Transportation Planning Office on 2026-05-14 1:30 PM - May 14, 2026

find their seats, please. Welcome, everybody. This is the Space Coast Transportation Planning Governing Board meeting. Today is May 14th, 2026. I'm going to call this meeting to order. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. Ms. Zoe, can you conduct a roll call, please? Hinson, Altman, Allender, here. Blake, Cole, Connors, here. Feltner, Forrester, here. Goodson, Hammer, present. Hanley, here. Jaffe, LaRusso, Medina, present. Morrison, Osmer, here. Smith, here. Young, here. And I do see a couple alternates that can make the place. I think we have a few members coming in later, but Johnson? Present. And Koss? Here. Okay. Awesome. Thank you very much. And I do believe there's a few people on their way, and we'll get them added to the roll once they get here. On to public comment, I have the Marathon Gas Station as the list of the organization for public comment. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Jomo Lukos. As you all may know, I have been trying to best to get a left turn on to Hog Avenue for the Marathon Gas Station in Melbourne. And after a lot of requests in time put in, we finally received approval from FDOT to open up access towards the Hog Avenue. But now I was told that it is going to be covered at my complete expense. And I am seeking for some kind of funding that I could possibly receive for this job to be complete. I have an engineer that I have been working with, and he has given me a ballpark of how much the design for the project will be. And I am willing to cover the entire cost. But I am now in need of funding to go towards the construction aspect of the job. This unfortunate design that is currently in the process is something that should not have happened in the initial construction because of the hardship is put it on my business and the 50% of decrease in sales. I'm not in a position to afford the construction costs. So I really need all your help to finish this job. Thank you all for your support. Thank you very much, sir. All right, before we move on to the Andrew, a little context about that, have a discussion about that public comment. So you'd like to open up the floor for discussion. Sure. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. So Joe, as he described, this was something that happened with the mediums that were put in on US one. We've been in conversation with Georgiana and as he mentioned, he received a letter saying that he could request a driveway permit. And now I don't know how to how to move it forward for the discussion. So I just don't want it to just become make an announcement and then we don't really do I need to at the city of Melbourne, do we need to talk about this a little bit more, maybe a sidebar meeting or any suggestions or guidance? Georgiana, would you like to answer? Yes, I have not seen the letter. The department has not shared that with me. I knew that they were looking at some options so that he could have better access for the business. But I have not seen the letter. I'm not really sure what the remedy is or how much it's going to cost to remedy the design of the project. So it would be good for us to get our hands on a copy of that. Okay. All right. Chuck, do you have anything to add from FTOT? No, Your Honor, but I will ask about the letter, see if I can get a copy to the Space Coast TPO. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Uh, council member. You know, their idea is due to safety and we all are for safety. There's the vision zero. But the only problem is when they put the mediums in there, they're cutting off access to the businesses. I have other clients. I know Mr. Jaffe, not Jaffe, I'm sorry, but I have other clients in that corridor and they cannot rent or their businesses have all gone down since having this medium. They cannot rent the properties there. So it's going to be, well, they say we're going to make it safety corridor. Well, there's going to be nothing there. So we do need to work, look at that situation because I have clients in that, in that corridor from university to 192 and they're not able to rent their property. Their businesses have substantially gone down. So yeah, we're going to have safety. Nobody's going to be able to, nobody's going to go in and out of there because there's nothing going to be there. It's going to be a desolate area. So we have to look at that. Thank you, council member. Deputy Mayor, did you have something? Yeah, sorry for my tardiness. I want to speak on another item after this, once this part's concluded. Is it on the agenda? It's not on the agenda. Okay. It would be considered something along the lines of reports. All righty. We'll wrap up this item and we'll get to that one. Sound good? Anybody else have any further discussion about this area of US 1 and 192? I'll get the letters sent. Okay. Yeah, because I think once the TPO actually has it in hand then hopefully we can look at it a little bit more and see what we can do as an organization. All right. Thank you. All right. Any other comments for that? All right. Deputy Mayor. Thank you, Chairman. And let me know if I'm out of order. But our staff recently met with Central Florida Tollway group about exploring the possibility of adding a toll road in Palm Bay to build the expansion of the St. John's Heritage Parkway from I-95 to Malabar and Minton, or Malabar Road and St. John's Heritage, and they're willing to fund the feasibility study 100 percent, no expense to the City of Palm Bay or TPO. Our council is just looking for consensus from the TPO board just for a letter of support. We've got a letter of support from our council and I believe one of the group is just looking for support from TPO for that letter. We do have a letter drafted that we can share. Thank you, Mr. Chair. To follow up with that, Georgiana has possession of a letter that we've already officiated. It shows the unanimous consent of the Palm Bay City Council signed by the mayor. And what we're looking for is a letter of support to get that feasibility study. What's interesting is they will pay the entire amount for that feasibility study, and it would cover public comments, public engagements. And so the letter really details that. And so what what Palm Bay is requesting is a letter of support and we'll be attempting to get additional letters of support from emergency management as well. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. So Deputy Mayor Jaffe, can I assume that there was a motion made from you? I would like to make a motion for TPO to support Palm Bay with this support letter. Second. I have a motion by Deputy Mayor Jaffe and a second by Mayor Medina. Is there any discussion on this matter? Seeing none. Zoe, I'm sorry, I'm putting you on the spot. Can you call the roll call, please? Okay. Okay, and since Deputy Mayor Jaffe came in, I'm going to call his name instead of the alternate. So Allender? Yes. Cole? Yes. Connors? Yes. Forrester? Yes. Hammer? Yes. Hanley? Yes. Jaffe? Yes. Medina? Aye, aye, ma'am. Morrison? Yes. Osmer? Yes. Smith? Yes. Young? Yes. Koss? Yay. Did I miss anyone that's not a non-voting alternate? I think that's everybody. Thank you very much. You guys have it. I very much appreciate it. I know there wasn't a whole lot of discussion. That's why I wanted to call the roll, make sure everybody was in agreement of our letter of support to the City of Palm Bay and this feasibility study. So thank you very much. While we do have a pretty densely packed agenda, we've kind of tried to get it down to be cognizant of everybody's time. But what I would like to bring before you guys is just a quick discussion is the last item is the TIP, the Transportation Improvement Fund and the rankings and things like that. While this isn't a final discussion that's at the end, I would prefer, because sometimes people have to leave to maybe move that up. So I wanted to get your guys's, see how you guys felt about it. Do you guys want to move that up to right now? Or do you think we are through everything and then get to it at the end? Do you want a motion? Yeah. I believe so. I'll make the motion to move it up. All right. I'll second. I got a motion by Council Member Hammer, second by Mayor Medina. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Are you referring to the presentation? Yes. Okay. So now we'll have Ms. Sarah come up with the TIP. The list of project priorities. And the list of project priorities. Yeah. Which feeds into the TIP. All right. Well, Zoe gets my presentation up. Good afternoon. Sarah Krohm, Senior Transportation Planner at Space Coast TPO. And within your agenda package, you do have a couple of items for the list of project priorities, as well as also you have an 11 by 17 of the list of project priorities. So you should have the list of project priorities, but then you also will have maps behind that. And so if you would prefer to look at it from a more visual standpoint, you have the maps. And then just as a clarification, because there was a little bit of confusion at our TACCAC, the last map is the fully funded list. And the reason that there's letters is this is not a ranked list because they are no longer on the list of project priorities. They are a fully funded project. All right. Okay. All right. So if you recall back in March, we did present on the procedure that we go through and the methodology to develop our list of project priorities annually. Our list of project priorities is a requirement that we annually adopt in coordination with our local governments, as well as FDOT. So today I will be presenting the draft, and then we'll go for adoption in July. So I know you all are very familiar with our bridge graphic, but just as a friendly reminder, transportation projects that are pursuing state and federal funds start off in our long-range transportation plan. This is a 25-year horizon plan. Then through our list of project priorities, projects can advance out of the long-range transportation plan onto the list of project priorities and essentially it serves as a wish list. Once those wishes get fulfilled or projects get funded, they then move into the transportation improvement program, which Georgiana will be presenting later today. The process for the list of project priorities development is we go through a call for projects that provides local governments the opportunity to request projects from the long-range transportation plan be prioritized. Once we have those, we go through the evaluation and ranking, which is currently where we are at right now. We then adopt a list of project priorities and then submit it to FDOT. We then work very closely with FDOT as they review applications, they hold any meetings that they need to vet the project with the locals, and then we actually start to program money onto the projects. Eventually the work program is developed and projects are implemented either by the department or via a local agency program or LAP agreement. So what's new this year? Well, we updated the project funding in phases. As projects advance or potentially as estimates change annually, we do go through and we try to update and make sure that we're showing the most accurate information. The scores were updated based on the latest state of the system and high injury networks, so the latest congestion and safety concerns. We