The TTC’s Audit & Risk Management Committee met on September 11 a short agenda including:

• International Association of Public Transport (UITP) Proposed Peer Review
• Obstacles and Opportunities to Moving Surface Transit

There was also a report updating the status of work on past recommendations of the City’s Auditor General, but this was discussed mainly in camera. The Committee also asked for an update on fare evasion. Staff provided a brief overview of recent events and noted that a full report would be on the Board’s September 24 agenda.

Committee Chair Dianne Saxe continued her style of running a more activist meeting pressing management for details and urging more thorough, data-driven content behind reports and recommendations so that Board members have the ammunition needed to argue TTC positions.

This approach can be seen either as meddlesome, or as actual participation of Board members in understanding the organization under their direction. That balancing act can either encourage management to aim higher, or can force a retreat into inaction. With former CEO Rick Leary now departed, let us hope that management will be inspired.