I-Team: Amid budget crisis, union leader questions Metro manager's leadership

As the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority gets ready to ask voters for a sales tax increase for better bus service, concerns over mismanagement of Cincinnati Metro and a looming budget crisis continue to surface. It's gotten so troublesome that the transit authority's board of trustees -- that's the body that governs bus operations -- has asked Metro's general manager and the local labor union's president to enter into mediation, the I-Team has learned. SORTA spokesperson Brandy Jones said in an email to WCPO the board's new vice president, Maurice Brown, requested the mediation as issues with bus operations continue to accumulate.