good morning everyone it is now approximately 9 37 and the mobility advancement board would like to open the floor if we have any any public speakers doing we don't we don't okay pardon me it's too cold yes I know nobody wants to speak that's how we feel as well all right so let me just get to the agenda here so madam chair we're gonna ask you to call the meeting to order and then he'll do the roll call okay okay so I would like to officially call this meeting to order um can we get the roll call please good morning hearing you so well Debbie Madden here thank you and the abandoned Wallace here you only turn it up a little bit no it's it's like googly gog yeah it is Douglas Kuhlman here thank you Phil Allen thank you sir and we have Ronald Frazier Raymond McElroy Shay Smith and Erdahl Dominic is here yeah thank you sir and we do have a corner chair thank you are you hearing me okay okay just want to make sure all right so I think our first presenter is available so let's get started so our first president presentation is the large capital project coordination and mr. Kelleher the deputy county administrator will be making that presentation good morning good morning chair vice chair rest of the oversight board first thank you for your time and dedication to the map program and and making sure that the monies are spent wisely I know a former colleague of mine that mr. Allen has always raised the issue of coordination so we were asked to come here do a brief presentation about you know how we coordinate these projects because it's it's very important because all these projects are large price as you'll see shortly so with that I guess I don't know which one do I do so whoops right can you tell someone turn the volume up we're not hearing I'm not you're not hearing me yes but just low okay how about now okay now I can hear myself a little bit of an echo here so but I'm Kevin Kelleher I'm the deputy county administrator and I've been working wow I've been I've been work I've been working with the county for just a little over 35 years so but I've been in county administration and part of my portfolio is making sure some of the large capital projects get done and get done on time and you know preferably under budget however during this past year we've also brought on dr. Ismi Ayala Colazo who I believe you met in December but it's me it comes with many years of experience doing large capital projects in government settings she has wealth of project management experience and she has been for me personally I've been a godsend because that's not my background so but she's been a great addition to the team so we have this and we have this it helps out with the coordination which I know has been a concern for this board as well as mr. Allen in particular so but I'm just gonna keep calling you out you're the one who brought me here so I'm gonna keep know but but no it's important it's important we want to make sure that you guys have the comfort level because these projects are important and they do get done and that's where I want to start with is what has been done recently and and while some of this has to deal with surtax but it just goes show you the size of the projects that we're talking about and the first group here in and they're tied together is the convention center the convention center hotel and the bypass road which the bypass road had surtax dollars that that were utilized for that and this this was a project that started decades ago and mr. Allen would probably remembers it from his time working with the the county that you know there's been a couple of attempts to this but we finally got went forward we're able to do the expansion but this was a project coordination and the team was led by Public Works but it wasn't just Public Works and when I say Public Works is you have highway construction you have construction management real property but it also included Port Everglades because they're out at the port includes a CVB because the the big client for the convention center and a hotel it had finance in finance you had your purchasing you had there there was bond financing it that paid for funded this project yet office of a economic and small business development that we were making sure that they we were using local and small businesses and of course county administration had the overall oversight over the project so we do have that coordination and I'm happy to say on October 20th we had two major milestones that we met and that's where we opened up the convention center and you see we have more than 1.2 million square feet now and at the same day we also the convention center bypass road which takes you from you know there's a lot of traffic in that area it takes you from a1a through the port the secured area port but without having to go through the security because it's it's over it and and has you land right outside the convention center so you bypass that that the port checkpoints and this was something that was done on time and under budget which was which was an amazing feat actually was done early and then another project that we've recently completed and opened was on December 18th we opened up our convention center headquarters hotel which is omni branded it has 801 rooms has a whole bunch of features with different ballrooms meeting rooms restaurants there's the plaza area that's open so it's and I don't know if you've seen it or had a chance to visit it it is a beautiful hotel and on the same day on this in the same property we open up a new CVB building that's a three-story office building that will help out with the tourism business so these projects don't happen without coordination and they don't happen without the coordination of those parties that I mentioned before and so just so you can visualize it in the upper left you have the omni hotel the the middle upper middle you have the the bypass road and then you have all the folks that worked on the bypass road to the to the right of that and then bottom right you have the convention center the new at that's the Atlantic ballroom that has one of the the probably the best view of the intercoastal waterway so it's probably the most beautiful ballroom in any convention center that you'll ever visit and then you have the bottom left you have the one of the restaurant areas at the at the hotel so now we're going to get to the part where you really are interested in is well that's done so what have you done lately so now we're moving on to what's what's the future in the future we have three big projects and and all of these are in some fashion are probably going to use certain tax funds so the first one is the airport port airport convention center transit connector and this is a light rail it's 3.5 miles of light rail that's going to take you from the airport to the seaport to the convention center and it will link those three so let's if you really envision it we have a lot of cruise traffic they can fly into the hotel not worry about renting your car and they can get on the light rail takes them right to right to the port they can catch your cruise but you know sometimes they want to come a day or two earlier or stay day or two on the back end they can take that light rail still without renting a car and and take it right over to the hotel likewise if they want to come in town for a convention light rail takes them all there again without and i'm not anti-car and i'm not trying to attack the rental car business but it's just the convenience that makes it linking these three economic engines is is it's a game changer and that's what we're um you know that's what this project is all about it also reduces congestion excuse me it reduces congestion oh if you know they're able to just take the rail i guess i should play to the audience a little bit here and it reduces congestion which is one of the main foundations of this distinguished board so thank you for the adding that in i'll put that in my notes for the next time um uh but this project has you know there's a uh there's a project technical working team that's led by uh county transit but again it has participants from aviation public works port everglades uh cbb finance oes uh economic small business development and county admin administration and they all work together to you know as this project develops and recently they had a community meeting on january 15th where they introduced this project um and the scope of the study and then the anticipated timelines that i don't want to steal the thunder from uh ms cufflonegren who will probably be going over that in a few short minutes but it's it's just one of those projects and again i'm here just talking about the coordination this is not just transit doing their own thing in a silo this is their lead but their coordinations with all these other agencies and county admin is making sure everyone's talking to each other there's two other projects that i'm going to move on to very quickly and that's the 8 pm the automated people mover and that is a you know a 16 000 square foot a linear foot elevated uh track that a guideway that will go around the airport that will take you where kind of if you've been to like um you know atlanta where there's you get on the train and and it takes you around to the different terminals and whatnot so we're going to have that's what we're looking at here with six different stations um you know pedestrian bridge so that's one uh one project uh that's going on at the airport airports lead to that one working with the other agencies and then you have the intermodal um center which is a multimodal hub where it'll have transportation um the ground transportation coming in buses uh hopefully the automated people mover will be um linked to that there'll be a parking structure it will you know it'll be nine levels uh have over 5.4 uh million square feet of space um and it'll have approximately 7 000 parking stalls in it as well so it's it it's the hub that links it all together and i think prior to this uh we got one question is is you know are these are these projects um do they have independent utility and each of these projects does have independent utility it's a great question however you know so each one of these three projects has the independent utility they can function without the others but to optimize it it's it's we're trying to build a system and building them all three of them will optimize but they can be done individually and that's how we are are structuring them and then staying on the same theme of coordination part of the goals of of this board was to leverage money and and we hope to do that and leverage money and get money from the feds and the states and then if you get federal grant money they always will have a a project management coordination in part of this too so not only do we do it on our side in order to use the federal money we're going to be forced to do it with them as well too so there is a lot of coercion coordination going on and that was the reason for coming here today just to give you an update on that and assure you that we are doing it we've had the great successes and we're looking forward to uh great successes in the future and i see mr allen will be asking me a question shortly so much for your presentation all right madam chair go ahead if i could maybe recall the last couple years as this board has approved projects we have broken these projects up into pieces and there are so many examples of what i call or what the industry calls mega projects uh the examples being the big dig in boston the bridge to nowhere in alaska the high-speed rail project which can continues to flounder in california and many of those cases were that they developed these projects but they never tied them together uh the bridge that was funded by and many times it's because of federal requirements that these projects get into different agencies at the federal level we at the local level however are you know it trying to get as much funding as we can from federal and state so we break these projects up and then as an example with the uh most recently with the high-speed rail in california they've now got overpasses to make way for the high-speed rail but yet they don't have the ends funded in fact there was just an announcement the other day that california is backing away from litigation they filed at the federal level uh that rejected by four million dollar or billion dollars worth of funding at the federal level which now the project is is based on these overpasses overpassing nothing uh and so we need to address and make sure we stay focused you say kevin that the i'm sorry the projects are independent they really aren't i mean you you can't get the transportation you've got to have transportation hub at the airport finished in order to make the uh connector from the airport to the port uh you've got to have maintenance facilities for that there may be different technologies used to transport to people but these projects have all got to come together and i just what we have asked the board or the county administration to also consider the integration of these projects so that we don't find ourselves with a bypass road through the port or not the bypass road the connector that doesn't have an end at the airport uh versus uh the bypass road which was more independent and not subject to influenced by the other projects although it was designed as i understand to to be supportive of those in the long run there may be different funding cycles there may be at the federal level the state level the priorities may change these are projects