Joint Senate Transportation and Energy and House Transportation, Housing & Local Government
A joint transportation panel took up the RTD Accountability Committee's final report, which recommends shrinking the transit agency's board from 15 elected members to nine — five elected, four appointed by the governor with Senate confirmation — a restructure that drew pointed pushback over who really answers to Denver-area riders.
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“RTD has failed my community in Adams county and they continue to fail my community. We're down here fighting for funding to get projects done and that funding is not being taken advantage of. And we're getting excuses and we're getting misinformation put out to our local governments, and that's unacceptable.”
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Sign in to subscribeOkay. Good afternoon. Senate. Excuse me. Joint Transportation Committee will now be called. Order. Ms. Forbes, can you please take the roll? Senators and Representatives. Basley, Ball. Bassinecker. Here. Brooks. Excused. Catlin. Excused. Exum. Good afternoon. Jackson. Here. Lindsay. Excused. Lind? She's online. Okay. Linstead. Present. Malika. Here. Wynn. Present. Pascal. Here. Pelton. Phillips. Excused. Richardson. Excused. Stewart. Here. Sukla. Sullivan. Here. Velasco. Here. Weinberg. Excused. Froelich. Here. And Madam Chair? Present. Okay. Thank you. So today we are here to hear from the RTD Accountability Committee and their final report presentation. So our first panel is going to be Kelly Blinn, senior policy advisor at Colorado Energy Office. Barrick Abramson, president at Confluence Policy and Strategy. David Bragdon, principal at Hudson Skycomish. Maria Garcia Berry, who is the RTD Accountability Committee chair, and Jamie Lewis, the RTD Accountability Committee Vice chair. So I assume some of them are online or is okay? One is yes. Okay. Is there anyone else that needs to join the panel? Okay. Please. Okay. If you're not. If I didn't call you, we'll. We'll have you up later. Okay. Whenever you guys are ready to begin, please introduce yourself and go right ahead. Welcome.…
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