
Budgets, oversight, limiting waste, fair distribution — each with doable steps.
Read approach → ReferenceGlossary
Plain-language terms for boards and civic readers.
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