that take multiple years to come to conclusion of uh the people mover the connector road uh or not connector the connector project is something that was conceived 20 20 years ago we still don't have that done waiting for aviation to be able to do the intermodal facility uh to maintain the project so there needs to be a focus that's why one of our discussions have been that the board the county administration needs to make sure that these projects are coordinated that as these funding applications or as the feasibility reports are done that they consider what happens to a project where they're proceeding at different time schedules uh and they don't connect in the end so kevin your attention and county administration has assured me in discussions that that is being accounted for we just need to make sure that as we move forward in approving additional funding from the uh surtax that these projects are in fact coordinated and and we have that coordination and we have talked about the different time frames and how you would do this if the time frames don't match up exactly because each each one of these projects is upwards of a billion dollars each and some are over that so with these three projects you're probably talking about three and a half billion dollars all together and looking at different funding they're going to be different funding cycles so how do we do but our goal is to get all three of them done and and there may be some little adjustments we have to do which is why it's important that they all have independent utility that connector um the light rail can be done without the other two projects is it the greatest thing no does it work the is it optimized no but it can it it is still has its own utility there and you can get people to the station then they can do that it works better when you have the intermodal center and and the intermodal center will work better if you have this automated people move but but each one of those can work independently but ideally and where we're going for is making sure that they're all done and we are coordinating and as you can see from the other projects there is a lot of conversation a lot of planning that goes on multi-agency where we are they're joined at the hips to get this done and and you know we even talked about you know a rail potential the rail station as well into the intermodal center that that can come in there is you know eventually for you know commuter rail or even you know eventually inner inner county uh you know service so there's a lot a lot of moving parts it's fluid um you know my ears and as county admin assure you i'm here to again assure you that you know we are coordinating and we're getting these things done and that's why i wanted to start with those other three projects they do take decades sometimes to do but they eventually get done and the end product is is usually spectacular yeah kevin first of all congratulations on the the hotel the convention center and the bypass room it's all wonderful it really is thank you and if you get a chance to go to the hotel and you spend lots of money there we would greatly appreciate it because we have to pay back bonds for that so my my question because you talk about coordination i want to know how the coordination is going with the railroad because if we don't have the railroad on board i don't think these second projects are necessarily going to work and i've heard that the railroad as we know is very tough to deal with so can you talk about that yes i i can briefly talk about that and i will agree that you know at times railroads can be very difficult to deal with because they have sometimes a singular focus particularly if they're just doing um freight and that's all they do so passenger stuff gets in their way and they don't they don't want that that's not part of their business but we have had conversations with them of the three projects two of the three can be built without impacting the railroad any easements uh aerial easements of that the automated people mover yes we do need to have an aerial easement for that we have been in active discussions for some time um and actually we have a meeting coming up towards the end of this month uh with the president of fvc to you know continue discussing how how we achieve that but you know things are progressing but they don't progress that fast do you you mentioned someone else might talk about the schedule i'm just curious how how long do you think it'll be before these other three or two are in place the ballpark the and i hate to do it because when you start i know thinking about the time you can say oh that's so far away but it comes upon us quickly um i believe that the um light rail connector is slated for 2032 um i'd have to double check on the imc and the uh the automated people mover but they're around the same time the imc maybe a little bit after that but um they're all around the same time to the early 2030s thank you can i can i hey kevin thank you i have a few questions um the first one would be about the automated people mover in the intermodal center so the lead agency is the aviation department is is which is understandable for the automated people mover segment of it but for the intermodal center would it not are they not doing like a joint lead on it because wouldn't that be more transit focused with the with the light rail station potential commuter rail station the um the reason why aviation's uh the lead on that is there's different funding pots of money in there and we are looking at some aviation dollars on that it is on or around aviation property and a big part of that is that program is is replacing parking that is at the airport so um i don't want to get too much into the title they are they're the lead agency because we want to have one person in charge you can you know the old saying if you if more than one person is charged no one's in charge so but everything is coordinated with each other i mean it's just i can't impress upon that enough that they are working together and and corey could probably speak about that project just as much as mark mark can and corey being the transit director mark being the aviation director which you like who you know because it's all interchanged because we're building a system yeah it's not just one and we are not looking at this even though they have independent utility which is important because that's how you get the funding um but we're looking at the overall project with this the system okay but but do the feds are they organized so that the aviation and transportation folks at the federal level where a lot of the funding is coming from are different agencies so you may be coordinating with the county agencies but how about at the federal level and and and my esteemed partner over here has quickly got to this slide here that says that on here when you deal with multiple federal agencies they they also will um identify a lead agency when you go into this funding cycle so it's there's there's a lot of coordination but you have somebody who's a lead so like if the primary one is fa fa or federal highway they would take the lead on it and there could be other grant monies from other areas like fta um but it would fall under that and they would all all coordinate so there's a lot of coordination both at our level and the federal level this the second part is maybe overstepping oversight but it's design based i just want to make sure when we do the intermodal center i believe the forgot the gentleman's name from aviation i presented before they didn't look like there is adequate or actually any bicycle or pedestrian access to the station so i just want to make sure going forward we are incorporating those elements because those are like transit focused elements for the people of dania beach to access that station um so that's just like a note and then this is also kind of a side thing but since you're here there's the potential that brightline goes bankrupt in 2027 they once again missed another payment on their bonds which has put them really low i guess at like super junk or whatever it is um i'm not going to ask you to comment publicly but i would just hope that the county administration if brightline does come up for sale that you guys have some plan in place to work fast and maybe make a quick move with the other counties because it could be an amazing deal that lowers our track access fees and then gives us those rights so just food for thought thank you for acknowledging that that i will probably not respond kevin i just oh go ahead um thank you um i wanted to you know congratulate you know you county staff county commission you know on these projects i mean they are truly mega projects anywhere but those are also the projects kind of happens once every few decades you know uh if my memory is right the convention center hotel the project the concept you know goes back at least 20 25 years maybe before that uh but it it happened and also the size and the architecture you know the location uh and the omni you know brand is truly magnificent um the convention center itself was becoming less and less competitive you know compared to some of our neighboring uh you know locations and uh and and that's also while it was being used it wasn't closed down you know expanded and that's truly you know amazing accomplishment so um i noticed uh a few days ago uh the uh there was a reference article on um the last year you know passengers accounts at the airport and numbers have you know come down and which you know happens uh but it's kind of a you know reminder for us you know we have a very popular airport airport and per passenger cost has been one of the you know more attractive for carriers you know to operate there but like everything else at some point you lose that competitive advantage or price of you know doing business you know goes up and what we have not done you know like the uh inner model center and the uh the connection between um uh different concourses uh uh the people you know more project you know that is been identified i think um at this point we need to you know think about perhaps accelerating those projects you know and and these are large projects by any means we need to do take the the steps you know necessary but recognize the need of those projects you know happen in a sooner than later and uh and also just you know one other thing i'm so happy to see the federal government transportation fund matching is still at 50 percent and that could change also anytime and we should try to take advantage of that too and i'm going to look to see mark gail is here because that would be music to mark gail's ears there is no person who wants these those projects done quicker than mark gail that being said though there's processes particularly if you're using other people's money the federal money that you have to go through that process there's certain things that you have to do in order to qualify and and and that process sometimes takes longer than we would we all would like but rest assured from and and i'm i feel comfortable speaking for mark gail and and even monica superior county administrator that and in the entire board that we would love to have it done sooner rather than later um and we're trying to get it done as quick as we can unfortunately there are certain natural progressions that would prevent us from that and uh uh and we'll continue on that path and interesting to get to some of your opening comments here is is you're right these are these are big mega projects that don't come around too often we finished one here and it doesn't come without the vision and support and you know foresight of the you know the the county commission who had the foresight to say hey let's put a hotel let's expand our convention center let's put us in the most competitive um you know place in there and and support those actions and and that's what's key and they're they were supportive of that and they're very supportive of these projects the light rail the automated people mover and the imc at the uh at the airport as well too and um and that's that's the key that is is having that foresight and understanding and and we are pushing as quick as we can so one quick question um can you speak a little bit to the any vulnerabilities when we're looking at federal funding 50 of the funding is coming from the federal government and so we know that you know over a 10-year period the priorities can shift how has that in the past affected the timeline for completing projects or how do you envision um some kind of contingency to deal with that on this upcoming project you know that's a great question and there is vulnerabilities whenever you're using other people's money you have to hope that they give you their money and so you know you have to go through their processes as well but you know it's it's highly competitive we are not the only county in the country that's looking for these big projects so it's it's up for us to do all the groundwork to make sure that we make our best case so we get funding there's also a lot of work behind the scenes where we're communicating with them or scheduling meetings and making sure they see the impact of these types of projects um you know we have an opportunity with a federal agency next week to to show them you know one of our projects and we're juggling our we just found out that the opportunity came available and we're juggling our schedules to to make it work um so they can see the impact firsthand because when they show an interest you want to make sure that they see the full impact