Hi Mark, I know you're one of the mayor's close associates, so do you know why he agreed to our only having two reps on the RTA? I do agree with you on the inability of the county to change the composition of the RTA, but a strongly worded statement expressing interest in having a demographically balanced board might help get our inert reps off their inactive butts and doing something to change this.
tim On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Mark Clear <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim and group, > > The composition and appointment authority of the RTA board is > established by the state statute. The county board has no authority to > change this, so I don't think they'll discuss it much. The only > authority the county board has is to establish the RTA or not. I agree > with you that Madison is terribly underrepresented (22% of the board to > represent about 70% of the population) but there's nothing we can do > about it without legislative action. > > Mark C. > > On 11/4/2009 5:32 PM tim wong wrote: > > Will there be opportunities to discuss very important issues, such as > > the underrepresentation of Madison on the RTA? I know several people > > who currently plan to vote against the RTA as it is currently > > composed. Arguments that Mayor Dave makes some horrible appointments > > is not a long-term good argument against giving Madison the number of > > reps it should have on the RTA. > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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