Regional Transportation District Operating Costs

Legislative Audit Committee. Currently, for purposes of reporting cost efficiency metrics, the regional transportation district is required to calculate "operating costs" by including depreciation and excluding costs incurred in long-term planning and development of mass transportation and rapid transit infrastructures and the costs incurred as a result of providing transportation services mandated by the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990". The bill changes the definition of "operating costs" to mean all operating expenditures, excluding depreciation.
(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)