Ex-Buc Shelton Quarles leaving TBARTA

UPDATE: Quarles said he asked not to be reappointed when his term expires next month because of conflicts with the time required in his job with the Bucs. The Bucs' GM, Mark Dominik, said the TBARTA role conflicted with the time requirements associated with his job with the team.

"This is the job that I get paid on, and I rely on, to pay the bills with," he said, adding that he will campaign for a light rail initiative.

UPDATE: Quarles isn't leaving immediately as other officials first reported, but he is leaving, TBARTA officials said. Quarles is sending a letter to the governor asking not to reappoint him when his term ends -- which happens to be next month.

Shelton Quarles, the former Bucs linebacker turned transportation authority chairman, is resigning from the board, vice chairman Frank Hibbard said today.

"I was just told yesterday that Shelton had resigned," Hibbard said, saying the resignation was effective immediately and he would begin overseeing the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority board.

Officials with Gov. Charlie Crist, who appointed Quarles, expect to receive a letter of resignation but have not gotten it yet, press secretary Sterling Ivey said. Crist appointed Quarles, who works for the Bucs, and will appoint his successor. Quarles did not immediately return a phone message at work.

David DeCamp, Times Staff Writer

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Comments

[SICK of LOSERS]

Silva = Drunk

[Tampa Bill]

He was in over his head on this whole effort. Especially with the effort to obtain high speed rail funds.

[Maxwells]

Now where are they going to find another "Transportation Authority Chairman" with the vast knowledge and experience of a Shelton Quarles? And how is the public going to have confidence in any Agency that places a person in a key position just because he was once a popular figure. Too bad Brett Favre already signed.

[Ned]

Thank you for your service but go get us a Super Bowl. This choo choo fantasy is just that, a fantasy. The densities do not exist.

[Alex]

put me in charge.i kno everythin and will go to europe wher they kno every tin.

tellin it lik it is

[dee]

Thank you Shelton for your 2 years of hard work for this project. I hope it stays on course...we need it in Tampa Bay

[McLuhan]

Build it, and the densities ultimately will exist!

[Foster will raise your taxes to pay for stadium.]

That says it all.