and we'll start here with a roll call say good morning everybody Tracy Kaplan here thank you Debbie Madden here Douglas Coleman here thank you our dog dominance here Phil Allen thank you Ronald Frazier and Ray McElroy will join us online and at the appendix we absent today thank you chair thank you Roy do we have any members of the public sign up to speak we don't hear this one no speakers this morning okay and as a reminder to all the board members here and online please speak directly into the microphone so your comments can be recorded and push the little red button to speak and also wanted to ask if there's any elected officials in attendance today I see none so we will move on and I'm gonna turn it over to our new transportation surtax administrator and oversight board coordinator Jonathan Hopkins welcome Jonathan we're very happy to have you here so I'll let you speak thanks yeah well good morning everybody it's a pleasure and an honor to be able to take over from Gretchen in this role and join you guys in a very audacious and important task of supporting the implementation of one of the largest transportation support voter-approved transportation measures in the country as I ride the train every morning in route 22 of Broward County transit to get to work every day we get to see a lot of promise of what's ahead but also opportunity and so I just like look forward to be able to work with you in support of what our voters and our county commissioners made possible in 2018 and there's there's a lot to do on that with that I do want to start out all of our meetings every time on what like our basically what is the foundation of what we're here to do and center ourselves on that so the first thing to bring up is is what I call our birth certificate which is really the ballot measure in 2018 and what it called what the voters said we were here to do which was to reduce traffic congestion improve roads and bridges enhance traffic signal signalization develop safe sidewalks and bicycle pathways expand and operate bus and special needs transportation implement rail on improved corridors and implement emerging technologies it's a long and important list that is necessary and essential as we help people live in an affordable place that they can enjoy and so as most of us are all aware of of the process and and how all of this works there's some different steps to it but ultimately ours are to there's really three bullets on the oversight board role reviewing projects for statutory eligibility and evaluate five-year plans prior to Commission budget adoption those two we're basically doing in this meeting today and then the third bullet we do in all the other meetings report on the performance of the ongoing projects and provide recommendations to the County Administrator and the County Commission finally back in 2018 or shortly thereafter the County Commission approved what are our foundational elements transparency accountability and resiliency and what our five goals and you can see them there they're broadly aligned and generalized versions of what we put in front of voters with that we did an annual report and so for 2025 and so we'll watch this quick movie get your popcorn out and here we go there's a lot of things that happened this year probably the most important was the third minute it's been a good year and I think it's going to pay dividends for many many years to come since 2019 I've had the honor of being the chair of the oversight board selection committee we want to make sure that everyone on the oversight board number one is qualified number two is representative of the community that we're all living in being a member of the penny tax oversight board comes with a lot of responsibilities it is about making sure that we are good stewards of the dollars that has been entrusted to us in fiscal year 25 but we completed 12 projects convention center connector project intersection improvements to US 1 and State Road 84 we have also completed several fiber optic projects sidewalks and drainage improvement projects in our BMSD area we completed a couple school zones we are so proud and honored to be able to bring 23 million passengers trips each year to Broward County we were also able to bring some customer amenities to our passengers including new bus stops brighter bus stops new lighting new amenities we were able to advance our airport seaport connector project into planning engineering early engineering when we started the mobility advancement program Broward County made a commitment at least thirty percent of all our projects need to go to our local certified small businesses I am glad to report we're exceeding that goal 39 percent is going to our local small businesses 70 percent of all my primes are exceeding the goals and we have a lot of small businesses that are serving as primes and that's exactly what we want we want these investments to go to our local economy from the municipalities perspective the third amendment cut out a lot of red tape making the dollars easily accessible for the cities the application process has been simplified the documentations required streamlines to create the money faster over the next five years we have recommended over 325 million dollars worth of project to allow us to start on most of the fiber optic projects a number of those adaptive signal control systems the school zones roadway improvements installing new sidewalks adding bicycle lanes creating connectivity throughout the county we have our Copen's bus garage that is modern clean and convenient Broward commuter rail is intended to be a linchpin between Miami-Dade County and Palm Beach County since 2019 the surtax has generated over three billion dollars which has been budgeted for county and municipal projects at the close of the fiscal year 2025 about 1.1 billion had been expended or encumbered nine hundred and twenty two point two million of local surtax funds have helped secure seven hundred and eighty four point three million of non-surtax investment referred to as leverage expanding the mobility advancement program's impact i just want to chat about the transformation that the Broward County surtax is and all the wonderful things that i expect that this transformative program will bring to this community and to the residents and visitors to Broward County in South Florida one of the things that is really transformative about this program is the ability that the county has to leverage the dollars that are coming in for the surtax to bring down federal and state dollars i want to give a special note of gratitude to our board of county commissioners without the vision and the policy direction none of the important work that we do could actually get done and then before i hand it back to you um madam vice chair uh i do want to know we are going to send board members a survey at the end of the day to give us feedback we've heard about from board members interest in making meetings as concise and impactful as possible so we definitely want your feedback after this meeting and every meeting about each section what you want more of what you want less of and how things ranked is use of your time um and with that i turn it back over to you madam vice chair thank you jonathan um excellent video appreciate that annual report um we're going to start the presentations oh yes mr kuhlman you're right yes i'd like to say just a couple things one i think the mat the matching funds have grown our dollars i don't know what the percentage is but it's staggering i think it needs to be repeated number one and number two jonathan has obviously some big shoes to fill and i think it would be helpful to those in the audience if you would take a couple minutes and tell us where he came from and i think would be very informative all right thank you mr kuhlman uh so um prior to this time an army veteran went to west point for undergrad i'm from the pacific northwest grew up in the seattle area and in the mountains near seattle uh spent about 10 years in the army as an infantry officer uh serving in iraq afghanistan and then a long time interest in transportation led me to work for uber lime commute seattle which is a public private partnership that helped the city add 100 000 jobs without adding traffic uh and then later brightline and starting my own firm related to congestion reduction so um meanwhile i've worked on some of the transit measures like the one that we have here uh one in seattle is about 54 billion dollars worth of of transit funding so kind of a background that loves this sort of work and being able to work with um uh consortiums of of community partners to make audacious uh projects a reality so thank you thank you well we're again very well glad to have you here thank you for that um all right so uh at this time i'd like to welcome up maribel feliciano with the broward county office of economic and small business development for our small business highlights good morning much better maribel feliciano director of the office of economic and small business development it is a pleasure uh to be here to share with you an update on how we're doing utilizing our local small businesses as part of the mobility advancement program we have updated numbers for you as of june of this year uh 123 projects have been um reviewed on the county side that's county funding for surtax municipal funding for surtax we have reviewed 194 projects and here you can see them the dollars uh 1 billion on the county side uh 523 million on the municipal side and the average goal that has been recommended for this project so on the county side 29 on the municipal side we're averaging at 32. um but now i would like to share the actual awarded projects and here you can see that on the county side approximately 176 million um 72 contractors have been awarded and the goal that has been committed by those primes is 38 percent the average goal um and the estimated amount that's going to be going to those primes is as you can see is the 247 million on the municipal projects that are funded by surtax uh you can see 34 million approximately 60 contractors um and the average goal is 39 so as you can see we're doing really well not only recommending uh goals that are above that 30 but with our primes committing to higher goals as they're bidding on these municipal and county contracts and then you can see at the end the the actual average total is 38 percent we wanted to share with you a few of those success stories that we shared during that annual report so here you can see an example of one of the projects um at a previous meeting you asked how are the cities doing so here you can see coconut creek um a project that has been completed and um basically the prime received approximately 3.8 million dollars um and exceeded the commitment they committed to 40 percent and they achieved 43 percent we're talking about 1.6 million going to our cbes and you can see here the two local businesses that were part of this project the next project was in oakland park um and here you can see that again the prime committed to 35 percent but they actually achieved 85 percent um so again approximately 1.2 million was paid to our local small businesses that you can see here the cbes um so again uh we're doing really well uh with the commitment by our municipal partners but our primes as well and by the performance of our cbes the next one is um basically in tamarack fire station 15 um you can see that they committed to 100 percent um and they attained 100 percent and what that means is that the cbe was the prime and we want to see a lot more of those right because we we are doing a lot of capacity building which we know again is a priority for this board to make sure that our local small businesses have the capacity to perform on these projects and perform successfully so we wanted to continue to share those stories when we have cbe self-performing and the next one is the same as another local small business that is self-performing on this contract with weston um and basically the commitment was originally 83 percent but they were able to complete 100 of the project uh and self-perform with 100 percent uh we know we heard from you previously you really want to see how the cities are doing right how are the dollars being distributed across the different municipalities so this chart is basically sharing 41 closed projects approximately 40 million dollars in awarded amounts um 35 businesses um you know receive approximately 16.4 million dollars and here you can see all the different cities that have received funding and you can see also the type of projects right we have a lot of of course construction and highways a and e um definitely a lot of repair maintenance etc and we wanted to highlight the top 10 pro 10 projects basically as part of of those 40 41 let's look at the top 10 closed projects and the dollars that have been paid the type of projects um so we're talking again around 20 million dollars uh going awarded to all these vendors um and then certified subcontractors have been paid over 8.8 million dollars um exceeding what the initial goal was for for many of those projects and the economic impact analysis we update this on a regular basis uh this is also another priority for this board so we want to make sure we as you know we use implant to do this uh economic impact projections uh so this is the latest and greatest 132 awarded projects uh we're talking about 643 million paid to the awarded vendors um 3 200 jobs created over 265 million paid on wages to employees on these awarded projects um and 284 million spent uh by the awarded vendors right on materials services etc and then when you look at the indirect cost and the induced impacts of us investing in our local economy here you can see an additional 357 million generated due to the spending of these uh primes and subs and the materials that are being generated and additional 1700 jobs created uh here in broward and then at the bottom you can see the total impact direct indirect and induced of over a billion dollars creating almost 5 000 jobs um so again we we know it's so important for us to continue to tell that story right of how we're investing locally and supporting our local economy um we hosted a community outreach event we do a lot of outreach on our community to continue to recruit small businesses for our directory but also to make sure that our cities receive the training that they need to understand the program to understand the compliance requirements the new ilas requirements etc right so um we did a training for municipalities it was very well attended by many of our municipal partners uh to basically go over the compliance process from beginning before those bid go out how what they need to do to submit the information to us and how they are partnered with us right we need to work every step of the way together to ensure these projects are successful that our small businesses are being used and that they comply with the reporting requirements of the program and that's a key to the success of the program we need to make sure as staff changes at the municipal level and the county level we want to make sure that the new staff is receiving the training that they need to monitor these projects effectively we also making sure that we're doing a lot of capacity building with our small businesses uh for those businesses that have been always subs and have never participated as primes um and maybe uh businesses that that want to continue to expand and bid on contracts we want to uh make sure that they understand the bid cycle the bid process how do they prepare before the bid how do they prepare the team what are those requirements on the procurement process and if they have to do presentations because it's an rfp what are the critical criteria as part of those presentations so we're doing very comprehensive uh bid development cycle training we receive excellent feedback we have over 80 businesses that attended and they all said we need more of this training thank you because we really need to understand uh the process and what is it that you're looking for when you're evaluating the presentations etc and the great thing about this bid development cycle is we did two training sessions first uh in july but now we're doing a even more comprehensive training session where they will be working with the facilitator to go over a bit and and start um it's an exercise and start you know hands-on training uh and they're going to do it on different industries so they can really get that practice they're going to practice doing presentations etc so again this is the first time we do this we make sure that we have a lot of construction industries as part of this bid cycles because we want to make sure our map projects um firms that are going here are also going to bid on our map project um we continue to promote the success of the program some of the highlights we share today on our business assistance weekly it goes to over 23 000 people every wednesday night uh because it's really important that we tell our community our cities our chambers and our elected officials from the municipalities how well we're doing as part of the mobility advancement project and we're also sharing when those cbes are exceeding goals when the primes are exceeding goals and but also when the cbes are performing as primes we're sharing all that on social media and on our newsletter we also have uh you have a contract now what this is another component of our capacity building workshops um we hear from primes we hear from user agencies we hear from subs what are some of the challenges they may have as they're performing on contracts so this is all about once you have a contract what is it that you need to do to make sure that you're performing well so we bring county agency project managers and contract administrators to explain to our certified businesses what is it that we're looking for what are the reports that you need to submit if you're in construction what is it that you need to do to submit an accurate pay app and all of those things and this is going to be on september 24th um focus on construction industry which is again directly aligned with with our mobility advancement projects we have done already the same workshops for janitorial companies and for security companies and we're going to be doing landscaping companies later this year and we want you to save the date for our introduction to map rower project opportunities we do this at least twice a year where we bring municipal partners to share and the county agencies upcoming mobility investment projects very well attended we have primes and subs that come to these workshops because they want to get ready to be on this contract so this is coming up on november 2nd and now i would like to take any questions wow thank you very much for that update to me it sounds like your outreach and education efforts are a big success so congratulations to you and i know doug wants to speak so go ahead yes congratulations you guys continue to amaze me thank you uh on your our page 11 or your third slide i have a question you show the county's average goal at 29 percent and the municipalities at 32 is that a typo all the other numbers see so high as our or is our unofficial go 30 and if so yeah they're only 29 so our goal is 29 is 30 right we want to make sure that at least 30 is assigned on eligible contracts however sometimes we may have projects that we depending on the type of industry etc we may not have the number of certified firms available to participate uh because as part of our process because before we assign a goal we make sure that we have enough cbes to perform on those contracts so um so that's why we have the 29 because maybe in some of those projects we have to assign and we can provide the detail information for each one of the projects what was the assigned goal so you can see which ones of the industries maybe we're not able to assign at 34. so is this from the inception or is this just one year inception yeah because i i'd never remember it being below 30. it changes um i think maybe we'll have had a few times where it was 29 um but it changes as we are continue to review projects uh those averages change when you average the two together they're probably close to 30. exactly thank you thank you of course of course uh yeah congratulations it's a very very good report are you able to get testimonials from the small businesses so that other people can really see who they are and let them express their uh thankfulness for excellent excellent question which now you're reminding me i forgot to share that we are going to be doing a lot more videos testimonials interviewing the cbes that participate in in these contracts we actually have been working with the mobility advancement team as well to do that because we want to make sure that our cbes are telling the story and our primes right that are using our local small businesses are telling that story as well so yes definitely we'll be doing more of that this year the second question is when the prime is a csv and they are committed to 100 are they required to meet a goal as well through any kind of subcontracts so they have the ability to self-perform 100 or they have the ability to hire other cbes exactly yeah so i want to make sure the videos and then um the 29 details i want to make sure we get that information any other questions um seeing that you're not even meeting the cbe goal for the county the cbe goals and um are very low so in order to qualify to be a cbe your firm has to be relatively small compared to most when you compare it to the rest of the country have you considered maybe raising the goal so that you can include more cbes and get more qualified firms so we're at our small business development advisory board actually um at the last meeting discussed um raising the eligibility requirements for our cbes um so we are looking because they have not been increased in over 10 years now so definitely it's time for us to revisit those as our staff is doing research to to look at what other jurisdictions are doing uh of course we always use the sba standards as well um so we're going to be making recommendations to change uh the eligibility requirements for the sbes and the cbes so we can have even a more robust directory and then we have cbes that have the capacity the bonding the insurance capacity to be able to be performing these contracts that's an excellent point thank you i also want to chime on you know your effort and the results of 29 is a dynamic number it's goes up and down usually it's over you know 30 and this just happens to be 29 it's really just just the way the math you know works sometimes in totality between county projects and municipal projects it is over you know the 30 it's very impressive and also you know more and more reaching out and educating uh especially in new businesses small businesses they may not be aware of this and and you're doing this you know so well and they and and appreciating it um and this is a long term you know effort for the entire you know county and uh and i think this we start seeing the results and and of our you know effort and thank you maribel thank you and and yes we are we're really working with our municipalities to help us spread the word i know that um we connect with our public information officers within these municipalities as well so they can help us share the information and during the municipal workshop we share with the municipalities exactly that we need you to also share the success stories of the businesses that you're utilizing in these projects we want you to share the opportunities to get certified etc because that can get expanded even more if we're using our municipal partners and many of them are doing that already thank you okay thank you thank you appreciate your presentation um the next agenda item is an update on the municipal surtax program from our administrator jonathan well good morning again everybody nice to see you uh first off i want to thank maribel and the whole osbd team uh delivering on the promise of the surtax is a team of team at teams effort and in that our role is really as critical enablers to our cities to support them doing some really great programs and activities um as we go through this one thing i want to note we're going to show you a number of projects uh but one thing really important to note is like we are going to visit all of our cities over the next six to eight months and we take our communications team when we visit these cities we are going to highlight when there's great cbe stories to tell um because the surtax it can get really wonky as we all know from in here but really it's about connecting people and if we don't tell the story about how it's connecting people and then by connecting people we're also creating a lot of jobs if we're not telling the human story behind it we're really underachieving um the story right this isn't about miles of track or or number of buses just it's about how it changes people's lives that's the story that we need to tell and we'll continue to tell it over and over again in partnership with our cities and showcasing our cities because they're the ones for ten percent of the program they're the ones delivering on this um so with that we'll go into this municipal surtax component