so they say okay now i know that's a project we should be funding so but that's always a vulnerability when you're trying to do that and we have teams who are always out there scouring what monies are available what it takes and what are all the checkpoints that we need to do to make sure that they look at the broward first go ahead not for kevin but for gretchen gretchen can you tell us how much surtax money went into the first three projects plus or minus and how much is earmarked for the next three projects you don't have to do it today if you don't have it but that's the only money we can probably control yeah i and i think i think on the first three project there was only the bypass road the connector that that connector that um there was surtax money utilized in um obviously for the second three there's going to be more of a reliance on the surtax but we're trying to leverage those dollars because whenever you go to the feds there they're not paying for the whole thing they want to make sure that we're we're putting our money for towards that and that's where these dollars are going to be instrumental in us getting federal funding that's why i'm going to say i think that's another good thing about the surtax that we voted on is we wouldn't have a chance if we didn't have that money without a doubt and i assume gretchen we're on schedule still collecting that wise or was gas down and it's down we're going to talk about that a little bit later all right thank you thank you all right thank you kevin and congratulations to everyone involved thanks no problem thank you have a great all right next on the agenda we have broward county transit department update good morning good morning good morning good morning so um good to see you all again and thank you for an opportunity to have a chance to share with you what's going on in broward county transit and there's a couple things that we're going to cover today i'm going to obviously as always kind of talk about you know what's happened since we last met we're going to spend some time talking about the comprehensive operational analysis and then we're going to get to some of the projects that are in primo and so let me start off with what what happened since we last met corey if you don't mind um i just want to say to our board members i know you have a time deadline within which you have to leave so i just want to advise everyone if you have questions just take notes and then you can ask the questions at the end and you can let us know okay which section all right thank you thank you ma'am okay um so there's been a lot since we last met and i'm super excited to share all of it uh first of all as kevin mentioned we had our first kickoff meeting um which is our public uh facing meeting on the airport seaport connector and i know there's a lot of discussion just now on that project and um what i'm excited to share with you is that we did have a quite a bit of interest in the project we actually had in the room about 55 people and we had about 70 people who joined us online we shared the project development and environmental process with the public because a lot of people don't know what it takes to go from ideation to actually building a system we also talked about the potential alignment for the service which is going to be wholly on um the the most of it's going to be on county property with the exception of the maintenance facility which is likely not to be on a county property and um we also uh shared with them what the service could look like and and and the overall effort in general um and so the um the questions uh ranged from um what are in what's in it for the residents because there is a perception that this is something that would benefit the tourists more so than a residence which we were able to um mitigate that concern on two fronts first of all we know that tourism is one of our largest industries here in broward county and so it is something that generates quite a bit of revenue for us but also there are lots of jobs that are going to come from this project and i i know that i've shared a statistic with you in the past that for every billion dollars that you spend on an infrastructure investment over the course of that time you generate about um 49 000 jobs and those jobs will be local and the residents of the community will be able to um have advantage take advantage of those jobs but i think more locally to the area the residents were very curious about how would they be able to access the new service so that was some of the concern and so we'll try to figure out how that how we can possibly make that happen um we also heard that there was um there was curiosity on on the ridership what it was going to look like and we're in the very early stages of the project development environmental stage part of that does include some level of ridership analysis so we'll have more refined numbers as we go through that process and they also wanted to talk about costs you know they just wanted to know how much it's going to cost and where the funding was coming from and we we did highlight the fact that we do have a plan to use quite a bit of surtax money which is you know very important and i know just now you asked kevin a very important question which is what is the risk on the from the federal level since we're looking at about a 50 contribution what that would mean to our projects if priorities shift um as as you know things can happen in dc um one of the things that's super helpful is when you get to what's called the full funding agreement process when you sign on the dotted line you're kind of locked in on that funding um and the the federal government generally pays its bills right and so um we would be in a good position at that point what it does though uh signal for future projects right if there's certain dollars that you think are available and that those priorities change there's the risk that that funding might not be there but to reassure you that once you get to that full funding agreement and both parties execute that agreement just like with all of our grants that we have now the the federal government honors of those commitments so we can once we get there we would be in really good shape to know that the project is funded and real now what they also do is the risk assessment for example that we just did with the commuter rail project um once they give us allow us to go into that next phase which is called going into the engineering phase they will lock the dollar so whatever that number is that's their contribution at the federal level so if the project costs mushroom or balloon it's going to be up to us to figure out locally how we fund that money um and i will reiterate to you we just put together um our financial plan for the bcr south project that we had to submit to the fta and um what was very important for us to be able to demonstrate is where the local contributions are coming from and how likely those monies are to be available and when they score your project so we're up against a lot of projects across the country when they score our project we will have a higher score uh because we do have this uh tax uh taxing authority here locally so it's a big big help and i i can't um stress upon you how important it is um for the surtax money for us to be able to move forward with other federal contributions um and so that is the uh that that um town hall meeting i meant town hall meeting but the um kickoff meeting then we also um had another internal uh accomplishment so um we had our first uh ever um combined graduation ceremony for three disciplines we've never done this before um our bus operators our uh supervisors frontline supervisors and our bus traffic controllers so uh they all happen to finish their training around the same time and so we had a very large combo graduation ceremony for everyone um normally with the supervisors we kind of thank them shake their hand there's a very small ceremony and then they they go out and they supervise um but this time what we did was we uh expanded it to all three groups and we uh actually invited their families and we held it in this space here in this room and it was very well attended we had 24 bus operators graduate we had eight supervisors graduate and two bus traffic controllers graduate so that was just a fun event to share with you the other part of that is that um in the transit industry one of the the positives of being in the transit industry is that you can see career growth you can come in at a certain level you can come in at a front line level and progress up in an organization and so what we did see as part of that graduation is the person that came in as a bus operator is now a supervisor and the supervisor is now a bus traffic controller and so that progression is in place i just want you to know that that's how the the industry operates and that's how we operate here at browar county transit another phenomenal thing that happened was we launched a new app so i'm not sure if everyone is aware but we had two apps at browar county so we had the one app that you kind of paid for your fare and then we had another app how you where you paid for planned your trip um and so we combined those two apps um and we are calling it ride bct app it is now available for download on google and apple we launched it on january um the 20th and 18th i'm sorry january 18th and um so far we've had over 10 000 downloads um seven of them on apple and and then another uh three on google um the google app store and so uh what we're excited about is that what's different with this app other than it being a combo we also upgraded the app so now you can use apple pay or your google wallet to uh pay for um if your passes so that's one of the upgrades uh included in there um and so we're excited about that as well um the other thing that we've done is we've been part of the community participating in the um mlk day uh hollandale beach parade and we've also launched um and made some route changes some minor modifications to our routes we also um took advantage of some of the information that we received from the comprehensive operational analysis which we'll be talking about in more detail soon on the route four and the six um we have one of the things that the comprehensive operational analysis identified as certain routes where we have we we have lower than it than the the ridership is lower um than what the equipment that we have out there is what we actually need to use and so for these two routes we've already moved forward with um implementing that coa recommendation to change the the um the equipment that we use on those routes to the smaller buses so we did that as well so we we've been busy since we last met and um thank you for letting us again come back okay now here's some another great story so we have won our second ad will award in the last two years through um the american public transportation association this is ginormous because my entire career i've always wanted to be able to stand in front of a group of people and say we won one of these and we've now done it twice um and thank you thank you and so what this is is a national recognition of our creative um and it is super exciting um there's over 350 uh applicants um and we won first praise first place and there's only three categories last time we won it in education um and this time we run it won it in workforce development in terms of social media promotion and so i'm going to play for you i think you've seen this particular um uh ad before but i want to play for you the winning both of these one but i want to play for you one of the winning ones my name is ola a tourist currently visiting the united states from israel i would like to take this opportunity to share an exceptional experience i had with one of your outstanding bus drivers the day was rainy and as a visitor unfamiliar with the fair system i struggled with the machine in that moment your driver angeline exhibited extraordinary kindness and patience she greeted me with a warm smile and calmly helped me navigate the fair process later that evening i missed the last bus back to coconut creek the night was dark rainy and i began to feel lost but in a stroke of luck an out of service bus stopped beside me and it was angeline once again although she was no longer in service she graciously opened the door and offered to drive me to the nearest station her kindness extended far beyond her duty as a driver as she made sure i was safe and reassured going out of her way to help me she is not only an asset to your team but a shining example of what exceptional service looks like hi my name is angeline luxano i wanna tell every operator when you want try to walk and then there's another one that we also won four so um this this was great and it just shows how much our workforce does care about our riders our passengers in the community um and you know i wanted to just kind of re-emphasize the fact that we do care about our passengers we really do um i know that um we don't always get it right every time every day but we do our best to do that and it's really important that we do get it right um but i also want to emphasize what we do do for the community because sometimes um what people don't understand is that we while we our primary objective is to provide public transportation services the reality is is that the community and our passengers rely on us um to help often and our bus operators our customer service reps all the folks that work on the front line and touch the public go above and beyond almost every day to