The local airports authority admits: It messed up. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is promising to do a turnaround from its secretive dealings that frustrated local residents and leaders earlier this year while negotiating funding for the second phase of Dulles Rail, which the authority is building.
“We made a mistake, I have to confess. We should have been prepared for this,” said MWAA’s Mame Reiley at a meeting Wednesday. “To be transparent — we’ve all kind of learned our lesson.”
Now MWAA is taking steps to assuage critics, posting meeting minutes online and assigning staff to examine amendments to the authority board’s bylaws and code of ethics.
“We’re going to be examining all those issues in a very open way because we have nothing to hide,” MWAA board chairman Charles Snelling said.
