You're good. I didn't call this meeting to order yet, Mayor Blake. I figured I'd let everybody get a chance to have a seat. All right. Welcome, everybody. I'm going to call this meeting of the Space Coast TPO to order, and I'm going to ask everybody to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, please. Thank you very much. And we're going to go ahead and make sure we have a quorum, but I can tell by seeing all you beautiful people in the gallery here, we already got our quorum. I'm excited. Thank you all for being here. But Ms. Zoe. Yes. Atkinson, Altman, Allender, Blake, Cole, Connors, Delaney, Feltner, Forrester, Goodson, Hammer, Hanley, Jaffe, LaRusso, Medina, Morrison, Osmer, Smith, Young. And we do have two alternates. I'm not going to call them because all the members are present, but I do recognize the alternates, and we have a quorum. Thank you very much. And now we're on to public comment. Currently, members of the public are invited to offer general comments unrelated to the agenda items. The public comment cards that I have here, Yvonne Minas. And just as a general reminder, public comments are limited to three minutes. Good afternoon. My name is Yvonne Minas, and I'm here to speak about the U.S. 1 corridor from Crane Creek to University Boulevard, where a lot of the businesses there are having heartaches, they're having issues with receiving their patrons to their properties. And also, as a resident in the community, I would personally say that the median is definitely not an asset to that particular area. Being on the Melbourne City Council for nine years, we discussed that. We met with FDOT. We met with the community. We met with the city of Melbourne to discuss that. Jernigan Avenue was not cornered off, if you will, as I believe either FDOT or the other railroad wanted that done. So we did not do that. I stood on the mountain top that we cannot close that access to the community. Now we are dealing with the U.S. 1 corridor, where the median, don't get me wrong, I am in total support of the median. However, to have access or no access to the businesses. If you are going south on U.S. 1 from Crane Creek to University, you have to make a U-turn. You have to go to University or go in Palm Bay to make a U-turn to come back to the businesses there. The service station or if you are going north, there is Glenn's Tire where you cannot turn left to go into Glenn's Tire. You have to go up a quarter mile. I am exaggerating. But you cannot turn left in front of their parking lot. You have to go up and make a U-turn. This is totally unacceptable and I do hope that we will revisit this to have access for those businesses who are now losing revenue because they cannot get access. And for me to have to go into Palm Bay to come back into Melbourne to get to a service station is nothing on Palm Bay. I love Palm Bay. They are the second best city in my opinion. Thank you very much. Please thank you for your time. Now I think we need to open up the floor to who is the first and who is the second best city. But before we get into that, we have another public comment. And I'm sorry I cannot read the handwriting. Is that you, sir? Hello. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Jomon Lukos and I have owned the Marathon gas station on Harvard City Boulevard for 22 years. Since the construction of this median has begun, my business has been affected in a negative way. Over these last few months, my business lost around 40% of sales because it was decided to block access into Hogue Avenue, which provides access into my store for anyone heading south on US 1. As someone who owns a business that relates on the convenience, it is hard for people to get into my store, which is why I am asking for some kind of operation to open up a left turn into Hogue Avenue. Also the gas truck, delivery truck, and my, like a big truck or delivery or they can even take a U-turn is not possible on University Boulevard. It's going to be really hard to survive if I had to run this business without, there is no left turn access to the business. And I got so many people already signed the petition. They are, or my customer, they are supporting me. So I need some kind of help. Thank you, everyone. Thank you very much, sir. That concludes public comment. Now we're going to move into the executive director's report, Georgiana. All right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just have a couple items. I want to let the members know that a group of us accompanied Brightline on a DC advocacy trip to advocate for the COCO multimodal and rail project. Mayor Blake and Commissioner Altman were representing the Brevard County as well as the city of COCO. We had an excellent meeting. We met with Senator Scott and Senator Moody and also met the new Federal Railroad Administrator, David Fink. And it was quite an honor to meet him. He was appointed in October of 2025. So it was a very good meeting, very, you know, successful. And we feel really good about it. And they are anticipating making announcements for the awards in June, if I remember correctly, somewhere around that timeframe. So we are anxiously awaiting to hear about that. Moving on to our Vision Zero crash data slide that we review every month. Crash fatalities in 2025 was a total of 92. Crash fatalities year to date in 2026 is 12. Crash fatalities since the last governing board meeting in February is eight. Just a few that have made headlines. February 19th, I-95 hit and run crash kills a pedestrian. The pedestrian was walking south on northbound paved shoulder near COCO. And he was a 29-year-old COCO man and the vehicle left after hitting the pedestrian who died at the scene. February 20th, a 21-year-old COCO motorcyclist was killed in a crash. This was at the intersection of Courtney Parkway and Duval Street in Merritt Island. He was attempting to make a left turn as well and he was killed. February 26th, a driver dies when his semi-truck collided with another truck on 95 and it overturned and erupted in flames on 95. So that was in Mims near Deering Parkway. And then February 5th, crossing guard was struck critically injured at Golfview Elementary in Rockledge and that was in a school zone. So some pretty horrific crashes that we've had so far. I also want to mention and highlight that the TPO won the 2026 East Central Florida Diamond Award for the Southern Brevard Trails Master Plan. And this was this was Sarah's baby, Sarah Crom, and this was for excellence and healthy communities. So this plan is really going to guide our investments, our federal investments in the south part of the county. So we're really looking forward to to try and get some of these trails implemented. And then a final thing I wanted to mention, wanted to end our Brevard Regional Transportation Management Center groundbreaking was very, very successful. We had a lot of board members to attend and that is a picture of some of our board members there. And so thank you all. I know that you, you know, you wear a lot of hats and have to be in different places. So this is just a very short video that we're going to play. The Transportation Management Center represents the moment when years of planning, coordination and prioritization become a reality. It is a facility that will actively support safety, mobility and operations across our region. The best thing was to come up with a more efficient use for our roads now. And the only way to do that was to develop an intelligent transportation system. And so this building was created. The Transportation Management Center is an important investment in Brevard County. This facility will allow all agencies to work together more effectively, share information and respond quickly. Strong collaboration is what brings this project to life and will continue to be the foundation of its success. FDOT is a proud partner with Brevard County and the Space Coast TPO to deliver infrastructure that improves our transportation system every day. This facility will enhance real time incident response, improve traffic management and support safer travel throughout the region. This building is engineered for technical and operational resilience designed to withstand extreme weather and support rapid recovery following major storm events. It will be built to support modern traffic management systems, redundant communications, scalable technology and be nimble enough to address the evolving needs of our transportation network, not just today, but well into the future. That concludes my report. Thank you very much, Georgiana. And now for the public engagement report, Ms. Abby, Ms. Leo. