Metropolitan Transit Commission (MTC) - May 27, 2026
meeting
Charlotte Metropolitan Transit Commission
16 min
2 speakers
3 agenda items
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What is the purpose of the valedictory send-off at this MTC meeting?
We come to our final bit of business, which is, I guess, the valedictory and send-off for all of us. And so at this time, I will turn to Mr. Cagle to provide some remarks.
Yeah, so I'll keep this brief. I came to CATS as most of you all know in December of 2022. I think my first MTC meeting was January of 2023. Learned a lot about CATS and have come to love transit and the CATS team. They work hard every day, but I've also now come to really respect and appreciate all of the support that the MTC has given to CATS over my time in CATS, but also over the 25 plus years of the existence of the MTC. So for that, on behalf of the entire CATS family, thank you for your support and thank you for your leadership throughout the years of CATS and for your passion for transit in the community throughout Mecklenburg County. With that, I'll turn it over to you, Chair.
Thank you. I do have some thoughts that I want to share. And I want to begin by thanking and recognizing the mayor of Charlotte, Vi Lyles, under whose dogged, indefatigable stewardship we find ourselves at an absolutely pivotal moment in the history of Charlotte Mecklenburg. Because of your leadership and the great work of the team,
How did Brent Cagle describe his arrival and early experience at CATS?
some of whom are here but many of whom are not, and I hope they hear us, really have brought to Charlotte Mecklenburg a vision to reality which will help our residents access affordable housing and jobs and healthcare and healthy food and help to protect our air and help to protect our quality of life. And it was your leadership, ma'am, all throughout some very difficult periods that saw us through to this happy moment. And so I want to begin here at the end of our time at the MTC by recognizing and saluting you, Mayor Lyles.
I think it's probably fair to say if perhaps too colorful that when Brent Cagle came into the leadership role there was something of a hot dumpster fire and you know, no, no manager, city manager, County manager, you know, CEO of cats has subject matter expertise in everything that the enterprise does. You hire subject matter experts to get the work done. Um, I would say that you, Mr. Cagle, are so exceptional because you came into something that was in a crisis. I don't think that this particular aspect of transit is something that you did have a lot of personal or professional experience in. And you righted the ship. You managed to bring professionalism and calm and transparency and to, by the dent of the way you did the work and the way you led, and in the middle of a crisis, earn the respect of, I believe, the federal government
and the state government, and me, and the mayors around this table, many of whom had a lot of upsets and concern. And you know, it's a cliche, leadership matters. Look at the history of CATS since you came on. It was a master's class. And I really don't think there's anybody in the country who I would trust more, not because you know every last thing about how to build a train or build a bus system, but because you have proven leadership in metal when the chips were down and all the cards were against you. and I just cannot offer, I can't find all the words to offer the praise that I think you deserve for the way you and your leadership team, and again, everybody who supported you, because I know you didn't do it alone, got us to this point.
um uh i would also like to to um really say thank you to all of everyone who's in on the leadership team and and an employee of cats will you stand if you're here in the room just stand i just want us to clap for you also please stand
And I would like to thank the mayors who are here in the room, online, and the voting and non-voting members, many of whom have been here since they were barely able to vote. And it was a labor of love for all of us. We did this work as Democrats and Republicans. We did it as leaders of more urban and more rural parts of the county. with different needs for our residents, but we proved that great local government and high quality municipal governance is bipartisan.
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