The Leelanau County Board met twice in special session between the January regular session and February executive board meetings, on Jan. 31 and Feb. 8, to act on a handful of items that couldn’t wait until later this month.
At the Feb. 8 session, the board settled on legal representation in the dispute between the Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA) and Grand Traverse County, revolving around the recent addition of a second Grand Traverse County commissioner to the BATA board of directors.
Although an August 2023 agreement says the BATA board shall have one commissioner each from Grand Traverse and Leelanau counties, the BATA board narrowly approved by 5-4 vote on Jan. 17 the appointment of a second Grand Traverse County commissioner, Brad Jewett, to the board in one of their resident appointee seats.