of the program um this is the fy 2027 budget uh you see 23 and a half million dollars uh programmed for this year for capital projects um with our cities uh and then for the five-year program um you you see all the the ones you saw for just this year as well for fy 2027. um this slide shows everything through fy 2030 and then just because there's so many projects on the next slide we have the two projects that are added for west park and for weston west park is county line road roadway improvements and weston is south post road roadway improvements um so the five-year plan is 142 million dollars worth of projects at the completion of 2031 in accordance with the current five-year plan there only remains one capital project tail and that is a 25 million dollar project in marmar so that will be programmed for 2032 you know pending any other changes over the next five years on on timelines of these projects um finally there's uh cycle one r m projects there's only two that remain so those are being programmed for uh this year for 3.6 million dollars in north uh lauderdale and lauderdale lakes um those are for north lauderdale it's milling and repaving of rock island road from south gate to mcnab and for lauderdale lakes it's city-wide drainage improvements finally for um our cities have been talking to us about this lately uh what is the recommended allocation for this year you saw the 23 and a half million dollars allocated for municipal capital projects also 3.6 million dollars you also saw this for real presentation and maintenance projects those are all shown in in the those five-year plans um an area where we have a little bit greater discretion we have a responsibility to true up any underspending from previous years based on higher than expected revenues as well as cost savings in some cases projects were completed for a lower cost than anticipated or sometimes a project gets cancelled we have to make sure that we keep the cities whole in the 10 percent minimum annual guarantee and so i in so doing we have 8.65 million dollars allocated from previous year's cost savings and revenue succeeding projections meaning we have to true up the 10 percent minimum annual guarantee to cities so 8.654 million we're currently recommending um to be allocated for formula-based funding which is um divvied up to the seas based on their ratio of centerline miles in the county um that number is subject to uh consultation input by the bccma the city county managers association and they have this information and they're considering it um we've also put in the budget two million dollars for the capital grant for the sorry grant match program uh last year that amount was 13 million dollars so it's divvied up between nine projects um we have this this 8.654 million for formula-based funding is lower than it was last year because last year was five years of cost savings that totaled 30 million dollars right so if you're a small city and you only we have a couple of cities we have to round up to a to a mile right for roads your your number is not going to be like super large in some cases and so for 30 million dollars a lot of cities saw more last year this is only one year of of cost savings and the cost savings or cost savings after the audit of the 25 25 close out of the 2025 books they get this money in 2027 um and so we're not expecting many changes except for the city county manager association could recommend less formula-based funding and more money going to grant match there's not a lot of space for changes there they could recommend it all goes to grant match i don't i don't anticipate that but they have that privilege um and then really quickly to go into accomplishments um so this is a roll-up of our cycle one program like projects from 2020 to 2026 we tried to make this as like easy to read and comprehend as possible um we have 83 municipal capital projects in some stage green means they are completed yellow means they're underway which could mean uh under construction or in design both of those counties is underway and then 16 the blue numbers represent projects that are in basically agreement stage contracting um with the cities and so there's 83 projects of municipal capital projects and then 40 rnm projects uh that's in the left-hand side by number of projects in the middle section that information is um by dollar value um again divided between municipal capital projects and rnm projects and then the right-hand side is a roll-up of everything completed everything underway and everything with agreements in progress by both number and by dollar value um and then for this well i got ahead of myself so for for accomplishments um in sag from those cycle one projects we have 44 projects they've been completed across 18 municipalities represent about 64 million in surtax investments um again we're enablers it's the cities that are doing the hard work on this and our job is to help them do it and make sure everybody's being accountable to the the public dollar um they they i want to highlight some of the road resurfacing projects completed in the cities of coconut creek hollywood and miramar you can see on the slide they're focused on proving conditions safety and mobility on public roads and in neighborhoods as we mentioned we're going to be visiting all 30 cities that are partners in this program on a rotating basis we're also visiting with this bccma at their october meeting to tell them more about this um really the message there is like we're we're we're as long as everybody's being accountable and appropriate with their funds which they are we're here to help and then we're here to help you tell your story in a way that you appreciate for for the for your um for your residence and so uh from that like we can jump to fy 2026 so this is interesting this represents the first projects uh entered into as part of the third amendment um using the same color schemes none are completed sorry um but they will be soon uh one thing to note about fy 2026 is because of implementation of the third amendment there's a lot of things we're doing for the first time and for the so the implementation process took a little bit longer this year than it will in all subsequent years as a result the cities have been given an extension to fy the end of fy 2027 to finish um their projects that are budgeted in fy 2026 the projects are divided in between rnm projects micro transit and grant match program we mentioned the 13 million dollars that was available for grant match before left hand side again is by number of projects middle is by um project total dollar value and on the right hand side we show a roll up of everything for um numbers are underway and numbers that are in progress with that um we're going to go into a little bit of show and tell on accomplishments um i regret to show you a video that has too much of me talking in it but this is but the exciting part of it is that this is um plantation used cost savings from a previous year to spend two hundred thousand dollars to expand their freebie service to additional um mostly like senior communities to give people access to doctor's appointments lunch dates uh whatever it is that they want to go to and to say that this community was happy about this was an immense understatement i expected to go to a run-of-the-mill ribbon cutting that had a couple people talk and a ribbon of course um you'll see what i'm talking about when i find where to press the play button because we're giving more seniors an opportunity to go places i have to call a lot of my neighbors and my friends to take me wherever i have to go but now i don't have to call them anymore i have to do a pick up the phone and call freebie i need you come now i'll be using it a lot really because i like to be out all the time matt broward's purpose is to cover the map with better connections for you and we saw no better example of that than here today in lauderdale west a community that's part of plantation where they've expanded microtransit funded by about 200 000 from map broward freebie is a on-demand free ride service it's kind of like uber or lyft there's going to be an application and there's going to be a phone contact so if they need transportation and it would be a great benefit for them when you have groups like this transportation and getting places is everything my friends pick me out sometimes or my granddaughter but this gives me more freedom which is very important for us to know that i just have to pick up the phone any one of us to take it wherever we have to go i know a lot of people that are here will be making use of it we love you matt broward thank you thank you for coming into our rescue so that so thanks to katya and to alex who worked on this katya put the videos together and alex who's liaison to our southern communities um the people who we did not tell them to say what they said they knew the assignment because i think uh their council members commissioners and the mayor all wanted to say hey thank you um but really it's the community that's putting this together right we were critical enablers it's not about us we're critical enablers of all this and these are the human connections that we're facilitating in this case by a microtransit project um i think um doug yeah i want to jump back a second to your cycle one municipal surtax projects yes uh and then you have fy 26 municipal surtax projects paid by formula-based funding and grant match so is the that's actually on your page my page 36 and 38 i'm trying to understand is the numbers on page 38 included on those on 36 in other words or this in addition to because it has a number of projects from 20 to 26 and then it just has what's happening in 2026 i'm so is that added in extra two and how does that work let's see alex this is actually 2020 is it through 2025 or 2026 on this slide hello good morning board thank you Jonathan so no they're not added up they are separate because of the first chart speaks to the pre-programmed municipal capital and rehabilitation projects so the the last chart is looking back for the last year uh approval of projects that is related to the formula-based funding and grant match so it's in addition those should this is just cost savings over five years that are just on this slide so you read you save that money and re-spin it that's right right so if i add them to the cities and municipalities got both of those totals yes and that's right and with that that's a great question also congrats to the team we had a couple awards for our arvr program um that won national associated county awards and then we also received a couple of awards for our matt brown website which i think is it's pretty good but we're going to keep improving it and our logo design that's from the national associates of county information officers again a video on this and tishana who's on maternity leave um she nevertheless found her way to make it to our meeting right here hi bryard county we are so excited to announce that we are the 2026 recipients of the national association of counties achievement awards the civic education and public information award for our augmented reality and virtual reality application experiences we launched the lunch and learn series last year and we touted those devices all over the county sharing with students with senior citizens with employees and other stakeholders just really educating people on how to ride transit in a fun immersive way everybody got a chance to really get on a bus virtually and just experience what it's like to look 360 degree to see what happens and you should have seen the face on the people that had never done ar or vr experiences i'll highlight the rules in pink as the e-bus progresses first time i'm not a gamer i wouldn't have a clue this is really exciting this is like taking technology to a different level to give people a chance to check out some things that maybe they wouldn't have an opportunity to so again thanks to katya and tishana for putting that together thanks to neil and team who worked on this arvr program um the team's doing some great things i think we all can know this and this is just one example of it um and finally um a request of the board if you have any of your favorite accountants or recent or recent cpas that you think would be fantastic to be one of your colleagues up here um then please recommend folks for accounting vacancy on the oversight board um we do plan for the appointing authority to meet in mid mid-september um to appoint somebody to this role um but uh yeah anybody can recommend that we would welcome it and with that that's all that i have open any additional questions we have from the board okay thank you jonathan do we have any questions from the board seeing none uh we'll move on to the next item thank you jonathan appreciate that so oh thank you so we will welcome uh to the podium uh deputy director tony hugi uh for the brower county public works and environmental services department update thank you for for coming today is that better good thank you uh happy to be here tony again public works and environmental services department uh what i'm going to be going over uh in this next part of the presentation is the things that we have done this past year the things that we want to do this next year and um and go over and provide the members of the board a detailed explanation of what we have done and you know what what these projects are that are coming up we're excited about it um uh we're and and so well with that let me just go on and you know and and just talk about it so if you can proceed to the first slide please do i do i click no what i do oh wow see it's not me here we go and then just click okay this is a left click sounds good great thank you jonathan okay got it um so just very briefly this is just a list of the projects that we have accomplished over the over this past year with uh very our staff is very active in terms of working on these projects there are a total of 16 projects that would finish this past fiscal year i want to go through them for you in some degree of detail show you some of the nice things that have been done and that um um that our community and our residents have been able to see that has been accomplished as part of the project so with these 16 projects um this is just a residual part of the list the first one and i think the one that deserves the most credit and i think we've talked about it in the past before is the convention center connect to road that was completed uh within budget within the time it uh enable and help with the convention center uh um opening on time which is a it's a great road in heavy use that's been significant you know the um vehicles that that passes through it and we continue to work in that area when the whole port area working on the 17th street causeway area there's a number of other things in the adjacent area that needs to be done that this ties together to make it a really nice project so this is this was a great accomplishment for both the surtax and then also broward county as whole um and so um um the second project is a project on cypress creek road it goes from power line and actually extends east beyond andrews avenue actually extends past the freeway and it goes out to um ninth avenue and um and i do want to highlight this for a couple reasons and one of it is that you can see the finish road and you can see the pictures on either side showing 10-foot multi-purpose paths and um and and not only you know do we have the the benefits of the 10-foot uh multi-purpose path the reason i want to highlight it is i want to highlight the approach that our that the surtax have been taking to work cooperatively with other agencies um when this first project was first got started it was actually an fdot project and it is an fdot project and they deserve a lot of credit for this is that they were doing this improvement on cypress creek road as part of the i-95 improvement project so this is part of the improvements when we saw it when we you know start talking about it we saw an opportunity uh they were originally going to install sidewalks on on both sides we saw an opportunity to expand this from just a basic sidewalks into multi-purpose paths and the reason that we really want to do it was because of this proximity to um um the the park and ride lot in the train station in that area so it just increases multimodal activity into that area and hopefully we can sort of um um have the you know the the the opportunity for people to get on the bikes walking get on the trains or a lot you know allows a lot more of these type of activities in a very safe manner so we participated in funding of this project in terms of the redesigning and the city of port lado actually also participated in in part of the funding for so it was a multi-agency effort and and this is you know what we try to do as part of the surtax program is to be able to leverage leverage some of our fundings into bigger projects and in this case like i said fdot deserves most of the credit for the construction of this but we also saw the opportunity to leverage some of the things that you know that we can do to make this a better project for the county uh and the community as a whole so i do want to highlight it this is is a great thing for you know for the community um drainage replacement completed a six avenue drainage replacement project some of the activities that were um uh that were conducted in terms of installation of drainage and then also the finished road as you can see beautiful new road with um with significant um uh what were the benefits of the entire community as a whole lighting areas that we didn't have lighting before now got new lights in our um uh in our area both in terms of the boulevard gardens neighborhood and then also in the franklin uh park street lighting so it's um uh i think the residents love it it's um it's it's also not only safer for pedestrians but also the vehicles as a whole that travels that those areas um mass arm upgrades we continue to do mass arm upgrades um installing new mass arms and hopefully it's hopefully it'll be another year that we won't test um the uh the uh the usefulness of these mass arms but um uh but we you know we've continued to to do that um new sidewalks in our neighborhoods that previously didn't have sidewalks um uh beautiful you know and again increasing safety for pedestrians and increasing multimodal activities in our boulevard gardens uh area and we also can uh constructed these sidewalks in conjunction with some of the lighting projects the lighting projects i mentioned earlier so it was sort of like a one shot through the neighborhood and and minimize impact to them as much as we could throughout you know throughout the area um okay uh adaptive traffic signals i think that's something that's um it's definitely always interested um uh in our you know in our work um we were able to um uh finish about five of them this year and actually a couple of them were just on the edge of being finished the prior year and you know we were able to um um uh get them through and get them through testing and so forth so i list up the five that you know that we have been through uh that we're able to achieve and again you know this is just another example what you see in a couple of these projects is that we label them as an example a01b uh down here 803b what that means is is that you know when we first conceived the project as an example for broward broad by project we conceived of an adaptive traffic signal system that goes all the way from state road state road seven all the way to us one that's our original project what we when we started working on these projects we again saw opportunities to work together with fdot to make some of these projects to build them as quickly as possible so we break them into two parts a and b so the b was achieved in conjunction with fdot we provided funding for it we participated in the review and you know and all the type of things that goes along with it that is that part of this finished this past year the a portion which is the county is responsible for as an example in this case here that goes from 22nd avenue to us one we've been constructing it as account as a county project uh individually and um and that part of it just for this project is about 90 construction complete so within the next let's say three to six months then the whole project that we originally conceived of it would be completed and we're able to do that in a quick manner because we continue to look for opportunities to work with other agencies to do so that's sort of like um just examples of the you know the philosophy of you know what we try to do or we what we want to achieve is leverage our ability to work with others as we go along uh fiber optic network we continue to expand and build the backbone we're getting um close towards the um in a couple of years we will have constructed the backbone network that we originally conceived of so another four point miles for a little over four miles of it we were able to complete this past year so um those are some of the um projects that um uh the slides on the bridge it's got it okay thank you uh i'm going to jump ahead to this a little bit and uh because it's it's part of the the uh you know when i was talking about the fy26 accomplishments i think one of the things i want to add this to it is um uh in our current fiscal year uh we want to do one this is there's a new project that we need to do in our current fiscal year before i jump ahead into fy27 and what this is is that um this is a bridge that's on peters road and it's it's over on holloway um uh canal we call it the local name for it is holloway canal it's on peters road just east of u.s uh excuse me just east of university avenue um it's in a mostly a residential neighborhood and we want to notify the board that we have to do an emergency repair of it as quickly as we can and and let me sort of explain a little bit here this is the condition of the bridge and we've been monitoring this bridge for a while but some came up and expected that we need to deal with as quickly as possible and what you will see here and there's multiple things going on here but the key of it is this line right here there's um there's something there's sort of a a crack and a separation that we started seeing recently that we have to deal with as quickly as possible this is a excuse me a sonar boy bridge we've talked about sonar boy bridges in the past and this is another example of it these are some close-up of the cracks and so forth that that we need to deal with on an emergency basis and so what we want to do is is that we need to we need for the safety of the public uh we need to deal with it as quickly as possible what we want to do is we actually want to start and we design when we find out that we have this emergency issue we actually wanted to um uh do it as quickly as possible so our staff in-house did the design of it so that we can move ahead as quickly as possible we want to start on this um in september uh perhaps next week or in the next two weeks as quickly as we can it's it's not a it's not a danger to the public situation but it's something that we want to deal with so we want to um uh we want to start on that hopefully you know starting in september our current fiscal year the cost of it is 6.8 million dollars that we're going to have to do to repair um we're not requesting any funding um uh from the board um your approval for funding at the moment so the current request is actually zero but the way that we're going to fund these repairs is is that we want to fund the repairs from two projects that the board approved last year for for um construction it was old two four and a half million dollars and oh one oh nine we actually get the board approved a higher amount for this project but we need only 2.3 million of it we want to use those funding from those two projects to do the immediate repairs on it we've been working with our budget office on it and we're in in close coordination with them in terms of how to fund it so what we're going to come back to at some at a later point in this current year is we're going to have to come back and these pro these two projects are going to be delayed just a little bit we're going to come back and request some backup funding back into these two projects and um and and so that's how we that's how we want to just ship a couple projects back allow us to do the emergency repair and then we're going to back fund them you know working in close conjunction with um with with our uh with our budget office so uh i want to notify the board of that is something that just came up that we need to do so i see i think phil at you you um miss alan you have a uh a question that i think absolutely we have two questions so oh i'm sorry my apologies have you have you been waiting for funding or in this meeting here to move forward on the project i don't want to get in the situation where we have money available it's just that we haven't dotted all the i's across t's in order to get an emergency repair work done yeah i was going to say if there's a way to set some kind of a contingency amount that doesn't require board oversight as the emergency occurs because we only need every three months yeah and i don't want a project hanging up no i thank you for the consideration