BUDLONG SUCCESSOR INTERIM TRANSIT BOSS NAMED.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Randy Floyd, the agency's planning manager, has been named interim executive director of the Antelope Valley Transit Authority Antelope Valley Transit Authority is the transit agency serving the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster and their suburbs. Antelope Valley Transit Authority is operated under contract by Veolia Transport, and is affiliated and offers connecting services with Metro and Metrolink. . Floyd will step into the position that Jeffery J. O'Keefe had been chosen in March to fill starting this month. In a recent letter to the authority board, O'Keefe said he had to turn down the appointment because of poor health. The bus agency's longtime executive director, Bill Budlong, retired in November. Budlong had headed the agency since its creation in 1992. Floyd has been the bus agency's planning manager for three years. He previously worked for the city of Palmdale as a senior analyst and also served on the bus agency's technical advisory committee. Floyd also worked for the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Association of Governments as the subregional coordinator in SCAG's budget-grants division. The bus agency - a cooperative effort by local government for Palmdale, Lancaster and the county - has a new $21 million headquarters and bus yard in Lancaster. O'Keefe had been chief executive officer and general manager of the Greater Bridgeport Greater Bridgeport is the metropolitan area centered on the city of Bridgeport in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The area is located in Southwestern Connecticut and consists of the city of Bridgeport and five other adjacent towns – Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Stratford, and , Conn., Transit Authority. He previously worked for the Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Transit Authority and the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. |
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