LAVTA Board Elects Karla Brown Chair

Press release from the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority:

June 17, 2021

The Board of Directors of the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority (LAVTA), operator of Wheels and Rapid bus services, voted unanimously this week to elect Karla Brown to serve as Board Chair for the coming fiscal year. Brown, who was elected to the position of Mayor of the City of Pleasanton in 2020, has served on the LAVTA Board since 2013. She previously served as Chair of the LAVTA Board in FY 2018, served as Vice-Chair of the Board in FY 2021, and also serves on the agency’s Projects and Services Committee.

Mayor Brown succeeds outgoing LAVTA Chair Bob Woerner, Mayor of the City of Livermore. She acknowledged the challenges Woerner faced in the past year, stating “Serving as the Chair of LAVTA’s Board during a global health crisis was no easy task and Mayor Woerner adapted easily to a world of Zoom meetings and helped navigate the agency through the rapidly changing COVID-related rules and regulations that impacted LAVTA services. I thank him for those efforts. I am also honored to again be elected to Chair the LAVTA Board, and am looking forward to restoring our service to pre-COVID levels and welcoming back the thousands of riders who rode our buses on a daily basis before the pandemic changed everything.”

The Board also unanimously elected Alameda County Supervisor David Haubert to the position of Vice Chair for the upcoming year.

This press release was produced by the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority. The views expressed here are the author's own.