As a gust of wind ruffled Gov. Gary Herbert’s hair, he said the weather Monday was symbolic of the Utah Transit Authority’s troubled past and its hoped-for better future after new restructuring.
“It is kind of a blustery day, but it is bright out here,” he said.
Then as two members of a newly revamped UTA Board were then sworn in on the plaza of the downtown Salt Lake Central rail station, Herbert charged them to rebuild trust in the agency by improving transparency and more wisely spending its tax dollars.
But a final third seat on that board remains vacant as Herbert is locked in a legal tug-of-war with the Utah County Commission about whether he must appoint one of two nominees it made as required by law — but whom the governor rejected.