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, board members. Good afternoon. So to start us off before we chat about some upcoming activities here in March and April, just kind of want to talk about our public involvement program at a high level. So right now we have some really exciting updates on our website. I just wanted to share a couple of those. As far as ADA compliance adherence goes, right now we're currently exploring additional tools to help ensure that our website and our digital documents meet ADA accessibility standards. This will include evaluating platforms that assist with our PDF remediation, particularly for very large planning documents. You know, we love a document. And our goal is really to stay aligned with evolving federal guidance on this issue and best practices so that all members of the public can easily access our information. Also, we adopted our new communications policy back in December. That's now available on our website for the public to review. And really, again, it outlines our commitment to effective, consistent communication. And it also helps clarify our engagement and planning process. And lastly, and I think you'll be excited about this one, we have a new e-bike safety webpage on our website. It recently launched, like earlier this week. Aaliyah already has shared it with all of our law enforcement agencies. We'll also be sharing it with our committees and our board. But it provides information on Florida's current e-bike classification and laws, which we're continuing to monitor as we know that's evolving quickly. Highlights local municipal ordinances currently in Brevard. And includes helmet and equipment recommendations along with downloadable education resources per FDOT. Again, it's already been quite the hit with our agencies. They're really excited that we have kind of a unified space that they can also utilize now. And there's a QR code outside on the sign-in table if you're interested in looking at it. But we'll also follow up via email. Moving on, looking at our communications for January and February. This is just a quick snapshot of some of the things that were trending specifically on social media. Top content that we saw was we had a lot of project updates that we shared on behalf of FDOT. Those always garner real engagement. And then, of course, we showcased our groundbreaking event, which had a huge success out in the community. We also had some great news media coverage of that specific event. And thank you again to all who joined us. Looking forward, March is a busy month when it comes to what we'll be spotlighting on social media. These are just a few big ones. It's Florida Bicycle Month, so you're going to see a lot of content about laws, trails in Brevard County, working, of course, e-bike safety. That's a big one. There's also Women's History Month, so we highlight some trailblazers, women in transportation. St. Patrick's Day is around the corner, so we will be promoting that buzz driving is drunk driving, so please designate a sober driver. And then April's the big one, Distracted Driving Awareness Month. We know that's a trend in crash behavior that is a large uptick. And then lastly, before I pass it over to Leah to talk about some events, these are just some of our community partners that we've worked with in the last few months. And it's so essential that we have community partnerships in many of our municipalities, of course, our law enforcement agencies. But we can't do this alone. It really takes a village. So please let us know if there's an opportunity for us to get involved. And we do try to spread the love amongst the county. But if I have no questions, I'm going to pass it over to Leah. Yes, sir. Oh, two questions. Councilmember Hammer? Yeah, I heard really good feedback about your event in Cape Canaveral for the e-bikes, and I want to thank you for that. Are you going to be doing any more where you partner with BCSO and the other people to do something more south, where people in Melbourne and Palm Bay can enjoy that? So for that specific event, we were approached by A1A Rentals was actually the one that pushed that forward, a local bike company to that specific precinct in Cape Canaveral where we did a helmet fitting. Definitely on board to do future helmet fittings or any type of bicycle safety. When it comes to specific e-bike safety presentations, we're still hammering that out because it's such an evolving thing. But still open to partnering with any southern precincts if they would like to do something similar. Absolutely. Thank you. Mayor Medina? Yes, ma'am. Well, first of all, thank you for all your hard work, ma'am. But I'd like to share the success of Palm Bay Police Department, in particular Sergeant Bermudez, had a really good educational video regarding e-bikes. And in that partnership, it classifies as the three different types. And I think every municipality should be getting that word out. In particular, there's so many accidents that are actually occurring. We had one just recently on St. John's Heritage Parkway. But the importance of raising the awareness of e-bikes and their traffic safety and their laws is critical. So I really appreciate the partnership. And I think collaboratively, we should all be getting our police departments to be spreading the word out as well. Thank you. LAPD has been an incredible partner, and I just shared that post right before this meeting. So they're doing some incredible work. Thank you. Council Member Smith, did you have anything? All right. I think that concludes it. But I must say, much kudos to Miss Abby. Thank you. On Monday morning at 7 a.m., she was in Titusville to deliver a press conference. And remember, this is Monday after daylight savings time, right? So it's really 6 a.m. And she delivered a press conference like a boss. So thank you to you. Thanks. I'm going to turn it over to Leah to talk about it. Leah Neppo, Community Engagement Coordinator. Long time no see. So throughout March and April, the public involvement team have been working across the county through a variety of outreach events and formats to continue the visibility of Space Coast TPO, Vision Zero, and the work that's happening across our region. Just to highlight a few events that the TPO participated in, pairing nicely with our newly launched e-bikes web safety page, exactly what Council Member Hammer was speaking about, the e-bike safety class in Cape Canaveral, where we were honored to serve as helmet fitters alongside Brevard County Sheriff's Office and A1A Outdoors. And we were able to properly fit over 30 riders. And additionally, if you can believe it, the TMC groundbreaking was already a month ago. So thank you again for the governing board members and our governing board chair who was able to come out and celebrate this milestone in our region with us. And then did you know March is typically the strongest tourism month for the Space Coast, with hotel occupancy often reaching up to 100%. So in response, the Space Coast TPO is launching Break for Break, an outreach series of crosswalk safety sign-weaving pop-ups that highlight different pedestrian safety countermeasures ahead of Spring Break. At the time, Spring Break is when foot traffic in the Space Coast between residents and visitors increased significantly up to 80%. So in partnership with Cocoa Beach PD, Satellite Beach PD, and West Melbourne PD, the TPO is touring three types of pedestrian safety infrastructures. Mid-block pedestrian signals, mid-block pedestrian signals, rapid rectangular flashing beacons, and the newly activated pedestrian hybrid beacons on 192. So equipped with our brand new branded TPO safety messaging signs, we have the officers sign-waving, educating drivers and pedestrians and bicyclists on how to properly use these signals while reinforcing the importance of yielding to them. At the same time, the police departments are conducting enforcement campaigns, remaining nearby to respond if any violations occur. While each of these look a little different, these countermeasures all serve the same purpose, and it is to alert drivers and help people cross safely. And so far, we've seen some really great participation and engagement with our agencies and residents in the area. Looking ahead, here's just a small snapshot of some of our upcoming events. And calling out just a few, the TPO will be tabling and leading a presentation at NASA's Safety Fair, tentatively scheduled for April 7th, depending on Artemis. And on May 6th, it is time again for National Bike and Roll to School Day. Finally, I wanted to call out the Vision Zero Summit that's coming up on April 14th. If you haven't already, please consider registering for this afternoon event. We will be hearing from speakers from Health First, Florida Highway Patrol, the City of Cape Canaveral, and Kittleson and Associates on behalf of FDOT. And this event will also mark the official unveiling of our brand-new Vision Zero Toolkit, a resource that Patty and I have worked to develop to give our community even more tools in their toolbox for advancing safer streets. And there is a QR code outside on the table as well if you'd like to register from there. As always, follow us on social, stay connected, send outreach events our way, and we would be happy to participate. