Two key legislators said Thursday that the Utah Transit Authority Board is fibbing or just flat out wrong with its claims that a new law requires the agency to fire its president and CEO, Jerry Benson.
“I find it perplexing for them to say we are forcing him out through this bill. That is not correct,” said Sen. Wayne Harper, R-Taylorsville, sponsor of SB136 that restructures the transit agency.
Rep. Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, the House sponsor of the bill, said he and Harper had told the agency “for months, and really from Day One” that the law would allow Benson to continue for at least several more months in his job.