AGENDA
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Metro Headquarters
3rd Floor - Board Room
One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles
Wednesday, February 6, 2002 – 12:00 Noon
Directors/Alternates:
Yvonne Burke/Michael Bohlke, Chair
Michael Antonovich/Rosa Fuquay
James K. Hahn/Paul Hudson
John Fasana
Frank Roberts
Beatrice LaPisto-Kirtley/Roy Wilson
President – John B. Catoe, Jr.
Chief Financial Officer - Josie Nicasio
Secretary - Rhodona Enright
1. Public Comment
2. APPROVE minutes of Board Meeting held October 12, 2001.
3. RECEIVE oral presentation - Strategic Overview.
4. RECEIVE oral report on meeting with FTA and French Government Official.
5. APPROVE award of a professional services to Arieli Associates to provide continued services in support of the Fuel Cell Buyers Consortium to achieve its strategic goals of commercialization of the production variants of the Advanced Transportation Transit Bus (ATTB) in Los Angeles County and assure its acceptance by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and transit communities; services shall include securing funding from FTA and Congress, in an amount not to exceed $250,000.
6. INSTRUCT Legal Counsel to amend the Bylaws of the Fuel Cell Buyers Consortium to replace a member designated by the private sector advisory group with member-at-large and appoint Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky as the member-at-large and Samantha Bricker as alternate.
7. APPROVE appointment of Naveen Berry as Fuel Cell Buyers Consortium Vice President-Air Quality & Environmental.
8. Consider items not on the posted agenda, including:
A. Items to be presented and (if requested) referred to staff;
B. Items to be placed on the agenda for action at a future meeting
of the Board; and
C. Items requiring immediate action because of an emergency
situation or where the need to take immediate action came to
the attention of the Board subsequent to the posting of the
agenda.
ADJOURNMENT