CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES
City Councilman Bernard C. Parks has resigned from the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the agency confirmed Thursday.
Parks was not at the MTA board meeting last week, nor had there been a public announcement of his resignation.
In November, Parks lost his bid for county supervisor to Mark Ridley-Thomas, who as a supervisor now serves on the MTA board.
The 13-member board decides how to spend more than $3 billion annually on bus and train service in Los Angeles County. Parks was appointed to the board by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in 2005. The mayor gets to appoint three board members, and he will choose Parks’ replacement.
-- Steve Hymon
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