County derails MTA tax
Calling it a backroom deal by the MTA and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa that shortchanges regions including the San Fernando Valley, the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday rejected consolidating a 0.5 percent sales-tax increase for transportation on the November ballot. Dana Bartholomew in the Daily News.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority board voted 9-2 last month to put the proposal on the ballot Nov. 4, and county supervisors' action won't change that. But now the MTA will have to spend up to $3 million to print the measure on a separate ballot.
The supervisors' virtual slap at the MTA proposal caught the transportation agency's officials off guard, and MTA Chief Executive Officer Roger Snoble vowed to ask a judge to force a consolidated ballot.
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