moved the COCO multimodal station to the grants and appropriations list, and I'll talk a little bit more about that later. We moved several projects to the fully funded list, and then we moved several projects to the candidate list. The candidate list is kind of like a parking lot where we're not wanting to forget about the projects, but they're really not ready to receive funding right now. So that would be Hollywood Boulevard, the Space Coast Trail, and some US-1 sidewalk projects. We added four new projects to the grant and appropriations section, and then we had a new transportation system management and operations project submitted. So the projects that were fully funded were the Cape Canaveral Spaceport ITS. This is via state funds, and then Brevard County received a state appropriation for the West Central Avenue Bridge in Merritt Island. We were able to move two projects off the fully funded list, which was the Parrish Park Trailhead on Max Brewer Bridge. That was a Brevard County Parks and Rec project, and then Melbourne completed a sidewalk along NASA Boulevard. The one project that we had submitted this year was the Lake Washington ITS project. This was submitted by Melbourne. This is looking at expansion of ITS system to include fiber, CCTV, and other upgrades from Wickham Road to US-1. This project, the design is only $150,000, so we're currently working with the City of Melbourne to create a bundle of ITS projects because via FDOT's LAP policy, we cannot fund a project under $250,000. So the following lists are representative of, well they're one, the draft list of project priorities, but they're also representative of the Long Range Transportation Plan, which was developed based on your recommendation last May when we went over previous year's list of project priorities. So if you recall, we have our list of project priorities broken up into several sections, and I'm just going to go through each section, and then once I'm done going through the sections, if there's any discussion about any specific projects, we can go there. So the strategic intermodal system, there were no changes on this list, so this stands as it was adopted last year. However, I would like to talk a little bit about the strategic intermodal system. The CIS is Florida's highest priority network of transportation facilities, most important to the state's economy and mobility. The governor and legislature established the CIS in 2003 to focus on the state's limited transportation resources. So this is where the bulk of FDOT's money is going is to the CIS network. CIS projects are the only projects that are eligible for CIS funding. So none of the other projects on the list can pursue CIS funding. And so that's why we have the separate CIS list. So the projects that are on the CIS list is State Road 401 bridge replacement, the I-95 interchange at Malabar Road, State Road 528, the two widenings, and then the PD&E for the widening of I-95 from St. John's Harvest Parkway South to State Road 519. We are hopeful that prior to adopting a list of project priorities, we are going to be able to move project number two to the fully funded list. FDOT has conducted additional analysis and within the current I-95 resurfacing, they will be adding additional turn lanes and capacity to support the interchange. Furthermore, a project has been identified outside of the FDOT's roadway and within the Palm Bay city limits. This includes adding an additional left turn lane onto San Filippo. This will require work outside of the state roadway network. The Space Coast TPO is currently working with the city and FDOT to fund the additional improvements that are off the state highway system and within the city of Palm Bay boundaries. We recently had some our federal funding freed up and we've requested that FDOT move the $600,000 onto this project in order to advance this project and move it off our project priority list. The city of Palm Bay did submit a letter supporting the project last week to FDOT. So that is the SIS list as it stands. Next we have our regionally significant roadway projects. These projects continue on to the next slide. State Road 507 Babcock widening from State Road 514 Malabar to Palm Bay Road. There's a very small curb and gutter section within Cocoa Beach on A1A. Intersection improvements at State Road 518, O'Galley at Wickham, US-1 at Vieira, US-1 at Barnes, and then O'Galley at Sarno Road. Our next section is the regionally significant non-state roadways. These and also non-state roadways can pursue state trip or SIGP state funding. However, there is a 50 percent match to that funding source. These projects are Malabar Road from the widening of Malabar Road from St. John's Heritage Parkway to Minton. This project is going to go under design shortly. So it is pursuing right-of-way. We will not be able to fund the right-of-way until we get to 60 percent plans, but I'm talking to Christine and coordinating. And then we have the four segments of Babcock. So number two is Babcock from Convair. Next is the Minton intersection improvements from Palm Bay Road to US-192. Babcock from Valkaria Road to Convair. Babcock from Mar-a-Loma to Valkaria. Intersection improvements at Wickham Road and Post. This project is only pursuing trip and SIGP, so it is not competing for the SU funding. And then the final Babcock section of Micco to Mar-a-Loma. Our next section is the transportation systems management and operations. TSMO projects are an opportunity for low-cost, high-impact congestion management. In the 2050 long-range transportation plan, we have set aside some funds to specifically fund TSMO projects. There is only one new project, and so that's the only change. So we have two Palm Bay projects that are already designed up at the top, San Filippo Drive, Waco to Malabar, and Emerson Drive, Waco to Malabar. Then we have three state roads, State Road A1A, US-1, State Road 50. And we have the new project, which is Lake Washington, US-1 to Wickham Road. And then some of you might not be aware that we do help fund Brevard County's TSMO operations, as it takes people in the office, in the TMC, TOC, well TOC right now, the TMC's not there yet, but to actually run all this equipment and make it work and get the most out of it. And so that's what the ITS operational support is at the bottom. Next section is bicycle and pedestrian. And so this is specifically really focused in on the transportation alternative funding that the TPO receives. That funding source can only be used to support bicycle and pedestrian projects. We did remove two projects that were on US-1. That's because these were addressed in a resurfacing with FDOT. And then we had some minor score changes that just swapped two projects. So we have State Road A1A, Volunteer Way to Roosevelt, State Road A1A, Gross Point Ave to Flug Ave, a trail along 518 over the Relief Bridge, another A1A sidewalk project, a super tiny A1A sidewalk project in Cocoa Beach, and then a sidewalk along US-1 Vieira Boulevard to Barnes. Next we have SunTrails. SunTrails or shared use non-motorized trails is a designated trail network that is only, that SunTrail funding is only eligible to be put on these trails. So we did remove the Space Coast Trail from this list, and that has left us with the Space Coast Trail section within the Maryland National Wildlife Refuge. So it's left us with the US-1 East Coast Greenway project and then another section of the Space Coast Trail. The reason that the SunTrail or that the Space Coast Trail was moved over to the candidate list is because in order for FDOT to build a trail, they need a maintenance entity. So someone to sign on to maintain the trail and following some budget cuts and staffing changes out of the Maryland National Wildlife Refuge, they are no longer willing to sign the maintenance agreement to maintain the trail. So without a maintenance entity, we're unable to, or FDOT is unable to continue forward with that project. We're still going to keep the line on the map, and we moved it to the candidate list and hopefully in the future we can revive that project as it's sitting there fully designed and ready to go. Just need some environmental, you know, I's dotted and T's crossed and a maintenance entity, maintaining agency. All right, our last section is the grant and appropriations. This is not ranked, so this is in no order. Generally, when I get a project, I just stick it down at the bottom. So we did move the COCA multimodal station to the grants and appropriation list. We felt like this made more sense because of, or we thought it communicated better the funding source that the project was pursuing, which is ultimately grants. As it was on the SIS list, it's not going to receive SIS funding, and so we thought this was a better communication tool to put it on the grants and appropriations. We did have four new projects for grants and appropriation. We have a roundabout at Malabar Road and St. John's Heritage Parkway, DeGroote Safe Streets and Roads for All safety project, an Emerson Road widening, and a Grissom Parkway widening. All of these were submitted for a state or federal appropriation this past cycle. So with that, Mayor Connors, would you like me to open it up for discussion or go over the schedule of adoption first? You can go over the schedule and then we'll see if anybody has any questions. Okay, so we are currently May 14th, so we have our governing board presentation of the draft. We will then open up on Monday our public comment period, so watch out for emails, share it on Facebook, encourage people to engage with us and review the list of project priorities. We have our open house on June 9th, and then of course we'll be coming back to you in July to adopt and ultimately transmit to FDOT. So as I mentioned, May 18th is the public comment period. You can email me, you can call me, you can submit it through a portal, and of course encourage your constituents to do that as well. Great. Anybody have any questions, comments of discussion? Really this was the most exciting meeting we ever had last year was when we talked about what projects are getting funded. They got it where they liked it last year. I would like to say thank you. I would like to say thank you. It's nice to see everybody's input come where it is right now, and it's just, it's a breath of fresh air to see everybody working together so successfully and everybody agreeing. We're all, we're all in a place where we all need help, and thank you for your hard work. Thank you for everybody's time and, and courtesy into everything that we do. Thank you. Mr. Forrester. I just wanted to throw, since it came up there as one of our future items and sources looking, looking for sources of funding on the multimodal station. I'm sure you guys saw the article in the paper that had to do with the the audit that has just performed on Brightline. Uh, they lost about a quarter of a billion dollars last year, uh, which was smaller than the amount they lost the year before. Um, the auditor, I think there was a quote in there that said they did not understand how Brightline was going to stay in business, uh, because in January, I guess they have, uh, about a $2 billion note due, uh, plus interest and, uh, they don't seem to have $2 billion. So the other issue just total of the side is they also led the nation in fatalities per mile on