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Council weighs formal roles for DCTA board member and seeks local ridership data
Summary
Council member Rhonda Hirsch presented a draft roles-and-responsibilities document asking the city’s DCTA representative to pursue measurable reporting and local ridership data; council members pressed for quarterly updates and clearer metrics to guide the representative’s votes.
Council member Rhonda Hirsch told colleagues she surveyed other transit agencies and found they routinely collect and present city-level ridership metrics, and said Highland Village should ask DCTA for the same data to guide decisions. "The data's there. We just we just need to harvest it and see what's going on with our city," Hirsch said, urging a more formalized set of expectations for the council's representative.
The council debated turning the draft into measurable deliverables — timelines, survey methods and reporting cadences — so the representative can both advocate for Highland Village and report back promptly. Staff and members proposed quarterly or semiannual updates covering ridership, capital projects and contract terms so the council can advise the representative before DCTA votes.
