The letter to the editor below by Jim Skaggs, Coalition On Sustainable Trasportation, was published in the Austin American-Statesman on September 11, 2009.

Ninety-nine percent of Cap Metro sales tax revenues are from Travis County. All Capital Metro Board members, Austin City Council Members and Travis County Commissioners should insist on an immediate, comprehensive, independent financial and operations audit of Capital Metro. .

There are many indications there has been a gross lack of transparency and numerous misleading and incorrect recordings and presentations of Capital Metro’s financial performance and projections which seem to be designed to purposefully hide Capital Metro’s poor performance and mistakes and to deceive and mislead the public.

The fairly recent departure of a long term Capital Metro board chairman, the current departure of the long term Chief Executive and the poor performance and apparent irregularities all make it obvious that a financial and operations audit is appropriate and essential to provide sound bases for the future operation of Capital Metro.

Jim Skaggs
Coalition on Sustainable Transportation

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