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DART board members tell Plano council transparency and subsidy gaps remain unresolved
Summary
Plano-appointed DART board members told the council there is limited staff and board appetite to accept or act on an Ernst & Young cost allocation report; members said service changes such as expanded GoLink zones were discussed but that major funding gaps remain.
Members of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) board told the Plano City Council on Jan. 27 that efforts to get more fiscal transparency and to address what an Ernst & Young study identified as a large subsidy gap have progressed only modestly.
Paul Wageman and Nathan Barbera, Plano’s representatives on the DART board, told council members they have pushed for clearer accounting of what the agency spends in each member city. “The agency will either continue to status quo budget, which is to fund everything we already are,” Wageman said, describing staff and board dynamics at DART.
Wageman and Barbera summarized the board-level response to the Ernst & Young report: some…
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