of that i i think the timing of it just worked out perfectly um we finished our in-house design of it we want to move ahead the meeting is coming up we just want to let the board know just so that everybody understands what we're trying to do and and and so forth though we so we have not held back the repairs because of this meeting the timing of it worked out well for us fortunately so related related to that so this was an emergency situation right of the 6.8 million is that all surtax is it going to be shared by dot no this is this is a county-owned bridge so this is sick it is entirely sure tax funds yeah yeah but as you said that we uh we had the ability to to take care of this emergency okay thank you okay thank you uh we do want to know if like i said the timing worked out perfectly glad we had this meeting and uh so uh is there a way i can jump back a little bit to a couple of the slides yeah right there okay okay okay thank you very much so um with that i wrapped up our fy26 and i want to go into our proposed budget for fy27 uh the fy27 proposal is 100 and the approximately 111 million dollars there are 34 projects that mix up this amount and it is in the same it is in the categories that we have um uh that we've been dealing with in the same cabinet in the same categories as an example bridge repair drainage replacement and so forth and so forth so what i now want to take the time through is to sort of go through each one of these 34 34 projects that make up the 111 million dollars and provide provide the board with the details of what we're trying to do some of the circumstances that necessitate the projects and some of the progress and that type of thing so um so what i'm going to do with this year is that um that in in terms of accomplishing these projects there are three main divisions within the public works and environmental services department that do all of this work and and um it's our it's our highway rich maintenance division it's our highway construction and engineering division and our traffic engineering division so those are the three divisions they and their staff are the other folks that you know work work on all these projects and what i want to do is that i want to sort of highlight these in divisions and the individuals so as we go through these projects i want to ask uh our division directors for each one of the divisions to come and come up and you know present their projects to you so that you can also see you know these are the individuals that are handling it and and you know we'll we'll so i'm going to now jump back to the first project is that we'll go through and use the same format that we've been using the last couple years um explain what the projects are and then also explain the changes that we have made from our last year's um five-year plan if there are any changes and what the changes are and so forth so with that um the first project is a bridge repair project so i'd like to introduce anton director of a highway and bridge maintenance division to go through them thank you thank you tony um my name is on tom division director for highway and bridge maintenance i think i've been up here talking to you about various bridge projects before so we're going to continue on to talk about the upcoming group of projects i'm going to start with the bridges but first just a little recap so we maintain we operate and maintain approximately 400 to 450 structures that brown county own and maintain we have to fund them we have to maintain and we have to operate them of those structures there are approximately 100 or so that have a bridge number and what i mean by that is when they get to a certain site it goes into a state database it's actually a federal database but the state actually handle for us there's a structural numbers um and then they get inspected at a minimum every two years so in the situation that you saw earlier there was an inspection report done in 23 there was an inspection report done in 25 and we saw a deterioration between those two cycles because of that we start monitoring that ourselves and notice the start there's a potential of separation between the members so in the geeky structure engineer and word that i live in we want the bridges to be completely rigid so all the members have to be connected together the bridge function as a unit when they start to separate that's when concerns happen um in fact i think i've showed you a picture before in seven years ago um one of the dot bridge in palm beach county actually just snap off with a very small load uh apply on it it's because the members are no longer connected now most of the time we can inspect these things now some bridges we cannot inspect them and know exactly what's happening inside we can do the radar we do all kind of stuff but at the end of the day it comes down to engineering judgment um and in that situation we start to see that separation that's when we started looking at it designing in-house moving forward with with the construction that's why we're ready for construction next month so i'll be out there the next one is a coconut creek bridge this one is located within the city of coconut creek the construction phase was planned to start in 27 and while we are maintaining that that schedule however we are asking for additional funding mainly because when we see the deterioration has increased over time that adds more work to it and that couples with the market condition that we continue to see uh construction costs increase in the marketplace i can use the enter so this is um the condition of the bridge uh but a lot more detail is in the report itself that we get from the fdot all the bridges i'm presenting today are the larger bridges that has an fdot bridge inspection report along with it next one is a atlantic boulevard is located in the city of margate it's planned for 2027 and we are keeping with that and the budget stays remain the same this is a few photos of the condition of that um this one is pine island road uh we were planning to start this in 2027 we would like we're we were planning to we would like actually we're planning to start in 2030 but because of the deterioration where we'd like to start at earlier and then um we have asked for a design budget back in the five-year plan last year of two million dollar we're foregoing all that we're going to design that in-house and go straight to construction and right now the preliminary construction estimate is seven million dollar to to repair that bridge in 27. same thing this is another one of the son of way bridges when you start to see the cracking situation that when the alarm bells go off um probably this is a good point for me to bring up that so if we were to design a new bridge today the life expectancy for design is about 75 years um back in the mid 90s the design life when we design new bridges is around 50 years so that's our target you design the bridge that's going to last for 50 years guess the average eight or our bridges that are inventory right now is right around 50 years it ranges between 45 and 55 so that's why you're going to see some um significant investment in our bridge structure to make them last another 20 30 years and the reason we're trying it really hard to not to have to replace them is a couple things number one it's very expensive to replace these bridges but two probably just as important it's very very disruptive to the community so if you think about it our community has built up over time so in order to for us to go and replace this bridge let's say on pine island road we can't shut down pine island roads for a year or two years so what that means for us is we either have to have the space to build a timber structure and go around it which most of the time we don't or we do have to do half at a time which means that we have to split the bridge in half shift the dual direction traffic into one side remove half of the bridge built on that side shift the traffic back to the new side of the bridge and build the other side that takes two to three years it's extremely extremely disruptive that's why we're trying really hard to rehab them make them last 20 30 years reduce the cost minimize the disruption to community and when we repair this bridge i think i presented here before our methods of repairing them from underneath so most of the time you will not even notice the traveling couple will not even notice we're there because we're working from underneath with exception about four to six weeks when we have to flip back on top to replace and repair things like guard rail waterproof the bridge resurfacing obviously those things you cannot do from underneath okay uh next one is um there are two bridges the sister bridges one eastbound and westbound um atlantic boulevard located in coral spring um the plan was to start in 28 we're trying to move that up to 27 and it's only for construction again we're moving that in-house to complete the design and the design budget for this one is 3.5 a few photos this is another one of those sanamoy bridges uh and this one is the sister bridge we were planning to do that in 29 we're planning to do we'd like to do in 27 uh designing in-house complete both bridges at the same time to advance the and advance the repair director ton yes sir i have a question similar to what i asked tony i noticed the last three projects were identified as being deficient because of fdot inspections are these county projects bridges or these were identified by fdot but they're not helping pay for it these are all county bridges county roadway county bridges so by my state statute dot is required to do the inspection for us and other municipality when the bridges become certain site but they're not their bridges they're okay so there these are all surtax dollars to fix them did we have to reimburse dot for identifying the problem no by state law they're required to do that inspection okay and we're not paying them for that thank you sure okay yes sir um if i may um so the bridges were originally designed to last uh you know you said about 50 years and and we're at that point now 45 to 55 years and by fixing it or repairing it we're adding additional 25 years to the life of the bridge the yes um to answer your question we're our target is to make them last 20 to 30 years from today okay and that will be consistent with building a new bridge which would have expected expected you know life span of 75 years is that so if we were to replace that bridge yeah the design life would be the target design life would be 75 years 75 and what's the just approximate you know cost uh i guess what i'm trying to get to is by fixing it repairing it for spending maybe seven million dollars and if that same project were to be just completely new uh how much what kind of dollars are we looking at then ballpark figure about five times of the repair cost five times yeah all right thank you no more questions okay i'm going to move next to drainage um going to move next to drainage tony had talked earlier about a drainage project on sixth avenue in oakland park that we just finished now this is the continuation of that that last project that we are we are finalizing or very close to finalizing it's also on six um just to the south of this it started at commercial going to south now we're doing commercial to the north this was planned to start in 27 that project went under construction it was on schedule uh this project is a continuation of that um of the planned project of continuing to fix the drainage conditions on along six within the city of oakland park uh we videotaped inspect these pipe and these are some of the pipe condition that we'll be repairing or replacing uh the next one is a pretty big one uh it's along andrews this i'm gonna go to show you some photos uh in a minute here the what it was planned to start the design in 2030 we're asking to move that up to 2027 and the reason is right in the middle of it near the brow hospital we have recently been notified about a month ago that we were awarded a grant that grant is to improve the drainage condition along andrews and third right in the middle of this project right around brow health um that's a 50 million dollar grant seven and a half came from surtax matching seven and a half from the ep uh that has not been executed yet but we think this is a good time to include this project at the same time and the reason we went after that grant pretty strongly is because it's around the brow health which is one of two um level one trauma center within brow county so it's important that we maintain access to obviously to a level one trauma center um so we're gonna hoping to work on the design and plan off this project and that grant project at the same time a quick question 3.8 million dollars to design 2.3 miles of aged pipe is this standard i mean to me i don't know what the i don't know what the heck is going to cost to fix it but if it costs 3.8 million dollars to design it what is does anyone know what this is going to cost to fix it's typically um generally speaking the design cost is about 15 to 20 percent so if you take that multiply by five that's about a ballpark we're paying 15 to 20 percent design fees today yeah you're talking about planning it doing a study doing a complete survey videotaping the existing pipe inspecting existing pipe and go through design permit do you have anything to add to that remember that's standard i mean i'm not thrown by that number i realize this is a government job but it sounds awful high to me unfortunately it's not it's not no unfortunately it's not okay thank you thank you does i mean does the design also it's not just paper right there's studies and things that have to be done in the field no it's not at all first you got to do a master plan um the first you have to video inspect the pipe because we have to know what we're working with then you do a master plan there's a whole set of drainage study it has to go through that goes some preliminary permitting then you start under design and the design needs survey and geotag that has to be collected and then we go through design process and permitting and unfortunately it does take a long time and it's very costly but thanks for explaining a little detail and and like i said we are going to be working in conjunction with that grant project this is a few photos of 23 and 24 along andrews avenue next one is the boulevard gardens drainage project within the medusa service district the bmsd we have a grant for that already i'm going to go through that in a minute here we've been working on that project now this is in addition to that because there's a certain portion of the grant that cannot be covered all the design fee and and part of construction is covered in the grant this is for the money that's outside of that grant that we would like to have to continue working at our project so when we go to construction everything gets done at one time there you know we don't disrupt the community multiple times this one the grant was for 17 million dollar 8.75 came from surtax additional 8.75 came from the state and the scope is essentially provide drainage improvement connectivity sidewalk and this is basically for the whole neighborhood a few pictures of the drainage conditions that we have out there the whole project is going to be installed replace approximately seven feet of pipes we have to create a whole new outfall because a whole neighborhood does not have an outfall and about a mile with our sidewalk new sidewalk next one this is only for a study right now this is was planned for 27 sort of brown municipal service district in washington park is planned nothing has changed from 27 the dollar stays the same a few pictures this was back in 23 and there's a photo of in 24 for that neighborhood um this is another project was also in oakland park and part of it is in fort lauderdale it was planned to start in 27 construction cost is 9.8 that remains the same see this one is really i don't know if you're familiar with there it's really close to your northeast high school in fact it's right in front of it here's a few photos that we have recently on the next group of projects are sidewalk and some small drainage the reason they kind of go together is because when you put a new sidewalk particularly if it's not just sidewalk replaced but new sidewalk you have to do some kind of drainage improvement because you're adding impervious to a previous area construction uh start in 20 was planned for in the five year uh we moved that up because there's a number of requests that came through from the public so we're planning we're hoping to start that in 27 for construction the design has already been done in-house this is where the sidewalk would be along pine island road next one is a sidewalk and small drainage in coral springs along course spring drive it was planned to start outside of five year but because of the number of requests that we have uh we are hoping to move that in to start the design process design budget is about 160 000 or so here's a few photos of the existing sidewalk conditions this one is a resurfacing slash bike lane so when we resurface we add bike lane to it if there's space available it was planned to start in 27 and we are um keeping on that schedule the budget request for the design is 670 and it stays the same here's the current condition of the asphalt along 62nd this is a new project this is for resurfacing of sheridan street it's about 1.5 mile the reason we're asking to add that in is because the condition of the asphalt is really deteriorated and it's a lot cheaper to fix asphalt now then go back and rehab the whole road later uh the construction cost is four million dollar the design has already been done and it was done in-house current condition of that sharon street um next one is excuse me we have these deteriorating asphalts is this because they've run their lifespan are we doing something wrong and we're just going to put a band-aid on it we're going to have the same problem again the lifespan of asphalt is around 15 to 20 years so let's say 18 to that's a round number we have not resurfaced that road in 30 years so it's just run its life thank you and we are resurfacing the whole road uh next one is broadview this is part of the grant project that we received uh several years ago the grant was for 21 point the total project was 21.7 million dollars 17 or so came from the federal government five from approximately five from surtax there are things that need to be done within the neighborhood mainly resurfacing upgrading some curb ram uh improving the drainage that doesn't was not included as part of the grant so where this is the new project so we can do it all together and it's and you're going to see later we're also going to advance the lighting as well so the goal here is because we're using the grant money to start the work the work is ongoing right now it's in in construction uh we want to move this money in we're designing um the rest in-house and this is to cover the construction cost that's not included in the grant project a few photos uh this is what i just alluded to also this is for lighting the lighting is already planned for fy 27 for the same neighborhood so we're hoping to get get it all done at one time um and then finish the whole neighborhood this l9 l10 are both lighting projects for the same neighborhood it's so big we split it up in two um any questions on my part because richard's going to come up next to talk about his project any questions nope thank you thank you ton we had a question he's on oh we do have a question oh ray can you hear us go ahead yeah i can hear you can hear me yes we can okay i apologize not being there in person um just because you're leaving the podium i just had a few questions ultimately these are a lot of projects and drainage projects um take up a lot of dollars i just don't understand while while safety projects aren't being prioritized in any of these public works projects i'm sorry i didn't understand the question could you please repeat um ultimately so what i'm seeing a lot of in this project is that we have these like roadways of asphalt pavement quality that's not in shape we have these bridges that are deteriorating and not in the in the basically the level that we want them at performance wise but i don't understand why we're not seeing more public works projects focused on public safety hi this is richard tony's director highway construction engineering that's a great question actually you're introducing my slides because that's where i'm coming in that um i'm just i'm here addressing a lot of the bike lanes and safety projects okay then i'll wait till the end of public works and then we'll talk from there all right thank you very much okay well um as you know i i handle a lot of the safety and the sidewalk and of course the bike lane projects and of course capacity projects i was responsible for the port bypass road so uh i wouldn't say that if it wasn't successful i would i would have my assistant director come up here but uh but yeah i figured all right i'll do it anyway this is um uh to the point there as far as uh you know unique projects one of my favorite projects actually is this dixie highway project uh it's a resurfacing but it's really not actually what it is is we're going to be putting in um and and you know bike lanes uh by and they're separated which is really really something we're always pushing for separate bike lane it'll be by the railroad right away and i'm going to go through a lot of the details of this and actually a wide sidewalk in conjunction with that so we didn't have to you know compromise one or the other but um everything is on schedule as you can see um the cost estimate hasn't changed and we're asking for uh 22 million in this cycle um just to give you some at least insight to the project um if i can see here so the bicycle the cycle track is coming in here and then you have your wide sidewalks there i'm going to show you actually typical sections too that will provide a little bit more detail but we're about 50 percent in design right now and hopefully by the some next summer this will be under construction it's about 1.2 miles um to give you an idea what the section would look like here's you have your your 10 foot sidewalk you have your two lanes you have your uh buffer bike lane with a separator and which is not which is great because then the bicycles really feel comfortable you know and then you'll have a wide area for the bike lane alongside of the fec right away so we're right up we don't need any right away from fec but it'll be right up against it uh and it's on both sides the only times that we actually have to narrow down the sidewalk is during where we have the intersections where there's right away constraints other than that there it's 10 foot wide sidewalk on the outside richard and just for clarity on the bike lanes is it separated by like delineators or is it a curve oh no actually it's actually a separate a concrete separate yes perfect yeah no that's good thank you yeah no we that's why i said it's one of my favorite projects because we don't get that opportunity so you know we we had enough right away in area to actually do it uh this one here is a is another project which um you know we're providing at least some uh safety measures too but i'll go through some of it but we're asking for the resurfacing uh of of section of roadway of 62nd street and the thing is is we're combining it with other projects that we already have scheduled which is an intersection project expanding the intersection we're adding um a through and a right turn lane going westbound we have a widening another right turning going eastbound it's very heavy congested i lived in the area so i see it every day and um but we also are going to be doing some traffic calming on this so we're um scheduling this for 2027 we are also the schedule and the construction costs has not changed either um and what we'll be doing is we're going to do in this area which we're trying them out and it seems to be working we're going to do speed tables and and and raise intersections so those speed tables are like speed humps uh but they're not as abrasive you know but it does slow down traffic and we're going to try to slow down traffic right this area here um you know has a lot of activity there's residential uh houses on both sides of the road so it definitely you know you know people need to slow down in this area and we have to try to physically make them do that so this is just the resurface because we're asking we're just asking for the resurfacing on the road as part of it we'll also address ada any any sidewalk issues that we have in there um and any enhancements in that area we would we would you know if we see something we're going to you know actually address even drainage minor drainage improvements okay this is actually a safety project this one here is um and i don't know if everybody's familiar with this miramar parkway around this curve this curve is is really really sharp really and it's a section of uh curvature doesn't meet really any kind of standards but it's what we were left with it basically it was built a long time ago and houses are built up against it so really there's really not much we could do we've been doing countermeasures and countermeasures i