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Katrina Jones Young

Trustee, MPTA Board of Trustees

Katrina Jones Young is a City of Charlotte trustee on the Metropolitan Public Transportation Authority and sits on its Planning and Capital Project Delivery Committee.

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To Hit the CATS Deadline, Charlotte's Transit Board Expands Its Interim CEO's Spending Power

Jack Beckett·

Charlotte's new transit authority gave its interim CEO expanded authority to sign technology contracts without case-by-case board approval, racing a Jan. 1 deadline to separate CATS from the city's systems. The vote passed with two opposed, after trustees warned they risked rubber-stamping a roughly $35 million transition they had not fully vetted.

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