Bill to Give Cities 4 More Seats on OCTA Board Is Introduced
A bill to give seats to 10 cities on the Orange County Transportation Authority’s board of directors was introduced Thursday by Assemblyman Lou Correa.
The legislation would give cities more say in transit planning on OCTA’s board, last realigned in 1991, said Correa (D-Santa Ana). “We need a board that represents Orange County today, not in 1990,” he said.
The board currently has 11 members: four county supervisors, six mayors or city council members and a public member. A nonvoting member from Caltrans also sits on the board.
Under Correa’s proposal, the board would balloon to 17 voting members: all five supervisors, 10 city representatives and two members of the public.
Each supervisorial district’s most populous city -- Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Mission Viejo and Santa Ana -- would have a seat. The cities in each district would select a second representative from among themselves.
Legislators have been trying to change the board’s makeup for six years. In the most recent attempt, a bill similar to Correa’s was killed in 2001 after OCTA reversed its opposition to the measure a day too late.
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