know hon has been out there replacing guardrail i know rossum's there putting speed radar signs we're doing everything and we've had multiple multiple crashes and it's actually crashes going into houses so it is so and the people are just they're afraid to go and actually get out of the house even walk on the sidewalk and it's not it just because the curve is so sharp so so what we're doing here um is we made this a major project to concentrate on safety so we're gonna and it's very unique with the design that we came up with we're actually going to build a frontage road with a barrier wall so that any errant vehicles will not be able to protrude into any kind of uh let's say driveway or sidewalk area so it would actually be a protection there and we originally asked for a set we were thinking around 7.8 million but we've actually figured out a design that will reduce it down to 5 million so it's actually something that we would look for yes and for this one the sidewalk and the bicycle lane are both on the other side of the barrier from traffic correct yeah yeah i'm gonna yeah so great question good so because here we are this is the the curve so you can see how sharp so what would happen is that people's we're not paying attention uh we have speed radar signs there we have we've we've done everything we put reflectors everything they just keep on going and just right into multiple times getting into people's front lawn then into and actually hitting the houses going and it's mostly in this eastbound direction so what we're doing is we're going to put this barrier wall which you have shown here you can see here and it's front row so this basically will protect them from that also now we're going to use these speed tables so we're going to put two of them here one here one here and then two there to slow them down around the curve and then the bike the bicyclists will be able to be protected in this area we're going to have them come in here not along the barrier wall where they'll be squeezed and basically no way to go nowhere to escape right so so we so this is going to be a great project too another unique project we've never built any project like this in my whole career so we'll and i think it's it's going to it's going to work well and the residents actually uh are supporting it richard yes i don't want to gloss over this because you're saying innovative design saved us 2.8 million dollars yeah yeah because we were going to read we need to do more of that yeah yeah yeah no i can't think that we learned that we can apply to future projects or is this an oddity yeah actually just hire good engineers i have a really good engineer that comes up with unique designs and i just take credit for but uh but no but yeah he actually came up i said you know if we're paying him 15 20 design fees maybe it's okay but it this this we shouldn't gloss over this and why while i have the floor we glossed over the achievement award for the map administration team no one said is anyone here from here that submitted those documents staff pardon tishana did but she's on maternity leave well we didn't give them a round of applause we should have just like this should get one sorry for that but need to take that message back to whoever worked on that a lot of people worked on that i'm sure thanks yeah no thank you i'm sorry i took up too much time but we sometimes we just let things fly by and this is something that's important no i somebody saved us some money i appreciate that yeah no that's a great compliment thank you and i'll pass it along to my staff thank you so um this this pine island down the next two are two sections of pine island road were expansion projects but of course we don't we're not neglecting anything with bicyclists and pedestrians we use this as an opportunity not not only to address congestion but also to address you know basically good facilities for both the bicyclists and the pedestrians so on these section this section here we're really um we're asking for actually of course less money now we've come we've changed the read we've actually looked at the ci costs and we reduced the scope so there's some areas of the project that was already built up and we thought that there's no reader reason to redo it so so that that shortened down the project a little bit as far as the limits and didn't we didn't need as much uh of cei or construction engineering inspection uh assistance because the project uh length of time will not be as as long so we looked at an opportunity to basically you know save money where we can because that at this point um a lot of our bids have been coming in higher than we expect and we're trying to uh get ahead of that and actually sometimes reduce the scope if we really can so okay and this is the proposed typical as you can see there's the 10 foot wide sidewalk uh on both sides of the road which allows for multi-use between you know the bicycles and the pedestrian um and we you know we asked the community on all these of like do you want an on-street bike lane and a sidewalk or do you just want a wide sidewalk with the the capability to have both the bicycles and pedestrian and it's really been overwhelming that they just want the whites they want that curbing there to protect them to both the bicycles and the pedestrian and we we feel that you know if you know if if that's what they want we think it's a good idea also okay and this is another section of uh of pine island road and um we have a grant on both of these we have grants i'm sorry i didn't mention that before previously so from dot so the reason that a lot of these projects been advanced is because dot seen a need uh to improve pine island road because um university drive is over capacity so what they do is they give us a grant to basically alleviate traffic from university drive to go to pine island road but and then we take the opportunity to use that funding not only for the for the you know for the motorists but also for the pedestrian the bicyclists safety enhancements whatever we can do so it gives us um you know the resources we need funding-wise to actually address that and this this here um we act we are going to just uh so you so you know again we are reducing the request because um we're going to do some of the design in-house we think we can do certain segments of it in-house and we can do it efficiently and we can save uh you know basically accounting and the surtax funding uh you know in that regard for other projects that are needed jonathan just a comment i would like to see this project will be leveraged with nine million construction grant from when we see these things they need to be colored red or something i mean they are important to point out that these surtax dollars are grown and we're we're we're salesmen are us okay so i'd like to see in the future that whenever this happens it gets highlighted it's easy to do click the right button yeah i mean i glossed over it and it's my slides reduce cost anytime there's a reduced cost we need we need to let people know thank you yeah no no excellent suggestion that that that makes sense to me too all right let's see here okay so we'll just show this is some photos just showing the congestion a long pine on the road um okay now these decks are just uh they're our normal mass arm uh projects which are replacing the span wire uh to amassed arms and there's really you know no in the next couple of slides they're basically all the same but they're of course they're on a list that of course we receive from traffic engineering traffic engineering identifies vulnerable um intersections especially with the span wire um you know preparing for you know hopefully hopefully hopefully no event but at least they look at that they give us where they think this needs to be done and then we prioritize it and actually put it uh into our capital plan to construct it so this section here is at johnson street uh mass arm replacement and 56th avenue the next one is at six drum boulevard and it's a mass arm at 20 and northwest 22nd avenue and then we have knob hill road uh mast arm and mcnab road another one so these are all as you can see schedules and and costs have been changed we've gotten pretty good of it good at it over the years we've been doing you know quite a bit and um and it seems that we we have a better feel plus uh in our bids when we have it in the business itemized out so we can actually see what those costs and the trend is so we can anticipate if there's any changes but it's been pretty consistent okay actually this is a real unique project it's another uh bicycle pedestrian enhancement project that now we're actually going to work with other agencies um which is mpo and fdot this area here um is has been identified by mpo and dot as far as an area where they think they need to do um some enhancements for the bicyclists and for and a pedestrian and also do i think they're doing also intersection improvements which include uh raised intersection and uh speed tables but i'll i'm going to go through some of this i have the consultant that actually did some of the work for mpo here but i'm going to go through why we're asking for this as a new project uh right now just so you know that it's you know we're trying to leverage uh again you know what dot is doing and let's bring in some of the projects that we already have identified just bring them in sooner so this way um we can get it built uh and some assistance from the state as far as funding so right here we're looking at this this is a new project the re the reason as i just said to leverage with dot in the city um and the construction cost is 950 000. uh this is on andrews avenue andrews avenue is a county road 17th street is a city road uh third avenue is a county road um and we're we're asking for uh only construction funding so the the design funding and all is going to be um provided by dot so as you can see here these are the intersections and um there's one here this fourth avenue is our road is a broward county road uh but they're fully funding it they're going to fund the the the complete re re working of the intersection all and we don't have to fund not even the construction on these two which was andrews and third which we've asked for funding for in this request uh we're they're going to um fund the design and the cei which is the inspection services we're going to fund the uh construction which is that that's the 1.8 million and so what they're what the plan is what mpo's plan is and the city's plan is is actually put raised bike lanes so here we go so this is another opportunity to actually do something different that the county hasn't done before but the city and mpo are taking the lead on and we fully support it along with them we're going to additional treatments is the mass on conversions which we you know let's just take the opportunity and while they're doing this work we can actually um you know have you provide this as additional scope the raised crosswalks there they're going to do raised intersections uh so they it's it's going to hopefully slow down traffic it's going to provide a nice area safe area for for bicyclists and um and we get the you know the the spam wires uh signals which are very close to the coast of course uh to be replaced with mast arm which is important for us for resiliency and i think um that's this is this is more or less the funding and it's in is you have the the printout but you can see basically where the funding is coming from and who's funding what but it is definitely a great opportunity for the county uh to work with mpo in the state it it definitely helps us and it helps the area of course all right okay so these are these are lighting improvement projects that we have here um the it's like on works on a lot of the neighborhood lighting we do we do a lot of the roadway lighting projects so we we kind of work together a lot of times it's either um either we either we have fpl do the construction or we do the construction so um on the on all on all these requests here uh there is no change in the either the construction start time or the schedule i mean or the uh construction cost and this here is l15 is the prospect lighting is 31st and 28th another section that um these enhancements that it's these are all safety enhancements these are were reviewed and looked at as far as from a safety perspective and so just that i just want to make sure we that we address that in our presentation so as you can see a lot of my projects were both i have a good mix of capacity projects and safety projects so it's kind of we you can see we we prioritize both and this is another lighting section here so we're these are all um going to be worked out with uh this municipalities and maybe uh for energy and operational costs a lot of times what we do with these we actually install lighting the municipality agrees that the lighting is necessary um and they're willing to uh more or less fund the uh the maintenance of it and the and then of and of course um pay for the energy costs which is it's great and it's a county you know county facilities so you know we get the benefit and of course the public and it's it's an upgrade for them and this is safety upgrade and i think we're i that is all i have at this point um i'm going to ask rossum to come up and present the traffic elements thank you okay before richard leaves does anybody have any questions for richard i just want to make an observation yes i think it's great that you put deerfield beach tamarack fort lauderdale because you know the cities all complain they don't get enough of the surtax but the county is spending a lot of money in cities and i think it's great to see that here do we have any city representatives here today that must be because the third amendment was so well written that they're happy is that right nathaniel all right well i i i think this is this is great i've been trying to get more and more of this because everybody says oh i'm not getting my share well yeah yeah i think we spread it around the county as you can see um you know it's good that every you know we try not to leave as many you know out as we can because we look for that yeah you want to go you're done thank you thank you and i want to celebrate richard's work on this as well and just note that one of the things we'll be recommending to the board at our december workshop is to have a safety focused meeting uh next year in which public works with more time available to be focused on safety can come to the table and we're working through this with public works further um can come to the table and show us all the different innovative things they're doing to include best practice safety improvements across all of our projects and then we can have like a really fulsome uh conversation about that and how that's lining up with everything else across other agencies so i think i mean the board can redirect us if we don't want to do that but that is an opportunity to have like a really full safety discussion and see the full picture of what public works is actually doing um because they've been model partners across a bunch of different sectors here no thank you and at risk of opening it up is ray uh still available yeah i would just like to definitely show support for having a safety focused meeting that 17th street project you were talking about mr tenese was actually one that i personally walked on like four years ago with karen warfel and we did the street walk so i'm excited to see that it's finally came to fruition in the surtax um but of course my frustration is that it's a project that myself and many others have championed and it's just one so i hope that we can replicate that at scale instead of just seeing a lot of grassroots support have to push up individual projects we can do ray we lost you for a second more of a leading role in making sure we're leading from public's works is leading with etc so thank you thanks ray appreciate your input on that and look forward to the safety meeting um at this time we have uh mr uh rasam awad i probably butchered that we got it right thanks it's a familiar name i thought but that's okay good morning everyone rasam awad i'm the director of the traffic engineering division here at broward county um as it relates to the school zone and improvements uh program that's an ongoing annual program county-wide that basically brings up the infrastructure elements of the school zones to the latest standards to enhance safety first and foremost but also enhance visibility harden the infrastructure um on the construction side of things there are no changes as you can see there are also no changes on the design side of things for your reference we tackle about eight of these school zones annually and that includes assessing them doing a warrant study to see what else could be needed for the zone as well as designing those elements this program here is a supplemental program that's going to run about five years and the prior program the core program brings the infrastructure to the latest standards this program here goes above standards for about 100 locations where we identified some deficiencies that can be better addressed by by enhancing the infrastructure no changes on that as well uh operations and maintenance o and m that's for the primarily for the traffic signal system trucks equipment bucket trucks fleet elements that address the detection primarily systems that we proactively manage and fees uh costs for the software packages that we use to oversee and manage the system and if i'm not mistaken that concludes uh my part if you have any questions please let me know otherwise i think that's the sum of everything thank you go ahead doug i hate to be a squeaky wheel but i go back to page 116 about z g 30 where we're spending 500 000 to design it and a million and a half to construct it that's 30 percent and i don't know i mean i've been in the professional design business for a long time but i think someone needs to look into some of this the whole to me it just seems that seems outlandish i mean i'm going to spend a half a million dollars to design i'm going to spend a million and a half dollars to build it i just don't understand that someone and i'm going to ask you to look into this this why is this such a high cost item i mean i don't know but to me our responsibility is where is the money going and i to me this just raised the red flag so please i can address this part i'm not expecting you to answer no no but in general school zones are highly valuable right we look at one one needs maybe a new mast arm overhead structure when we have just a little tiny flasher based on the old standards so that by itself could be three hundred thousand dollars it may it may be as simple as one firm ought to be doing all of it instead of 30 firms doing 30 of them i don't know but to me 30 design fees are not normal as an added comment i think that to be able to break it down because we may be looking at one discipline's design but when the other person talked from the transportation side of it there were several disciplines involved it was not all specific design work some was research some was planning this so there's a series of of different design things we're calling it all design for some is research some is planning and then some is design and then some is actual construction documents so i think that's what the confusion we have we're looking at it as a purely design project but it's a research planning and design project they got all those other disciplines in there that we're not we'll get further information back to the board on this specific project afterwards um as well as any of those if i may add to the conversation i think that's some very good points have been brought up i think first of all if there's a way that we can reduce design costs there's a way that we can do a better job of it we're all for it and and then you know we'll look for opportunities to you know to do that but i think one of the things that you know that's just been raised is that you know we do call this overall design cost but they're not only different types like studies and planning and type of thing but they're also different disciplines and different types of work that were that that are involved you know as an example um when you design something that you can see all of the conditions it's much easier because you know what the deal was what gets into a lot of these issues is that when when we deal a lot with underground construction where we don't see a lot of things and we have to get into it we have to do a lot more underground survey we have to do a lot more testing we have to do a lot more investigations to figure out what happens so that all of that work in order to because what we want to do is that when we do the design when we put out a set of design and we make sure our consultants do the same thing is that we identify it make sure that we clarify it because the more that we can do during design the less issues that are going to come up during construction and the big cost items is is that you know when you have cost increases and so forth it's not so much to design but it's during constructions when you find things that you don't know that you thought was you know you thought they're not there but they happen to be there you know a lot of underground piping a lot of utilities and so forth so you know i'll like i said that if there's way for us to decrease the cost of the design we're all for it but where we rather spend the money is where we want to spend the money to do the design figure out all of these unforeseen issues and conditions so that we minimize it and minimize the construction cost because once construction starts the contractor sort of cut you know kind of it is not that they get us but but they're being put in a difficult position too is is that they are trying to get a job done and they need to do something on an emergency and quick basis so you know but but having said that i i just kind of want to explain you know some of the factors that go into it but also just sort of you know want to identify there are different things if there are better ways of doing things we're all for it real quickly just a quick summary um 34 projects we've talked about 18 of them from no changing no changing costs three of them reduct reducing costs there are eight projects that saw cost increases and then there are five new projects totaling about 16 million so there's an increase uh additional 28 million dollars or so in terms of overall impact on the project but all of those details and why we need them have just been you know we just discussed okay i'm todd again director of highway bridge maintenance so we cover what was done in 2026 what our plan is for 2027 this is the five-year budget proposal so approximately 430 million dollar um is to cover 144 projects or so uh and as in previous this year last year and previous year as each one of these each year comes up we'll cover in details uh when the time comes for each one of those budget cycle but this is essentially the five-year plan and we're keeping it uh in similar category as how we are presenting it back in the past and that concludes the public work presentation is it fair i'm looking at the three biggest bridge repairs drainage replacement and resurfacing road all right is it fair to say that we are these things have kind of outlived their lifespan and we're catching up i hope it's it's fair to say that our infrastructure is outlived our supply span they need rehab um the road improvement does include a lot of the safety elements that rich will work on uh and the resurfacing like i said it's resurfacing lasts anywhere from 15 to 20 years with that said is this going to go on for three or four more years or 10 more years or in other words are we hitting are we doing five percent of the repairs are we doing twenty five percent do we have any idea i i think we would have to get back with you on that you might want to just i'm just it looks like we're we're catching up time caught up with this okay and we're spending a lot next year over this five year but is this going to get worse or is it going to get better okay thank you sure yeah if i may i think um um that that's an excellent question but i think that you probably will probably see a consistent amount of investments going forth in the future and i just also want to point out that when we're talking about the resurfacing a lot of it is not just resurfacing that we're just you know putting new asphalt on as richard mentioned a lot of these road resurfacing projects that they also call road improvements because we're adding a lot of you know we see the opportunity to add the the the pedestrian safety features the multimodal features all within the same one we we call it resurfacing because when you start doing all of these things you know you need to resurface the road you know but but so it's not just resurfacing it's a lot of road improvements that go along with it so we're making it better and thank god that people voted for the surtax that's all i can say thank you okay i think we have another question tracy um i'm just wondering in these numbers is there any sort of um like contingency that you guys consider for unforeseen conditions construction costs increases over the next five years or is i was just wondering where