Got something to say about who leads Sound Transit next? Special meeting Tuesday, with public comment and possible recommendation

With the Sound Transit board having already interviewed candidates for CEO – the only candidate name mentioned publicly so far has been board member King County Executive Dow Constantine – this might be your last chance to offer a comment: The board’s Executive Committee is having a special meeting 4-5 pm tomorrow (Tuesday, March 11). The agenda has a comment period followed by an executive session (non-public) and then possibly a recommendation of who the committee thinks the whole board should vote on. Here’s the agenda document, which explains how to participate either in person or remotely. (You can also email a comment now to meetingcomments@soundtransit.org.) Whoever is hired will take over at a pivotal time for the planning of West Seattle light rail, among other projects.

DC March 10, 2025 (12:51 pm)

The future CEO should have technical experience managing massive transit projects quickly and efficiently. His experience should not include injecting politics into transit and appeasing donors while delaying and degrading the actual transit service. Dow Constantine must not be CEO

Alki resident March 10, 2025 (1:33 pm)

Constantine set himself to get this position and it absolutely must not happen. Especially at the pay amount stated.

CarDriver March 10, 2025 (2:16 pm)

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Since ST has been given a blank check what the ceo makes is irrelevant.
- Alki resident March 10, 2025 (6:45 pm)
  
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  Tell that to the tax payers.

Jake March 10, 2025 (2:26 pm)

I got something to say! Get lightrail done sooner than the schedule!

Question Authority March 10, 2025 (2:38 pm)

Why not Dow? He could bring his lack of engineering and adept mismanagement skills, then hire more cronies to further the agencies demise. Just because he’s soon out of a County job doesn’t mean he deserves this one, or anything linked to it.

CarDriver March 10, 2025 (6:45 pm)

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QA. Educate us on the excellent job the past leaders of ST have done and the fine job the current leaders of ST are doing. Just curious how people think Dow could do worse than the past and current crop of ST “leaders”.
- Adam March 10, 2025 (8:52 pm)
  
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  As a past city leader, he was as bad as the current and past ST leadership. Your benchmark for hire is whether or not he was worse than the past folks? So the choices are really bad and super bad and there’s no other options? Just the conflict of interest issues alone should give you pause.
  - WSB March 10, 2025 (9:56 pm)
    
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    Datapoint: He has never been a city leader (Seattle or any other city). County Councilmember, County Executive, state legislator.
    https://ballotpedia.org/Dow_Constantine
- Question Authority March 10, 2025 (9:39 pm)
  
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  Dow has been part of the ST committee for years and years and therefor partially responsible for all of the issues so far, why promote someone who has helped create the mess it is.

wetone March 10, 2025 (3:40 pm)

I have to say Dow would fit right in the driver’s seat, just look at the debt and issues he’s leaving King County with;) Great time to bail and get rewarded with tripling his salary;) So in all seriousness please don’t let Dow screw anymore things/budgets up and keep him curbside. Any program ran like ST with zero accountability and track record to the taxpayers should of been deemed a criminal organization years ago. I mean what transportation program of any kind can get away with charging $1.5+bil per mile for building with a serious face………

Bradley March 10, 2025 (7:05 pm)

Is Sound Transit really trying to tell Seattle and King County that there are no transit CEO candidates with proven experience, that they need to hire a politician to be the CEO? Seems highly doubtful. Something else is happening here.