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New Regional Transit Board Kicks Off Search For Leader

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By KEVIN WIATROWSKI | The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 27, 2008

SAN ANTONIO - The Tampa Bay area's new regional transportation board kicked off the search for a day-to-day leader today as members urged the board to move quickly toward building a transit network to knit together the seven-county region.

The search for a new executive director for the Tampa Bay Regional Transportation Authority board will be led by TBARTA's three-member executive committee.

Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio said hiring a director will be crucial to moving forward with transit development. Iorio was part of a TBARTA team that toured growing transit systems in Charlotte, N.C., Dallas and Denver this month.

"In the other communities, they had a single focus; they had someone who led the agency," Iorio said. "It's something we should get on right away."

State-chartered TBARTA is charged with developing a regional transportation network to serve the seven counties region – from Citrus to Sarasota – that has Tampa at its heart.

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