State Sen. Lois Tochtrop, D-Thornton, has called for a comprehensive audit of the Regional Transportation District, with special focus on general manager Cal Marsella’s pay and benefits and RTD’s privatization of transit services.
RTD spokesman Scott Reed said the agency “is already subject to dozens of audits and financial reviews” and a state audit would be “redundant, likely costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
For weeks, Tochtrop has raised concerns about Marsella’s pay and benefits.
Marsella will leave RTD on July 31 to take an executive position with MV Transportation, a private transit provider that operates about half of RTD’s access-a-Ride bus service for the disabled.
Tochtrop said she hopes the legislature’s audit committee, on which she sits, will take up her request at its next meeting in early June.
Jeffrey Leib, The Denver Post
