Majority of MATA board quits as city flexes control over CEO search
Buses arrive and leave from the Hudson Transit Center in Downtown Memphis Oct. 17, 2024. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The departing MATA board members appear to have been surprised by City Council members asserting a role in hiring the new permanent CEO. One former member called the move “insulting.”
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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