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Leah. And as always, don't forget to like and subscribe. Space Coast Area Transit Report. Mr. Terry Jordan. Thank you, Chair Connors. Good afternoon, everyone. I have just a very brief report this afternoon. While Space Coast Area Transit demand response fixed route paratransit riders have remained steady and hold steady about 8,000 monthly riders, our fixed route ridership we see has been experiencing a slight decrease. We attribute it to the adverse threat of days that we've experienced recently and are monitoring that to make sure that we don't see any negative trends. In the meantime, we, like I said, we're just trying to make sure that it's nothing that we're experiencing that we're losing ridership. So we'll continue to watch that closely. Outside of that, there's not much else to report. We haven't done anything major. And I see there's a question. So Chair Connors. Yeah. Council member Hanley. I just wanted to give everybody an update. I think at the last meeting, we had a lot of good kind of conversations and questions that came up regarding Space Coast Area Transit. And they are working on a more detailed presentation to bring back to us at a later meeting. So I just wanted to, as a piggyback on his report, let you know that. But Councilmember Hanley. Okay. If somebody lives in, because I have, it's tax season, so I have a lot more questions because people come to my office. If they live in Barefoot Bay, do they deal with ours or do they deal with Indian River transportation? Which do we go down then? So demand response trips do originate and also end in Barefoot Bay. So we do have pickups in Barefoot Bay for demand response. I can't really. I do apologize. Is that better? Yeah. Okay. So there's no fixed route service where someone walks out to the bus stop and picks up a bus in Barefoot Bay. But for door to door ridership, which an individual is going to places like a doctor's appointment, things of that nature, we do have that service. However, Barefoot Bay residents also have a designated van that is specifically utilized by the residents there. So they can, if they live in Barefoot Bay, they can sign up for that service and have the service provided to them directly. Okay. So, but it's, I mean, I'm just asking this question. Is it like if they had to go to the courthouse for some paperwork or things like that, will it just take them to doctor's office in the grocery store or can they go to something like that? Because I know some things do and some things don't. Yes, ma'am. And I'll be glad to share some specific information with you afterwards if need be. But just for the benefit of the group, if a person qualifies for transportation disadvantage, which is typically a person who is disabled or over the age of 60, and in some cases income limits, they qualify for that type of service to go to life-sustaining things. So primarily doctor, groceries, but there are also some cases where something like you mentioned going to the courthouse may qualify for the services they can utilize. Okay. That's what I was just wondering because, like I said, there's certain ones that you can only do this or that, so. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Thank you very much. I don't see any other questions. Thank you. Excuse me. Councilmember Mark. Thank you. The last time I was here, the biggest challenge that you were, that's what I got out of your presentation. Thank you. Okay. I'm sure there are other critical needs. Most definitely. To respond to that, we actually are almost in the last steps of kicking off a CDL training program. Currently, to be an operator at Space Coast Sierra Transit, you have to come in with at least a year's worth of experience operating a large vehicle, and with the CDL and passenger endorsements. So you're required to have that coming in the door. We're kicking off a program where we will train an individual that has nothing more than five years of driving experience in a typical passenger vehicle, and we'll take them through the entire process to get them their CDL and passenger endorsement within our department. One of the things that we will require is at least a year's worth of dedication to the organization, but outside of that, that's going to be it. So we anticipate this will increase our candidate pool significantly, because right now we're getting, I don't see any school board individuals in, school bus, former school bus drivers, or former truck drivers are our primary candidates currently. And outside of that pool there's not much else. So we anticipate that this program will allow us to then hire and then retain operators as well. So that's a segue, is that my thinking going backwards was if the CDLs are acquired by our operators, CDLs are also acquired by the school board. So you had mentioned in your previous presentation that a lot of your operators were working a lot of overtime. That is correct. Okay, so is there positions for school board drivers or school bus drivers to work some of those shorter hours, five hours, four hours, reaching out and seeing what kind of a pool of people you can get, you can work with the school board, of course, you know, and try to collaborate together on that. That would be just one thing that may take some of the pain and some of the cost out of the equation. The second thing I would mention also is have you reached out to the veterans organizations? Some of these guys come back and they can drive tanks. So I think they passed the CDL test, you know, of sorts. But I think there's a varied and deep wealth of opportunity. I'm happy to just say it out loud to you. It's your gig, not mine. But that's what I walked away with last night. Well, thank you for the recommendations. And we have collaborated with the school board in the past. We have a current small group of part-time operators that are also currently school bus drivers as well. We definitely don't go that route too much because it's seen as a competition more than it is a collaboration, unfortunately. Not from our position, but we find that to be a concern that's brought up. I also sit on a board which a couple individuals in the room are familiar with called the local coordinating board. And one of our members there is from the Veterans Administration. And so we collaborate with them as well on a regular basis. Thank you. Thank you very much for the recommendations and the comments. Councilmember Hammer. Yes, we have a lady that comes to our council meetings and discusses the running times being behind for Palm Bay. Would I be able to let her know there is a CDL program that's coming out to possibly bring more bus drivers and alleviate those waiting times? Because she likes to remind me every week, so I would love to give her an answer where something that's happening to alleviate the, I mean, some of them she said she had to wait an hour and a half extra for a bus on Babcock. I would ask that if you don't mind putting that individual directly in touch with us, I can see about responding to the concern directly. Once again, for the benefit of the group, it all just depends on what the concern is. Very likely more bus drivers won't relieve this issue that if I understood it correctly, if she's waiting for a bus and it's running late, it's not because there's too few bus drivers, it's very likely because there's been congestion that's causing the bus to run behind schedule. But I would have to look into the specifics. We don't have any congestion in Palm Bay. No, exactly. Unheard of. Thank you. Thank you very much. All in cocoa. