Metro’s board of directors scrambled together an emergency meeting Thursday morning to approve a funding agreement with Virginia on dedicated funding for the transit agency.

With less than 24 hours public notice, they convened via conference call, rather than in person due to an urgent funding deadline fast approaching. But despite the short notice, they took the bold, yet some-would-say-necessary, step of making the meeting public, broadcasting the phone call over the Web and in a Metro meeting room.