Regional transit authority on committee agenda this week

Monday, April 27, 2009

The legislature's Joint Committee on Finance will take up the proposal to create a regional transit authority for the Madison metropolitan area. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau issued a lengthy description the proposal:

Specify that the Dane County regional transit authority (DCRTA), a public body corporate and politic and a separate governmental entity, would be created if the governing body of Dane County adopts a resolution authorizing the county to become a member of the authority. If Dane County creates an regional transit authority (RTA), all municipalities located in whole or in part within the Madison metropolitan planning area would be members of the authority. In addition, any municipality located in whole or in part within Dane County, that is not located in whole or in part within the Madison metropolitan planning area, may join the Dane County RTA if the governing body of the municipality adopts a resolution to join the authority and the RTA Board approves the municipality's request to jointhe RTA.

Specify that the jurisdictional area of the Dane County RTA would be the geographic area formed by the Madison metropolitan planning area combined with the territorial boundaries of all municipalities that adopt a resolution to join the authority.