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Interestingly that you bring that up, Deputy Mayor Jaffe was in Titusville and he texted me on a Saturday and said, why do you have so much traffic up here? And I was just like, come on, man. I know. I know. I know. But as we talked about in the last meeting, we are a quinti modal form of transportation in our county. And so to kind of kick off a new report, if you will, is we're going to do an update from air, space and sea. So my air friends, I see two of them right there in front of me. If you guys would like to give an update on Melbourne Airport, happy to hear it. Not prepared. I haven't prepared anything. I mean, moving forward, if that's what you want, then by all means, I'll work with the director and all the, and the executive director, and bring you a full, comprehensive plan of what's going on and how it's going on. Right now, there are about five projects I can't talk about. All right? That sounds great, though. It comes down to about 20,000 jobs. Okay? But I will tell you, though, that we are doing a lot of shuffling. Embraer is going to break ground on another piece of property that they, their final option. Dassault has requested another 40 acres because they want to just change, not just from maintenance. Now they want to do some small manufacturing there. Both organizations are backlogged. We know that the 176 acres that we bought, there's constant conversation about it and how that gets maneuvered and how we get the right people there. And it's all going to be defense, basically. That's defense of aerospace. But Melbourne is, as a Melbourne Airport Authority member, and this guy is too, and also on Melbourne City Council. God, I see you too much. But we are moving forward at speed of light, absolutely speed of light. And so if you want a more comprehensive understanding of what we're doing there and how we're doing it and what our long-range plans are and what we've already accomplished in our back plans, happy to provide that for you at the next meeting. Very much appreciate it. Sure. It was just more of trying to create a working dialogue between all of our different agencies. Kind of like last meeting, we kind of talked a little bit about the port. We have Space Florida here. We have FDOT here. It's about bringing all the heads in the room. And hopefully at our future meetings, Kevin Daughtry, who runs the Tyco Airports, will also be able to join us. So you won't be the only airport here. But, you know, just kind of keep the dialogue going between all of us. So appreciate it. And what's happening right now is not going to be the same as happening tomorrow or what happened yesterday. So it moves that fast. So I'll be more than happy to give you the long-range plans and what we've accomplished. Beyond that, I'll leave it up to the director, Greg Donovan, who is a master of disaster on that. Perfect. So I'll be prepared next time for it. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. You're very welcome. Space Florida. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Steven Bostell, director of Spaceport Planning and Development with Space Florida. First off, on behalf of Space Florida, thank you for inviting us to the table and to, you know, give you guys an update on what's going on in space as the board convenes. There's a lot going on out there, as you're all aware. But just a reminder, too, we are a statewide organization. And so we're working on a lot statewide as well. And happy to give any updates in particular that you guys are interested in, as well as provide a more comprehensive report moving forward. Thank you very much. Anybody have any questions for Mr. Steve? All right. Commissioner Delaney. I appreciate you guys coming to the table. I know that there is a tremendous need for and desire for the space industry and the port to participate in what we're doing, especially with transportation. So I'm sure there will be a lot more to talk about in the future. But I appreciate you guys coming to the table. Councilmember Smith. Yes. Thank you. I also want to echo those remarks that I appreciate them coming to the table. I remember, I think, when I first started with TPO and found out that this area is the only quinti-modal transportation area in the world. And I think that continuing to lean into that and talk about that. So I think we already had the rail, correct? That was the previous report. So now we're doing just aerospace and CNN transportation. So I just love that word, quinti-modal. And to be the only area in the world, I think it's something for us to be mindful of. Absolutely. Thank you very much. And now we're on to C. Mr. Chairman, may I add one more thing? Yes. Thank you very much, because I have anticipated to do this at the end as an announcement. But we just got the dates for the honor flights for this year. I'll send you, Georgina, all of the information and the dates and everything else. Thank you. But we got six flights set. We get there at 4 o'clock in the morning as board members. And then we go back again at 10 and 11 o'clock at night to welcome them back. So it's a long day for us, but it's longer for them. And it was a much longer life for them as well, too. So if nothing else, the first one is coming up on April 11th, Honor Flight. And you're all welcome to come. Be my guest. Come and join me. Mr. Chair. Vice Mayor. Yes. I would just like to say that you spoke about the Honor Flight. I went on the Honor Flight in October. And there were 49 of us old war guys there. And when we came back to Melbourne, I don't think there was a dry eye. Because when I came back from Vietnam in 1971, I got spit on and I got called names. We walked into the Melbourne airport and it was like unbelievable. And I really appreciate it for all that they do for us. And we're only going to get better each time. Okay. And thank you for your service. Thank you. Council Member LaRusso. Perfect update. You nailed it. Thank you. I really appreciate it. And I'm right. No. It doesn't have to be over the top. It's just about, again, just connecting dots and making sure we in the North End or Southern all kind of know what's going on throughout the county. So appreciate that. Thank you. Now, on to the sea portion. Is there anybody from the port? Mr. Allender, did you want to give us an update? Or is there anybody that would like to talk about any updates in the last month from you guys? Again, not coming here today to prepare. And Bob might be able to add more than me because he's on staff. Obviously, the port continues to grow more and more all the time. Working on widening some of the roads in the port. Some of them are working on hopefully starting construction, finishing construction on some parking facilities on the north side. Working towards hopefully within the next year or two to start a new cruise terminal. And now that we're the number one cruise port in the world, if we had more land, we could become a gigantic cruise port in the world. Bob, do you want to maybe address some things? I don't know. I mean, there's a whole lot to go. Now, I would be happy to have the CEO come and give you a detailed report of what we're doing, what we have planned because it is awesome what the port does. And unfortunately, many people do not know because there's not a lot, I think, adequately reported in the newspaper. But anybody visiting our website, which our website presentations, we have millions of people on our website that visit them on all the things that go on at the port. Anytime you're out at the port area, all you have to do is drive off the highway and drive through the port because we're the only port in the state where people have access, I'm going to say, to probably 90% of the port property. You would be amazed at all of the development and activities that go on to the port every day. And we would be more than happy to share that information with you, really. Thank you, Mr. Allender. Appreciate it. And again, I know you missed last month's meeting and kind of caught you off guard. But we're also planning on a further presentation from the port at a later agenda meeting. So, you know, we don't have to throw Bob under the bus or anything like that unless you have something you want to share. Thank you, Commissioner Allender. Just real briefly on the discussion at last month's governing board meeting, we're working on a letter to submit to Georgiana. I don't think there's a meeting next month. So you should have that, I believe, for the May meeting, looking into the tax question. So we'll have that. And also just to piggyback on what Commissioner Allender mentioned, when you come to the port, one of the unique aspects of Port Canaveral, we have more public lands available between jetty park, our boat ramps, all our other areas than all the other 14 ports in Florida combined. So that's one of the unique aspects of the port. And speaking of cruising, I was just on a cruise last week out of Port Canaveral, had a great time. But just to go back, we'll have that letter update to you. Probably, like I said, it'll probably be one of the next few weeks. Thank you very much. Thank you. If you have the time, most people will drive through the south