BART Board to consider changes to committee system
Written by jrood
Changes to the Bay Area Rapid Transit committee system will be considered by the BART Board of Directors on June 9, 2011. If the proposed changes are implemented the public would get improved information about meetings of BART special committees. Currently there are 22 special committees, on topics ranging from sustainability to automatic fare collection to high-speed rail. There are also three Standing Committees under Board rules: Administration; Engineering and Operations; and Planning, Public Affairs, Access and Legislation. At its last meeting on May 26, 2011, the board requested that BART staff come up with a plan for consolidating the special committees and making the committees' work more open to the public. Under the recommendation to be considered there would be just seven special committees: * BART Police Department Review * District Security, Safety and Emergency Management * Redistricting * Personnel * Small/Minority/Women-Owned Business and Bonding * Strategic Funding Initiatives * Sustainability/Green The recommendation would change how the special committees tell the public about their work. Meetings of the special committees would be noticed consistent with the Brown Act, the 1953 state open meetings law.