help the community or help somebody as example um we have people that actually come to our facilities that need medical attention on average we'll have somebody come to us this year actually from um october 1st through uh um the last quarter of last year sorry is we have about 46 ems requests for people who have nothing to do sometimes there are passengers and they get on they said i have a heart problem i can't breathe i'm having an episode and they're asking for help to people that just come up to our customer service windows and say they need help we also have uh found help find um 23 missing persons so they they come to us and they say that there are people who are missing and we we help them find them and and sadly we also had someone that was on the verge of committing suicide that came to us for help so i just want to just reinforce and re-emphasize that the you know all the people that work at broward county were very proud of of where we work and we're also proud to support the community and we do care about the community and our passengers okay now the other question that came up at the last meeting was um about our ridership and so this ridership um shows over time how our ridership has changed and you can see around the 2015-2014 time frame that our ridership started to dip significantly and it's our understanding although at the time we didn't do any specific analysis or studies to find out why that ridership did outside of reaching out to the industry and trying to get a feel for you know what was going on industry-wide and what we believe the case to be is that just like mr hooper said part of it is the uh infiltration of the ride share into our market um we also saw at that time the gas um prices dip and we believe that that was also a contributing factor um and so you know we don't know broward to be any different than national trends we tend to kind of follow whatever else has happened in the industry so those are two markers that um we believe are the are the root causes of those ridership declines there was no change in our service there was nothing like an event that caused us to to be on the front end of that change so we believe it was completely environmental um the other thing that came up at the last meeting was an interest in us to reach out to the interfaith community and to see if that market is something that we could could establish more firmly and so i want to tell you that we have done a little bit of work in that area um and we are excited because what we're going to be doing is we're going to create an interactive map and this map is going to have non-profits faith-based organizations everybody where you can click on your location of your um and then actually get how you would get there by transit so we are working on that now there's a little bit more that we need to do in this area but i just wanted to know it's on our radar and we are definitely working on it um the other thing is is that the tops uh the we had some feedback on tops we're continuing to meet with the group that came here and we have worked down a lot of their issues we've done inspections on all of our vehicles we have not found any holes in our tops um equipment um we have removed some of the windscreens the sneeze screens that were up that we put up and during covid we did find that some of the the handrails that people were using about 15 out of 300 uh inspections were a little loose and we tightened those um but we we really listened to them and and did our best to to respond to their concerns the other thing is is that we were asked um by county um by the mayor actually um about whether we have an emergency number for people to call if you have a problem with tops and you really need some kind of emergency assistance um and so we we in two weeks put that together so now there is a number that if you have an urgent escalation then you need help that you can call and that number is 844 tops 9-1-1 um and so when you call that number what will happen is you'll get a an ivr that starts off the conversation tells you where you let you know here's welcome to the uh tops uh escalation line urgent escalation line it also tells you that as by laws what we have to do is we have to explain that the um number is being recorded the call is being recorded and then we also encourage someone that is having a medical incident to hang up and dial 9-1-1 and then a live agent picks up after that so that is also something that we've followed up with and again i just want to make sure that we are hearing what you're saying and we're being as responsive as possible to the feedback and with that um the other thing that we're here to talk about is the comprehensive operational plan and i'm going to have one of my colleagues barney mccoy join me at the podium to tell you all about it but what i wanted to share with you is that you know when we in this room right um talk about a comprehensive operational plan it is something that we probably can wrap our heads around because we've been talking about it for a very long time but when you try to go out into the public and talk about a comprehensive operational plan they don't know what you're talking about and so and they don't understand what you mean by that uh and so what we've done is we've rebranded it and we're calling it transit forward 2040 vision plan um and so with that i'm going to turn it over to barney and he's going to walk you through it will you be back up to talk about the numbers for a second sure yes i'm not going anywhere good morning barney mccoy assistant general manager of service and strategic planning for browar county transit as corey mentioned we wanted to talk to you this morning about the coa it's an effort we started back in 2023 to address some of the concerns and take moving the system forward okay what we talk about today is the transit forward background give you a strategic outlook talk about the public reach for the effort the anticipated costs and then the reciprocating call to action okay background okay corey alluded to what a coa is and that coa is an action industry term means comprehensive operations analysis but it's not a very attractive term so when you ask what it does a coa is actually a systems check it gives you a checkup on your system in terms of efficiency and what you do is you take writer feedback data science and projected growth and you combine these things to develop a system system that's more accessible better connected and provides a higher level of service okay you say what's the big idea behind this effort traditionally we as an operator we tweak our system with service changes throughout the year a lot of times that's a response to writer feedback or writer requests we wanted to make sure that the public understood that the coa is going to be transformative and what we were looking to do was make substantive and material changes to the system that would integrate primo with some of our existing services add new modes and level of services to bring accessibility to the customer if you're familiar with transit transit operates on a premise historically where we expect the rider to come to transit in terms of divining this defining rather this system for the future we acknowledge to be more competitive and get more ridership that we would have to operate in a paradigm where we took that service these services rather to the public in terms of what we heard from the public okay we wanted to bring as i mentioned in terms of increased improved accessibility and bring transit closer to everyone we wanted to enhance frequency by finding more service and we wanted to expand our service hours to meet demand in terms of adding earlier service and later service across the system okay you may ask why now it's a good question county's changing you know county's growing what we saw through the coa effort is that we've got projected growth for the county uh certainly coming out of covid in this post-pandemic environment what we saw that there was a change in travel and commuting patterns even specific with the days and day types the commuters are traveling but again we wanted to take this information to deliver a blueprint for a faster more efficient and more connected system voices from the community okay we wanted to make sure that we had as robust as public involvement in this effort as possible we want to make sure that the public supported us in this effort that they saw value in the efforts and investments made and help us to design the system this including meetings you know with policyholders cities and the like to that point specific to public involvement in this effort we had over 8 8 000 touch points the backbone for these touch points though were the ond surveys the intercept surveys what we did was we collected approximately 7 300 statistically valid surveys from our customers and it asked them questions about where they were going where they started their trip and we even asked some attitudinal questions that's the things they thought we were doing well things places that we could serve and things that we could do better we had staff interviews internal that we met with operations maintenance and administrative staff to have them to buy into the process we had pop-up events across the county through all nine districts we held listening sessions with each one of the municipalities who chose to participate and we also had an online engagement in terms of surveys but we took these 8 000 touch points and used those as the backbone of the basis for these service recommendations okay i mentioned earlier about data science these are the data points that we use in terms of design the system or make these recommendations rather we use the census data which gives us the demographics specific to ethnicity income and age that's a 10-year look we also use a five-year touch point called the american community survey it gives us that same type of information specific to demographics income and age but at a five-year interval we use the longitudinal household employment data what that tells us is the number of households across the county who's employed in that household and the type of the nature of the work that's done from the working in the individuals in that household cell phone data this is a new technology for bct that we've used it for both in developing the primo plan and for the transit for 2040 and what cell phone data is it allows us to access non-identifiable data from cell phones and it allows us to track these across the county in terms of trips trips what we did was we took this data overlaid on top of our existing network and we used it to confirm and verify that the services that we had in place were indeed actually meeting the needs of our customers and we also used to identify potential areas in the county where we had areas for improvement in terms of transit there's some growth we use the advanced i'm sorry advanced scheduling software to design the system in terms of the producing the schedules needed to implement the service i mentioned earlier about the origin and destination survey which was actually again 7300 statistically valid touch points and that we used heat maps as well as a term died as a term a layer rather to identify projected growth to make sure that we were able to access into those trip generators and chip connectors what our customers told us through the surveys they wanted our service to be on time they told us that they wanted to be able to make easier transfers to travel throughout the county they wanted us to add technology in terms of a tap to pay option and they wanted to make better connections to be more competitive with the auto travel time okay the strategic outlook for the transit forward 2040. what's the vision the vision is we wanted to define a more modern better connected transit system again we want to provide a better level of accessibility for the residents of the county we wanted to combine the primo quarters as the backbone and then integrate our fixed route system modes such as micro transit community shuttle and build a system that was more modelable i'm sorry more modern and flexible again that was done with the intent for us to bring transit to our riders we wanted to make sure that you understood that we're not just about moving buses we want to move from this paradigm where we have buses only to where we improve lives and move lives we want to expand access to jobs schools identify those new trip these new trip journeys but again just to build a more integrated system so that there will be connectivity throughout the county what that means specifically for broward county you're going to see faster trips across the county again you'll be able to reach your destinations a lot quicker we wanted better connections again to be more competitive with travel times in comparison with the auto we wanted to add more service and service options that goes back to having more frequency better frequency starting the routes earlier into them later and again introducing new modes of service such as micro transit we wanted to add or modernize our amenities that's both you know infrastructures related to new transit facilities and infrastructure actually at the stops but again all of this put together will give us a more accessible transit system now what does that mean in terms of the next chapter i mentioned earlier about tweaking the system versus material changes the recommendation from the coa will give us over the life of the plan 20 new proposed micro transit zones that will allow us to address some of the transit deserts that