part of the port, because that's right off the highway. If you have the time, go over the bridge, go onto the north side like you're going to the spaceport. Look at some of the development that's on that, because there's a tremendous amount of business and development on the north side of the port also. Thank you, Mr. Allender. Mr. Forster? I was just going to say, if we're going to have major presentations from the different modes, let's try not to schedule more than one of those per meeting. I don't want my butt to go to sleep while I'm sitting here listening. Sorry. Correct. And that's why we're all about being efficient and effective and giving people the information they need to take back to their local municipalities. And that's why hopefully just having a more monthly kind of update briefly. And then, of course, maybe once a year more in depth would make a little bit of sense from each agency. But I appreciate you guys for being here. And also just to kind of follow up for those who weren't here last month that we were debating different funding sources and retail fuel sales tax. And does fuel coming shipped in does that is that categorized on the same level? So there was some some details there that we did not know that they were going back to research to bring back to us so that we can hopefully have a better idea. And speaking of that, when we were discussing funding sources, after the meeting, the executive director and I were talking and the TPO has some money in their budget, where they could actually do a study to see if a fuel tax was levied, how much would it generate per municipality and how much of that generation would come from residents versus non-residents. And I think it's really important if anybody is looking at taking this conversation back to the local municipality for you guys to have all the data. And so I believe we wouldn't even really need the board's approval because it falls under a certain threshold. But I was hoping to get some feedback from you guys to see if you would find that information helpful in terms of decision making and planning going into the future. Sounds like I got a bunch of nods. So we're good on that. So staff knows what to do. And now we're going to introduce our favorite friend, Chuck, from the Florida Department of Transportation. Glad to be the favorite. So I have two upcoming projects to brief and one project that has reached completion. First of all, the two projects are both on State Road 519, Fisk Boulevard, and both are awarded to the same contractor, both starting on April 17th and both ending around fall of 2026. The first one shown up on the slide is between Barbara Jenkins Street and State Road 520, which is King Street in the city of Rockledge. This project includes reducing the speed limit to 35 within the project limits, along with extending the northbound right turn lane beyond Stone Street. Construction of a shared use path, construction of a concrete separator between the northbound and southbound lanes, and a mid-block crossing with a rectangular rapid flashing beacon, or RRFB. And the second project is going to be located at the intersection of Fisk Boulevard and Levitt Parkway slash Lakemoor Boulevard. And this intersection improvement project will include the new traffic signals that will provide left turn access onto Fisk Boulevard, four new crosswalks with pedestrian crossing signals, and an ADA compliant pedestrian ramp. And for the completed project, the State Road 401 Bridge Canal Bridge Rehabilitation Project has completed work and the punch list items, receiving final acceptance on March the 2nd, this month. Okay, on the future here, we got two hiring events going on that FDOT will be a part of. On March 16th, FDOT will actually host the Road to Your Future Transportation Hiring Event from 10 a.m. to 2 o'clock p.m. at the Wildwood Community Center in Wildwood, Florida. This is a free event to provide job seekers with an opportunity to connect with transportation contractors, FDOT representatives, and local city and county representatives for exposure to the many different diverse career paths available now in the growing transportation industry. The second event will take place on March 30th at UCF, and it's called the Pathways to Public Careers. This will be from 1 o'clock to 4 o'clock p.m. at the UCF Student Union in Orlando. This career fair will be visited by Florida Department of Transportation as well as Seminole, Brevard, and Volusia County representatives, the city of Melbourne and Orlando, and the Orange County Fire Rescue Department. There is still room for other municipalities that are interested, and registration ends on March 16th. In closing, some of you are aware that every year, the FDOT along with the Space Coast TPO have to conduct a joint certification. First of all, the central office had reduced its usual 50-page joint certification package to an eight-pager, which was very nice and made the process much more smoother and easier this year. It is a two-part evaluation. Part one is completed by Space Coast TPO to verify their compliance with the state and federal statutes utilizing the funds awarded for MPO business, developing required plans, documents, and financial tracking. The MPO also has an opportunity to share their accomplishments for 2025. Part two involves FDOT, and we evaluate the invoices, planning documents, and develop questions to be asked to the MPO, basically offering any assistance or support for the following year in 2026. I actually conducted the review of Space Coast TPO, and my job was to look at all invoices in 2025, take note of how many invoices were late, how many invoices had a significant finding, and also review some supporting documents to also see if there were any significant findings. And when I sum up those totals, we get the final score. This year, no surprise, Space Coast, zero. No significant findings, no late invoices. Just like the last two years I worked with them, did an excellent job. Kudos to Georgiana and her staff, and that'll be two for Sarah today, right? Okay, so that, Mr. Chair, that concludes my report. Thank you, Mr. Chuck. How many invoices did you have to go through? Uh, 14. Oh, that's not too bad. Commissioner Delaney? Thank you. I was just wondering, following up about, did you happen to get with FDOT about 95 and the reflectors, and what happened there? I have been working that, and I've asked a lot of people to work with that throughout FDOT, and basically the bottom line is we can't find a single solitary answer. It's just a culmination of many things, especially the friction course. Right. It's apparently has been a problem throughout the state at that time, and I don't know if they've proven it yet or not, but it might have been something with the binder that they, that the manufacturer gave us. Well, because they, it had to have been the placement of them. Are they saying that the, that it shifted, that they did put it in the proper place, and then they shifted? Oh, we're not talking about the original, the last resurfacing we're talking about. So in, from Rockledge to Vieira, that section of 95 just got redone, and the reflector things, the little plastic things, both are offset of the lane lines. I guess I misunderstood what you were asking last time. Okay. So there's, in some areas, it's like a foot of difference. Okay. And that has to be quality control. I can't imagine, like... They just got up and walked. Yeah. Yeah. And so, like, the contractor obviously placed them wrong, and then it was missed by quality control, or...? I, okay. Now that, I'm a little clearer on what was asked, so I'll be sure to look into that for you. Okay. But you also did ask about the, the condition of the I-95. Oh, yes, in the north. That's what I was getting at there. The pavement, it degraded so fast. Yes, where it's scaling up and all that. Yes. The friction course, that's what I was talking about. Oh, okay. But I'll, I'll find out about the reflector for you. