The Regional Transit Authority’s board has agreed to pay the agency’s former chief of staff $525,000 to avert a potential lawsuit, after she resigned last year claiming she was the victim of a hostile work environment.
Katherine Bush Felton, who was hired in 2019 and worked under two different CEOs, submitted her letter of resignation in August 2024, writing that leaving the RTA was her “only route to a safe harbor” after enduring “substantial emotional distress, sleepless nights and damage to reputation.”
In her letter, Felton accused attorney Sundiata Haley — who until January, served as the board’s general counsel — of working with RTA employees to ruin her image, undermine her authority and create a “hostile work environment replete with gossip, backbiting and personal attacks.”…