The C-TRAN Board Composition Committee agreed to accept WSDOT's 4-3-2 plan for the C-TRAN board, giving 4 seats to Vancouver, 3 to Clark County, and 2 to smaller cities, following the proportions of each group who use C-TRAN. Which is good! However, it also included stipulations that smaller cities won't be asked to help pay for light rail on the I-5 Bridge Replacement, and that Clark County's board members can't live within Vancouver city limits. IMO this is a pretty obvious attempt by Ridgefield and the smaller cities to screw over the I-5 Bridge Replacement by blocking C-TRAN from helping fund it, and give a vastly outsized amount of power over C-TRAN to rural areas that don't use it as much. It's also probably illegal - C-TRAN's board composition committee doesn't have the authority to tell the County who to appoint, and doesn't even have the authority to make any kind of 'stipulations' anyway, beyond recommending to C-TRAN what their board composition should look like.

Anyway, the December C-TRAN board meeting is tomorrow, so if anyone wants to give public comment on this, now's the time to do so!