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. But regardless, 95 North Brevard is being repaved as we speak. Yes. So, well job, good job. And, well, we're on that subject. If you don't mind, Mr. Chair, I'll just mention that the I-95 resurfacing from Citrus Boulevard to Addison Canal, this is going to be receiving its letting date in July 29th, so, July 29th, so probably August, September, they should be starting on that resurface as well. Awesome. Thank you very much. Mayor Medina. Thank you for the report. Um, you know, it's often said that the wheels of government turn ever so slowly. And a few years ago, uh, the city of Palm Bay had a, a devastating accident, uh, off of 95, and it was created by the congestion level of, of traffic, people trying to, uh, avert getting in line to exit. And, um, Secretary Tyler heard our cry, and I, I want to commend Secretary Tyler. He elevated the study, the PD and E study. And I'm, I'm proud to, to say how grateful I am, and along with my colleagues in the city of Palm Bay, that, that, uh, second lane exit, coming off of 95 is in progress, and I am so grateful I wanted to, off on the Malabar Road extension, and I wanted to just express my gratitude to Secretary Tyler on behalf of the citizens of Palm Bay. So thank you. So thank you. On behalf of Secretary Tyler, thank you as well. Mayor Asmer. Mayor Asmer. So I had an interesting thing blow up my phone this week. As we know, the, uh, 513 from Patrick to O'Galley's getting ready to have that road work done. And as we all know, it's a pain during that actual road work. Um, however, I was having citizens sending me pictures with this 10 to 12 foot high signs that were being dumped in their front yards saying construction work ahead. Um, a lot of the discussions were, do they need to be so far up in my front yard? Could they not have been more in the right away and as tall as they were, um, less than, you know, a hundred feet from the actual South Patrick drive. They're not sure anybody was going to be looking up that high to see the sign to begin with. Um, I guess that I, I know that, uh, I believe someone probably called F dot on that. I know they called the city, the city manager, uh, sent me pictures on my phone. And, uh, this morning I got to see them on Facebook, among some other things. But, um, just, just as a note, um, probably before we stick these signs in somebody's front yard, we may want to let them know that they're getting a sign in their front yard. Or maybe someone to say, could you move it this way a foot or two, or to stay, uh, off my sprinkler systems and things like that. But it was very unusual. I've never had that happen before, but I certainly got a lot of it this week. Thank you, Mayor Osmer. Moving on to consent. Does anybody want to pull any items from the consent? Seeing none, Georgiana, can you read them for the record, please? Certainly. Um, 4A is approval of the TPO governing board meeting minutes of February the 12th. 4B, committee appointments. 4C, fiscal year 2025, community transportation coordinator evaluation. 4D is the amended and restated interlocal for the creation of the Central Florida NPO Alliance. And 4E is work order 26-01V. It's for transit support services. That is the consent agenda. Thank you very much. Is there a motion to approve consent? Motion. Second. Commissioner Allender, who was the second? Second. Seconded by Mayor Medina. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much. Now we have, uh, Ms. Sarah Crum for the draft FYI 2728 Unified Planning Work Program. Chuck, I think you stole my clip. I did. Here we go. All right. Sorry. I'm up here for the next two presentations. So I have a lot of stuff with me. Um, good afternoon. Sarah Crum, senior transportation planner with the Space Coast TPO. Um, I'll be presenting our draft fiscal year 2728 Unified Planning Work Program, or as we call it, our UPWP. You know that we love our acronyms. So what exactly is the UPWP? It is a federally required document that essentially lays out the work products and projects that TPO as an organization and as staff are going to accomplish over a two year period. So it, it covers two fiscal years. Um, so we run from July to June. And so this will take, go into effect this July one. Um, and it must align to federal, state, regional, and local priorities. So previous accomplishments to kind of give you an example of some of the things that have come out of previous UPWPs. All of our long range transportation plans, corridor studies, such as those conducted on Mitten, Wickham, Sarno. Our master plans, including the Vision Zero Action Plan, ITS Master Plan, Bike Ped, and Resiliency. Um, we develop a lot of transportation data and analyses, education and outreach, the general administration of the TPO. So all of the work that goes into developing these meetings and, um, you know, hiring and maintaining staff. The transportation improvement program dashboard, and then our state of the system reports and dashboard. So what is, so what is in the UPWP? Our UPWP is divided into six tasks. We have manage, data, and technology. Prioritize, plan, implement, and engage. I'm going to walk through each of those tasks and provide you a high level update. It's about a hundred page document. So if you're, it's going to be posted tomorrow if you really want to dig in and read everything that's in it. Um, and actually I would encourage you to. So, um, underneath task 1.0, manage, this compiles our general administration, um, all of our financial aspects, and also the administration of our boards and committees. So what you're going to find underneath this task is things like develop and manage our governing board, provide staff development and trainings, monitor, modify, amend the UPWP as needed, all of our coordination that we do with Chuck, um, and the feds on our certification and audits. Another task 2.0 is data and technology. This consists of developing transportation data and resources for us to support, um, all of our local partners. Managing our annual state of the system reports, um, activities related to advancing transportation technologies across the county. So you're going to find things like development of a master dashboard to help streamline those data layers and more effectively provide data for planning activities. Um, and we will be developing the smart space coast intelligent transportation system master plan, which is an update to our current master plan. Um, that was developed, I believe about five years ago. Um, what we also continue to host a local, um, transportation system management and operation consortium and attend the regional consortium. Task 3.0 is prioritize. Um, while this looks like the smallest task, I think it's probably one of the most impactful tasks that we go under. Um, this is where we take all of the work that's completed within the other tasks and prioritize the transportation improvements to ultimately be funded for construction. Um, and so underneath this task, we don't currently have something noting the activities that Mayor Connors was referring to as follow up from the funding conversation. But in the final, we'll slip that into this task, um, per board direction. So this is where we administer our annual annual call for projects, which I'll talk about in my next presentation. Um, develop our list of project priorities, our tip, um, and monitor, monitor legislative activities and policy positions. Task 4.0 plan is where we develop our long range transportation plan, master plans, collaborate with our local and regional partners and other regional and local planning activities. So we conduct corridor trails, resiliency, transit planning as needed. Um, we will be undertaking the, um, developing the transportation disadvantage service plan for Space Coast Area Transit. We'll also be initiating an update to our bicycle and pedestrian master plan. It's from 2019. So it's definitely needs a refresh. Um, and then something new is we are going to, um, do some sort of coordination activity with spaceport and aerospace transportation planning. So we've met with Steve and we'll continue those conversations to, to figure out what that deliverable is. Task 5.0 implement consists of managing and participating in projects that implement the plans developed in 4.0. Um, so we monitor the implementation of prioritized projects that come out of this board and from our, um, advanced 2050 long range transportation plan. We coordinate and implement safety initiatives underneath our vision zero action plan. We will be administer, continuing to administer the enhancing crossing safety grant. Um, and also continue coordination for establishing the intermodal passenger rail station and program. Last but certainly not least is task 6.0. Um, and this is engage. This is where we conduct education outreach communications and public engagement. So all public meetings, social media, newsletters, um, the outreach that Leah and Abby do all falls underneath this task. Um, something else that I would like to note is we'll be conducting a council tour, um, where Georgiana will be going to your various councils, um, to, to talk about the TPA. So the UPWP is based upon revenue from four different funding programs. Underneath our federal funds, we have the consolidated planning grant. This is a specific funding source that must go to transportation planning activities. We also utilize our, the SU or surface transportation. Um, we receive about 37,000 for transportation disadvantage planning activities and administering the transportation disadvantage local coordinating board. And then we get a little small bit of money from Brevard County. This comes up to around 2 million annually. And this breaks down how we spend that 2 million. And so, as you can see, the bulk of our funds does go to salaries and benefits. Um, and then you can see where it falls otherwise. So the UPWP, this is the development schedule. And so we're presenting to you, obviously, today, March 12th. Tomorrow we will transmit our draft UPWP, um, to FDOT. As well as also kick off our pub 30 day public comment period. Um, and then come in May, we'll bring back the final to our technical and citizens advisory committee, as well as yourselves on May 14th to approve our final UPWP. And then work begins July 1. So I am requesting for approval to transmit the draft fiscal year 27, 28 unified planning work program. I have a motion by Commissioner Delaney. Second. There's a second by, uh, Council Member Smith. