The Harrison County Utility Authority is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of the Mayors from each of the five (5) cities and two (2) Representatives from the Board of Supervisors.

The Authority Executive Director, Kamran Pahlavan, P.E. and his staff are responsible to the Board of directors for the following:

• Implementation of the Authority policies
• Management of Authority revenue and expenditures
• Overseeing the operations and maintenance of the Authority's facilities including monitoring the independent contractors who are charged with these responsibilities.
• Prioritizing capital improvement needs.
• Coordinating contracted professional services.

Some of the above tasks are reviewed by the Technical Committee comprised of city engineers or other technical members from each public agency.

To that end, the Authority unified five solid waste contracts into one to take advantage of the “Economies of Scale” provided by a unified contract. The Authority continues with the same form of unified contract today.