Friday was the last day on the job for Manitowoc Public Utilities General Manager Nilaksh Kothari.
Kothari has served the community at MPU since December of 1990 when he was hired as the Water Utility Manager. Just shy of 10 years later he was promoted to the General Manager position, a position he excelled at until his retirement on Friday.
According to Mayor Justin Nickels, “He is well respected not only locally, but nationally having served on many organization’s boards, including a year as the president of the American Water Works Association which is an organization that has a membership of 4,300 utilities that supply roughly 80 percent of the nation’s drinking water and treat almost half of the nation’s wastewater.”
Under the guidance of Kothari, the total net assets of MPU rose from $104 million in 200 to $223 million today.
Nickels went on to say “Nilaksh has exceeded our expectations. Because of that, our utility will be successful and will undoubtedly be one of the city’s greatest assets for future generations of our citizens.”