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much. All right. And just one last reminder. Thank you for the motions and approval. Um, is please review our draft 27, 28. Public comment period is, is, um, March 13th to April 13th. You can either email me directly comments, questions, et cetera, or there is going to be a form on the website. You still have the floor. Yeah. Okay. Just wanted to make sure. Um, all right. So moving into our presentations, we, um, I'm going to present on the list of project priorities development process, basically following last year's, um, annual list of project priorities development and discussion and adoption. Um, we received some feedback that maybe we need to step back and, and provide you more information on how we develop the list of project priorities. I'm not up, up the mic. Um, how we develop the list of project priorities and how we, um, score the list of project priorities before it gets to you all. So, um, our famous bridge is basically we are right there in the middle on the bridge where we're taking projects that are in the long range transportation plan and we are moving them onto the bridge. So they will eventually get funded in our transportation improvement program. So I have a list of project priorities. Well, it is a, it is federally required to guide the allocation of federal and state transportation funds. It helps to implement our long range transportation plan and ensures that we are aligning with performance based planning federal requirements. It annually allows for the coordination and collaboration with local agencies, municipalities and the public. We've already had some meetings with your staff to, um, you know, go over and review, um, the list of project priorities and talk about future projects. And it also ensures that we're transparent, equitable and efficient in our use of state and federal funds. So we are way at the beginning of our cycle and basically it starts with the TPO and we do an annual call for projects, um, that is wrapping up tomorrow. Um, municipalities submit application. We go through evaluate and rank the applications. And then we bring back that ranking to you and may, and then in July you adopt a final. Um, we then submit it to FDOT. FDOT will review applications. We'll have meetings to vet with the locals. Um, and then we'll start project programming, which I'll talk a little bit more about later, but ultimately project programming leads into the work program development. And the work program always comes to the board in December. Um, and then ultimately projects are implemented either via local agency partnership agreements with FDOT or through FDOT. So what projects are eligible? Well, first and foremost, they have to be in our cost feasible long range transportation plan. Um, if they aren't there, then we, they're not considered, um, eligible for fine, for federal funds. We would have to amend the long range transportation plan. Um, it falls under several different categories. We have our strategic intermodal system or capacity, um, capacity projects. These are your major highways such as 528, 95 regionally significant. Um, we have both state roads and non-state roads, bicycle pedestrian trail projects, um, transportation system management operations, the sun trails program or Florida shared use non motorized trail program and planning activities. Um, so we also have what are called boxed funds within our cost feasible plan for our long range transportation plan that we can use the list of project priorities to prioritize for. Specifically bicycle and pedestrian master plan implementation, vision zero, complete street safety, um, projects and intelligent transportation system projects. So I have a prioritization process. Well, as you all know, we are experiencing rapid growth and development is outpacing the available revenue to implement these critical projects. Um, this ensures that the TPO's vision as well as also our governing board strategic plan and the Florida transportation plan is being implemented. It ensures that we're providing sound investments and it ultimately increases quality of life, mode choice, safety and economics prosperity. So our list of project priority priorities procedure follows PR zero seven dash zero one, which is, um, at one of our procedures that encompasses both the project priorities as well as also our transportation improvement program. And in there we discussed quantitative scoring based on criteria that I'll show here in a second as well as also discretionary ranking, which is your opportunity as a board member to discretionarily rank a project higher than another. Um, projects are also based according to readiness and they finish what we start direction. So what that means is that if a project is completely designed, all the right of way has been bought, all it needs is construction is that's going to pop up at the top because we've already made that investment and we want to see that project come to fruition. So projects are scored based on safety, transportation and land use, resiliency and sustainability, innovation and multimobility. And I'm not going to go through all of this. You have it in your agenda packet. Um, but basically each of those categories, a project can receive 20 points on. And so prior to you seeing the list of project priorities and each may, I have a big fancy spreadsheet where I go through every single project and review all of the data to ensure accuracy and that nothing's changed because one year projects capacity might all of a sudden skyrocket because you built 500 homes or something like that. Um, so we safety, we're looking at, does it help vulnerable road users? Is it a high crash corridor? Um, is it on the state of the system? Um, top 25 list for vehicular motorcycle bicycle pedestrian fatalities linking transportation land use. We're thinking about is it, is it improving capacity or in or decreasing congestion? Does it have an economic impact? So is it getting you to those economic drivers and allowing people to get to and from the places they need to go to most community connections? So thinking about getting to schools, education, um, libraries, parks, et cetera. Um, and then enhancing access to tourism, um, resiliency and sustainability. So think evacuation routes, stormwater projects, um, whether or not it's been identified as, um, being vulnerable to hurricanes, sea level rise, et cetera, technology and data. Um, so implementing, um, projects from our ITS master plan, improving freight reliability and, um, and, um, travel time reliability. Multimodal, so bicycle and pedestrian projects, trail projects, um, transit projects, basically any projects that offer the ability for one of our citizens to travel, to have the choice of what mode they would like to travel. So we go through all this process, um, and then we present it to you. You adopt the list of project priorities. And that's when the real fun begins is we begin project programming. And so that's where we actually are taking the list of project priorities and we're coordinating with FDOT and we're trying to move the projects forward. Um, and so we go through the work program development, um, process and ultimately projects are programmed based on available funds. Um, the list of project priorities and our long-range transportation cost feasible plan. So what if your project is already on the list? Do you need to do anything? Um, this is the case with all eligible projects except those that qualify for back boxed funds. I think we remember from last meeting and this