like if there's an extra work in construction what happens is where does that come from sure so each one of the project that makes up these numbers have a contingency in there um but as you know over time things does change um so each year we refine that number but the number you see all have a little contingency already built in into the projects just in follow-up on on the design is there a percent design that you're achieving or does it vary for it it does vary from projects to project and i mean to weight in on the rest of my opinion is i think we probably should call it pre-construction because it's more than just design is planning survey geotech investigation pre-permitting those kind of things all kind of like that lumped into the design part of it thank you that's helpful does anybody else have a question before we wrap up okay thanks jonathan okay actually really quickly tony don't go anywhere um tony tony don't go anywhere um so i should go detention so i mean we've said before that this is a a team of teams effort right and this program's been around for about eight years um during that eight years one of our team captains and that team of teams efforts has been tony we and um like we're gonna have to retire his jersey after today because uh he scheduled his retirement so that he could attend this meeting and then i guess head out the door which he was just trying to do um and i see the surprised look on everybody's face that tony at 40 years old is retiring already but it is really a testament to good investments um but um we were trying to figure out what to do um and tony for us around here is pretty famous so what do you do for famous people of course they get a bobblehead right but because every once in a while we're bad at scope schedule and budget in this case the schedule for getting the bobblehead here was not quite perfect but he is actually getting one because this is how we remember him lower right hand corner take a look um but so he'll get that although we should keep it so we can remember him when he's not here um but mostly like public works has been a model partner in this program and the program would not exist in its current form without tony um this work as wonky as it gets is a job about people and getting it done requires even more work with people right and so not just tony but everybody that works with him have been model model partners to this program and to the people to gretchen before me to our entire team and so our county is lucky to have people like tony uh for four more hours and and people like him that he's brought on to this great team and so tony's promise that he'll grab lunch with me and talk to me when i have really hard questions he won't charge us for it um but i'll buy lunch um but like he's been just just a quintessential partner so we could not be more lucky and again this program would not look the same without it so i'm sorry i'll have this to you shortly later but we just want to say thanks thank you very much i just want to say it's been a pleasure and honor to work with members of the board over the last couple years and um working with such dedicated people i really appreciate the opportunity thank you thank you i know everybody probably wants to say something so just on behalf of the board thank you for your service tony you've been uh just a model of clarity coming up here and explaining tough topics to us and making breaking everything down so we we just appreciate all your hard work and service and i'll let uh doug go next yeah at 40 tony uh you're too young to retire so what are you planning to do and by the way i understand you have a cpa degree and there's an opening on this board what are you planning to do do you have any plans how many more days are you going to be with the county how many more days zero wow well thank you thank you very much vice chair if you're um willing to like one tony i hope you stay around we'd like to get some pictures with you but lunch is not here yet we could use this time to go through the calendar and then therefore get people out sooner um this afternoon so if we want to pull up the calendar yes please let's use the time but tony's sneaking out so tony we really want to take a picture with you afterwards if if you do have five or seven more minutes okay i know you want to stay for the calendar too because this is your favorite part all right okay thank you so um we wanted to go through a couple things for the remainder of this year um on the calendar uh so one you'll see we had a meeting scheduled for november that we might have to change to december uh so given that i also thought that um we also are doing some work on our dashboards and we're surveying everybody we can find about how we need to to do this and what are best practices around the country to look at so we are proposing um we're proposing that we on october 30th um if that's available do like a one hour zoom only workshop where we show you our current dashboard and then show you you know two to five other best practices that we've seen from around the country um to to go through that so um do we have people like we have availability in the afternoon like at one o'clock on october 30th or we could pick another time on october 30th would that work as a show like let's say just like one o'clock on october 30th would who would that work for or maybe raise your hand if it wouldn't work raise your hand if it would not work does not work i'm tentative i have a trial that week so i just don't know if it's going to go forward or not um is everybody else available for an afternoon workshop on october 30th okay so we're going to assume that we'll probably have some more email communications about that it's a little bit more flexible since it's on zoom absolutely so i think tentatively the 30th would work i'm not hearing any objections can i ask a question this says october 30th november 13th december 10th we'll explain we'll explain november no no no yeah don't worry we'll explain that in a second so october 30th is a zoom only workshop and now takes us into the month of november originally we'd scheduled november 13th now there is a conflict on november 13th for some county business uh for some senior leaders in the county have to do an off-site that day and so we were proposing having an alternative board workshop day on december 10th that's a thursday um the goal would be just a half day workshop and there we'd be working through what are we going to do in 2020 in calendar year 2027 so um we did talk to to at the vice chair about this but um all right do others have any conflicts on december 10th raise your hand if you have a conflict maybe well assuming no conflicts at this time for december 10th can you write him or right if you uh have a couple you just let us know okay so this is what we're doing is proposing moving the november meeting to december just one meeting just changing the date of it okay and then for next year what we've proposed doing is having six meetings on the calendar if for some reason we decide one isn't necessary it's much easier to cut a meeting than to add a meeting and so um no meetings in january proposed and then for february we're opposing february 12th is the primary and the february 26th is the alternate um if anybody has a conflict with either of those those are fridays please raise your hand and say what the con what the date of the conflict is but february 12th and 26 2027 seeing no conflicts okay and then march no meeting april we have the 16th and the 23rd i actually do have a conflict on february 12th on okay february 12th is the primary so conflict with ray on february 12th okay now going to april we have the 16th and the 23rd i have a conflict on the 16th okay one conflict on the 16th and then no meetings in may june june 11th and june 25th seeing none july august no meetings in july august 13th and 20th it's the primary and i'll to it 13th and 20th for august 2027 no con seeing no conflicts september no meetings october 2027 is the 22nd and the 29th we like spending halloween fridays with you roy's promised he will dress up um i'm seeing no conflicts and then the last and then no meeting of november and then december 10th as the only date proposed in december of 2027 and so our goal for for next year is to i think we'll i'll probably do some one-on-one meetings with board members members if you're interested and talk through a proposed kind of like landscape of like thematic focuses of these different meetings always the august meeting will be the budget but for the rest of it semi-aligned with what we promise voters and areas of greatest interest concern um we can look at what the focal points of each of these meetings might be and then one-on-one get feedback from each of you so that when we come in december um there's not there's fewer surprises and then can just refine it together as a group as a workshop okay i have nothing further vice chair before we break for lunch okay thank you does anybody else have anything um tracy all right nothing further we can break for lunch what um did you have in mind 45 minutes or um well it's not here yet okay one o'clock okay very good thanks you say 9 30 the meeting started 9 30. are we ready i have different times it's 101 on my phone and 12 59 here so okay all right well thank you um hope everybody had a good lunch break um we are going to continue with uh general manager of the transportation department corey cuff lonergan giving us the uh transportation department update i don't think i don't think your mic's on there you go okay so this room is starting so uh it's good to see you all again and thank you for your time today um next slide please davika um we're going to as always which is our theme to talk a little bit about what's happened since the last time we were together we're going to bring you up to speed on a request for fiscal year 2027 from surtex request and then we're going to talk about fiscal year 27 of 31. next slide please so since we last met um 2026 accomplishments so before i uh get into these i have some exciting news to share with you so um we have as you know uh we track our our on-time performance um for our vehicles and uh i gotta tell you that uh we are so excited to share that we've had our best on-time performance uh for the same time period as 10 years ago around 10 years ago we were at about 60 percent 2015 and we're now at 81 so this is our highest on-time performance in 10 years and if you think about it since the surtax passed we were at about 69 as well 60 a little bit more than that and we're still well above that since the surtax passed so that's a really good news story that that i'm happy to share with you now on a brighter note also uh there's some exciting things have been happening in south florida for the last month or so and uh anybody here a soccer fan okay there's one there's more i'm sure online there's a bunch of them um so i'm going to share with you uh some of the things that broward county transit did uh in recognition of the wonderful opportunity we had to welcome all the soccer fans to south florida davika hosting the world and connecting communities broward county transit and its regional partners helped transport thousands of soccer fans to the the 2026 world cup bct provided safe convenient rides to matches at miami stadium and watch parties at amaranth bank arena through our dedicated park and ride services and fixed routes the incredibly popular bctsoccerfans.org garnered 55 176 visits during world cup excitement and bct's social media channels got over 1 million digital views we're honored to have helped connect fans to the fun and keep south florida moving broward county transit powered by primo a service of the broward county board of county commissioners so that's a snippet of what happened so that's kind of the culmination of things but i had to tell you a couple very interesting facts about this um when we started this planning um we worked with our colleagues from miami-dade from tri-rail uh and the trifecta uh delivered hundreds of thousands of thousands of thousands of rides around the system what's interesting is that um the planning like i said took about a year i mean obviously you know we're the middle child here between um broward uh um palm beach county and um miami-dade counties but you know we didn't have the volume of uh people on our system that miami did on one day their people mover i believe took like 800 000 people um it's it's been an amazing accomplishment um from them and um it was 189 oh no it was over the course of the the whole event it was an increase of over 189 so while we didn't do that we did our fair share um and that fair share looked like express service from the amaranth bank arena to the miami stadium so our passengers they didn't have to deal with any of the parking challenges at the stadium they didn't have to pay the high fees for parking that service was free um and we moved uh between that and the watch parties about a thousand people over the course of the of the matches uh so we're very proud of that there were hundreds of us involved in the process of getting that service up and running um and i think the key takeaway um from the experience for all of us was the fact that we are a regional provider for service the three agencies work together to deliver that uh and so we're going to take that model when and we're going to move forward with that on future um events that are coming to south florida so at the end of the day it was a very positive experience we joined about uh 11 other cities um it was about a total of 11 cities across the country that were in um the um the match um arena in terms of being able to uh host uh fifa and um i'm very proud to say that broward county transit's portion went off without an incident at all so we're really excited about that next slide please and uh so you know um this is who we are we're bct we're the second largest transit agency in the state of florida next slide please so i want to spend a little bit of time talking about ridership um so there's good news and there's news right so the good news is is that our riders choice program is up 246 percent in ridership um year to date and essentially that ridership um is or that that program is the one that supports our paratransit service so you know our paratransit is for our passengers that have uh physical or cognitive limitations and they can't use our fixed route service this is an ancillary opportunity for our uh passengers in that category to have door-to-door service which is generally provided by our yellow cab service here um and the the people that are in this particular uh category of passengers have the ability to navigate um within a kind of a taxi environment but not necessarily on fixed route service so we did see an uptick in uh interest in that uh service one of the ones that's you know near and dear to all of you in this room is our late shift connect the late shift connect service uh is the one that's our third shift service so those are for the hospitality industry uh factory workers anybody that has an overnight shift um we saw an increase of 50 percent there since last year the same time period and overall our paratransit is up about six percent um when we look at our fixed route service uh the story is not as great um and what we've seen is a decline of about eight percent um since last year um and we're forecasting the service to be down about seven percent by uh end of the fiscal year um we are attributing some of the uh the downturn in the service due to some environmental conditions um that are that are affecting our ridership so as you may recall our um we under title six um which is the federal regulation that we're under that um kind of dictates how we communicate to our passengers and in what languages we communicate to them and it it's it's intended to um recognize uh disparate treatment uh and eliminate it if um if at all possible and so when we look at who rides our system the languages that we typically use to communicate in english um spanish and creole and portuguese and so um what we've seen is and this is kind of anecdotal at this point and we haven't been able to um verify all of this but it's pretty consistent with some of the other trends and studies that have happened uh in the state um and so uh we we're seeing a decline in some of our ridership and we believe it's attributed to some of the changes and the enforcement when it comes to some of the immigration policies and so essentially the university of south florida did a study and they concluded that there is a decline in people avoiding medical visits groceries trips and non-essential outings um and so that is partially what we're seeing on our system another indicator is that we've seen a 39 drop in our student bus passes and i know the school board has indicated that they've seen about a 10 percent decline in enrollment so um we believe that you know some of the decline is related to that um the other thing is is that you know we have had some um fleet challenges this year that we've been working through um and we think that that could have also be contributing overall um our cost per passenger uh is forecasted year end at 2026 to be about nine dollars and 51 cents it's a different number what we published here was last year's number um and so we uh are seeing a 33 percent in a 33 cent increase of cost per rider um we've seen a significant impact of the diesel um cost increase on our budget this year uh diesel costs are about 26 percent uh year over year uh increase and so it's it's pretty it's pretty substantial in terms of how it's affecting our budget so some of that cost is attributed to that the other cost is um insurance increases as well so that's where we are in terms of cost per rider and total ridership next slide please um you'll see that you've seen this chart before this represents our ridership over um since 2016 or 2018 rather to 2025 and um you can see that the dip we know that that's there because of the pandemic so i believe the next time we get together we'll have all of our year-end numbers and we'll be able to add fiscal year 27 or 26 rather to the chart next slide please um we have been um you know we've talked about the last time we were here transit forward 2040. uh i'm pleased to share that we wrapped up our outreach activities since the last time we were together um and uh we had about 16 000 engagements across the full spectrum of our outreach effort and um from a social media perspective that's where we we saw a significant interest um we've got about 28 000 interactions on instagram linkedin and facebook i would i would be um it seems though that people prefer to engage on social platforms rather than coming out to meetings our meeting attendance wasn't ideal by any means um but you know we did have some meetings where there there were quite a few of attendees but i would say overall the attendance levels were low next slide please um the other thing that we did since the last time we met i think i touched on this a little bit is that um we moved our our app a bct uh app um to one single app versus our passengers having to have two different apps we had two different apps because one app you could pay for your fare on it the other app you could plan your trip um and so we combined them uh and now and we were we were really working hard to make sure that we had everything in place for our um for the kickoff of the fifa uh events because we know that and and it proved itself through our online engagement that most of the people that were coming to fifa and were looking for information about bct they were doing so online uh and so we knew that this app needed to be up and running because our colleagues are very used to particular international colleagues are used to using that as a form of communication and information gathering and so um we are all in one platform now you can pay for your pass and you can plan your trip you can also get real time information about where your bus is and it even has an alert on it that will uh if you want to it will wake you up if you've dozed off on our bus which can happen um to let you know that your net that your bus stop is coming up next slide please okay um we also um improved our bus signs uh you can see a picture of of one of them there so they've got bolder graphics or easel more easily identifiable um but one of the things that we also did was we launched a digital sign pilot uh since the last time we met uh and it's right out here if you want to go see it it's right here at university and broward boulevard it has the route information it also has the bus arrival time it has a light on it and it also has the ability although this isn't turned on yet to um look as has a camera on it for us to look at what's going on at the stop uh and how many passengers are boarding etc so it's it's a it's a really interesting um pilot that we're going through at this point i'm not sure that this will be our final digital signage we still have to look and see what else is out there on the market but this is just the first one that um we used next slide please okay so safety and security we've um as you know we've been working to improve our security on our system um one of the things that we did since we last met in april we brought on um security officers or and they are um they it's interesting they they don't they look like security guards but they don't they're not imposing but they look like they're officially there and um we put them on one of the routes that was having the most incidents um the route 22 and what we've seen just since april is a 20 decrease in incidents so it is working um they're not there on every route and every bus so of course you know something could potentially slip through the tracks but we believe that given this fast um change and as we add more of these officers onto our system we'll have a better result going forward next slide please the next um slide is about um is about our paratransit service so we've added about 79 vehicles year to date um and uh through a combination of surtax funding and fta grants our pair uh as you may recall our goal was to move from um auto gas i'm sorry from diesel to uh propane on those buses and we have successfully done that and so as we introduce uh new vehicles we convert them into propane as the fuel source and over the live not the last nine months we've seen a savings of about a million dollars on costs um as it come as it pertains to fuel costs um that we would have otherwise had to pay for next slide please and as always we we talk about this and i'm so proud to always present this to you our involvement in the community it's really important to us to be uh good citizens and um we are often called on when people are missing whether it's a young child or a elder uh an elderly individual um to help locate them because we have so many eyes and ears on the streets and um we had an elderly woman who went missing um the day before we became aware of it her family didn't know where she was uh and um we received a be on the lookout a bolo for her in the morning and one of our off-duty bus operators um spotted her after he had finished a shift uh anthony graham and he uh helped successfully reunite her with law enforcement and her family so that was a really good story and we are really fortunate that we were able to help out in that way and i'm really you know what's good about it is here's somebody that's off duty and they're still paying attention to what's going on around them and still trying to help out um we've also next slide please participated in two job fairs this year one with career source uh broward and the other was with the uh port everglades um we uh provided over 616 rides to those events um that's to and from and so it's our hope that somebody successfully was hired in the past what we heard from passengers is that if i hadn't been able to get this free ride to the um event um i would not have been able to go there so i think that continues to be a theme and continues to be a source of pride that we're able to help out in that way next slide please um so you know connecting uh communities and and making sure the word is getting out and surtax has always been very supportive of our outreach efforts and advertising and so this this um since we last met we've launched a couple of small campaigns um the transit forward 2040 that was our goal was to reach out and try to get as much engagement on our plans to get some feedback on it we also um promoted heavily promoted our ride bct app and then through the world cup we also were promoting the services that we were offering then next slide please okay and so um i talked already about the world cup and here are some of the results eight eight um special trips that we made on our system as well as connecting to park and ride lots uh in um in miami dade where people could park their cars and actually get the shuttle service directly to the stadium next slide please and we got lots of positive feedback from our passengers so one of the things that i i'd like to share is that we used our coach buses to provide the service so if you've noticed those buses had express on them those are the express buses that we use to transport people from broward into miami dade from different park and ride locations um they are the entire