MTA Board Selects Acting CEO as New Transit Chief
Los Angeles County transit officials on Wednesday unanimously approved the selection of Joseph E. Drew as the new chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He will receive $167,640 a year.
“My sleeves are rolled up, and that’s the way it will stay,” said Drew, a decorated combat pilot and former Kern County chief administrator who has been acting chief of the giant transit agency since Franklin E. White’s ouster last December.
Drew, 52, will have his work cut out for him overseeing the politically charged agency and its troubled subway project.
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