we have in the county and it'll also allow us to provide a lot of this first mile last mile connectivity that we talk about i mentioned earlier about doing something different than tweaking the system if we implement the plan s proposal to give us over a hundred major anticipated changes for the system this comes in terms of new routes route realignments things to make our service more direct on introducing and realigning new services but the goal at the end and the consultant was charged at this at the start of the project that one of their goals was we want to grow ridership we want to increase improve ridership across the system how we would accomplish that is with these following mix of services you have our fixed route system that's this backbone of the system we would introduce implement bus rapid trends would give us higher and better frequency service on our most heavily traveled quarters we wanted to implement high frequency bus which would also give us better service 15 minute frequency on some of the heavily more heavily traveled quarters but these were also cores that did not meet the criteria in the primo plan to warrant bus rapid transit or light rail transit we wanted to implement light rail transit implement commuter rail and then go back to the micro transit community shuttle to fill in some of these areas in terms of transit deserts and better accessibility again improved service frequency what we're talking about is adding more service particularly during our peak periods in the morning peak periods in the afternoon and again for some issues that we've identified on the weekend as well in terms of areas needing more frequency longer service hours on average what we're talking about is adding approximately two hours of additional service either at the start of the day or end of the day for some of our most heavily traveled routes and then to make sure that we also put these additional services out there for routes that may connect into the services to make sure they're able to make that last connection in the evening again more ridership you know with the nature of these changes the goal is to grow the ridership in the system you know corey mentioned earlier about the the 10-year projection or 10-year growth or decline in ridership we're hoping to be able to capture some of this ridership back though with implementation of some of a lot of these recommendations larger coverage area this speaks specifically to the transit deserts um there are areas in the county that we identified that goes back to actually when the surtax initially passed and when we don't have transit service a lot of these areas are areas where we know we would like to have transit service but in a lot of these areas they're not necessarily have things of what we call transit supportive densities so what we're talking about is expanding the coverage area to cover these we're talking about things introducing either different types of community shuttle different community shuttle routing and things like microtransit again more efficient service with better connections a lot of what we heard in our outreach was that it takes a long time to make connections to travel across the county what we're talking about doing is making better connections with our service and a lot of instances what this going to require us to do is real realign some routes to provide better direct service and use modes like microtransit to provide this next level of connections into these routes when the consultant was tasked for this effort we asked them to give us a phased rollout traditionally once coas are done the consultant would give you just a large body of implementations that are what i would call one awesome that you can make a lot of the changes they're not necessarily depending on other things that are going on in the system what we tasked the consultant to do was to give us a near-term mid-term and a long-term look year near term being years one through five long mid-term being years six through ten six through ten and long term being eleven through fifteen what you see here is anticipated target frames across the top and the improvements for each one of these terms on the on the left if you look at what's going on in the near term you get a lot of what we call the low hanging fruit you know get the service band increases frequency improvements improved connections realignment high frequency bus but a lot of these things the operational things that we can do that we prefer to you know just low hanging fruit as you move to midterm though you see that you get everything that you get in the near term with the introduction of the primo primo projects being specifically bus rapid transit light rail transit and commuter rail south as we move through years 11 through 15 you see you get everything you get the service band improvements you get the bus rapid transit light rail transit and then a projected implementation for the commuter rail north and long term but all of these changes put together with a 15-year time frame is expected to give us the system that we talked about earlier in terms of being visionary okay what you see here on the left is the current system map for bct and this is our all-in services across the county and what you see to the right here is what the system will look like in terms of 2040. the shaded areas that you see here though are actually the areas where it's recommended that we place the micro transit zones now talk about public outreach as we move forward for this effort what we plan to do for the heading of the winter and spring for 2026 so as we start the second round of public outreach as i mentioned earlier we want the public to back us on this plan and feel that the investments are worthwhile we're going to start with pop-up events that'll go across the county all nine districts we'll have the internet of the online survey as we did with the first round of public involvement we plan to have the open houses internally for our operations administration and maintenance staff we actually want to also use our internal resources to be ambassadors for i'm sorry to be ambassadors for us for getting this plan out we want to have virtual meetings as well to do this and then we would also be part of agency meetings specific to f.npo and the business community now we've talked about the plan let's talk about what we think this will cause us to implement it if we implement the plan as proposed we are based on projections and modeling from the consultant we expect to grow the ridership by approximately 68 percent between now and 2040. this 1.4 billion dollars though is what it's going to cost us in terms of investments to get that done what you see here is an estimated cost summary broken out from short mid and long term for what these implementation of service recommendations are going to cost us but it all totals up to the 1.47 billion in the lower right hand corner this includes service for the fixed route the implementation of the micro transit and changes within the community shuttle network in addition to infrastructure for the long term but what we want to do at the end of the day is have a plan that's approved have a plan that's funded and then turn it back over to transit and let us do what we do having said that any questions this morning i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry okay i'll turn this over to my colleague now my apologies okay so we're in the home stretch here everybody um we're going to talk about primo and the primo status i'm just going to kind of give this um start started and then i'm going to have a colleague join me to to wrap it up okay so this is our primo bus this is out and about promoting primo um to let everybody know that it's coming and um we're excited to be able to share that with you um just a reminder about you know the foundation of what primo is based on uh first of all one of the goals was to improve mobility for all also we wanted to implement equitable uh transit solutions so that everybody could take advantage of it we want to make sure that we enhance and provide opportunities for economic development and we want to improve the safety security and the um and ensure appropriate environmental stewardship and then lastly we want to integrate and serve our communities overall what we're going to gain from this is uh again 200 miles new premium transit service we're going to attract on that service a ridership of about 23 million the goal is to have about 100 no or low emission equipment to take advantage of new intelligent transportation systems and lastly to make sure that whatever we build integrates seamlessly into the communities that we will be operating within and that they add aesthetic they're aesthetically interesting enough to be acceptable to those communities um again i studied this stat earlier in my presentation um for every billion dollars that you invest in public transportation of projects of this nature the american public transportation association has assumed that you would get about 49 000 jobs uh out of that over the 20 year life cycle of that uh asset so that's very impressive not only from you know the point of ideation when you're starting to think about these projects when you're starting to plan them you're designing them through construction and then operation and maintenance it's quite a bit of um opportunities for a lot of brower county residents and quite frankly south florida residents um they we want to make sure that um we we again are a catalyst for economic development we know that is happening and will continue to happen we've already seen this in hollywood if you've ever if you've been to the proposed location for the hollywood station um when i first came here it didn't look what it like what it looks like now there's a whole building there uh i um and they've and the the city has created a transit orient development district there to support growth um and so there's housing there now there's some commercial interests there that are very different um and there's a lot of um planned um growth in that area also um we know that these types of investments particularly when it comes to rail result in transit oriented development we've also now seen that happen with bus rapid transit that did not used to be the case but we've got concrete examples now of where bus rapid transit resulted in uh substantial tod development as well and then we want to obviously expand opportunities for our small businesses to take be able to be a part of these uh tremendous opportunities so i'm gonna sit down now um and let uh average uh come up and talk to you about the train where we are with primo now i just want to point out that the um the network has changed has not changed since you saw it we just changed the map um we we feel that this is a more stylized map and a little easier on the eyes in terms of figuring out what um what's happening for transit but um there's still the breakdown by mode on here and um as you can see we're still looking at um 26 miles of commuter rail 23 miles of light rail 76 miles of bus rapid transit and 100 miles high frequency busser so abhishek dayal who is our chief infrastructure officer is going to take us to the end of the commuter i'm sorry end of the uh presentation on primo good morning everybody uh again i'm abhishek dayal i'm the chief infrastructure officer it's great to meet you all and present uh our exciting program on the primo starting with the bcr south as many of you know this is our commuter rail project uh connecting the aventura station down in miami-dade uh over to broward county um and so we're looking at ten and a half miles uh all along the florida east coast uh east coast railway corridor uh with three stations we've made a lot of progress on this project uh as uh was mentioned previously we have advanced in the fta funding process the funding cycle we recently submitted an application to enter the next phase of the uh capital investment grant program so we're uh keeping our fingers crossed and hoping to hear a very favorable outcome from fta shortly uh the project is scheduled to open in 2032 uh the in estimated investment is 712 million uh and as corey had mentioned previously this was the outcome of the risk assessment that we performed with fta's uh project management oversight consultant uh last year uh moving on to bcr north that's uh north of the bcr south project this is an additional 15 and a half miles uh towards getting to deerfield beach with four proposed stations um this is a project that was approved by our commission last year um and we estimate the investment to be about 1.2 billion however we have not done any studies on that we we do plan on doing a pdne a formal pdne study uh later this year and that's essentially going to inform the the full scope and the cost uh and the schedule for this project so so stay tuned on that uh the airport seaport convention center uh project or the connector that that's something that uh was discussed earlier in this meeting um the three and a half miles of lightwell that'll connect our three major economic engines in the county uh we are super excited to get the pdne efforts started last year in fact we had a great turnout um as cory had mentioned at the uh the public kickoff meeting last year last month uh project is scheduled to open by 2032 uh total estimated investment is about 1.56 billion moving on to our first bus rapid transit project first out of the six that are in the primo plan the oakland park boulevard brt corridor this is one of our highest ridership uh routes uh in