service is paid for by the florida department of transportation from the purchase of the equipment to the operation of the um of the system and uh we asked them if we could borrow those buses during these times when we wanted to move all these people for uh the fifa events and they were happy to help us and we were happy that they said yes and so when the passengers um got on the bus they were kind of not expecting the the level of um the experience that they had which was pleasantly it was nice to hear they they made comments like oh we're really surprised that the bus is so clean and we you know this is really nice and they liked the fact that there were so many of our staff members out there greeting them and and making sure that they uh got to uh where they needed to go and so the that it was nice to see and we hope that we were able to convince some of them to now become long-term writers so you know at the end of the day that's what our goal was next slide please okay and so we've had a host of awards um i'm just going to highlight one or two of them uh first of all we our it department uh came up with a um uh it solution that allows us to more easily engage in our procurement activities um it's basically an automated system um it eliminated a uh manual time intensive process it helps us do our bids a lot better and um from bridge creation uh to vendor submissions it's all in the system and all very seamless and easy to use so we won an award for that so from the national association of counties um next slide please and we also won some additional awards from the national association of counties information officers as you can see here there's just the list of the awards that we won we won in the category of counties with populations over 5 000. it's a 3 000 member organization uh and uh the picture of the uh bus and i think you've seen this picture i know we've had it up before of the um the bus in the middle of all those panther fans was a hit and it won an award as well as our campaigns for community outreach and our even our newsletter got an award that we put out um on a weekly uh bi-weekly basis next slide please now this is the one i love sharing because this is great stuff so on the picture are three of our mechanics um david cerruti michael kruby and john radimore they are a team of mechanics that competed in the uh bus rodeo and so i've described it before the bus rodeo is is a place where um uh it's a where there's competition between bus operators and there's also competition among um the uh mechanics and essentially the mechanic competition is a lot they give them a test an acumen test and and trying to recognize their assessment and their skills related to um reviewing and figuring out challenges with um equipment on paper and then they get a series of stations where they have to troubleshoot a problem and determine what the problems are and what the solutions are uh and so they uh got second place in the state of florida which was fantastic and then they went on to a competition in salt lake city it was the first time they had competed there were 49 teams there some of those teams had been competing in events in events like this together as a unit for about 10 years and you could tell the difference because you know our guys had on our little swag right that you knew they were a team these guys had olympic level swag on right so it was just incredible but needless to say they uh competed and for the first time ever from broward county transit being there in the space they were able to win in one category gain a first place um position there were a couple others in that same which is the cummings drive train uh analysis that they did so we are super proud of them and um so grateful for them for competing and representing us so well now the next so that's all the good stuff so let's just get that out of the way here's the not the not great okay so i want to talk to you a little bit about some risks that we see and some challenges and tracy and i were in the in the room there having a little conversation about a couple of them um starting with the federal landscape so uh there's a couple of concerns that are uh going to affect our ability to may affect our ability to secure additional funding um first and foremost we are so appreciative of all the things that the federal transit administration gives us uh they are they're great partners and at the staff level things work seamlessly and they're highly supportive uh what we have seen at the policy level is a shift um and one of the the things that's affecting the entire industry is the um the sun setting of the iija that's the um infrastructure uh jobs act and that act unfortunately an infrastructure investment jobs act was um a big a bright spot in the industry because it was providing a lot of funding for projects across the country and um it sunsets september 30th so those funds that were there aren't going to be there and uh congress is has been trying to come up with some level to keep it going or continue the appropriations and right now the senate passed a short-term resolution to allow it to continue until december 11 2026 but you know that's not very long but certainly not four years and um for uh as you know for capital projects none of them get done in six months so that's not exactly as helpful as it could be but it is something and it's it's progress and then the house has to pass it and then of course our president has to assign it into law so um at the end of the day uh we are hopeful that you know congress will come up with an answer to uh continue this and um one of the other things is that uh we've seen just a slight dip in terms of the um passenger transport for rail uh this does not cover that so if we did have um commuter rail some of those funds that might have been used for that might not be there so that's a watch area too um we're just going to keep our fingers crossed that this continues we're hopeful that they don't right now the the gas tax the national gas tax has a provision in it for transit um in the past years ago it was only for highways uh there is some talk about restoring it back to their original intent and not giving that money to transit and if that were to happen that would again be a problem for us for from support from the federal level um the other thing you you know that we've had several uh tax reform initiatives uh over the last uh year one of them is the doc stamp um which was removed um as a taxing um requirement and because that was removed those funds were used to pay for new starts new starts for at the state level were used for matching grants with the federal government for um for capital investment projects and there's no money there uh and so when we talked about a formula split split of 25 25 50 50 from the feds 25 from the state and 25 local the 25 from the state is no longer available at this point um with the original source so now we're in a in a position where we have to uh look for other grant opportunities to uh cover that cost whether it's at the state level or the federal level or quite frankly um pick it up locally so that's certainly a watch area i'm sure it's no secret that material costs are increasing and um you know you've seen it um in um um in your daily life um i'm sure um contract construction costs are up about 2.8 percent um with aluminum and steel being up 30 percent and 17 percent respectively so when we start talking about building rail rail steel there's a direct link there so again another watch area for us construction industry capacity so this is an interesting one um what is happening is that that you've heard the concept of data centers i'm sure um either whether you're hearing it because people don't want it in their neighborhood or you're hearing it because it's the next greatest thing to keep ai growing and healthy uh and so what uh many contractors are choosing to do is to pursue work in that space um right now uh it's um it's very interesting because there's a lot of opportunity to do that it's taking i believe about 51 percent of the commercial market right now that is um is a shift of people wanting to do the data centers rather than doing some of the office parks and things like that um it is it's absorbing a disproportionate share of the u.s construction capacity and um right now about over half of that is going that would have been used for office construction is now headed toward the data center and um so what does that mean that means that we have a shortage of contractors potentially that might be interested in doing work with us and that is something that we um really need to be aware of and on top of the other thing is that um the job market also in the labor industry uh has and construction has been really um struggling um we've all seen stories of the trades you know people aren't going to the trades now and there's been a move um to push people to look at the trades differently and pursue careers in that um there's about a gap of 500 000 workers um that are needed to support construction projects and um the um according to surveys roughly 82 to 94 percent of firms are reporting that they're having problems securing labor labor whether it's because of the um the um trade concerns or other concerns um it is it's definitely something that uh we're keeping our eye on um and so the bottom line is the firms right now are looking for projects for projects where they have a clear path to profitability where they are not burdened with unnecessary risk they're looking for clients that they can work easily with and do business with and they're looking for clients that are willing to share or take on their proportionate share of the risk in terms of construction projects so in summary the bottom line is when we put projects out there all of these things could potentially be affecting our ability to get great bids from contractors the cost will likely grow over time and we are going to have to make sure that we are proactive in working with the construction industry and contractors to help us put projects out there that they would be willing to bid on and not be deeply concerned about the risk so what we have been doing just for your awareness is that we've been hosting industry days to make firms aware of projects that are coming up so we're being proactive so they have plenty of time to prepare their bids the other thing that we're doing is we're having one-on-one um confidential meetings with firms we're asking them to take a look at our proposals what we have in mind the scope of the project and to make meaningful um i um meaningful comments back to us on what they're seeing what their concerns are with what we're putting out we are reviewing it uh and we're making some uh decisions on what we're putting out based on that feedback so we are incorporating it into our process um not always is it going to make it right because you know at the end of the day if we could just say you don't have to do anything and we'll pay you you know they would be very happy with that so um we're we're trying to manage you know our internal requirements our internal risks against what these contractors are asking us to do but at least we're they they feel very appreciative that we're listening to them and that they have an opportunity to give us some input in the process and they're not just um getting it when the bids come out or the proposal the rfps come out and asking for their um bids so hopefully with this approach we'll have better competition better competition means more reasonable pricing so with that my part of this of this is over and i see a question for mr coleman hi sir how are you good the bad and the ugly huh okay um as bad as that is it's great that you're as on top of it as you can be okay uh i do have a couple questions the nine dollars and 18 cents and 25 cost per passenger how does that relate to other transit systems just out of um i will get that for you i don't have it off the top of my head higher lower i i think the last time we looked we were probably in the middle um i think we're cheaper than miami and uh but i'll have to i'll have to look uh on the other good news is uh the savings and fuel costs compared to gasoline over the last nine months eventually that's going to show up on your cost per rider right well that will show up in our cost per paratransit rider it's not going to show up on our cost for regular rider all right sorry uh the connecting communities these express buses are those our buses or something they are owned they yes um fdot pays for them but we own them do you supply this same service for the football games that are coming up no we don't why not well that's one of the things that miami-dade we've been talking about you know what what other options can we look at going forward i think the um the firm that does so miami-dade hired a firm uh that they use to organize the um park and ride locations and the provide service a transportation uh management firm and they also have some um my understanding is they have some buses and equipment that they use to move people by miami yeah this is down in miami and so they also asked us hey what do you think about us working together during uh some events at the um at the um hard rock stadium so during the the games they renamed the hard rock stadium to miami stadium and but we call it hard rock stadium so they're they were interested in seeing if we would want to do something with them so you know we're open to continuing conversations but nothing has been finalized yet i think the the to your point i think one of the great things that happened as part of this is that regional look at at projects and event opportunities i'm not sure that we were doing that uh often i mean i i haven't been aware of one where we have looked at it holistically and trying to figure out you know from a passenger's perspective that journey needs to be uh seamless uh and we need to be working together to cross promote and encourage people to use our systems and fifa was the first time that we've done it and it was successful thank you thank you thank you thank you oh okay so joining me today i forgot to introduce my colleagues here um uh ivershak dayal you uh have met him before he's our um chief infrastructure officer and a new member to um this process is uh denise williams and denise is our agm of finance she's going to cover the fiscal year 2027 request and then abishak's going to cover 27 through 31. thank you good afternoon members of the surtax oversight board welcome my name is denise williams and i'm here today to present the 2027 surtax budget requests page our 2027 surtax budget request is 856.6 million dollars it's a combination of capital and operating our capital is 408.2 million which includes our oakland park boulevard and our west broward intermodal center operating for 2027 is 181.2 million dollars which continues our operating maintenance and our broward commuter rail south 252.2 million and our community shuttle operating and our community shuttle operating and capital 15 million dollars next slide please our surtax request for capital is 861.4 million dollars in four areas transit weighs primo which is 246.3 million dollars a borrower commuter rail south 453.2 million with a 201 million dollars with federal anticipated match our transit infrastructure projects of 135.5 million dollars and our transit which includes vehicles and our planning studies of 26.4 million dollars this includes a surtax acts of 660.4 million dollars with the anticipated federal match of 201 million dollars this and this investment supports advancing our key transit projects next page please this brings us to our first primo project uh oakland park boulevard brt this includes design of 34.3 million and construction of 212 million dollars this project overall um is includes a 15 mile transit corridor with 16 station it has it is what it will be 100 surtax funded with service anticipated to start in 2028 and um service our capital transit our capital transit includes 26.4 million in 2027 this includes 18.8 vehicle acquisition for our private transit vehicles we plan to replace and expand 134 new vehicles we also plan to convert 117 paratransit vehicles to propane to help lower emissions and reduce fuel costs we also plan to do 5.9 million dollars in our planning studies this includes um in our 2027 uh f dot mandated transportation development plan it also includes allowing us to do routes analysis and some studies that will guide future improvement in our long term system planning in 2027 we have our total infrastructure projects totaling 135.5 million dollars this includes our bus shelters of 1.8 million dollars which we plan to build at least 50 bus new shelters new bus shelters we also have 1.3 million dollars in our bus stop improvements we plan to replace our upgrade 2 000 bus stop signs and also add 1200 rived bct stops throughout the county we also have 1.9 million dollars in our facilities and infrastructure improvement for our copens and ravenwoods to continue maintenance and provide upgrades to those facilities we also have a major construction for our west broward intermodal center which is 121 million and this is a great advancement for us because it will be um doing our regional mobility hub that supports multi-mobile multi-mobile connections and abishap will talk more about this in our five-year presentation we also have 4.7 million dollars in our it enhancements through to our project management and our customers our customer service um and technology we also requested 4.8 million dollars for a real estate acquisition for future expansion and to also um for our project delivery to improve next page next we have a broadway commuter a broadway commuter rail south which is a acts of 453.2 million with the federal match of 201 million dollars this regional investment moves our broad commuter sale project forward it's a mo it's a key mobility connection that expands rail service in broward county next page can i ask a question um brown commuter rail south broader commuter rail north we know there's a gap does not having broward commuter rail north impact or should it impact or is anybody looking at the impacts we're doing broward we started with broward rail south because we were going to have it all together it it doesn't look like that's going to happen right now so my question is is anyone looking at i mean is broward rail south as feasible as it was without broward north mr coleman can i recommend we hold that question until abishak comes up i'll take it okay i'll take it now um thank you for the question and it's a it's a very reasonable question when we um evaluated bcr south and as part of our federal application for the uh capital investment grant there's a process that we have to go through to take a look at it uh and and and it was determined that it had independent utility that we could get go all the way to fort lauderdale and not cross the river and have enough ridership to uh implement the make that worth our while now if miami doesn't go and the north because the northeast corridor abuts right against us so at the county line then we go into hollywood and then into um broward i mean my miami no hollywood the airport and then um fort lauderdale if miami-dade northeast corridor doesn't go then for us that would be a bad thing but on its own between miami-dade and broward south we're fine if the north doesn't so broward rail south really is two components yeah it's not it wouldn't you know as a transit professional i could not with a straight face recommend that we do bcr south if miami's not there it just i mean the ridership okay so broad rail south with the two components stands on its own but without miami that's another day yeah another dollar thank you thank you a 2027 acts for our surgeons operation is 181.2 million this continues our operation support for our transit service next slide and lastly we have a 15 million dollar acts for a community shuttle program it starts with a 14.7 million dollars for a community shuttle to continue their operation and a 0.3 million dollars to replace 19 or to convert i must say 19 community shuttle vehicles to help them reduce their emission and also reduce their long their long-term operating cost for fuel this is our 2027 so it reflects the budget request for 27 shows 252 million dollars is that money that's being spent even though the feasibility is in question no so um for us to be able to move forward with our contracts we have to have the way if i'm saying something phil you already know i'm sorry but you know with with broward we have to have the funds when we um launch the contract so if we go out to bid for something all the funding has to be there to pay for it we can't do that um separately so the numbers that you're seeing here um reflect what our contribution is as it relates to the cig uh grant and so if you recall we've gone after about a three point uh 351 million dollar grant um for uh the commuter rail project so that's the number that you're looking at is the difference between that and what we've already budgeted for a commuter rail but again but that's all subject to as i understand the bottom line that you're looking at now is is with miami-dade or without miami-dade right so and if you don't have miami-dade and your recommendation is it doesn't stand on its own as an independent project without miami-dade that's my professional opinion it would not fare as well without miami-dade so you're just reserving the money here in case you decide to go out for a bid our intention is to be successful with the cig application um that would be number one because we need that also to pay for the entire project cost because the costs are north of 700 million um the second uh thing is is that miami is we're kind of hand in hand working to um get the approvals that we need to do these projects so miami although they're in a different budget year doing a different um uh process they're negotiating now with bright line and um trying to get their um various uh agreements done so as example the easement agreement to be able to have the access to get their um agreement to operate the system which will be a part of an agreement to uh development agreement so there's a bunch of agreements that have to be executed before we can even start working on anything um you know physically working on anything so we're it if your question is this a placeholder the answer is yes um but it is a placeholder that we want to be ready to draw down funds if we move forward with a contract we've had this discussion in the past as regards to the the mega projects that surround the airport and the port and transit and i've raised the issue of well we don't want to go the route to california which is that they sort of funding pieces of a project that never had the ability to be tied into the home and in fact the portion that they did in fact construct doesn't have connectors on either end of the bit of the line has no capacity to produce its own revenues it's totally weight weighted up on the acceptance of grants which have been pulled pulled several times i think and i see throughout the presentation here i guess maybe i'll hold the rest of the discussion until later in the agenda but it appears that we are shifting our focus as it relates to the project i mean we've always seen those independent projects the people mover the south the airport uh what are you what do you call the airport connector yeah seaport those were all individual projects that we looked at and you budgeted for but now it appears that you're backing away from that combined project request has there been a change in the organization or the responsibilities for those projects um so all of the projects so kevin kelleher is still the uh individual from the county administration that oversees all of the projects so he has uh as well as isami um in his portfolio he's he's our go-to person that kind of pulls this all together what i will will say to you um and i i hope i understand your question is that each of these projects do have independent utility they can stand all of those projects can stand alone so you can still do the commute around you can still have this to stop at the airport without the intermodal center or without the connector that that um we would have bus service that would go there and drop people off and they could board the trains and go either north or south on the commuter rail the airport seaport connector we could build a connection to the airport seaport connector from the airport to get that has nothing to do with the commuter rail they can get you directly from the airport to the seaport and the convention center and the intermodal center which is another standalone project could be built with none of it so to your point um we look at this from a master planning perspective as as um coordinating projects we'd love to do them all but they do and can function independently are the environmental studies that you're adding feasibility studies that you are undertaking does that does it cover all of those entities good question so yes and no um the well no so the connector has an independent utility we're doing we're in the process of doing the environmental study now we've already received our environmental approval for the commuter rail project for the intermodal center and the apm i don't