How are HRTA decisions determined? How are votes tallied?
According to the HRTA bylaws, each voting member of the Authority shall be entitled to one vote on matters before the Authority. A quorum, consisting of seven (7) voting members, must be present to transact HRTA business. The quorum must represent at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the entire population encompassed by the Authority at the time of the vote. The population shall be determined by the most recently preceding decennial census, except that after July 1 of the fifth year following such census, the population of each county and city shall be adjusted, based on final population estimates made by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. No vote by any member of the Authority shall constitute or be construed as an official or unofficial commitment of the participating locality represented by such member.
