With just days left before the board of directors of Chatham Area Transit is due under a new state law to be dissolved and replaced, lawyers for the county and some of the panel’s imperiled members go into Superior Court on Tuesday to urge a judge to block the overhaul.
The law, approved almost unanimously earlier this year by both chambers of the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp in May, calls for current members of the CAT board to vacate their seats by this Monday, June 30, and for the new board to replace it the following day, July 1.
The revamped board would be expanded from nine to 11 members, including the allocation of board seats to representatives of the area’s legislative delegation to Atlanta and to the Savannah-Georgia Convention Center Authority…