Gov. Charlie Baker appointed a five-member Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority fiscal control board immediately after signing the $38.1 billion fiscal 2016 budget.
Baker used line-item vetoes to trim $162 million from the lawmaker-approved spending plan.
Baker on July 17 named Joseph Aiello as chairman of the control board. Aiello is director of business development for North America at Meridiam Infrastructure and a former MBTA assistant general manager.
The control board was a key recommendation by a panel on MBTA operations Baker formed after 109 inches of snow paralyzed parts of the MBTA's subway, bus and commuter rail network in Greater Boston.
The board has scheduled its first meeting for July 21.
Other members are Lisa Calise, chief financial officer at Perkins School for the Blind; Steve Poftak, executive director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard Kennedy School; Brian Lang, president of Unite Here Local 26, Boston's hotel and food service union; Monica Tibbits-Nutt, executive director of the 128 Business Council, which advises communities in the Route 128 corridor.
Other headline recommendations by the panel included a revamped Massachusetts Department of Transportation board of directors, easing of privatization restrictions at the MBTA and a separation of the authority's capital and operating budgets.
Calise, Poftak and Tibbits-Nutt will also participate on the MassDOT board.
