An example of what's really wrong out at the Suncoast Transit Authority
St. Petersburg, Fl
In what County Commissioners apparently consider a frivolous and
unimportant decision, they jokingly re-elected County Commissioner Janet Long
to three more years serving on the PSTA Board of directors.
You can read the disappointing example of poor governance in saintpetersblog, by Devon Crumpacker, Finite jest — OR — the 40 seconds it took to approve Janet Long’s
three-year term to the PSTA Board.
You can read Janet Long's
evaluation of PSTA CEO Brad Miller at Bay
Post Internet, PSTA CEO Brad Miller's Evaluation by PSTA Board Member Janet Long
Long a staunch supporter of
all things Greenlight and PSTA CEO Brad Miller gave him a low rating yet would
not second a motion to fire the PSTA CEO.
The cavalier approach to
selecting PSTA Board members is just one of many examples why PSTA continues to
be in a functional and political mess.
Long is one of fifteen or
so elected officials on the PSTA Board of Directors that spend much more time
being politically correct than they do dealing with the real public
transportation issues in Pinellas County.
The PSTA Board is quick to
embrace more taxes but short on keeping the PSTA house in order. For example, read
my post in Bay Post the Internet: PSTA CEO Continues to Hang on to His Job.
These public transit boards
like HART and PSTA are proving to be useless and easily manipulated. It is time
for the Governor or the Legislature to step in and remove the issue of public
transportation from the hands of the politicians and put its fate in the hands
of the citizens.
Until that happens, we are
going to get more GreenLight Pinellas and Go Hillsborough initiatives that are more
about moving money into the hands of a select few and much less about moving
people who need public transportation.
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Disclosures:Contributor: Waterfront Charter Amendment (Vote on The Pier), Carly Fiorina for President
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