want to speak for mark but i do believe that they have gotten their environmental clearance that environmental clearance went to the faa not to the fta um and i believe they've been clear but i i don't know for sure we'd have to ask mark and get back to you on that but they all do have independent utility and they all have their own environmental track and like i said and average i will get into this a little more but the um airport seaport connector is in the project development and environmental stage now um and at the end of it right we've already had a meeting with the fta a very productive meeting to um kind of get a feel for them on this is all on county property um with the exception of of a maintenance facility that may not be um what do you see us falling what category of environmental um compliance do you fall do you see us falling into would it be a categorical exempt documented categorical exemption would it be exclusion would it be a environmental assessment or an eis and um because we're on our own property we're we're not in the eis space but we are submitting paperwork to the fta for them to determine which one of the options we have which one of the environmental requirements we need to meet in terms of our assessments but the good news is we have a environmental clearance on the uh commuter rail so bcr south is clean and good to go if it weren't we wouldn't be able to be in the uh capital investment grant new starts program that we're in now we can't get in there until we clear that hurdle go ahead doug cory uh a question that maybe you can answer at our next meeting it's more of a big question we have surtax dollars of x million over 30 years and we have what's anticipated to grow that we have a transit system that consists of rail buses maintenance operate public works type stuff i'm curious how much money we're gonna spend on public works which is you know lights all that stuff that's got a number to it the bus system has a number to it the rail has a number to it and maybe there's something else i missed but i'm curious whether what percentage of our surtax dollars are going to the call it the three or four big things it would help it would help me understand a little bit it's just like obviously the transit thing is a floating number but i would like to have some idea of are we spending x percent on what i call public works things y percent on the bus system and x percent on the warehouse system and if i miss something i it'd be interesting you got how many billion dollars we got over the years plus what we're growing it which is an important number and what percentage is going into which pot you don't have to answer but i'd love to hear about that in the next month next meeting okay thank you thank you thanks vice chair that we will have some comparison like a stack chart of this for this year's budget request and for the next five years at the end of the transit presentation before you guys vote um longer term that you we'll get back to you on a longer term basis about what goes beyond that five years but we will have some way of intimating it for just at least the next five years for you today thank you jonathan do we have some of that information in the dashboards that we've seen is it like at least for what's been spent to date or no we currently mostly have project specific information and dashboards at the public dashboards in the dashboards that are under development um there's a bunch of financial information in it but it's not yet audited financial information and so that's why um that's why when we're going to meet in october we'll review dashboards and get kind of more input about everything that you guys might want to see while also showing you best practices from across the country so that we can march in a very very clear direction um to show impacts outcomes outputs and also the financial opponent but for my own information the dashboard really relates to the public works projects correct mostly that's currently long term the dashboard should tell you the whole surtax story okay but right now takes a while to build that's everything that's in the dashboard just goes in the public works municipal capital projects and uh the public works projects are primarily what you'll find the dashboard currently all right thank you thanks thanks for clarifying that and not i don't want to belabor it but i the question it begs the question the broward commuter rail has its environmental nepa review done does the miami-dade have its nepa review done and do we know yes uh the miami-dade actually is in better shape than we are to be fair um from the perspective that their environmental documents are done and approved they're already in the engineering phase of their capital investment grant application so they are way ahead of us from that perspective we're in the pipeline so there's um five projects that are in there right now um we're the fifth one the uh utah the commuter rail project in utah which is an expansion project just got their approval uh to go into engineering so um when we go into engineering what that essentially means is that the federal government is locking in what they're willing to spend but it also allows you to be reimbursed for investments that you've made so far using federal dollars so um we were really um looking forward to hearing back and whether we're uh going to be allowed to go into engineering um there's been uh you know the staff has been very much uh available to us to answer questions um we are at the final they're at the final stages of their review and um things are looking promising but until we hear back that it's a go it's it's not um and so uh yeah so so so miami is already in engineering if i'm not mistaken they've got like a 300 million dollar commitment yes yeah they've got about a 300 million dollar commitment on their project already uh established okay thank you tracy thanks i just have a quick question um i guess my big concern is everything going on in dc with you know the the federal government literally sent out a memo saying they're getting rid of or they want to get rid of all the rail and transit and safety funding and dollars for the build 250 which will now be hopefully by december 11th but with those funds very likely being either gone or much lower how much of that will affect this program and what part of it like you guys are talking you know this anticipated match is that do you guys have think have you thought about okay what can we still build what can we still do if the worst happens have you started considering a direction i know this is all brand new with what's coming out but it is unfortunately leaning towards that direction or they're pushing for it and i think it'll it'll obviously depend a lot on the election and then but i guess that's my big concern right now it's been a big twist so how is that going to affect your budget um and and and you're right tracy it is a big twist and it's a new a new twist and um what it's going to mean to us when though if those things are taken away um you know we we have to reformulate what we're doing here because if we you know there's been a interest in seeing a 50 25 25 split on our projects we know that it's not likely that every project's going to get even the federal commitment and we know the state commitment's gone at this point in time unless it's replaced at some point in time with with additional dollars and so what we uh are working with with monica on is a um a financial plan that kind of speaks to okay this is what we think um everything's going to cost and what we need we you know if if some of the federal dollars go away what the impacts will be if some of the state dollars go away this is what the impacts will be um and we're only looking at 15 years from from that perspective uh and uh that includes our capital investment as well as our o m investment so essentially if in fact um these outcomes are as they uh appear to be we will be have to pull back on what we're going to do in broward right because we just won't have enough money um and the other thing is we're going to have to reprioritize what we do do um and like right now we're working on the three highest priorities for the county right now so at least we we're doing that um but we're going to have to look at value engineering things we're just going to have to doing doing more with less or just doing less um and those are real real questions and it's it's scary times i mean you know across the industry we're all like really nervous about what's happening it's not just happening in broward it's happening all over and i think utah um successful with their capital grant and that um um going into engineering for two reasons um one they've got the olympics coming up in uh 2034 and coming on the heels of fifa you know that was a big success across the country with all the sports enthusiasts using transit to get there i i don't i can't even imagine what the the events would have been like if there weren't transit helping support them um and so i think that may have helped them over the finish line uh but we have to we have to wait and see a little bit you know wait till after november and then we've you know got our own property tax challenges here that you know after november may be very illuminating in terms of what we we can and cannot do um but it is it's a it is one of the things quite frankly that keeps me up at night it really is i'm i'm very nervous i i was around when this money wasn't there back in the old days and uh i worked for a legacy system in philadelphia and we were very poor when it came to um service and when you have a legacy system we won't we'll have a brand new system but legacy systems built you know 60 70 100 years ago um they are the infrastructure's old and it fails it's we had great engineers back in those days they didn't have ai they they didn't have scientific calculators they did everything from their brain and the stuff is still standing right so thankfully um that brain power and the and the craftsmanship survived this long um but it it was scary times at the and i i don't want to see that for us again the industry's made such progress in the last 20 years and more importantly since iija was passed um there's so many projects in the pipeline we all know that you know we've got bridges that are on on high um um chance of failure that um you know over some of our major rivers in the country and you know that iija was going to pay for the improvements to make those bridges uh safe and extend their useful life and so yes i'm scared uh and i think that i'm hopeful and there's a lot of advocacy at the congressional level and in the senate and even in the um administration that um they're really trying to reconcile all of all of these um drains on funding but if these things aren't not paid for so so right now one of the the ideas that's being floated again is the highway funds none of the none of that only those funds go to highway and and none of it goes to transit well that's going to wipe out a lot of money for a lot of different transit agencies around the country including us so um we are paying attention we're engaging with acta um that's um helping us with the lobbying to uh make sure that our that our concerns are raised and that they're heard uh there's a fly-in in september that we will be uh part of um well after we'll be hosting that's going to go up and try to make our case also for you know um for congress to recognize that you know these are important uh commitments just continue to support yeah so i think that's that's all i have but seriously that's what keeps me up at night tracy among other things but my husband's snoring sometimes just kidding thank you thanks very productive um does anybody else have a question on the topic all right we're gonna go ahead and all right let mr abhishek speak good afternoon madam vice chair and members of the oversight committee i'm abhishek dayal i'm the chief infrastructure officer uh and i'm very excited to talk about the 27 through 31 surtax budget request and i'll take you through the home stretch of this presentation go to the next slide so what you can see here is the total snapshot of the over the five-year request that we're seeking uh including surtax capital operating uh vcr south which we had a lot of discussions already on that and then also the municipal community shuttle program so the total five-year request is about 2.5 billion dollars next slide please and so going into it uh line by line uh the first one is the surtax capital program we are seeking uh approximately 1.5 billion uh in a combination of transit ways uh now these are all the brt and light rail projects that those are lumped together under transit ways uh bcr south uh we just discussed that uh transit infrastructure projects these are a catch-all for all the infrastructure projects uh that i'm going to talk about later in the slide that's 283.3 million and then finally the uh vehicle system planning and other studies and other efforts that's the 221 million next slide so starting off with the primo program uh i know we had this conversation just now about the connector project uh over the five years we are seeking 384.5 million uh dollars for the connector project if you can go to the next slide and that is the description for this project this is a three and a half mile project that connects our three economic engines which is the airport the seaport and the convention center i have a quick question is 2577.1 million 2.5 billion correct yes okay uh we're looking at millions and i think you should be should be calling this 2.577 billion not this is deceiving and i thought i was losing my mind but i'm glad i'm can still count thank you absolutely um so the connector project uh we we talked about that and corey mentioned uh in her remarks that we did we have started the pdne study uh last year we hired a consultant uh we also had a public kickoff meeting uh earlier this year and then in september we'll be doing another public workshop and then finally in october we'll be taking a locally preferred alternative uh to our commission uh for for formal adoption the total anticipated cost is about 1.56 billion and now this is the project where we're seeking uh fta participation through the capital investment grant uh program this will likely be a new starts uh program so we'll be seeking close to 50 percent of the funding for this project uh the project is scheduled to open in 2032 and our current schedule uh calls for starting construction sometime in early 2030 um is there a question phil did you have a question your mic is on no i'm sorry i just didn't know if you had a question because your microphone looks like it's on okay the shows i'm looking at the connector project it's 384 million and funding status is i'm trying to read your partial what's partial correct so the partial funding is to basically just the surtax portion uh we will be seeking funding through fta 384 is the request or the budget within the surtax correct that's the 25 of the one point would i if i saw the county's budget for the port would i see an entry in their capital program for reflecting this expenditure or is that totally within primo is it primo is standing long yeah it was effective yes sir so it will falls under the bct budget everything that you see here in our presentation falls under the bct budget transportation budget and it is a primo expenditure yes sir and transit then is the organization that is managing the project and coordinating all the various parts of that project yes sir and when i know this is near and dear to you please please believe that we are including all of our colleagues uh in fact uh this week i had i had a meeting with joe about some of the ideas we have for the port some of the stops that we're looking at so at one point uh we were looking at a single stop in the port now we're looking at trying to get a little closer to some of the um yeah some of the terminals and having multiple stops um we've been um kicking around an idea of having like a collector um uh parking structure that would drive uh the uh um the traffic to a one location a multi-story parking lot as opposed to having it go to the the gates you know to get in um and then do the processing of people there to get into the port versus having the bottlenecks that you have at the entrance ways that's that but they're at this point there are a lot of alternatives that we're exploring um and then we're we're also working closely with the airport and then we have meetings with everybody as well or then you've got in terms of the airport you've got the passenger level correct yes sir yep yes and so similarly with airport we're talking about their master plan and how this fits within their master plan including what they're designing and how this would fit within that and and one last thing i i would love to share with you is you know um the airport bcrs i know we're not talking about bcr south right now but the airport bcr south is going to have a dedicated part of the of the platform that will allow you to go up into the intermodal center if the intermodal center is not built we leave that and we leave it there until it is built when it's built we make the connection so we're going to leave an opening um for it and if it if we're there and it's in time then we build it at the same time and the connection opens when when both projects are ready i have a technical question on the middle of that slide anticipated budget is that 384.5 billion billion or is that 384.5 million because how did we get that should be a million it's millions yes okay that should be a million no we're messing with you right now get the m on there sorry about that i mean that's that's more than the tax or tax i think good catch thank you okay it's a typo right yes it is it is not 384 i know i'm being picky but no no it's fine it's fine we should have caught it uh i have a question i want to go back to the capital program summary and it just may be uh an additional issue go back one it's just it's just a typo uh 158 on that page page 158 the first slide is the surtax capital program summary yes and then the next page is the surtax capital program and you have 1.4 million dollars as the uh total no no that's billion and it's billions and our accounting team our accounting team i'm just kidding my question is when you look at uh the summary page 158 at the top it has 1.24 billion and then the summary on the next page is 1.492 because do you want me to what i'm trying to find out is the second page the line item that's supposed to total up to the first one i think the difference on this one really quickly they're taking out some of the items the capital okay operating is not all right this even though it's a capital budget has one billion dollars of operating the difference is the operating is included on the prior slide because because it's a surtax operating for transit comes out of our capital a capital budget the surtax budget is a capital budget and so the prior slide shows 2.5 no the difference is that the previous slide breaks out commuter rail south from other capital projects this one if you add the 250 point 252 million to the 1.24 billion you get to the number that you're talking about okay thank you go to this yes it's it's the way it's in the budget book bcr commuter rail is pulled out separately and for the point of this presentation we combined it on this to make it clear because it's all part of primo i'm not to do math can we go to the next slide next one uh so the bcr south uh we did have a fairly robust discussion about that so i'm going to move on to the next one um and again this is a ten and a half mile commuter rail project uh corey talked about this this project so unless there are any questions i'm just gonna move to the next uh slide please uh so this is the showing the brt uh program the five brt projects here including uh oakland park uh brt project which is uh the request is 246.3 million we're seeking all of that in fiscal year 27 and and denise talked about that in her presentation we also have the other four brt corridors uh total surtax requested uh budget is 351.9 million can we go to the next slide oakland park brt that's our first brt project it's 15 miles long uh connecting sawgrass mills mall on the west western end all the way to a1a this will be serving six communities along the way and we've been having lots of conversations with those six communities as we start working on the 30 percent design we are scheduled to open this project by 2030 the construction is anticipated to start in 2028 a total project cost is 298 million uh 246.3 is what we're seeking within the five-year uh budget next slide uh following that we will have our first north-south oriented uh brt project along sr7 this is also another 15 mile uh corridor with uh 16 stations this is uh anticipated to cost 258 million we are seeking 45.3 million within the five-year budget request uh project is scheduled to open in 2033 with construction anticipated to start in 2030. next slide university drive that's our next uh north-south brt corridor along uh university drive this is uh another 16 miles with uh 16 stations uh proposed the the project cost is 358 million uh we are anticipating about 44.8 or requesting 44.8 million uh in the budget for the for the five years uh this will is scheduled to open in 2034 with the construction anticipated to start in 2031. i should mention that this one as well as the one before the sr7 for both of those projects we are seeking federal participation so this will be partially funded through uh the sar tax uh so just wanted to to to make that clear a question back the oakland park 15 miles is 200 and i don't know 40 200 plus million the state road for about the same length is only 45 million and the university drive is 44 million for 16 miles so why are the 15 miles in oakland park four times to five times more expensive than the other other other roads right so oakland park brt is fully funded with surtax we're not seeking any funding from fta or from any other funding sources looking at the budgets and i didn't i didn't care who was paying for it but why is it looks like the budget on oakland park is five times mr coleman the best place to look on this is these the slides are in the black background where the total anticipated capital cost is listed the the challenging part of comparing in the budget is only oakland park is fully paid for within the five-year budget the rest of them are just in planning or early preliminary design and engineering the construction happens in like 2032 or 2033 or 2034 so the construction it's not apples to apples what is apples to apples is the total anticipated sorry total anticipated cost capital on this slide which is about the fifth or sixth bullet from the bottom on the slide that's up on the screen right now the black slides where it says total anticipated cost capital that's where you'll see the apples to apples comparison between the different project types and also thankfully has operating costs anticipated in year one which is also apples to apples so university drive is 358 million total project cost and then sr7 if you go back once what you're saying is it's they're closer than correct okay yes sorry i couldn't didn't get that all right uh next slide please uh commercial boulevard this is a shorter bus rapid transit uh project and so it's it's cheaper 121 million dollars is the total capital cost uh this will have five and a half uh miles of rapid transit and 10 stations uh this is also something we're looking to uh fund using a combination of surtax as well as fta uh funding sources this is scheduled to open by 2035 with construction scheduled to begin in 2032 next slide and then finally sunrise boulevard this is uh 14 miles of bus rapid transit uh with 12 stations uh proposed this we're seeking five and a half million just from surtax over the over the five years but the capital cost is 240 million with the project scheduled to open by 2036 and the construction cost the construction is anticipated to begin in 2033. if i added those up we're looking at like 12 million riders in these four or five projects what how many people we move in today our ridership right now is about 23 million annually um that's based on 2025 numbers so 12 will be dumped 50 more ridership with these four or five that's you know it's funny because if you look at what happened in miami-dade and this is not fair to use this as a direct comparison but you know we saw with the people mover how many riders that was moving um on a daily basis and so uh we do anticipate this ridership growing substantially with these investments which is ultimately the goal oh some of these riders would be going east west north south yeah they could be going to get off the bus and get on them and that's what happens today so we have um as example we have the uh broward uh county uh transit terminal in in fort lauderdale that is a hub that's where a lot of um transfers take place we also have on um in hollywood um we have a transfer location around the the circle there where people get off one bus and they'll be going north south and go east west to get on the other bus um and we have that west regional terminal and then even here well your predecessor always said until we have this system and the links we're