[Sustain] Mayor's Ballot Measure Attack On Transit Authority

[Eric Brooks]

Mayor's Ballot Measure Attack On Transit Authority

from 
http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Budget_Cuts_Hit_Indigent_Political_Skirmishes_Hit_Ballot_5782.html

...Finally, Newsom submitted an Ordinance to change the make-up of the 
Transportation Authority (SFCTA) -- a body that administers $100 million 
a year in sales tax revenue for transportation projects. While Muni is 
run by a seven-member Commission entirely appointed by the Mayor (the 
MTA), the Board of Supervisors run the SFCTA -- which gives the 
legislative branch some control over the City's transportation policy.

Newsom's Ordinance would kick the Supervisors off the Transportation 
Authority and replace them with five members: (1) the Mayor, (2) an 
elected official appointed by the Mayor, (3) the President of the Board 
of Supervisors, (4) an elected official appointed by the Board 
President, and (5) the City Treasurer. I asked City Treasurer Jose 
Cisneros at last night's Harvey Milk Club Dinner what he thought about 
such a proposal. Incredibly, Cisneros -- who Newsom appointed to his 
post in 2004 -- had not yet been told about it.

by Paul Hogarth, Jun. 18, 2008

-- 
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara

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