The Salt Lake County Council approved Mayor Ben McAdams’ nominees to lead the Utah Transit Authority’s governance board with a 7-1 vote on Tuesday, though some expressed unease about the two choices.
The nominations come after the Utah Legislature restructured the organization’s governance board and its funding earlier this year, with a mandate to replace the current part-time, 16-member UTA board with a full-time three-member board on Nov. 1 — an effort to bring more accountability to the agency.
“These two applicants have great credentials, but they’re very different from one another,” McAdams said of Draper Mayor Troy Walker and Mountain Accord Program Director Laynee Jones.