their tracks. So I guess I'm bringing this up for consideration is I think we need to be very careful as we go forward with this and, and commit money to this project. And before we write checks, we need to know that there's going to be somebody there to cash them. And, uh, I talked to Georgiana, we have not written any checks. We're still scrounging up the money. Uh, but, um, before we start dispensing any of that money, we need to be sure and not, uh, not buy stock in a company that's getting ready to go bankrupt. So I just wanted to throw that out there. I know that's not what a lot of people want to hear. Everybody's all gung ho about this project, but I think we owe it to our constituents. We're talking about spending a boatload of money on this and whether it comes from our local funds, the TPO is heavily invested in it, the city of Coco, the county, uh, and the federal money, it's all tax money folks. So before we start writing checks, I just think we ought to be real careful. Thank you, Mr. Forrester for bringing that up. Uh, Mr. Johnson, did you have a comment on the topic that he brought up? Yeah. Yes. As well as additional comments. We're going to stay on the bright line and then we'll, I'll get back to you. But yeah, no, to your point, councilman, thank you for bringing that up because it's a private, it's a private train, but it's publicly funded. When we have to look at that, like, I don't, I don't see the, I don't see the need for us to move forward. Like what's the rush per se. So I'm with you councilman. It's a private train, but it's publicly funded. So let's be mindful of how much money we're putting this into something else that could be sinking. So I love that they're trying to come to Coco. So no offense, councilman costs, but we wanted it in Palm Bay, but looking back on everything and just looking at the writing on the wall, like it's not looking bright. So if I could, one more comment, uh, Jerry, you'll probably remember this meeting with a few other people here. We had a representative from Brightline come and talk to us that had been three years ago, Georgiana, probably about that at least. Yeah. And she stood right there at that podium and I asked her point blank, where's the funding coming from? And her point blank answer was, it's all private funding. And then I read this article and they have gotten somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion dollars in public money to build stations, to build right away, to build fences, to do one thing or another on this. So it's not a private venture. It's a public private venture that we don't seem to have any say so on. So just throwing that out there. Thank you, Mr. Forrester. Mr. Elton. Well, of course, it's losing money because it's not stopping at the most important point. Fourth business, uh, uh, tourism center, the most dynamic county in the country. I'm optimistic if we get this stop, it's going to turn it around. That's what I feel. Mr. Chair. Georgiana? If I may, um, just wanted to add that we were told when we went on the D.C. advocacy trip, uh, up in, um, Washington, that FRA is expecting an announcement in June. Um, yesterday we heard that they, there may be an announcement like within the next 10 days. So the federal state partnership grant, we're going to know one way or the other, whether we got the award or not. Um, you know, I've, I've talked to, um, our chair and, uh, and secretary Tyler. If the city of Coco does not receive this grant, um, the TPO's funding is going to have to be moved because we have to allocate it within the year of expenditure, or you have to have a project that is ready to move forward. And, and so that poses a challenge. And so at our next meeting in July, I think we can open that up for a lot of discussion. Um, we're going to know one way or the other. And if we have to do something with the money, that will be a big discussion for this governing board. Thank you, Ms. Georgiana. Uh, she said it way more eloquently than I would have. Uh, council member. Yeah. And she really covered it, but I would just add that we're looking at a mass transit system. It is not unusual to have, uh, financial issues in the building of such system. And in most places around the world, they are heavily subsidized by the government. In fact, that's the only way they get on the road. So, um, just to the bigger picture, um, of course, we're very hopeful. So yes, we need this here. Thank you. Councilwoman, uh, Mayor. So if I'm tracking this correctly, thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, Georgiana, we'll know more in July. Yes. And then based on Mr. Forrester's comments and, and, uh, Commissioner Altman, we'll, we'll be able to decipher where we move from here. Right now, everything is very preliminary. That's right. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you for bringing that up. And I think it was really important for me to make sure we had that discussion, make sure everybody was here so that everybody kind of knew where we are in the timeline. And I think things are in a good spot where we'll know in June so that before July, before we adopt our, our tip, that we know what we have available, maybe not available and where those funds are. But if you wouldn't mind, Ms. Georgiana, not to put you on the spot, but if you could detail, um, the funding and where it's coming from for that project and what we could potentially maybe have available if it doesn't go through. Well, the TPO funding in fiscal year 27, of course, which begins July 1, I believe it's, uh, six and a half million. That sounds right. It's on your list of project priorities. Okay. And in fiscal year, uh, 28. So the funding is in 27 and 28. It's two years worth of funding. Uh, there's seven and a half, I believe. So significant amount of money in those two years, that would be, um, we would have to, to, uh, look at the priority list. We would be prepared to understand what projects are able to be moved forward because you need to allocate it within the year you've got the funding. And so it's not every project on the priority list. So we will be prepared with that information, uh, to make sure we get the biggest bang, uh, for the buck. Brevard County has 5 million, um, which that's Brevard County's money. The city of Coco has 5 million. Um, and there's a $2 million, uh, uh, member project from, uh, USDOT, which is actually a tip amendment, um, which would be then incorporated into the DOT work program, but that's specific for that project. Um, so that is all the funding sources that is on the Coco station right now. Um, if we're not successful, uh, the city is not successful in getting this grant, city may have plans, uh, to continue going after it, uh, even without the TPO's funding due to our time constraints. So, uh, you know, it is very preliminary right now, but, but there is funding that we need to talk about if that happens. Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to recap. Ms. Forrester, uh, he mentioned, uh, that the representative didn't come here and say it was all private money. And then by the same token, I wanted, and I, for the record, uh, I did support this, uh, when this came before this, this, this body for the record, I believe in what, uh, commissioner Allman says, had they stopped here? Uh, this may have been a different case. I don't know that, but that leads me to believe that there must've been a feasibility study. And if there wasn't, that feasibility study should have, should have indicated, Hey, we need to make a stop in Coco or Palm Bay. I would have preferred for the record that it'd be stopped at Palm Bay. I said that, uh, publicly. However, I supported it because I think overall it would have enhanced our community, enhanced just about every economic development that we would have within our County. That being said, ma'am, uh, when we discussed this, I just want to be on record as saying Palm Bay is shovel ready for those finances. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Any other comments about this topic? All right. Seeing none. And I believe Mr. Johnson, do you have something not related to? Yes. Just one, one more thing, but, um, it's more geared towards the road widening. Sorry. Thank you, mayor. It's more geared towards the road widening. When I look at the widening of 95, you look at areas like Jacksonville that are still congested. So one perspective I want this body, this board to look at is not just how to get cars from point A to point B, but how to get people from point A to point B, which, um, to the point Brightline was attempting, but I do want to make a comment. Typically publicly funded, um, mass transit projects are for the public that, you know, you look at other areas. We talked about DC to get anywhere in DC, you're either walking or you're taking the Metro line. So I want us to be open minded when Terry comes to speak and when others come to speak in regards to public transportation on how we can properly fund that for all of our cities. So people can get to and from the port, to and from Orlando airport to and from Melbourne airport. Cause this is the tourist destination. And when people come here, they don't want to drive. They want to be able to get to and from on it easily as easy as possible, but it's hard to when you have to take Uber everywhere, you have to rent a vehicle or because we're not properly funded with our public transportation, you're waiting an hour to get from Palm Bay to Viera or even longer. So that's just one thing I wanted to speak on. Let's not just look at road widening. Let's look at how we can get cars off the road and how we can get more people from point A to point B. