Orange County Transportation Authority

The Orange County Transportation Authority board named Jim Kenan as interim chief executive of the organization Monday. Kenan, executive director of finance and administration, has been with OCTA since 1979. He will take over for Art Leahy, who led the agency for eight years and is leaving to head the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Kenan will serve in the post until the board names a permanent chief. -- Tami Abdollah

Transportation officials took the first steps Monday toward buying county property in Santa Ana that could serve as a maintenance yard for the proposed CenterLine light-rail project. The board of the Orange County Transportation Authority agreed to a "memorandum of understanding" with the county and Santa Ana to consider the purchase of 14 acres off Fruit Street near the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center.