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                                   3066
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the  composi-
   tion of the Rochester-Genesee regional transportation authority
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1299-dd of the public  authorities
 law,  as  amended by chapter 388 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read
 as follows:
   1. (a) There is hereby created the Rochester-Genesee  regional  trans-
 portation authority. The authority shall be a body corporate and politic
 constituting  a public benefit corporation. It shall consist of at least
 one member from each county that elects to  join  the  authority  except
 that  the  county of Monroe shall have seven members of whom three shall
 be appointed from the city of Rochester and four at large from the coun-
 ty of Monroe and shall have [one] TWO  non-voting  [member]  MEMBERS  as
 described in [paragraph] PARAGRAPHS (b) AND (C) of this subdivision. The
 members  shall  be  appointed by the governor by and with the advice and
 consent of the senate. The governor shall make initial  appointments  to
 the  authority in such number and from lists submitted as follows: three
 members shall be appointed to the authority from a list of not less than
 six names, all of whom must be  residents  of  the  city  of  Rochester,
 submitted  to the governor by the council of the city of Rochester; four
 persons from a list of not less than eight persons, all of whom must  be
 residents  of  the  county of Monroe submitted by the legislature of the
 county of Monroe. Other counties  electing  to  participate  shall  each
 submit  to the governor a list of not less than two persons for each one
 hundred thousand or major fraction of the total  population,  as  deter-
 mined  by  the  last  federal  decennial  or federal county-wide special
 census. From the counties outside the county of Monroe which shall elect
 to participate, the governor shall  appoint  one  member  for  each  one
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 hundred  thousand  or  major fraction of the total population, as deter-
 mined by the last  federal  decennial  or  federal  county-wide  special
 census,  with  a  minimum of one member to represent each county outside
 the  county  of  Monroe  so  electing to participate. All members of the
 authority shall be residents of the area from which they are nominated.
   (b) [There shall also be one]  THE  FIRST  non-voting  member  of  the
 authority[, which] WHO shall not be considered in determining a quorum[.
 The  non-voting  member],  shall  be  recommended to the governor by the
 labor organization representing the plurality of  the  employees  within
 the  authority and shall be a resident of the Rochester-Genesee regional
 transportation district as described in section twelve  hundred  ninety-
 nine-cc  of  this  title.  [The]  SUCH  FIRST non-voting member shall be
 appointed for a term of five years, provided, however, that  if  at  any
 time  during the term of appointment [the] SUCH non-voting member ceases
 to be affiliated with the labor organization representing the  plurality
 of  employees  within the authority, then such labor organization may at
 any time during such term recommend a new member  to  the  governor  who
 shall  serve  the  remainder  of  the term. If the local bargaining unit
 decertifies its existing union affiliation and certifies  a  new  union,
 the  union which represents the plurality of the employees may recommend
 a new member to the governor who shall serve the remainder of the  term.
 The  chairman  of  the  authority, at his or her discretion, may exclude
 such non-voting member from attending any portion of a  meeting  of  the
 authority or of any committee held for the purpose of discussing negoti-
 ations  with labor organizations, pending litigation involving the labor
 organization, or the investigation,  evaluation,  or  discipline  of  an
 employee.
   (C)  THERE  SHALL ALSO BE A SECOND NON-VOTING MEMBER OF THE AUTHORITY,
 WHO SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED IN DETERMINING A QUORUM. THE SECOND NON-VOT-
 ING MEMBER SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
 TRANSIT DEPENDENT  AND/OR  DISABLED  COMMUNITY.  THE  SECOND  NON-VOTING
 MEMBER  SHALL  BE  APPOINTED FOR A TERM OF FIVE YEARS.  THE CHAIR OF THE
 AUTHORITY, AT HIS OR HER DISCRETION, MAY EXCLUDE SUCH NON-VOTING  MEMBER
 FROM  ATTENDING  ANY  PORTION  OF  A  MEETING OF THE AUTHORITY OR OF ANY
 COMMITTEE HELD PURSUANT TO THE EXECUTIVE SESSION PROVISIONS OF THE  OPEN
 MEETINGS LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.