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Any other comments regarding Mary Young? I wanted to say how happy I am to see this list of funded projects, 17 items long. That is wonderful. So I just wanted to comment on that. And I'm very happy to see the Malabar and 95 exchange finally made it up here. They've been waiting for so long and that is so treacherous down there. So very glad that that's happening for Palm Bay. But, um, Sarah, didn't you say when we started this conversation that Hollywood had been added to here? So Hollywood has been put on the candidate list, which is basically the project is not ready to pursue funds. The county has taken a step back and they're trying to evaluate what they feasibly can do to make, um, a difference in the congestion in that area. Um, right now, just the cost estimates that are coming in on the widening are so outrageous that the county wants to be able to see what they can do feasibly in a shorter period of time. So what I understand is the plan that they had, it would be three phases from Palm Bay Road and then it would go north to Eber, which there's a, uh, I know they already have a lot of land. They don't have to buy houses or anything there. And then the second phase would be from 192 down to Henry, which they do have quite a bit of property there already. The problem is in part in the middle, they would have to buy that. So I can certainly understand that. But Hollywood has been on this list, I think since the seventies, maybe this, how it has been, it's, it needed it. And now it's just, we only have, well, I should say we, West Melbourne only has two north south bound roads in Minton and Hollywood. And Minton is on the list, but that's not for widening because they decided it would be better just to make some road improvements. But Hollywood is a different story. So you had mentioned it only made it to the candidate list. So that can't even be moved up in this conversation. Correct. Yes. It's, it's not actually on the list of project priorities this year. All right. So is there anything that we can do on this end to get it on the list of project priorities? Is that when we do that at this meeting and get it on the list, past candidate and onto the list? That was at the request of Brevard County staff. They wanted to take a step back and really dig into the intersections. They've stepped back for decades. We, we will, we will touch base with them to see what specific improvements can be added back on. But the, the, the widening, it was just, it wasn't cost feasible for them to even consider having it on the priority list at this time. Okay. All right. Thank you. Well, hopefully we all win the lottery. Maybe that's something we should all do, have our cities buy lottery tickets. But thank you very much for Sarah. Anybody else have any questions? The Space Coast Trail from Playland and Beach Road to US-1, I know that very regionally significant pedestrian way. And maybe you mentioned it and I missed it, but who was not agreeing for the maintenance agreement? Everybody. It's, I mean, Fish and Wildlife, Canaveral National Seashores, they've all declined that. There's the federal agencies, it's on their federal land where the trail would cross. And as well as Brevard County has also declined to maintain the trail once it's built. Well, that's a shame. What, was the park service one of those that was with the client? Yes. Yeah. Okay. It's good we're keeping it on the list. We're, we're hopeful that, you know, maybe there's changes within staff, staffing where they, you know, or resources get freed up. You know, I've sat at the table for 10 years now with Wildlife Refuge, National Seashore, NASA, Titusville, Brevard County, and everyone's very positive about the project. It's just everyone's purse strings are getting tighter and tighter. We have officially made a request that the department move the Sun Trail money that's on the Space Coast Trail over to the US-1 trail in Titusville to fully fund the design phase. So at least we do not lose the Sun Trail funding. And I spoke with someone yesterday and they are, they have made that request to central office. And, um, and so hopefully, uh, we can at least get one of the trails, uh, in that part of the county moving forward. It's basically Sun Trails is just one big pot of statewide money that we're competing against all over the state. So, yeah. Thank you. And this was a project back in Governor Scott's days where, you know, build the Coast to Coast Trail and unfortunately it just ends right at the edge of, uh, the causeway there and it doesn't go all the way out to the coast, which we would really like to see at work, uh, even with conversations with our congressmen to try to push on those federal agencies. We just haven't gotten anywhere. So. I know that was the vision. I was there. Yeah. It's the Coast to Causeway Trail now. It's the Coast to Causeway Trail. Any other questions for Ms. Sarah? All right. Seeing none. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Sarah. Georgiana, do you want to handle the, the tip? Are we, are we going back to reports or? I figure, yes. Sorry. Just go back to the beginning of the agenda. Yep. Back to item three. All right. All right. Uh, director's report. It's going to be short and sweet. Uh, wanted to let you know the 2026 Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Safe Streets and Roads for All, uh, has been released. Applications are due May the 26th. We're working with the city of Palm Bay staff, uh, to develop another grant for them to submit. And the project is the DeGroote Road, uh, sidewalk and school safety project. Um, and it is a great candidate that was identified in the TPO's Vision Zero Action Plan on the high injury network. So hopefully this will be another successful grant, uh, that the city, uh, will be receiving. Um, and then the last item, every four years, uh, USDOT must certify the Metropolitan Planning Process for mid-size and large-size, uh, MPOs. And we are considered a mid-size, uh, MPO. On Monday and Tuesday, uh, we had the federal team with us for two full days. Um, we held a public hearing on Monday morning to hear from our citizens and later, uh, took them on a bus tour to show them some of our, uh, transportation projects. We, uh, took them out to the port, had lunch at Grills, showed them the 401 bridge replacement, 528, uh, and several other projects. Um, A1A, uh, the North Atlantic Complete Street Project, uh, that was completed quite a few years ago. Um, the preliminary findings, uh, uh, uh, was that some of our best practices was public engagement, transportation resiliency master plan, and our involvement in the Transportation Management Center. Um, and then they also thought the Ellis Road widening, the coordination, and all the proactive work, uh, with our partners to help get that funded. We had so many funding partners was also, um, uh, best practice as well. So in December, the federal team will be back here. To present to you all, uh, to let you know if we have any corrective actions, any, uh, additional recommendations. Uh, so look forward to that. So that concludes my report, Mr. Chu. Thank you, Ms. Georgiana. And now onto the public engagement report. All right. Um, to streamline the presentations and move through the agenda a little, uh, quicker. Um, have, Abby has developed a one-page public engagement report that is available at your place. It says May, June, 2026, and, um, it highlights our growth, uh, social media, um, outreach, um, and, uh, engagement events, community partnerships, and any upcoming TPO events. So, um, our public involvement spotlight is the Vision Zero Summit, which brought together leaders across the region. So moving forward, we're just going to include this under the director's report for your information. And if you have any questions, we can always call up Abby and Leah because they do so much work. They're all over the place, but they can answer any specific questions. But that is the public engagement report moving forward. Thank you very much. It even looks so sleek and clean. You can just look at it. You did a great job. Um, any questions on public engagement? Seeing none on to the committee reports. Um, the technical and citizens advisory committee met on Monday. Uh, you can find a summary of actions at your place. Um, the TACCAC recommended that the, uh, the governing board approve all action items. And also in your package, you have the attendance record, uh, for all of the committees. So under this item, you're going to have attendance record and, uh, minutes for all of the committees. So each individual committee doesn't have to come up and report each time. So that is the report. Thank you very much. And now Space Coast Area Transit. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you, Chair Connors. My name is Terry Jordan, Space Coast Area Transit. Um, due to, uh, needing to leave very shortly, I'm going to have an abbreviated report as well this afternoon. Um, in your packet on page 26, you see that there is a, um, information item of the update for, uh, sorry, the annual update for transit development plan. This is a, an update that occurs each year on our 10 year, um, major update. So we did a major update last year. This is the annual update to that. Not much has changed. There's a requirement just so we can add the additional out years. So from 35 to 36 and things of that nature. And it's just a guide for any major projects that we make. They may be implementing in the not too distant future. They're required to be in this document if any updates would have, have happened. Um, as I always present to you, ridership, uh, as everyone is feeling the pinch of gas prices, transit has also seen a benefit as a result, potentially. Our ridership over last month, we saw an additional 5,000 passenger trips taken. We have been actually in decline prior to that. So we're seeing the benefits. So, uh, unfortunately it's pinching others pockets, but it's helping out, um, public transportation. So last month we saw 158,000 trips compared to the previous 153,000 trips. Our paratransit service also, uh, continues to increase in riders, uh, showing a 3% increase over last year today's riders. Um, one of the areas that I really wanted to touch on today is funding. Over the last several months, and thanks to our partners at FDOT, and of course, thanks to our BOCC, uh, allowing us to apply and receive these funds, we have the opportunity to receive an additional $712,000 in transit funds that will go towards operating assistance and for the preventive maintenance costs. Um, leaving shortly to present on another $322,000 that we're looking to fund towards salaries, this will allow us to flex funding to then pay for things like fuel costs, which is a much needed area at this point as well for transit. Recently, on the federal level, we saw a congressional approval of over $21 billion towards public transit. That was a, a tremendous accomplishment. However, we need to keep our foot on the gas bill because within the, uh, FY27 proposed budget, there is a 20-something percent, up to a 23 percent potential cut in funding overall for transit funding. So, myself and a couple of my associates, uh, we went to, uh, DC over the last month to advocate on behalf of the, the, uh, funding that's needed to be continued. And one of the things we really advocated is, uh, $138 billion be for, uh, public transit and $138 billion for real over the next five years. And we also really are pushing for the advocation of the fully funded bus and bus facilities grants. This is where we get our money to buy new vehicles and fund our, our, our capital projects. So, these are areas that both the Florida Public Transportation Association, which I'm the chair of, and the APTA, which is American Public Transportation Association, collaborate on and go on behalf of all the transit agencies, not only the state but, uh, nationwide, but, uh, nationwide, just to, to, um, speak of the need for public transit. As, uh, Councilman Johnson said a moment ago, um, people want to get to their destination and they need to get there in other opportunities other than a private vehicle. Um, actually, I'm going to complete my, uh, um, presentation there, and if there are any quick questions, I'll be glad to answer. Councilmember Hamer? Yes, um, I am going to touch again on it because I have experienced in our city a lot more people using our bus. Um, one of the frustrations that I'm hearing is, you know, I mentioned last time, um, we're still not having reliable ride times. There's people that would love to use the bus, but they need to be able to rely on it, and it's really getting bad. Um, there's some that are waiting two hours, and, you know, we have people that come to our council meetings, and they depend on that bus to be there, and they even show up an hour early because that's where the bus shows up, and the one that I get on a regular basis is bus 20 from Hammock Landing is the worst, and I mean, it's 22. If you watch 22 in the