State House News Service via WBUR-FM (PBS) Boston, 5/27:
Mass. Senate OKs Fiscal Control Board For MBTA
BOSTON The Senate shortly after midnight Friday morning unanimously passed a $38.1 billion budget plan for the fiscal year that begins in July after Democrats and Republicans came together over a compromise to put the MBTA under the authority of financial control board.
The deal over the MBTA brokered between Sen. Thomas McGee and Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, with input from the governor’s office, calls for a five member control board to given management authority over the T for at least three years, but no more than five years.
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