New MATA board approved as city tries to avoid bus cuts
The previous board approved those route cuts and layoffs in August as a response to a fiscal reckoning earlier this year that showed MATA had a negative net worth of $60 million. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Mayor Paul Young told council members in a Tuesday, Oct. 15, committee discussion that the immediate task is to find short-term funding for MATA to avoid a set of bus route cuts and employee layoffs the old MATA board approved that take effect Nov. 3.
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