CATS CEO: Business plan in ‘compilation form’ to come soon

Shortly after receiving a performance evaluation in executive session this morning, CATS CEO Brian Marshall was mum on the reviews he received from the public transit’s board of directors, though he confirmed he will remain the top leader at CATS. Marshall gave no indication about which way the board is leaning as it considers hiring an outside firm to temporarily assist the agency in its growth. On Thursday, CATS board member and Metro Councilman Ryan Heck criticized the board and CATS management for a perceived lack of a plan for reaching expansion goals outlined in a 2012 tax election. Marshall says he is in the process of improving a CATS business plan to quell criticism. “I think what you’re going to see very soon is the documents in compilation form, and that will kill all of that,” he says. Deborah Roe, a board member and chair of the evaluation committee, says the board today discussed only Marshall’s job performance and would not go into detail about those conversations. “The personnel file of public employees is protected and not subject to the public records law,” Roe says. However, Roe defended CATS’s approach toward a business plan and says it is meeting target dates by buying buses and vans in addition to installing a GPS system three months early. —Adam Pearson