After more than a month without an official leader, the Metropolitan Transit System's Board of Directors Thursday elected San Diego City Councilman Stephen Whitburn as its chair.
He detailed the $407 million budget MTS passed Thursday, the ways in which the system is recovering ridership at a faster clip than many other transit agencies and a new all-electric Rapid route planned in the South Bay.The leadership will have to tangle with an investigation into the behavior of Fletcher and legal ramifications of that behavior.
On March 29, he announced his resignation from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors effective at 5 p.m. on May 15, following a tumultuous day in which he claimed to have had an affair with a Metropolitan Transit System employee, who was subsequently fired and who then sued him, alleging sexually assault and harassment. He denies the charges.
The complaint alleges Figueroa"was intimidated by the dynamic Fletcher had created" and says she"felt pressured to reciprocate Fletcher's advances because she knew he had authority as both a career-politician and as chair of the MTS Board to destroy her career at MTS and to potentially humiliate her publicly if she made him angry."
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