No funding is no problem for transit district in its infancy
By Paul Wood
Sunday January 21, 2007
Darrell Hoemann
Edward Vaughan, chairman of the Champaign Southwest Metropolitan Transit District board, holds up a possible agenda he prepared for the group's first meeting in the Champaign Township hall.
CHAMPAIGN – As leader of a taxing body that cannot yet tax anyone, Edward Vaughan is running a Ma and Pa mass transit district.
He figures he's spent about $200 so far on various supplies to do things like print and send out agendas. Vaughan, an engineer who's a stickler for the Open Meetings Act, made sure to set up a series of meetings for the Champaign Southwest Metropolitan Transit District, just in case they were needed.
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