our system and so it it made sense to uh invest in a bus rapid transit uh project uh so this is 15 miles it connects uh sawgrass mills mall onto the west to uh ocean boulevard onto the eastern side with 10 proposed station locations we're looking at uh exclusive transit lanes wherever it's feasible we we are currently working on uh a 30 percent design uh in we are in the pdne process a portion of this corridor is on ft ot roadway so we do have to follow the lane repurposing requirements uh over there uh the anticipated ridership is about 2.4 to 3.2 million uh this project will be open in 2030 uh the total estimated cost right now is about 285 million uh one thing i should point out this project is all surtax funded um again this is a project that is super critical given the high ridership on this corridor so uh the county and the surtax committee agreed that this would be uh completely locally supported uh for this project uh the next one in line is the uh corridor along us 441 or sr7 uh this will be the the upper limits are commercial boulevard and all the way down to the county line with 16 branded stations that's 15 miles total uh with again the exclusive transit lanes that's something we'll be exploring to make sure that we provide that reliable service along this corridor this will also be connecting with several of the primo corridors as you can see on the map several east west connections intersect with this uh this important corridor we will be doing a pdne study uh very soon we we do have a project manager assigned and we expect to begin that a little bit later in this year our project opening is 2033 with the estimated cost uh at this time is at 236 million of course the pdne study will further inform and refine the the project cost so this is just a snapshot of all the projects that that we have of course i only uh showcased a few of those projects but you can see here several uh projects including commuter rail light rail and the six brt corridors are shown here in the next uh 15 year horizon many of them uh we are in pdne phase or in the planning phase and we hope to move on to that next phase to really get them uh get the shovels on the ground uh on on this uh exciting program and this is a summary of the capital costs for the projects the light rail commuter rail bus rapid transit and we also included the high frequency bus network that barney talked about as part of his presentation all in all uh total investment of about 5.2 billion dollars a significant investment uh in the county uh for transportation with that we're happy to take any questions thank you uh both all of you for this very um it's it's it's a lot of information for us to all you know take in so and i i know my teammates here have a lot of questions um and i i just want to go ahead and and dive in on some of the questions that i have and then i'll certainly open it up um there are a couple of things that i was curious about um and let me just start with this last one the slide where we're talking about the capital cost summary um it would be good to get a sense of how much on each of these projects um a penny tax dollars being utilized is it 100 because i know there's one project you mentioned one for 285 000 that you said it's also taxed right so it would be good to see us side by side so we have a better sense of you know what percentage of investment we're making there um that was one question and the other question i had um regarding the surveys that are being done are we checking demographic details on the respondents and i ask this because the age of some of our riders matters matters right we are we know we're in this phase of the silver tsunami and that some of those riders that may be taking the buses now you know may just be at home and i you know just when i think about the fact that um we have a younger population that is probably more adept at taking ubers and that kind of thing um you know how we factory that how how the demographics change of this county will impact the types of rides that we're proposing that we want to continue to invest in and as we do that um i would imagine that you are checking ridership on each of the different service models being proposed and tracking that though so we don't keep investing in a service model that is not necessarily working right um and those are my questions so i'll take a pause there okay great questions and i'm going to have barney probably come barney why don't you come up and help me with some of them please um so the let me just start a big picture um the the the model that we continue to operate from a financial perspective is that 25 of the local match is coming from the surtax that that is the you know baseline operating principle when we when it comes to the financial model that we've used with the exception of the oakland park boulevard the reason why we wanted to fund oakland park boulevard 100 by through surtax was because we thought at the time that that decision was made that that would expedite the process right that that would um that would give us a uh a a quicker delivery because we wouldn't have to go through some of the federal requirements and the nipa requirements however what we then were faced with was the lane repurposing uh effort that abushak mentioned um through fdot and that is uh during it's so in in the middle of all of our early uh planning and initial design efforts what was required for that process changed um and so we are slightly delayed because of working through all of that right and so until they say yes you can repurpose a lane or until we offer a solution and at this point we have come up with an idea that we share the lanes so that we don't exclusively have a brt lane but that we would have it during off-peak hours exclusively brt and then during peak hours it would be open to bus rapid transit and all other traffic so we're floating that with um the local district now a district uh four uh and so you know we're still in those conversations and we're hopeful that that will and it has to at this point in time it's a it's a tallahassee decision so it's central fdot decision and so we are truly hopeful that this shared lane um scenario will be more palatable and that we'll be able to to get that approved um what we did find uh unfortunately um the sun runner which was in county um actually had exclusive lanes was working and everything and then it was recently um shut down um and so uh those the service is still running but the exclusive lanes have been removed and so that is um you know quite frankly a risk that we we might have and so we're trying to make sure we go through every hoop that we need to to keep those lanes open because brt does not work as well in mixed traffic it just doesn't um a lot of of transit doesn't work as well in mixed traffic as it it can it's not ideal it's not optimized exclusive is where you want to be like that's on the spectrum exclusive and then on the other end is you know mixed traffic is is always a challenge so we want to try to have some separation okay um and i believe your other questions so we can break give you a breakdown i'll ask gretchen to help me with that getting that information to you per uh project and there was one more i'm sorry the survey oh the surveys yes i'm going to barney to help demographics madam chair the surveys that we took they were like i said it was about 7 300 but it did collect data specific to age in there the recommendations and actually this information is contained in one of the technical documents it told us with the typical profile of our typical profile of our typical rider it also told us what they expected that to be when we're talking about our current rider our typical rider is a 25 between the ages of 25 to 49 employed black male what they're expecting that to grow to in the future though is this paradigm shift toward the the higher the older populations they the recommendations that they made specific to community shuttle and some of the micro transit zones are meant to access those transportation or accessibility needs for them okay but the demographic information was collected and used as part that's good okay and one of our fastest growing segments of our service mix is our tops program which does cater to our senior population too okay all right thank you go ahead shane hi shane hi there so first off i mean i love the comprehensive plan right we want all this tied together that's the goal and that's what will make it effective so i'm all for that um i want to talk about data a little bit as we go through this and how we're going to use what i'll say is i'd like to see more specific data so a lot of the ideas and the detail were covered in the transit forward plan right by the type of of infrastructure and the type of service but just as an example like if we look at this the 19-year system total ridership right and there's a clear trend i mean it around 2014 we start to go down everybody knows we kind of bottomed out the chart if you will around covet times and we've been we've been building back however a couple things on this you know when i look at things like this as a financial person a few things pop in one is you know what is a unit right because if you go back to 2007 the unit is probably different than it is now meaning there's different modes of transportation that we have now that we didn't have before so it's hard to compare something like this because this is you know i'll just make up that maybe it was largely bus ridership and then you come forward all the way to 2025 we've got a different mix of options for people so i think it's really important to know what we're tracking here the other thing that i'll call out is that the broward population has grown tremendously right in this amount of time so if you were to overlay you know if this were a percentage of the population i think that's what's really important because part of what we're trying to combat here is is everybody moved to broward county to florida in general and they all brought cars right so this is what we're we're really trying to address and i think what's going to be really important here is this is a huge plan with a huge budget and as we go through it it's going to be really important to track where we're getting ridership and where people are buying into this and where they're not and to pivot right because for example if you look at the estimated cost summary it's 1.4 billion dollars and can you find that it's like as he's talking everybody else can kind of see i mean we have it here but the huge chunk of it is there's 801 million dollars and it just says capital right and so when i see that i would be curious you know how much of that is buses for example right and part of what i worry about is that we plan this we have this great idea and we don't pivot in time and then we have for example way too many buses right because we do have this informational issue or this reputational issue um or really it's more of a legacy issue where where public transit just hasn't been as popular as we know it can be here so we're kind of fighting against that and i think your team and everyone here has done a fantastic job of starting to rebrand and re-envision this so i want to give credit where credit is due i just want to also recognize that at the end of the day it comes down to the adoption i mean plain and simple right i don't want to spend all this money and then and then we didn't pivot somewhere where we need to so i think the data as we go through this is going to be really is going to need to get refined and i'd like to see as we're going through how we're seeing the effectiveness and we're seeing the uptake and we're seeing the adoption and how that starts to play out right right and the cost and i absolutely love the way you're thinking and thank you for your your feedback on that and and let me just address one thing what i'm hearing is we need to have an off ramp at some point right and with the data data based off ramp and then we need to to look at what the data is telling us um to get i just want to get into a little bit of the capital investment because it is a big number right so the reality is that yes that is equipment based that's a portion of that is the assets that we're going to need to move the 68 increase in ridership but we have two facilities now we have one facility at ravenswood and then we have another facility at copens um and we as you know we are um redeveloping the copen site um but um we also are going to need a third site and i think that's been talked about to this the surtax board for the last couple years we're going to need a third site to accommodate the the the additional um maintenance responsibilities we'll have with additional equipment and the um and to store those uh assets and to maintain them and so and that that's going to require property so a large portion of that 800 000 is related to those two things um and so um we can most certainly give you more data as much data as you'd like to see um i think the question shay that you've answered asked us asked us just now are um definitely thought-provoking uh for sure and and something that i'd like to to work on getting to you in a way that it's understand you know that that's helpful yeah and it doesn't have to be immediate i mean the other the other thing too when i look at you know any projection in any financial statement any financial document there's always inputs right so for example when we say up to 68 estimated ridership growth i would be curious what assumptions are are in that right how are we coming up with