Monorail Board Meeting is Downtown Tonight at 5:30
There’s a meeting of the Monorail Board of Directors every Wednesday at 5:30pm including this evening at Seattle Monorail Project Community Room at 1913 4th Avenue downtown. Some of us will be there as early as 5.
Come to the meeting, show support for your monorail and then we’ll go grab a drink afterwards. Although some people from last week won’t be able to make it this time, we should have a few new faces this week to fill their seats. This meeting is a real short one, so we should be in and out of there pretty quickly.
The Quick Guide to Your Options at Meetings
The meeting starts at 5:30 and we generally try to show up between 5 and 5:30. If you can make it, here are your three choices for what to do:
Option 1: Show up to meet your fellow 2045ers, grab a button, watch the public comment period and then head home.
Cost: About 30 minutes
Option 2: Show up to meet your fellow 2045ers, sign up to speak in the public comment period when you get there and then head home.
Cost: About 30 minutes and some bravery
Option 3: Meeting and speaking, but you stay for the whole thing.
Cost: The time varies depending on the agenda, but this meeting will probably be an hour total.
If you can’t make it, we’ll have short summaries of the meetings up here soon afterwards.
The Meeting Agenda (Simplified)
This meeting is a little different than the last one in that the search committee (which is looking for a new director for the agency) is having a little 30 minute meeting before the regular 5:30 session. Our time is the comment period during the regular meeting, so that’s what we’re sticking to. The regular meeting starts with a public comment period (sign up if you’re up for that), and then will launch into presentations and a vote by the board on whether they should rebid the monorail contract in an attempt to lower costs.
August 10th, 2005 at 8:14 am
Putting whether there should or shouldn’t be a re-bid aside for a minute, wouldn’t it be wise to at least wait until a new director is in place before making the decision? Seems like that should be discussed. (I’m headed out of town today so can’t make the meeting — good luck!)
August 10th, 2005 at 8:28 am
I agree that there is a bit of a cart before the horse issue, but with a director search going to take as long as it will and the contract before us ticking away, I believe the board should continue to move forward with lots of public input. Once a director does come in, if they disagree with the direction we’ve been taking, they should have the ability to steer things where they want them.
August 10th, 2005 at 3:56 pm
I and my spouse look forward to meeting you at 5:00 with our buttons on.
August 12th, 2005 at 7:09 pm
BTW, sounds like a director has been picked. I’ve heard that the new ED should be announced within a week, and that it’s an out-of-towner with transportation experience.
August 12th, 2005 at 11:00 pm
That’s great to hear. Fixing this thing is one step at a time and that’s a big step.