01-02-2018 05:13 via deseretnews.com

UTA trustees reluctantly back restructuring plan from lawmakers seen as 'nonnegotiable'

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Transit Authority trustees reluctantly voted Wednesday to support a legislative task force plan to replace their board with a new full-time, three-member management team.The UTA board's new chairman, Greg Bell, told trustees that his discussions with House Speaker Greg Hughes, R-Draper, and a co-chairman of the task force, Rep. Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, had made it clear the proposed changes were "nonnegotiable."Backing the new structure would show the Legislature "that
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