The Chatham County Commission is stepping up efforts to reinstate the disbanded board of the region’s transit authority, insisting that a recent state law mandating the board’s replacement was unconstitutional.
By a vote of 6-3, the commission on Friday approved a resolution that seeks to nullify a new law that dissolved the board of directors of Chatham Area Transit (CAT) on June 30 and replaced it with a new, expanded board the following day.
Friday’s vote puts the commission and its chairman, Chester Ellis, even more firmly on a collision course with the area’s legislative delegation to the General Assembly in Atlanta…