By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix
The BART Board of Directors is probably the most influential elected body in the Bay Area that most people seem to know nearly nothing about.
The nine members of the BART board play a huge part in the lives of the hundreds of thousands of individual passengers who ride BART each weekday as well as the legions who drive to work on highways that would be near permanent gridlock, were it not for the regional rapid transit system.
The board makes decisions that affect riders in large and small ways. It signs off on the agency’s budget — $1.8 billion in the current fiscal year. It approves big-ticket items like BART’s new fleet of rail cars and has the final word on the district’s labor contracts.
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