that with that number and and and how you know how aggressive are those estimates what are they based on are they conservative or they arrange i have no idea it's just a number so i think that's really important because that's what that's what we're we're hopeful happens right but it's very important to to understand because that that relates to the planning and ultimately the cost right where we put the dollars if i can just piggyback on what you're saying understanding the variables that could potentially impact what the estimates are because we know that technology is changing and leaps and bounds in terms of how we move people from one place to the next and we need to factor for that because it's changing and also keeping in mind the demographics that we're serving because that age variance really matters because this younger generation has a different mindset about how they utilize resource they're more sensitive about the the environment and so on and so forth so just all those variables need to be part of the calculus in helping us get an understanding of how these estimates are you know evolving right thank you and i i want to assure you that we are using modeling tools established modeling tools to help us with identify this this ridership growth and we used our our consulting team to identify that but we can certainly get to you some of the inputs and those variables and we use the stops model right so just um and i'll have barney explain that a little bit more but the stops model is and i've talked about it here before with you the stops model is is basically the tool that the fta um from a ridership perspective uh endorse i'm not it's not fair you can use whatever model you want when it comes to your application but you have higher success when you use the stops models in terms of getting funding um for for projects so uh it is a well established and respected industry tool that's used for ridership estimating so i'm going to let barney tell you a little bit more about it we can get you the specific inputs for that but as to corey's point we wanted to be consistent with the process that we use to project ridership primo so we went back and had the consultant develop a model for us and use those inputs that stops models simplify trips on project software but it's the same model that's used that the uh use for the cig projects for fta but we can get you the specific inputs for those models but it's all based around standard industry practice they didn't we didn't do anything to this effort that's not traditionally done for ridership projections be it for fixed but fixed route bus service or cig projects madam chair one thing though you you mentioned about um tracking performance as i mentioned earlier coas are generally done every five years so although we have a plan now we would refresh this or touch this again at the next point that we have a coa to make sure that we were moving in the right direction and then one of the items that the consultant was tasked with specifically for our coa is that we asked them to develop a set of performance standards for us um and performance standards for us to measure it as we implemented these changes to make sure that we were getting a return on investment in terms of whether it was worthwhile investment but we'll be able to monitor that be a quarterly weekly monthly at the points of the project simple minute um go ahead raymond is it you hi ray hey cory hey everyone appreciate all the questions um uh and the presentation was fantastic and i'm happy to see transit forward and see a way here uh shay i just want to throw some data the kind of the question you're asking is maybe a number you could always recall back is if you look at the fta transit cost per rider broward county transit does a great job and we hit like mid six dollars per rider so no matter what other mode share or service we use if it's robo taxis or aerial lift verta ports that they're talking about now we have to always remember that it costs six dollars and it's two dollars that someone pays to board the bus so it's a four dollar change it's very hard to move anything for four dollars so buses at this point are still just like an incredibly efficient low cost way to move people and that's just kind of like the baseline of how i see this project um some of the questions for you guys i'm a little confused if this one slide that said something about funding is this decoupled from the primo plan yes so so we were intentional about that that this is the primo plan as is the foundation i want to say foundation as barney mentioned in his presentation ray the um we needed to use the primo program as a baseline for the rest of it so the assumption is is that's in place and then these other things support it or generate from it as example one of the tenements that we started with is no transit deserts right so that's where you'll see more of the micro transit being used in areas that a it makes no sense to take a bus into or b that um there's not enough ridership to to warrant premium service and then and also in that in in those areas um the goal is from a from a micro transit perspective is to have those vehicles feed into fixed route or primo services or within that um geofence within that uh transit that micro transit zone you could travel so you could go if you're just trying you know going a mile away or two miles away from your home you can use that micro transit service if you're going a longer distance across county we would feed you into the fixed or the primo to get you to somewhere else so this will need a this program will need to get funding approved by the board of county commissioners it will standing yes um yeah high frequency bus segment of the transit forward i'm a little confused on the overlap of that is that going to be part of the primo funding the 125 million or is that part of the pretty much core mission primo is being funded independent of the surtax surtax plan you there are some costs associated with primo specific to um route extensions within the coa the when we did the primo plan um the consultant at that time said if you take any any core if you take sample road case in point the primo plan may have recommended that a quarter go from you know service b from point a to point b that was covered within as core mentioned primo we went through the coa after because it was done at a different time the consultant working on the coa recommended instead of going from a to b we feel based on projected growth of ridership we need to go from b to c so we're talking about the a to b portion that's what core mentioned but the b to c portion is not covered within that cost because those that service was recommended after the primo plan had been completed oh okay i'm a little confused but just speaking um um high frequency buses right so some of that is covered within the primo funding that's already approved and we're looking for additional high frequency funding is for talking specifically about these recommendations that came forth of the coa where again because the primo plan was completed and approved prior to the coa plan so the monies that were accounted for for the primo plan whatever that was budgeted the difference of that delta is what you're seeing here in terms of what for the recommendations of the primo okay those were not a part of that because again the efforts were completed at two different times and again it's not like they came back and said that was the service did not make sense through the coa they said based on what we're seeing on based on our analysis now we feel that there needs to be an extension on this route they didn't change the quarters they didn't change the assurance there's some places on these specific routes on these specific quarters where they said we feel you get more ridership by extending this okay so we have our high frequency buses already funded via primo and then this is an overlay of additional high frequency service it's not an overlay it's an extension as i said if you have a corridor take sample road take hollywood sample road is say it's a 10 mile corridor five miles may be covered for that within primo way because again that was what came out of the primo plan it's not an overlay which you have an extension it's not double dipping there's no duplication of service it's the same corridor yeah yeah but i i guess what i'm asking is like corridors like dixie highway and 440 it's augmentation to funding that you have already seen for high frequency bus it's in addition to okay um we'll talk later about it i'm a little i'm personally a little confused with the high frequency bus funding aspect of it um because that's just that's just so that's just so good like that's that's the bread and butter it's the lowest cost part of the primo plan and it has i mean it's drastically less than every single thing we're doing and it has our highest return of riders so i just want to make sure that that's kind of prioritized because the last 10-year operating capital program plan i saw has some of these high frequency bus routes like for dixie coming online in 2031 i imagine a sub level of like maintenance garage capacity issues that are limiting the rollout but i mean i think our staging should be let's do the cheapest things first high frequency bus build continue building the rider instead of pushing it into the 2030s so the when the coa was put together was put together so that it mirrored the primo that it would that it wouldn't when we implemented it would be to support primo if you recall i mentioned earlier that generally when a lot of times when you have a coa done you get route specifics that are independent because we told the consultant to use primo and the primo schedule for the development of coa we got a pat we got three separate packages of interdependent routes which means you couldn't cherry pick this and this because when you make these route changes it starts to unravel so what you see is what's recommended based on the implementation of the primo projects and the network that needs to be in place to support it if you pull some of these project forwards you end up with issues because you have frequencies that don't match you don't have the connectivity there so what you see i understand what you're saying of that that on face value may appear that these are slam dunks but it only works if you're talking about the integration of the whole system and that's what the consultant was charged to do don't give us a one-off give us a plan that's built on all these things work together to feed into the primo network okay i understand what you're saying the progressive overlay it's like multiple ingredients make the cake kind of thing i understand i understand um okay and then um i would check maybe this is for you uh the broward commuter rail south on historic slides had 297 million as the price but now it's 7 12 without the asterisk so that means we're that's including the access fees in the bridge or something now or so the so you're right a few years ago we did have 297 million as the total cost and as i indicated we just had a risk assessment that was performed with fta and the pmoc and so they recommended given the the totality of the risk and the evaluation of the project they suggested that the project cost really should be 712 million dollars and that included a fairly significant amount of contingency um in case those risks do bear out during the implementation so that's why it was reflected as as such okay so do you can i also thank you you did great on that let me just also just stay please there's a there's another factor too so when it comes to the commuter rail project 297 was based on kind of planning dollars we're at about 30 engineering now so now we've got more data right those 297 did not include the access fee for us to be able to get on the tracks um and to be able to use it that's included plus the contingencies and um that the fta asked us to add to the project because of the national some of the national trends so it's a combination of all those things and in in totality added the additional cost okay do you think maybe i'll email you ask after that you could give just a large bucket breakdown of that just kind of curious um i'd be happy to bring it back to you if that's okay yeah yeah no it's it's no rush now i don't i know that's a lot of numbers yeah we'll just hopefully the contingencies these things don't increase our other costs as we get to that 30 design phase i guess that's where i'm like oh wsp missed the mark by that by like quite a bit like almost double so does that mean everything else so i'm just i'm just kind of thinking through the thoughts i know you guys are already thinking of this probably we're all coming so there is a there is any and i know you know that's right so just in case other people don't know um there are recommended percentages depending on where you are in terms of project development what percentage of risk or or a contingency that you add to the cost because of the unknowns so when you're very very very very early in it like when we were doing the system planning piece we're at about 50 when you've got 15 design you're at 40 and then as you go up your contingencies decrease because you have more information about design so hopefully we've got enough information now to see that that diminish right that those contingencies start to to reduce because we have more information and we can get closer to reality we all know that at the end of the day and i always say this to people the project costs what it costs the day it's done