Attachment 3: FTA puts BART on the hook for compliance to Title VI processes

Published on Friday, February 12, 2010
Last updated on 09:11AM, Saturday, February 13, 2010
Read it yourself right here-http://www.scribd.com/doc/26798240/oac

Read it yourself right here-http://www.scribd.com/doc/26798240/oac

The MTC will be meeting on February 17th to discuss next steps in reallocating federal funds for local transport, now that the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) has been rejected.  The agenda for that meeting contains a memo labelled oac that is from Cheryl Hendry, Director of Civil Rights for the FTA. You can read it below, but the gist is that BART did not follow procedure, the complaints were deemed valid after an audit and BART has to clean up its act (and MTC has to prove it).

Another bonus in the agenda: a list of all the contingencies to consider in reallocating the AARA OAC funds.

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