4959433 Resolution 20-505, “Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Alternate Member Matthew T. Brown Appointment Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

20-505 

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

June 3, 2014         

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to appoint Mr. Matthew T. Brown as an alternate member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

 

            RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Alternate Member Matthew T. Brown Appointment Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.

           

            Sec. 2. (a) The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”) was established by An Act To grant the consent of Congress for the States of Virginia and Maryland and the District of Columbia to amend the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact to establish an organization empowered to provide transit facilities in the National Capital Region and for other purposes and to enact said amendment for the District of Columbia, approved November 6, 1966 (80 Stat. 1324; D.C. Official Code § 9-1107.01) (“Congressional act”), as an interstate compact between the District, the State of Maryland, and the Commonwealth of Virginia to plan, finance, construct, and operate a mass-transit system for the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

            (b)  A board of directors, consisting of 2 members and 2 alternate members from each of the jurisdictions, and 2 members and 2 alternate members from the federal government, governs WMATA.

            (c)  The Congressional act and the interstate compact designate the Council as the appointing authority for the 4 District members.

            (d) Mr. Terry L. Bellamy, who served an alternate member for the District, recently vacated his seat, leaving the District without a full complement of board members.

            (e) Mr. Matthew T. Brown, acting director of the District Department of Transportation, would replace Mr. Bellamy as the District’s second alternate member to the WMATA Board of Directors.

            (f) There is an immediate need to confirm Mr. Brown so that the District has its full complement of members on the WMATA Board of Directors as soon as possible, to ensure full District input regarding important operational, managerial, and budgetary issues considered by the board.

           

            Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Alternate Member Matthew T. Brown Appointment Emergency Resolution of 2014 be adopted on an emergency basis.

           

            Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.