Benton County hired Maya O’Neal as its first in-house coordinator for Benton Area Transit, the county announced. O’Neal began her new role on April 1.
O’Neal comes to the position with a background in local government transportation work. She most recently served as public parking coordinator for the city of Corvallis, where she focused on optimizing and revitalizing the city’s parking system over three years.
Prior to her work in Corvallis, O’Neal worked in the transportation department in Fresno, California — a city with a population of more than 540,000. Her duties there centered on logistics, scheduling and routing…