afternoon after four, that's usually when the loop gets slipped is what I'm being told on a regular basis. Um, my other second thing is the safety and the convenience of actually sitting at these stops. What has happened to allowing companies to buy benches? Because a lot of these are just poles in the middle of nowhere. When somebody's got to wait there an hour, it'd be nice to have a bench. Okay, I'll be glad to answer both of those questions. Actually, I'll be glad to respond to the first and answer the question afterwards. Uh, the first part, uh, Councilman, I would implore you to have that or those individuals reach out directly. We have an app, 321transit.com. They can actually put in complaints and concerns and actually even suggestions on that app so it comes directly to us. As far as waiting for two hours, uh, I would have to see the specifics on that one. I understand there's sometimes there's a delay, but it is all due to congestion. We have a route that runs on an hour loop, and if because of, and currently it's because of the congestion that we are unable to make that hour loop. During the middle of the day, it's no problem, but when traffic backs up, of course, everyone else is delayed along with the bus. So we do see that as an issue. We're working toward it, but I once again would ask that you have those individuals that come to the council meetings contact us directly so we can see the concern, respond to the concern, and then also get back with that person. Uh, the second question regarding having, uh, benches at the bus stops, I'll say the city of Palm Bay has done an excellent job over the last several years in adding benches and shelters within the city limits, along with other municipalities, of course. Um, there was a project, I'm not sure why it stalled, but there was a private bus bench advertiser that approached us and also approached the city to install benches at various stops throughout the city. Um, we were in support of it being transit services. I'm not sure what happened with it when it went to the city, but that's a project where they would install the infrastructure. It's not just putting a bench on the ground. It's creating a pad to make it ADA compliant is, is a part of the process that has to happen. You just don't plop a bench out because then there's no compliance along with it. So we were required that they do that and they were willing to do that. I just don't know what happened with the advertising. Every once in a while, they pop back up, but I have not seen anything in the last several months, sir. Thank you. Council member Hammer, I can provide you details on the company that does it. As we have gone through that process, we had an agreement from like 1993 that was way outdated. In fact, the partial of the funds that were generated were actually getting donated to a nonprofit, but now, uh, those funds are actually, we're doing a little cost sharing with the city and they're providing the, the benches, upgrading pads, ADA compliance, all that stuff. So if you could send that to me, I'd really appreciate it. All right. I'll get that to the TPO and have them send it out to everybody. Mr. Forrester. I was just going to say, I think several years ago, I came to you and you helped us get a bench, uh, put at a particular stop where, uh, not on a busy highway. But the point I'm making is within a month of the, uh, county putting that bench in there, this advertising company decided that, oh yeah, they remembered Rockledge and they started popping benches everywhere to keep the free benches from going in in place. So you can use that, uh, if you guys put one in, uh, and use it as motivation for this company that you might find that you get 10 or 12 more put in, uh, just to keep us from doing it again. All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Mr. Chair. Thank you, sir. All right. Now we're on to modal report, air, space, and sea. So Mr. Newman, you're representing the airport today. Any update just even real quickly from the Melbourne airport? Yes, sir. And you guys have a fancy little handout here for the inline baggage system. Um, just a short little piece because I really appreciated Councilman Johnson saying this earlier. The, you know, while we are looking at, uh, making Brevard a easy place to move with it by car or another means of transportation, obviously we lead the world with space. I also think that we are a gateway internationally and across the country. And I really appreciate, um, the staff that we have at our airport that are helping make that happen. Um, that said, uh, we have a inline baggage system. As you guys know, in general, we have been upgrading our terminal expansion and renovation. We have one of the most beautiful airports, um, in the area, let alone in my opinion, the country, if you come and visit, um, MLB anytime, but in particular, the inline baggage system, uh, the fancy way of saying how you get your luggage after you got off the plane, um, it has gotten a whole overhaul. Uh, we've had some great work, uh, on this throughout the years since 2021, but it is nearing completion here in January, 2027. Um, and we have a temporary facility right now that's working. So when you get off the plane, you're really getting an expedited service, but right now we are upgrading it to the most modern technology possible. So not only do we look good, we operate well. So we're doing really great here in Melbourne, as well as Brevard when it comes to all of our air travel. Thank you very much, Mr. Newman. Any questions about the airport? All right. Well, in case you guys do not know my, my next guest I'm going to introduce, uh, Mr. Kevin Daughtry, and I'll let him, uh, tell you about the airports that he runs because while we do appreciate our friends at MLB, there's other airports in the county. Hi, I'm Kevin Daugherty. I'm the director of airports for the Ticeville Cocoa Airport Authority, also known as Tyco. I think that's what the kids call us. Uh, we own and operate Space Coast Regional Airport, Arthur Dunn Air Park, Merritt Island Airport, and Exploration Spaceport. Uh, majority of our development is at Space Coast Regional Airport in Ticeville. Um, just a quick update here. Um, we just received federal approval for our three master plans. And of course, Space Florida helped us with our, um, Spaceport master plan. So that's all done. So we now have our 20 year, uh, you know, uh, depiction charter for us. We're very excited about that. Um, focusing on horizontal infrastructure. Um, we're just wrapping up our runway 1836 rehab. And then next up is our taxiway alpha rehab, which supports our primary runway. Uh, and then this summer, we're going to have our groundbreaking for our Challenger Avenue extension and Space Coast Innovation Park. Uh, it's a new aerospace industrial development that's going to happen on the west side of our airport. So we're very excited about that. Uh, completes my report. Mr. Mayor, thank you for asking me. Thank you for being here. I just wanted to let you guys know we have a spaceport in Ticeville. We can go all the way up. All the way up. Thank you very much. Thank you. And, uh, Space. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, Stephen Bostell, Director of Spaceport Planning and Development. Uh, on behalf of Space Florida, thank you again for allowing us to seat at the table to give a regular update on space activities. Uh, Space Florida is the state's aerospace finance and development authority, uh, focused on integrating space as a core component of Florida's broader transportation ecosystem and infrastructure. The Space Florida's role is to ensure that as the space activity grows, not just in Brevard, but around the state, that the infrastructure supporting it on the ground and across the state grows with it. Um, and so last year, launch activity, we had, uh, another record-breaking year. We only expect that to increase. Uh, last year was more than three million pounds of payload delivered to orbit. And so it's, like I said, only going to continue to increase and continue to, uh, need all of the surrounding infrastructure to support that activity growing. And, uh, as FDOT is a key partner in helping us grow our infrastructure program. And since we are a designated mode of, uh, of transportation, uh, we work closely with FDOT to plan, develop, and improve aerospace transportation infrastructure across the state. And so over the past 13 years, the Spaceport Infrastructure Program has supported 48 major projects statewide, helping generate more than 5,500 direct jobs. And so today, the state has invested over $531 million in infrastructure and leveraging more than $3.3 billion in private sector investment for a grand total of economic impact exceeding $3.8 billion. And so while these funds can be deployed across Florida's spaceport system, a majority of the investment has continued to be focused at Cape Canaveral as our critical node for launch activity. Uh, we are working on developing a space, uh, Florida statewide, uh, spaceport system plan that takes a look at our other spaceport territories across the state and how they can contribute to, uh, the space ecosystem. And so we've had a lot of activity on the Cape project-wise, uh, one-mile utility corridor at the launch and landing facility, uh, is just about complete. Blue Origins Lunar Production Facility is complete and active. Uh, we have a new project with Relativity Space doing roadway improvements, uh, along one of the roads that we launch rode on the Space Force Station so they can transport their new rocket that's coming our way. Uh, United Launch Alliance is about complete installing, uh, helium and nitrogen pipeline extensions that will be used by multiple users on the Cape. And we have the Space Coast Access Roadway. Improvements have supporting explorations, spaceport operations. So Kevin's getting ready to kick that off. And so a lot going on, um, I'd be happy to talk about it for another hour or so if you'd like, but I'd be happy to answer any questions. Any questions for Space Florida? No? Just one comment I'd like to make because I find it very fascinating because, you know, a lot of our economy is based on space and especially in the north end of the county. And what's amazing is NASA doesn't get funding for infrastructure. They get funding for missions. And we're talking about the largest spaceport in the world that's growing and so they have no money for roads. Uh, so it's really kind of fascinating as we kind of peel back this onion and really appreciate that we have FDOT, uh, in Space Florida and our state of Florida kind of taking lead to go, hey, we need to make sure that this is number one so we keep getting the economic impact of the space economy. So I'm very, very excited. What a time to be alive. I can tell you that. Uh, but from our leading spaceport in the world, Joe, did you have a question? I, no, I'd just like to make a comment. As my other job, I'm the operations manager for Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. I actually see the projects that he's talking about. Um, the sad part about it is the general public don't get to see that, right? If you're not, if you don't work on the Cape, you don't actually get to see that. Uh, but I can tell you from being there every day, when you look at, uh, relativity out there and we just put up