The tug-of-war over board membership - and Sonoma County’s latest appointment - comes as the toll- and fee-funded district grapples with stark funding challenges during a coronavirus pandemic that has sharply reduced commuter traffic and cut into critical revenue streams. The seat is one of eighteen filled by six member counties that oversee the bridge district, which operates Bay Area bus routes, a ferry system and maintains the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. “I’ve never seen anything like this before in this type of appointment. “It is unprecedented,” said Supervisor Shirlee Zane, the board’s senior incumbent. Labor advocates are pushing county supervisors to install veteran union representative Chris Snyder, replacing Petaluma-based political consultant Brian Sobel, who is backed by the business community.īoth sides are lobbying the Board of Supervisors over what in the past has been a largely routine and little-watched appointment. Under pressure from union interests, Sonoma County supervisors on Tuesday could jettison the county’s longest-serving board member on the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District in favor of a candidate put forward by labor groups who are fighting deep layoffs at the agency.
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