What do the members of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority really do?
When it’s not engaged in a war with the community about a construction project gone sour, most of what the PBA does is very ordinary. If you go through the minutes of the Buffalo and Erie Public Bridge Authority, you read of decisions regarding who shall paint the bridge and how much shall bridge employees who have worked 20 years get as a bonus and what shall we do for the widows of PBA employees who died mid-year and how shall we apportion the funds to the Canadian and American banks and what tolls shall we set? You read about negotiations with the City of Buffalo to take more of Front Park for truck and customs sheds. You read about issuing and retiring bonds. The primary change I noticed in the sixty-five years of minutes has to do with secrecy. In the early years the Board seemed open; in more recent years, the minutes suggest an organization on the defensive, an organization with secrets, an organization with the kind of we-they mentality reflected in Deanna DiMartile’s statement
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