a new water tower out there and getting ready to go and start launching again. When you go and you look at, uh, via that's coming out there, when you look at, uh, all the other big players, Stoke, who is really making leaps and bounds up there. Uh, blue origin is talking about making another launch pad out there. SpaceX taking over the Delta four pad and expanding out there. There was a lot of it that you don't see in the newspaper. You're not going to see it in the news. Um, you hear it from his report, but I can tell you from working there and seeing it every day, it is a beehive of activity, a lot of road widening going on out there because a lot of the parts of bringing the launch pads are so huge. Even the space force is looking at adding lanes to most of the thoroughfare out there because of all the stuff that's coming in. So lots happening out there. And as you say, from an economic, they're only hiring more people. They're bringing in more people, more people are buying more houses and we're getting plenty more congestion on the roads. So it all gets interrelated as we go through that. But as just to say, as someone who gets to see this on a daily basis out there, there is a lot going on out there. Thank you very much. And then how much is it going to cost to widen that bridge to actually get to the launch pads on the space four side? 260. Oh, the Roydy bridges bridge. Yeah. I think it's roughly 130 million. Yeah. So an old rickety bridge that we're still using from the sixties that isn't big enough to accommodate and God help us if that's our, you know, we don't have a single point of failure. So it's, you know, trying to figure all that stuff out. We're working on it. Yeah. The point to that is what they do in the meantime is they're taking a long way around, coming through the Kennedy Space Center side, taking all the way down to Phillips Parkway, the beach side to get to those launch pads because the bridge can't support all. We're going to have to put a traffic management system out there at the port or at the Cape here soon. It's being talked about as well. Just predicting the future here. Yeah. Well, thank you very much for all the comments. And now on to C, Port Canaveral. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is going to be addressed in two parts. All of you have in front of you, a letter from CEO, Captain Murray, regarding the limited role that the port has in fuel taxation. I'm sure all of you have read it, but let me just summarize for you. The Canaveral Port Authority is a landlord port, does not own, buy, sell, import, or export fuel. Canaveral Port Authority does not collect or remit fuel taxes. Those responsibilities belong to fuel operators and fuel owners. Canaveral Port Authority no longer collects sales tax on commercial leases. That was abolished in October of 25 by the legislature. The Canaveral Port Authority does have the authority to levy real estate tax, but that was eliminated in 1986. So the Canaveral Port Authority no longer levies real estate tax on the proper real estate within the district. It's certainly the Port Canaveral Port is operated by the revenues that is produced. Statistically, the port has, affects maybe 22,700 jobs in Central Florida as wages generated of 1.1 million, I'm sorry, 1.1 billion. Annual sales and local tax revenues, 102.5 million. 6.1 billion statewide impact producing, supporting over 42,000 jobs. And now I'd like to have Tom Self with the staff give an update on the projects that we've got going at the number one port in the world to know that we're growing and growing and growing. And we appreciate all of your support. Thank you, sir. And thank you, Chairman. On behalf of the Canaveral Port Authority, I have a few operational updates and capital project updates I'd like to share with you. The first and foremost, we were awarded a $20.21 million PIDP or Port Infrastructure Development Program grant from USDOT in order to make some major improvements and upgrades to our North Cargo Berths 1 and 2. What is important about these two cargo berths is they primarily serve our taker vessels, delivering refined petroleum products essential to our local transportation system. That grant will support a broader almost $38 million port initiative to modernize aging bulkheads and expand bulk cargo capacity at the port. Those terminals also service Morton Salt, one of our operators on the port. That project is currently in the solicitation phase with an award anticipated at our June meeting. Design is expected to require approximately 12 months, followed by a roughly 18-month construction window. Our North Cargo Berth 8 has a partnership with Space Florida, FDOT, and our commercial launch providers to build an off-ramp directly from the berth to State Road 401. The Port Authority has completed the main backbone fiber relocation of the project, which will enable FDOT's contractor to begin the temporary fence work and preparation for driveway construction, which actually that was completed and construction began earlier this week. Site permits for that construction and utility relocation have already been issued, so that project is underway. CT 10, Cruise Terminal 10, we have a major construction project going on there, expansion. That it also includes the expansion of Charles Rowland Drive, which will relieve inbound traffic to the cruise terminal. It will include a second lane that is dedicated to the terminal. In addition to the roadway improvements, that plan will include an eastward expansion of the existing building, which will provide additional luggage lay down space and a new baggage screening facility. Completion is expected by October of 27. Our CT 5, or Cruise Terminal 5, expansion is also undergoing a major expansion. That will nearly double its size from about 90,000 square feet to about 170,000 square feet, while remaining active and serving some of the largest cruise ships in the world. That project is progressing rapidly, with new foundation installation advancing through those expansion areas and in the erection of new steel construction underway. And the last update I'll give is on our CT 6 garage. That'll be the largest garage at the port, almost 13 stories, servicing about 3,600 cars. The Ivy's construction team has installed almost 800 of the 3,600 precast components for the new garage. And the southern portion of the structure has already been erected to its full height. Initial components for that project, eight new elevators have also been delivered and installation has begun. So our projects are underway, they're moving forward very quickly, but that's the report that I have. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you. Thank you very much, Commissioner Allender. Any questions from the number one cruise port in the world? Seeing none. All right, Mr. Chuck. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Since our last meeting, we've had two projects that are due to start. A safety project on State Road A1A from Hidden Cove Drive to Sea Dunes is a project that will install two crosswalks, one on Salt Lake Drive and the other south of Ocean Way Park, and a sidewalk along the southbound lane of A1A between Hidden Cove Drive and Cassakee Trail. The second project that started in June is a resurface of I-95 from the Indian River County line to Babcock Street. Along with the resurface of the highway, the on-off ramps at St. John's Heritage Parkway will also be repaved. This project, an intersection improvement project, began April 17th on State Road 519 5th Boulevard. This project includes new traffic signals providing left turns on north and southbound State Road 519, along with four installed crosswalks with pedestrian signals. And this safety project also started April 17th on State Road 519 from Barbara Jenkins Street to West King Street, which involves reducing the speed limit to 35 miles an hour, extending the northbound right-turn lane beyond Stone Street, constructing a shared-use path to accommodate bicyclists and pedestrians, and installing a concrete traffic separator between the north and southbound lanes. Additionally, a rectangular rapid-flashing beacon mid-block crossing will also be installed just north of Barbara Jenkins Street. Brightline, since April 13th, and going on to July 3rd, funded by a RAISE grant, has been managing a railroad crossing safety project, involving the installation of delineators and Ray Park pavement markings. As you can see on the bottom picture, which is a zoom-in pic of the full crossing picture above, the work involves installing those white with red-tipped delineators, and in front of that spray painting a, well, painting a solid line, and then the raised pavement markings are going on in front of that. And this is a schedule, and they have completed all the railroad crossings within Brevard County, and they are going to be continuing to work all the way down to Bower County. The purpose of this safety measure is to prevent motorists from turning on the tracks thinking it's a road. We recognize April as Distracted Drivers Awareness Month, designating April 20th to the 24th as the Work Zone Awareness Week. Working with local law enforcement partners throughout the district, education stops were conducted to educate motorists on the potential hazards associated with driving through an active work zone. And just for your information, in 2023, Florida experienced 16,012 work zone crashes, including 74 fatalities and 294 serious injuries. And in conclusion, we're only a month away from hurricane season. Preparation should always be on our mind all throughout the year. Continue to make sure you plan that your plan is in place for a better, safer response for yourself, your family, and your community. Mr. Chair, that's all I have. Thank you very much. Mr. Chuck, any questions? Seeing none on the consent. Georgiana, would you please read that out loud? Yes. Consent agenda for A, approving the governing board meeting minutes on March 12th. For B, approval of committee appointments. For C, acceptance of the annual audit for fiscal year ending September 30th, 2025, with a report of no corrective actions. For D, approval of work order 26-23k transportation trends tracker. For E, approval of resolution 26-15, recommending Brevard Board of County Commissioners continue as the community transportation coordinator. And then 4F, approval of resolution 26-16, adoption of the fiscal year 27 and 28 final unified planning work program with no changes since the March presentation. Thank you very much, Georgiana. Anybody like to pull any items? Okay, none. I have a motion by Mr. Allender. Can I have a second by Councilmember Hammer? Can you call the roll, please? We don't need a roll call. Okay. I saw a resolution. That's our rules at City Council, so I got a little freaked out. