CO: New RTD Operating Chief Faced Questions About Expenses, Early Termination in Michigan Job

The new chief operating officer for the Regional Transportation District was terminated early from his previous job at a transit agency in the Detroit area and faced questions about excessive expense reimbursements.

But an RTD spokesman said Monday that officials carefully vetted Michael Ford’s background before hiring him for the newly created $230,000-a-year position and attributed the circumstances behind Ford’s departure to politics, not wrongdoing.

Michael Ford served for more than two years as CEO of the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan, a coordinating organization for four transportation agencies. Metro Detroit voters in November 2016 narrowly rejected — by a 1-percentage-point margin — a $4.7 billion transit expansion plan that Ford had championed.

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