{"id":857,"date":"2017-09-08T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/09\/08\/having-problems-with-a-transportation-agency-or-a-department-of-motor-vehicles-utah-has-3-examples-of-legislative-restructuring\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:55:00","slug":"having-problems-with-a-transportation-agency-or-a-department-of-motor-vehicles-utah-has-3-examples-of-legislative-restructuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/having-problems-with-a-transportation-agency-or-a-department-of-motor-vehicles-utah-has-3-examples-of-legislative-restructuring\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Problems with a Transportation agency or a Department of Motor Vehicles? Utah has 3 Examples of Legislative Restructuring."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Tranportation Authority is a thorn in the side of Utah elected officials. They&#8217;ve been studying the issue, and trying to craft a solutions to remove the obstacles they see in the agency.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you in Texas, think of an agency that is a mix of 2017 TABC, 2013\u00a0HHSC and 2011 TXDOT when it lost a billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>3 solutions from Utah&#8217;s elected officials to reign in a rogue agency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Follow Maryland.<\/strong>\u00a0Create a Transportation Secretary who oversees all transit, rail, ports \u00a0and transportation, thereby requiring the agency to report to the State Secretary of Transportation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Independent Agency with no control over finance or big projects.\u00a0<\/strong>Leave the indepdent agency in place but move all finance decisions to the legislature. All agency assets get moved into a state umbrella account that the agency cannot access.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Split the agency.\u00a0<\/strong>Let the agency have its indpendent control over transportation outside of all major metro areas. The metro areas transportation issues are handled by the legislature\/Governor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2017\/09\/08\/task-force-considers-closer-state-control-of-scandal-tainted-uta\/\">Salt Lake Tribune |\u00a0Task force considers closer state control of scandal-tainted UTA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Tranportation Authority is a thorn in the side of Utah elected officials. They&#8217;ve been studying the issue, and trying to craft a solutions to remove the obstacles they see in the agency.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you in Texas, think of an agency that is a mix of 2017 TABC, 2013\u00a0HHSC and 2011 TXDOT when it lost a billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>3 solutions from Utah&#8217;s elected officials to reign in a rogue agency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Follow Maryland.<\/strong>\u00a0Create a Transportation Secretary who oversees all transit, rail, ports \u00a0and\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,23,4,5,24,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","category-ports","category-railways","category-roads","category-txdmv","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}