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much. Now on to action items, approving or approval of the filling of vacancies. And this is always going to talk about that. Okay. Hi, Zoe McNeely, board administrator. This is just a housekeeping item with the recent D1 commissioner resignation. We have a couple of positions to fill in her absence. So there's two positions. One is a governing board at-large position on our executive committee, and then an MPOAC alternate position. We're going to do each position one at a time. Open the floor to nominations. I do not need a second for nominations. Multiple nominations will have a vote by show of hands. If only one candidate is nominated, they'll be declared elected by acclamation, and then that will need a motion and a second to approve the appointees. Great. Okay. So for the at-large officer, this is a member that will sit on our executive committee. The executive committee is comprised of five members, chair, vice chair, secretary, and two at-large positions. So we'll be filling one of them. This committee meets typically twice a year, usually in July and September, to approve Georgiana's annual director's evaluation, and any other policy updates or things we need approval for. And it's usually on the same day as this meeting. Okay. And I will open the floor to any nominations. We nominate Mimi Hanley. Okay. Any other nominations? I'd like to nominate Councilman Hammer. Hammer. Any other nominations? Okay. So we'll go ahead and do a vote, and this is just going to be the voting members present. So Koss and Newman, your alternates, but you can vote today. So just we'll do a show of hands. So we'll start with Mimi Hanley. Raise your hands high, please, to vote. Okay. I have three, and Councilman Hammer. Raise your hands high. So yeah, that is a majority. So Councilman Hammer is going, has been approved. May I get a motion to, or Chair Connors, may I ask for a motion to approve? Can we have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. I have a motion by Mayor Medina, a second by Vice Mayor Cole. All those in the paper say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next we'll do our MPOAC. This is the alternate. Mayor Young is the main member. So if she cannot attend for any reason, we'll reach out to the alternate to attend in her place. There are typically four meetings a year. I believe there's already been two so far this year. So only two left for the rest, and it's in Orlando. Okay. I will open the floor to nominations. I'll nominate Mayor Connors. Thank you. It makes sense. I get it. Any other nominations? Okay. Then he will be declared elected by acclamation. Chair Connors may have a motion and a second. Can I have a motion to approve? So moved. All right. I think that was Mayor Medina. Can I have a second by Vice Mayor Cole? Yes. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Just for the rest. Was that Medina first or Cole first? Medina first. Medina first. I heard his voice louder, so. Okay. Marine. Okay. So just to recap, we will have Councilman Hammer. You are now on our executive committee, and you know, you'll get contact information or meeting information from me. And then where, where did, oh, I'm like, Connors is over here. So Connors, yeah, you'll be the alternate, and I'll just reach out to you if needed. Thank you very much, Ms. Zoe. Very much appreciate it. All right. Now we're on to item 5B. All right. This is a housekeeping item as well. FDOT requested an amendment to our currently adopted fiscal year 26 through 30 transportation improvement program to bring it into alignment with the DOT work program. And so this is, Zoe, if you could. Yes. Sorry. No, no worries. This is a federal member project for FRA funds, the Federal Transit Administration, Federal Railroad Administration that has been earmarked for the COCO multimodal station. Two million dollars in fiscal year 26 to be used for the upcoming construction phase. The City of COCO worked with Congressman Posey originally, but the funding finally came through through Congressman Herodopoulos, and it is now in the DOT work program. And of course, this funding was included as part of the match for the federal state partnership grant. So we knew that it was available, but it has now showed up in the DOT work program. So we are asking for approval of Resolution 26-17, Fiscal Year 26-30, Tip Amendment No. 4. Can I have a motion to approve? Second. Second. I have a motion by... The roll call. I know. I just gotta have a motion. We'll do that. I have a motion by the Councilwoman from COCO. I have a second by Vice Mayor Cole. Discussion on this item? Seeing none. Zoe? You said that was Kos and Cole? Yes. Okay. Okay. Altman? Yes. Allender? Yes. Cole? Yes. Connors? Yes. Forrester? Yes. Hammer? Yes. Hanley? Jaffe? Yes. Medina? Aye. Morrison? Yes. Osmer? Yes. Smith? Yes. Young? Yes. Koss? Yes. Newman? Aye. Did I miss any other voting members? No. Okay. You're good. Resolution approved. Thank you very much. Now on to item 5C. Talk about anything. You just want me to jump into it. Okay. Sounds good. All right. Everybody hear me all right? Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Travis Hills of Kittleson, and I'm here to present the scope of work, very high level, for Funding the Future Gas Tax Analysis. So this is kind of a follow-up from our February presentation and some of the goals that you all have as a board. So I will go through this fairly quickly. There's quite a bit of content on each of these slides. I'll kind of pare it down just so we can get through it. If you all have any questions, we can open it up at the end. The goals of this analysis is to determine how much gas tax revenue is being left on the table. That's really kind of the main point. That was a lot of discussion that we had back in February. And so the scope of this work order will accomplish that first goal, first and foremost. We'll also pare that down to figure out how much potential revenue would be paid by Brevard County residents versus non-residents. So I'll explain kind of how we're going to get to that point. Create key messages for staff and elected officials, you all, to engage the public in this topic as it continues to move forward. I know there's gas tax variability, gas pricing variability right now, but we're really looking at kind of that long-term view of this. And then we'll look to create infographics and presentation materials based on those key messages that can be used for kind of further engagement with the public in the future. So we have six tasks. I won't go through all of them in this presentation, but really it boils down to data collection. We'll do our historical analysis. We'll roll that into our future gas tax analysis, take those projections, apply them to projects in our LRTP so we can move forward from a funding perspective. And then we also have deliverables, meetings, and admins in our scope as well. So looking at data collection, very high level, gas tax receipts, those are the historical gas tax amount paid by residents or to the county and to local jurisdictions. So that's back, that data goes back to 2009. We're going to pull all that to help set our baseline. We're obviously going to pull population data for the cities and the counties and tourism data as well. The big data set with this whole entire analysis, what it really hinges on is the streetlight and replica data. That's going to give us our origin destination patterns to help us determine where those people are traveling throughout the county. Fortunately, with a partnership with FDOT District 5, we're able to get the streetlight data for free, which has been great. So we really appreciate them working with us on that. And then Kittleson has a replica data subscription. So we're able to get that data for free. So leveraging a lot of existing data sources and subscriptions to help save the TPO and you all a little bit of money on the work order. So task one, determining those travel patterns. So like I mentioned, streetlight replica, that's going to give us our travel patterns. We're really looking to target four major groups of folks, folks that are traveling within a planning area or within a city within the county. You see those planning areas in the figure to the right. Folks that are traveling within the county. So that would basically be folks going city to city or planning area to planning area. And then we also have non-county work trips and non-county visitor trips. So those are people coming from outside the county boundaries into Brevard County. How we're going to differentiate those is by using employment data and tourism data to help give us that third and fourth category of trip. So to do our historical analysis, we'll take all the gas tax receipts that we collected as part of this task. We'll analyze them based on our origin destination trip patterns. That'll really be the baseline for our future comparison. You got to look back to look forward. And we are going to look at two different time periods. So we're going to look at pre-COVID 2016 to 2019. And then what I'm calling post-COVID 2022 to 2025. We want to take out those couple years of COVID right in the middle to help kind of iron out any variability that we would have seen in gas tax fluctuations or gas revenue fluctuations during that time period. And then for our future gas tax analysis in task two, we'll project up to 2055 for a couple different forecasting scenarios. The first being our current baseline, which is the gas taxes that we're levying today. What are those going to generate from a revenue perspective out to 2055? And then we'll look at two additional scenarios. One, if you all leverage the maximum gas tax available, and then kind of somewhere in between. So we can interpolate to see, okay, if we only levied one cent or three cents, how would that impact our future revenue projections? We'll apply all those to our OD factors, and then we'll be able to get that distribution for those four different trip types that I mentioned before. And that'll help kind of drill down to how much will a resident in, let's say, Palm Bay or Titusville be paying if we were to levy additional gas taxes. That's really kind of the big goal, the big key takeaway that we're trying to get to. I mentioned our third task is to review those future projects. So looking at the LRTP, both in the cost feasible plan and the needs list, looking at that future revenue, and seeing if there's any projects we could move up. Really, we're looking into those kind of out years to look to accelerate those into earlier time bands. Maybe there's an opportunity to bring something in the first five years into a current year, like a tip, but that'll be something that we'll have to figure out as we get into this analysis. And then the last couple tasks are just the deliverables, really the biggest key takeaway here, creating those infographics, presentation materials to allow the TPO staff and you all to go engage the public as you all see fit. We also have some meetings. We have some schedule, or we'll have some meetings available to come meet with folks individually if they want to talk about the results in more detail. We'll obviously come back to the TPO, TAC, CAC, and the board. I think we're coming back two times throughout this process to give you all briefings. I think one's going to be in the fall as kind of a preliminary round of results, and then we'll come back early next year. I know we got some elections in the fall, so we'll come back with folks that may be new to the board. And I think we're going to kind of do an overview presentation of funding from February and then this analysis as well to kind of get everybody on the same page. So with that, any questions? Mr. Smith? Thank you. So yeah, we were having a sidebar conversation at a previous meeting. We talked about, let's not forget about the electric