whole year of going through the LRTP that we have a large deficit in unfunded needs. Um, and so what we are requesting is that your staff please review the list of project priorities to ensure that we have the most accurate estimates, limits, and phases. If we do not have the most accurate estimates, we can't program a project because we might not project a program enough funds. This is our development schedule. And, um, so we will be meeting with our transportation subcommittee to bring the draft to them on April 13th. Um, and then we will proceed to go through TACCAC, the governing board, go out to the public for our 30-day, um, public comment period. And then ultimately in June and July get approval from our committees and ultimately you before we transfer it onto, um, FDOT on July 13th. So what to expect during the May meeting? I will review any changes that have happened to the list of project priorities since it was adopted in July. Um, and then we will open it up for the discussion of qualitative ranking. Um, we did completely base the long-range transportation plan on the quality, or the, um, discretionary, I'm sorry, that should say discretionary ranking, on the discretionary ranking that this board established May 2025. Um, so any kind of changes and with discretionary ranking might potentially impact, um, the advanced 2050 long-range transportation plan. So with that, I'll take any questions regarding project priorities. All right. I'm not seeing any. Thank you, Miss Sarah. Awesome. Thank you. Great job. Yep. Awesome job every time. And I think it's important to highlight the May meeting is going to be an important one. As we look toward developing our, our plan. Commissioner Delaney. Thank you. Um, I didn't mean to interrupt. I just didn't want to adjourn before. I just had a question about the study that we were talking about earlier in regards to this, um, gas tax. Mm-hmm. Is, can we include the county in that as well? The county was a part of that. Okay. Just wanted to make sure. Thank you. It wasn't just general sense of this is how much total, but each city could make way in and make their own decision. Right. Yeah. Mayor Osmer and Mayor Morrison have a different number of gas stations in their city. A lot. Well, and Mr. Chair, if I can't, if I may, um, I think we'd like to discuss internally to keep the momentum about this conversation instead of waiting to implement it and do this study in July, uh, under the year. Uh, under the UPWP if we could potentially issue, um, a work order. If we have the available funding to kind of move forward and start the process because there's a lot of conversation about it. We want to keep that momentum and, and, um, and see where we're at concerning that. So we're going to look into that. Mayor Medina. Well, part of that discussion has to be all surrounding municipalities, right? Uh, because otherwise we'll be competing with one another. Um, meaning we'll lose resources. I won't buy my gas in the city of Palm Bay. I'll go to West Melbourne wherever it's cheaper. Right. So that, that has to be part of the discussion. Thank you. Mayor Medina. Mine's not related to this stuff. There's another discussion on that. Now we're kind of at the end of the agenda. No, no, no. I just want to make sure on that particular topic. But, um, but that's, uh, so you're on that topic. Yeah. Okay. Oh, council member hammer. Yeah. I was going to think, can we do this study when gas is a little bit more affordable and people are more respect or are more receptive to it? Because right now, even if we mentioned the word gas tax, we're going to hear about it. So I like the idea when it's, when things come back down to ground level. But I think the study right now would just be like, don't even look at our gas prices. Well, I think it's a terrible time to get into a conflict with Iran. You know, unfortunately, nobody asked me. Uh, but I think the important thing about the study is to see how much gas is being sold to Brevard County residents versus non Brevard County residents. While we do understand the tourism numbers, we really don't understand like some of the full impact of what that's doing here locally. And I think most residents would agree with tax the tourists, right? So what is that, that offset? What does it even look like to provide y'all with, with some data to, to go back to your communities? Council member Hanley, did you have something to say? Microphone, please. Do the study now because like we had it when I'll say four years ago now when gas was $5, then it went back down so that we have the information. Hopefully gas will go down pretty soon. Then we can look at where the numbers are. You know, it's, we've got to have the study now before it's not going to happen today or tomorrow. I'm sure it's going to take six months for it to, you know, to get, get the company and move forward with everything else. So it's just, I think that's a, a, a good situation. I mean, right now would be the great time to do it here in, in March because that's when we have the highest amount of, um, tourists. They, as they said, March is our high month of tourists. We're like September. If you're doing it September, that's when we don't have the tourists here. So that's going to get throw the numbers off. I don't know what they're looking at a long different, you know, what type of months we're looking at, because as we all know, we're at the height of the season. But like in September, late August, September, that's when the low amount of, you know, with tourist dollars and things like that. So that's going to change the numbers significantly, I would say. I'm sure they'll look at all those things. Uh, is it about the same conversation? Yeah, same conversation. And I also say, do the study now. And with a properly timed war, we may get, you know, the benefit of saying the study helped reduce the gas prices. Yeah. Well, here's the hope then. All I know is there's a company in Titusville that makes Patriot missiles, and they're looking at expanding. So, Council Member Neumann. Thank you. Three super quick things, and I'll get you all out of here. One, I'm grateful to be here. This is my first meeting with you guys. I started out in the TPOCAC, and now I'm elected to Melbourne City Council, and I'm happy to be here. So, thank you for guys having me. I really appreciate it. Number two, I'm going to take off my airport hat for a minute and have my Melbourne, City of Melbourne hat on. At our last City Council meeting, Council Member LaRusso had brought up, we were talking about our ITS Lake Washington Road project. The City of Melbourne will be applying for a grant for that. The Intelligent Transportation System project is an installation of fiber optic cables to connect the signals of the traffic management center. Just want to get you all support, let you know that we're going to be doing that, and we hope to have your support. And then lastly, I'll put my airport hat back on. I just wanted to do my little commercial that, believe it or not, I've been traveling a little bit over the past fall. Our airport is closer than Orlando for most of your constituents. Not everybody. I think the mayor might actually have some that could get to Orlando quicker, but that's besides the point. But the point is for most of you guys it is, and if you really do look at the cost of parking, food, gas, and tolls. I have actually done the experiment myself. It is actually cheaper to go to the Melbourne airport, even though the prices look like they're higher. It is actually cheaper and better for your budget. So just wanted you all to consider that for your constituents and do my job here representing the airport on the board. But thank you all for having me. I appreciate it. Thank you, Councilmember Newman. Excited to have you here. And a big thank you to our airport folks for showing up, our space folks, our sea folks, and then, of course, Chuck, as always. And again, I think it's important that we're all here. I know it's a little new, but we're going to get used to having more of these conversations and these dialogues so that everybody kind of knows what the right hand knows what the left hand is doing. So I appreciate all you guys, and that kind of concludes our meeting. Now do I have a motion to adjourn? So moved. We're adjourned. Thank you very much. The opinions expressed by any member of the public during any period of public comment do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Board of County Commissioners of Brevard County, Florida, Space Coast Government Television, or the program sponsor and are solely those of the presenter. 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