The Chatham County Commission is set to vote Friday on a resolution that calls for the reinstatement of transit authority board members who were unseated by a new state law. It’s the latest attempt by the commission chairman, Chester Ellis, to recapture the sway that he and the commission until recently held over the board.
Under a measure shepherded through the legislature by a bipartisan group of local lawmakers and signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp in May, the nine-member board of Chatham Area Transit (CAT) was replaced by an 11-member panel on July 1.
The resolution scheduled for a vote Friday would re-establish the law that was superseded by the new legislation approved in May and would restore the former board, according to a staff memorandum prepared for Ellis and the commission, a copy of which was obtained by The Current.…