vehicles, right? So I don't know if it's a part of that analysis, but as more and more vehicles are purchased, then that gas revenue goes down. But what are we going to do to capture anything from the electric vehicles? That is not a part of our analysis because that is a more legislative type. I don't know what I would call that. It's thoughtful right now. I don't think we're at that point, but something to think about. Well, and I think that's something that we can all discuss when we talk about our legislative priorities. While we don't, as a board, have legislative priorities, I think having that discussion and taking a unified message to Tallahassee makes a lot of sense. For example, at our last city council, we just talked about the e-bikes, right? So all this is starting to be more and more prevalent. Any other questions? Comments? All right. So I remember from our last conversation, it was a very valid point brought up. Gas is through the moon right now. So obviously, I don't think anybody's jumping at doing this. But we also don't have the data to determine what is there, what is not there, how many is non-residents, because I think we can all agree our residents would love to tax a tourist. That's what they say all the time, right? Let's tax a tourist. Well, what is a vehicle to do that? So at least having the data to have an appropriate conversation, I think makes a lot of sense. The reason it's coming back before the board, because during our conversation, we said, you know, there should be some money set aside that the TPO has to fund the study. It's going to cost a little bit more than we initially anticipated, so we're bringing it before a board vote so that we can, you know, all be on the same page of whether we want to move forward with this feasibility study. Any questions? I thought it might be a good time. This probably is not the scope of this study, but I thought it might be a good time to ask the question. I know there's reporting that the feds may waive the 18-cent federal gas tax. Some congressmen have liked wanting to do away with it. Like, I don't know how we build roads if they do that, but what would be the impact on our region if that happens? Would you know? Well, I guess my first, so in relation to what we're looking to do here, we're looking at eight years of historical data, and so the, like I mentioned, the current blip, I'd call it a blip. It will seem like a blip hopefully once we get out of it and things stabilize. You know, if there is a, I think I saw it was like a 90-day, or they were proposing a 90-day, those even out over the course of this type of analysis that we're doing. It'll certainly be something that maybe we could look into in the short term, but I would say on the whole, we're not, that won't make a big deal, or won't make a big difference in a 30-year projection for a gas tax revenue. Okay. So, I mean, I think over the next 20 years, and don't quote me on this, it's what, $600 or $700 million that we expect from the federal government in terms of funding for our county. I mean, so, significant. Right. For sure. All right. Can I have a motion to approve? So moved. I have a motion by Mayor Osmer. Can I have a second? Second. Second. By Commissioner Altman, even though I saw Jerry put his hand up, I heard him. All right. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Appreciate you being here. And now we're on to D, 5D. Good afternoon. Patty Rendon, Transportation Planner, Space Coast TPO. Before I give a quick overview of the annual update to the Transportation Disadvantaged Service Plan, also referred to as the TDSP, I wanted to briefly explain how the overall Transportation Disadvantaged System works in Florida, and specifically in Brevard County. So, this diagram shows how the TD program is organized here. At the top, the Florida Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged, or CTD, sets overall policy and oversight, and then as the Designated Official Planning Agency, or DOPA, the Space Coast Transportation Planning Organization, works with the commission to help guide local planning. Together, they support the Transportation Disadvantaged Local Coordinating Board, or TDLCB, which serves as the central link between state-level direction and local service delivery. Together, the SCTPO and TDLCB designates Brevard County Space Coast Area Transit as the Community Transportation Coordinator, or CTC, and then Transit works directly with purchasing agencies, transportation operators, and coordinated contractors to arrange and provide trips. At the end of this process are the TD riders who receive coordinated, accessible transportation services through this entire structure, ensuring that people who have limited mobility options have access to essential services and activities. The TDSP is a tactical plan jointly developed by the SCTPO and Transit, which contains development, service, and quality assurance components. And the TDLCB reviews and approves the service plan, and it's approved by the board, you all, and submitted to the CTD for final action. The service plan will cover a five-year period with annual updates for years two through five due prior to July 1st of each subsequent year. The development and submission of the service plan and annual updates are the responsibility of Transit, the SCTPO, and the TDLCB. So the purpose of the TDSP is to identify who the Transportation Disadvantaged Population is and where they are, assess current transportation services and gaps, including unmet needs, times, or areas not served, set goals, objectives, and priorities for improving mobility for TD individuals, guide funding decisions, and support applications for state and federal grants, and improve coordination among agencies, providers, and local governments. This annual update will be submitted to the CTD by July 1st of this year, and includes updates to the introduction development plan, service plan, cost revenue allocation, and rate structure justification, and quality assurance. The 2026 summary of changes are separated by section, introduction, and development plan, and service plan and quality assurance, and are outlined in this presentation, which is also included in your agenda package. And as a reminder, we will be doing the major update of the TDSP in 2027 for the following five-year period. And with that, staff is requesting approval of the draft 2026 Annual Transportation Disadvantaged Service Plan update. Can I have a motion to approve? I have a motion by Mayor Young. I have a second by Mayor Osmer. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ms. Patty. All right. Now on to 6A, Ms. Georgiana with the Transportation Improvement Program. All right. Last presentation, and I will, Transportation Improvement Program, so you're adding the new fifth year. And the new tip goes into effect October 1st of 2026, so it's the federal fiscal year. This is our planning bridge, which you all have seen hundreds of times, but it just shows the relationship of all of these work products. And this is just the development process and the schedule. The draft tip, which there is the project listing in your agenda package includes 110 projects, 1.2 billion dollars, which is a lot of funding coming into Brevard County for economic development, safety. And so this is, this is great for Brevard County. There are lots of different types of projects in the tip, and there's lots of different transportation modes. So I'll highlight a few. The largest, of course, is the seaport and the spaceport. There are over 645 million in the work program for four spaceport capacity projects. Forty percent of that funding is private. And so when you look in the tip, you see the fund code LF, which stands for local funds. That is private funding. That is a very strategic use of state funding because you're leveraging it for that match. There's only two seaport capacity projects, and that totals roughly around 25, a little over 25 million dollars. So clearly the lion's share of the funding is going to the spaceport program. Aviation, 60 million dollars. And the second largest funding category is maintenance at over 234 million for preservation of the system. And then highway capacity is only at 76.6 million dollars. So again, we are quintimodal, a lot of different modes and a lot of type of projects here. As far as our priority projects, I just want to say, you know, we've had several lane years. So moving our priority projects forward has not been that good. One, they cost a lot of money, but there are some new projects in the tip that I do want to point out. There are a few new technology and safety projects. For instance, the 405 NASA Causeway and Space Commerce Way ITS project is a new one that's been funded for construction. This is another component of the infra grant. When Space Florida applied for the bridge replacement of the NASA Causeway, this is the second component to install that ITS. There is also other projects, I-95 ITS surveillance system for wrong way driving, guard rail, and then new traffic signals at Valkeria Road and First Street. There are a few new resurfacing projects. Three of them are in Titusville, major project on US 1, South Street and Columbia Boulevard. I-95 improvements from Vieira Boulevard to Fisk include the installation of auxiliary lanes and other components to improve mobility and safety. So auxiliary lanes being from interchange to interchange, which is not a widening, but it certainly is adding capacity to the project. And it is my understanding that that is something the department is wanting to focus on and potentially do all of I-95. And then that is the first project that they're focusing on. And I think that is a very valuable project moving forward. And then there are three aviation projects, one at Tyco, one at Merritt Island, and one at MLB. And so the draft tip comment period is from May 18th to June 18th. So it's that 30-day public comment period. Visit our website. You can leave a public response in the comment portal. And in July, the final tip document will be before you for your final adoption. We're also going to have, you know, our annual open house on June 9th from 5.30 to 7 p.m. where we can hopefully get a lot of citizens and talk about the tip with them as well. So that is the tip presentation. I'll be happy to answer any questions. Any questions, Mr. Allender? I think that's a very reason for the grant. I think that's a very reason for the grant. Yes, will do, sir. We will make sure that happens. Any other questions, comments? I just have one question. I know you're having a public engagement. What bar are you hosting that at? Be lots of attendees, I'm sure. Yes. All right. All right. I believe at that time, or this time, it concludes our meeting. Anybody have any final thoughts? Just remember that there will not be a meeting in June, but July is a very, very important meeting as we consider all possibilities for our project priority list. That's on July 9th, 2026 at 1.30. Can I have a motion to adjourn? 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. The Board of County Commissioners of Brevard County, Florida, Space Coast Government Television, and the program sponsor hereby expressly disclaim any and all responsibility or liability for any defamatory or slanderous statements expressed by any member of the public during any such period.