New Utah Transit Authority Executive Director Carolyn Gonot sees the agency as now starting fresh after years of scandal that climaxed in major Legislature-ordered reforms — and says she aims to focus on improving service.
“It is a new day and a new beginning for all of us…. It’s refreshing,” she said in an interview Wednesday after the UTA Board formally appointed her, and she introduced herself to top agency officials. She plans to start the new job on Aug. 19.
“It reminds me of 22 years ago coming in and being part of an agency that had just started and had a new board,” Gonot (pronounced like doughnut) said about her current Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority (VTA) in California’s Silicon Valley.