never going to have the right issue we really would like we're not we're not and and you know people always say that you know rail is expensive it is but the return on investment in terms of rider is substantially different than when you're talking about um rubber tire solutions okay next slide please now moving on to the uh five-year transit infrastructure projects uh you can go to the next one so this is showing a list of all the uh improvements and the requested budget for for various projects uh denise touched on the west broward intermodal uh terminal this is something that we're building on the western portion of the county uh in the sawgrass mills uh mall area this will support several uh services that either anticipated or currently running and we will move all our uh hub transit hub over to that that particular location we acquired 10.7 acres uh a few years ago to build this build this terminal and that's that's the uh request for to start construction as well as build this facility by we also have several bus stop improvements and shelter projects which are our ongoing efforts to provide amenities to our passengers and then given all these brt projects and service improvements that we're making our two uh bus maintenance facilities those will be at capacity so we are looking to build a third maintenance facility to support this growth with all the fleet that we'll have to acquire and that's what this future maintenance facility uh line is on that budget and then there are several other uh enhancements that we are looking to to make over the next five years including it safety and then uh denise touched on the real property acquisitions and and leases over the next five years so total request is 283.3 million for for the next five years next slide and then going to transit we are looking to purchase buses for 55.3 million paratransit vehicles over the next five years at 84.6 million uh corey mentioned the transit forward 2040 initiative and we we gave a presentation last time so some of those capital improvements associated with those with the implementation that's going to be in the 54.7 million request for the next five years and then finally the planning system studies uh which these are the ongoing efforts including updates to the tdp uh those are all included in the 26.4 million with a total request of 221 million next slide moving to operating so the total five-year operating cost or the funding request would be uh one billion dollars uh starting with fiscal year 27 we're seeking 181.2 million and then from there on we're seeking a five percent adjustment year over year uh this is what was prescribed to us by the office of management and budget so keeping that in line we we forecasted that over the next uh five years are these the operating cost over and above the whatever fare you collect this is the uh gross operating costs as i understand right i mean are there any fares on any of this okay so my question is is the operating number doesn't include the fares offset any of this or is this the money that has to come out of pocket what the fares don't cover this is this is the surtax component of their revenue just mr coleman this is the surtax component of their revenue their revenue also includes money from the gas tax and money from fares so this is not their entire operating budget their entire operating budget is a little bit larger this is what surtax is going to pay yeah this is this is this is all right thank you and and yes we do count our revenue from our fares in our overall costs this is the surtax obligation yes okay thank you jonathan that's okay no no thank you we have another question um this is you know more fundamental um you know earlier you know you mentioned that the ridership and numbers are declining um and if for you know various reasons immigration enforcements and so forth um if that is the trend um then how do we make adjustments or you know or build that you know the change in reality in these um you know forecast five-year forecast in numbers whether we're building infrastructure or having number of you know buses bus rides services how do we handle that or is this a temporary phenomenon which we are going to have to deal with for a year or two maybe three and then you know and we'll deal with you know revisit it at that time that's a great question and um what i will tell you is that um our ridership has had been increasing um since the pandemic so it went down from years ago and then it really went from the pandemic and it started to come increase um what is different about what we're proposing for the primo program as example is the fact that the the mode of travel and the frequency of travel will be different and because of that we strongly believe that it's going to attract a different type of passenger then that's on our fixed route perhaps you know on some of them um and uh the fact that it's more frequent and it has less stops that's going to be more attractive to more people and that's the basis of the increase in ridership that's anticipated as part of primo so we are still anticipating increase in ridership over the years but it's just going to be in a different form a different form so it will move migrate from fixed route it'll be um so hopefully what will happen is you know people will transfer on the fixed route and that too will will win and um get additional ridership because of the primo investments because you know some people are going to transfer onto fixed route service from primo um you know uh the rail traditionally has its own type of audience that uses or passenger that uses rail they're they're generally a commuter that drives to some park and ride location and then gets on the rail so they may or may not be using fixed route service but the more integrated our system is and the more high capacity high frequency options people have the more likely they are to use it thank you moving on to the next slide please uh and finally the municipal community shuttle program we are requesting a total of 83 million a big portion of that is is operations and then nine and a half million towards uh buses and equipment and that concludes my portion i'm happy to take any further questions or comments thank you so much um does anybody have a question well we took your time during the presentation to get a lot of it answered so thank you thank you corey did you have anything else or are we ready to uh move to the next part of the agenda jonathan i don't know unless it's core you ahead i could do a quick recap uh first of all thank you thank you thank you for your time a lot of good questions making us think a little bit about um how we're presenting the material and make it a little easier for you to can contract with some of the changes um from the from the pride the slides i heard that you're interested in seeing a cost per passenger comparison with other transit agencies and i also heard that um we need to change the billions on one of the slides from billions to millions and we'll update that yeah and so we'll so we'll make those adjustments to slide and jonathan if you would be kind enough to get them out to everybody once we get them um and that's all i caught is there anything i missed and corey we can work on that mr coleman because it involves a much different departments and so we'll that's a really good point and we'll provide some more information over the next few weeks that's very helpful now thank thanks again everybody good to see you all thank you corey and congratulations on all the accomplishments at the beginning we really appreciate you presenting that to us thank you thanks corey denise and apacheck thanks for your partnership and collaboration here today so as we go into regular agenda which really have um three things to vote on we first wanted to provide are we missing something here where are the budget slides do we go the wrong direction i could have just looked at the book that roy nicely provided me with all the information i could ever want to know so um okay so i guess we have an item of business before we get into some of the math uh that would be helpful mr coleman to some things you mentioned so we're going into regular agenda um the first item is just minutes so turn it back over to you vice chairman okay um the april 24th 2026 meeting minutes have been distributed to the oversight board members do we have a motion to approve motion to approve second okay all in favor aye the motion passes none opposed motion passes yeah as we know there's a uh our role in the budget process is outlined in section 31 and a half dash 75 of the code ordinances um if we want if everybody needs us to we can read through that but first we wanted to before we take any further action provide uh some information um and to help answer some of the questions right so first off we wanted to provide what are omb's projections for sure tax revenues um over the coming five years and so um as you can see it's showing an increase of 10 to 15 million dollars a year in additional revenue um and that continues through 2031 so no surprises let's say in those projections but those are what the projected revenues are um for we're going to show you two different graphs that that kind of bucket everything you've heard from different departments into one snapshot so this first snapshot is just fy 2027 and i want to orient you to first well we've divided into five categories one is transit capital projects transit operating so paying for the bus drivers and the buses um public works capital which we heard from public works this morning then community shuttle which is managed by transit transportation um and then municipal projects so community shuttle and municipal projects are put at the bottom because even though community shuttle is managed by the transit agency um they all kind of count towards the mag uh most most of the money in those buckets counts towards the mag or the minimal animal guarantee the one other thing i want to point out is on the right hand side we show a dashed line in green which is the anticipated revenue for 2027 which is 495 um million dollars um so just to kind of clarify because you know we everybody wants to see typically a balanced budget but strategically the county has been holding money in reserve for the past number of years because we have some very large capital projects that we want to see these are the transformative projects that people saw lines on a map and helped them vote yes right so at the public they want to see a better trainer bus you know and different things like that so brt or the airport connector those we have been spending the last number of years not spending all the money we received we received in order to hold money in reserve for a special day when we'd start building it that day has come right so this budget is showing that we have 660 million dollars in capital projects requested for this fiscal year for transit capital uh nearly 200 million dollars in transit operating 181 and 111 million dollars in public works capital requested for this year and then 15 million and 40 million going towards the cities so you know just as a share of the budget the cities are getting about 10 percent um public works is about 20 percent of the revenues that we collect per year and transit operations represent about 40 percent of the revenues we collect every year and then everything in transit capital takes up the rest of the revenue we're collecting this year plus money we've collected in prior years to build it out and that's always been part of the plan um but we wanted to show you this and then show you how that line changes a little bit when we go into the five-year plan this graphic shows us the same information um there's the same categories but over five years and in that case you see the the spending does not exceed the five-year anticipated revenue like nearly as much because again it's tapping into reserves that we've been collecting since 2019 um and that again we're always part of the financial plan but it also shows you the ratio of you know what we're collecting and what we're spending on these various important categories that the ones at the bottom consider kind of like quick wins and essential maintenance of this existing system with some modest improvements and then transit capital is the transformative projects that will move lots more people if you know if they come to fruition as planned so i've just said a lot so i'll stop there right now questions yeah that is the 1.2 just for capital transit and the 1.0 just for transit operating or what's the total of the column on the left so i can compare it to the anticipated revenue on the right because those in both charts i don't know yeah what the total on the left is compared to what the income on the right is even if it's short of them so that is probably the one mistake we made on this graphic is not showing what that total is um but again it's not even though this one isn't important as the five year because of what you said but if i look at the five year am i looking at marie can probably quickly add it quickly add it up over the next 90 seconds all the left is that what is how close get the other chart up there whoops yeah yeah now so it's 2.2 2.7 billion so it's almost equal to the anticipated revenue it's um yeah if the 2.6 is added is the 2.6 include the 83 and the 184 or not uh oh no okay well then when you do these again you need a total because yeah it's about 2.8 right right it's it's marginally over on the five-year plan again we will put the total on the top of the chart and we will share it with you guys and we can also do the math so what you're saying you're closer over the five year of having the money because i mean when when you build capital projects it's it's it's kind of like a snake swallowing a gazelle right it's there's a really big lump that you have to do to build the stuff and so um as we get past this point that so it kind of it's not as uh demonstrative over the five years and again we've if we if we showed this chart three years ago you'd see underspending does your anticipated revenue include the historic matching funds or just surtax dollars this is just a graph of surtax dollars surtax surtax theory the column on the right would be a new total with an asterisk that says historically we've increased by 10 or 15 or 20 so if i'm fairly trying to understand how much money i got you got to put some other it's a separate calculation and it's almost a project by project calculation for the most part because yeah but we thought this was helpful to see the share because again 40 of what we're spending is going to transit operations 20 is going to public works 10 is going to the cities in very very very rough numbers um the remainder uh goes to transit capital um and that's that's the big investment in the future um mostly other things are investments in very immediate things that are for today and to keep the system running today bridges and some roadway improvements that we heard those last 20 20 75 years so those are investments in this safe system of the future as well as well as drainage but just to put everything in context the last question i promise so the transit capital and the transit operating is buses and mass transit and rail and all that right the only difference is is it paying for building it or is it paying for running it after it's built and so as we build something we have to incur those new costs and that's why it's really important those black background slides that abhishek showed they show the year one operating costs like if you build something suddenly your operating costs are higher because you have to operate it sometimes you're able to subtract out old operating costs of an older service that you replaced that might not be it includes all transit that's all transit okay thank you except for community shuttle and with that um and we're going to continue to try and do an increasingly good job at synthesizing some of this so some of the questions you heard today will turn into standardized information that we provide the board of what is this really saying you know what is what's our cost provider for this or that service and different things like that are things we can provide in this future so you can understand in a better apples to apples way with that um i turn it back over to you madam chair for two action items for this year's budget and the five-year capital plan okay we'll start with the uh action item number two and do we have a motion to approve a statutorily eligible the proposed projects and expenditures in the categories listed on the slide in the amounts for fiscal year 2027 i can read them or if the person who wants to make the motion prefers to read them or do we just accept as written as written okay so that do we have a motion to approve action you know you don't want to just come up with your own legal advice on this one so um our office has reviewed all the different categories and the nature of the expenditures that you're going to be reviewing today they all fit cleanly within the uh limited use provisions of chapter 212 which is our transportation surtax 212 055 1d everything fits within uh those nights uh and meet boundaries you're on do we have a second second all right all in favor all right hearing none observation oh commuter rail south is a big chunk of this budget so whatever happens to north and south is extremely important it tells me we can afford everything else even if it goes south or north okay and then just for the record um any opposed okay hearing none one second for council we have our member online are they allowed to vote yes because we have a quorum physically present uh individuals who are appearing by a telecommunication device that you have the ability to vote can ray hear us right now and can he vote or no because he's given us a written vote and does that count or needs to yeah because i think he lost his connection or something this is when every meeting turns into a seance basically okay his his vote can be noted for the record okay he's voted nay for the record he's voted nay that the projects are ineligible yes okay thank you let's move on to the next item which is action item three i think i believe it's okay that's okay oh i think we have a presentation no well it just is a reminder of what the the action is so if people want to read it we can go back but back to you madam vice chair okay we'll tee it up um action item number three is do we have a motion to approve the proposed five-year plans for fiscal years 2027 through 2023 sorry 2031 consistent with section 31 and a half dash 75 parent h parent 3 of the broward county code of ordinances for a the public county the broward county public works department b the broward county transportation department and c the municipal projects uh taking ron's advice do we have an opinion from council um at this point because we don't have the full nature of all of the details we're not talking about statutory eligibility we're talking about overall uh dollars each year when those funds are going to be um spent uh there's going to be a detailed review of the nature of the projects to determine whether or not they're wholly eligible partially eligible or not eligible so you're free to make your votes based on what's been presented so far question what's been presented so far was the previous pages it's not on here well what was presented again yes you've seen the five-year program yeah the five-year program which is a much broader and less drilled down nature yes okay but in the future i'd like to see the numbers repeated here just as a refresher okay i'd like to make a motion to move okay all right do um is there any discussion or are we ready for a vote all in favor aye aye any opposed including ray on the phone the email vote for the record of no from ray okay noted um we it looks like our next items are non-agenda so that just to close out the meeting today there's just like a few updates um i don't think we have slides for them you know i don't know i'm going backwards okay so um our next oversight board meeting is actually be via zoom on the afternoon of october 30th the focus of that will be um dashboards and i know we spent a fair bit of time on that but what will be new there is we'll just refresh your knowledge of the dashboard and then show you some best practices from across the country so you can get your input about what you want to see for the future because we have a large team of people focused on developing those and we want them to have like a really clear direction thank you ray right um so also at that meeting um we'll get a brief update on the performance audit we're expecting that performance audit to be done in december or january is what the county auditor's office is telling us the performance audit that was requested by this board should be done in december or january of this year and at the december board meeting we will get an update on that um please again share to all of your accounting friends and accounting professionals or people who wish they well no just the ones who actually are cpas um the vacancy that we have um next thing is that we are going to be we already have in your email sent out about 12 30 today a survey about this meeting we've heard from various board members the desire to be expeditious and and impactful about our time here so it'll help us see what presentations were perfect or what we'd want to tweak about any of them so there's a survey questions about each presentation you heard today um finally opportunities for engagement on september 29th the government center east will have a low stress multimodal master plan presentation um that's again on september 29th welcome to attend on november 2nd oasbd and map will show project opportunities event that's at 2 p.m at government center west you have these in your packet by the way and then we've heard some requests for a tour of copens and ravenswood garages maintenance facilities those will be one board member at a time tours but please note to rory or to myself um that if you want to go on one of those and bct will um facilitate um and with that that is that are all those are all my updates um i have nothing further to add okay thank you jonathan appreciate those updates is um i guess it's time for the reports uh anthea is not here um sitting in her stead i have no report as vice chair are there member board member reports you can go around the room okay hearing none uh nathaniel as general counsel do you have any um just a couple of things if you're going to take advantage of those opportunities for engagement that jonathan uh just read to you um and those are in your packets it would be important for you to please uh let roy know in advance that you will be attending um if they if there's more than one board member it needs to be publicly noticed as a meeting um just because of the nature of what's going to be discussed even if you're not having discussions amongst yourselves um so if there's only one of you that's going to any one of those things we don't need to notice it if it's more than one we do um it was wonderful seeing all of you again um i think that jonathan did a tremendous job at his first meeting so it's been a pleasure working with him um he has now this week officially graduated from new gretchen to jonathan in our office so i i do not i do not have a bobble head for you uh i know i know i i didn't realize that was a thing when gretchen gave me one a couple of years ago i just thought it was just for me i feel much less special now um and again a pleasure to work with all of you i know that the the meeting was very dense today in terms of information and jonathan and i uh map team and county attorney's office are always looking for ways to provide you with information in the most efficient and impactful way so that these meetings can be meaningful by way of update on the ordinance as a result of some legislative changes that came down upon us um from tallahassee this year uh we do have to make certain modifications to both the categories that are going to be um the categories of our membership of the uh oversight board appointing authority and potentially as well categories of oversight board members actually it's just one in particular that's the reason that this has not gone to the county commission yet um so if we don't have it going before the county commission as of the next meeting because we're still tangling with those issues i'll be bringing at least it's not for a vote or anything else but i will share it during the workshop uh that will be had um at your next meeting because again that's a workshop there's no votes that are taking place no business that's taking place since it's happening virtually and therefore no quorum required or any of the other things but i'll at least be able to provide you with an update as to the specific language what has changed and why given the nature of some legislative edicts that we have received and other than that i don't have anything else thanks very much for your time this friday okay thank you very much everybody um one more chance uh to talk before the end okay thank you very much and jonathan great job today we appreciate all your help and preparing and thank thank you roy for everything so um appreciate you all yes and uh i'm gonna adjourn the meeting thanks