that that's typically what happens is you know you can budget and you can plan and you can have great engineering and great project oversight um and which we will do but there's always this unknown thing sometimes that comes in there and you you your costs are what your costs at the end of the project but you're a lot closer to it when the design is done the day the construction is bid the project's bid and then the last time is when it's done okay um so i also want to clarify that the original 297 million dollars not the wsp oh sorry jvn and the uh with brower county transit pm for the commuter real project um the original 297 million dollar was the estimate um that fdot had came up with originally it's a planning level order of order of magnitude cost estimate um it's was wasn't wsp i just want to clarify okay um and also um originally the completion date of the project was you know earlier and as we uh go through the process understand how long it would take an fta in particular based on their national experience they've recommended to extend the um timeline of the project for its implementation and with that we had to escalate the cost to reflect the year of expenditure so um that's another factor that we had to consider when we increased the cost okay that makes sense um um okay thank you no did you yes i'll try to be short okay i'll just i'll do one more and i'll write up the other ones later um this this plan so far is like very uh for barney um very uh qualitative and not as like quantitative i don't see as many like hard datas and stuff that would that be getting released and published coming up yes yes they would there were three technical memos produced that they use for a baseline one was a market assessment analysis one spoke of a propensity index and was one because in existing conditions all three of those will be released okay and when do you think they'll be released it'll be within the next four to six weeks oh okay posted on our website all right and then this is my last this is just for my personal benefit um top to pay you know i feel like i feel like maybe i like spammed the coa the tap to pay on the buses do we have a timeline on that i saw it as a thing are we going to do it in house or i think cory yeah let me take that one thank you party um so yes okay i i'm an apple payer right you know tap your phone tap your credit card we all are used to that um our point of sale isn't set up for that and so one of the projects that we are bringing forward uh and hopefully will be funded is our uh replacement of our fair uh infrastructure okay and then this last i'm sorry this is my very last one i promise no you had two last i know mr coleman this is just for gretchen if this is a big deal as a transit writer i promise this is like just get to it please okay let's just keep it respectful um gretchen is this something that we can leave a transmittal letter to the broward board of county commissioners and say this is something we want to keep seeing this is something we think if if the board of course wants to support if we can can support it yeah if there's consensus from the board to add that to a transmittal letter i don't see that there's any issue with that is there nathaniel okay i thank you for your guys time and working on this project i have one question and some comments we've beat this page 45 and 46 this 1.4 billion so my question is fairly simple what percentage of that money is going to be surtax is it 100 or half or just just what do we think it's going to be math real quick off the top of my head two three the uh oakland park is two 285 285 1.5 minus 285 puts us at about 1.2 right one 25 percent of that is 1.4 billion is going to be surtax okay yeah a comment i'm glad to say mr keller is back because he mentioned um the three new projects specifically the uh people mover is i believe on site and erdal said we might want to move something faster i would just encourage uh the staff to see if that's possible because that's all on site it's all in the airport i don't know the issues but i can tell you after dropping people off at the airport and picking people up the uh what do you call it the the congestion is incredible so my question is knowing that the connection between the seaport and the convention center are at least seven years out it says seven in here but i don't know has anyone given any thought to running our wonderful bus system back and forth so that these people that are going to the cruise port don't have to individually take a uber or a taxi or something because seven more years of all those people moving back and forth and i'm not talking a big bus because i don't want them to wait that long but have you given any thought to taking buses back and forth so we could limit the congestion at the airport it's it's it's terrible i mean you go in there and you can't even get to the first terminal so i'm just asking if that's even a consideration we have a lot of buses but i would hope some have a small bus to where they pull up people come out five people ten people get them open get them out of the airport instead of five vehicles picking up five different groups that's just my comment yeah yes sir um mr mr coleman that that's definitely um an option and um we have been asked this question to be fair i'm nice i'm asking you to consider it because it's going to be seven to ten years probably before that's in there so some way of eliminating and and i assume it's only thursday friday saturday sunday right it's not no cruise is in and out thursday through sunday well do you want to help me with that yeah that's it's the my understanding is the cruise situation is all all all the time during especially during season because they come in and out um at different times and and to be fair there has been a lot of conversation at the city level with the congestion in that area from the convention center the port my understanding is there's like 40 million trips a year that generate from the um from the port or going to the port or leaving the port um with the new hotel the convention center and um the anticipated growth at the airport and the port it is going to be without the the transit services that we're proposing i i think it'll be untenable at some point in time and i want to give a heads up to one of your tops drivers i was out at the va the other day and if anyone's been there on the commercial you can never find a parking space so i'm driving and the tops driver comes in and i'm waiting on a car to back out and the car starts to back out the tops driver flies by which irritated me a little bit but that's okay i want to give her accommodation for him through i get the lady comes out i go in so i'm walking back to the the office and i see the tops driver has dropped their personal and i go over and i say you work for the county oh yeah i said well did you see the person trying to back out says yes i says well you really should have stopped because number one most of the people out here are fairly old and she was so nice she said i'm sorry i should and instead of being offensive she was somewhat apologetic and i said you're right i should have and i just want to tell you you don't see that very often for you so i should have gotten her name or license number but i didn't want her to think i was doing anything bad so i just want to tell you she didn't she understood and was very open about it congratulations well thank you um mr coma and also thank you for your service yeah okay all right so i have one question first i'd like to thank you guys for a very very comprehensive presentation i think it was a very good understanding uh i know that y'all deal with a lot of variables so my question is do you have a contingency plan that anticipate future changes in both the fed and the state governments and how it would affect your program whether it's positive or negative so the moment we do not um have a plan i i i want to be completely transparent with you on that we have identified it as a risk but we don't have a a plan um we it's hard to kind of do that kind of plan but let me take that back and see what we can do about that um there's so many and you know this right so many moving parts it's who's in office who's not in office who what the mood of the day is um you know there's a lot of when this group is in office this happens when that group is in office that happens and quite frankly that's not always the case and especially when it comes to transit and you know this year there's actually an increase in transit funding and you might think that you know given the um the political landscape in dc right now that would not have happened but that it did um and so uh let me just figure out if we can do something on that because it's a good question anyone else that's it well thank you so much and it really was a very comprehensive um presentation and i hope this model of just waiting until you're done with the presentation served you well because i think sometimes when there's a lot of interjection and talking uh we miss some of the things that are really key that we need to pay attention to so this way everybody's paying attention taking their own notes so they can ask questions afterwards so well thank you for that and speaking for barney mccoy speaking as barney mccoy i'm gonna sign off and thank you guys so much for your time thank you all for your great work think next we have the municipal surtax program update are we doing that now or we're just going to go ahead and jump to maribel ask if it's okay for us to jump to maribel since she's been waiting i know she also has some time constraints good morning good morning director maribel good morning everyone uh it is a pleasure to be back to speak to you uh about some of the updates related to our cbe participation as part of our mobility advancement program projects um first i would like to start presenting um two of our new staff members that are part of the map team we were able to fill a couple of vacancies we had so diane childs and juliana beltran joined our team a few weeks ago and um fortunately they were already part of the team they were temporary uh working temporarily with us previously so they're very familiar with some of the work that we already do and now they are part of our map team full time so um basically the last presentation we had we spoke to you about some of the cbes and the primes that were exceeding our cbe participation uh we had almost 20 projects where the primes are not only meeting the cbe small business participation but they're exceeding uh those goals and today we wanted to share with you some of the projects that this was these are the awarded projects so here you can see um that for all the awarded projects we continue to exceed the average cbe goal uh we're at 38 for our county projects and we are at 40 for our municipal projects and that's basically averaging 39 but today we wanted to share with you our top five projects based on dollar amounts uh we wanted to share with you the economic impact we know that for this board is a priority to support our local small businesses and to create jobs so we did the economic impact modeling for the top three projects that have been completed and on this slide you're able to see the number of jobs that have been created we're talking about 92 jobs we're talking about the total payment uh on these projects almost 10 million dollars the total economic impact and this includes the direct indirect and induced economic impact we're talking about 15 million dollars and for these top five projects the average attainment or commitment from these primes was 36 36 for the cbe goal the small business participation but it was exceeded as you can see here at 47 percent so um again we want to continue to share with you the success stories associated with the projects that you are funding and that not only this board but also this is a partnership is a truly a collaborative effort with the policy direction and recommendations from the board the county commission the cities and the county agency's commitment to ensure that our small businesses are being utilized as part of these projects and here is our an overview summary of the information that i just shared again these are just the top five projects that have been completed the number of jobs created the total economic impact and we continue to exceed a total of six cbes were utilized and we continue to exceed the cbe attainment for these projects and then we modeled all the projects that have within the economic impact for all the 125 projects that have been awarded and here on this slide you can see uh basically the millions of dollars that are projected to be awarded to our primes the jobs that are projected to be created or 3400 jobs the millions paid to our cbes 258 million and in addition to that additional job created and again this is the indirect and the induced benefits of all these projects so when you look at the bottom line we're talking about 980 million dollars five over 5 000 jobs for the 20 125 projects that have been awarded and along the lines of continuing to share the success of these projects every week on our business assistance weekly newsletter that is shared with our community goes to over 30 000 subscribers we share the success stories of these projects and here you can see just a few examples of some of the projects projects the millions that are going to our small businesses and our prime contractors commitment to supporting um in these projects and again these are municipal projects we we want to make sure that we are showcasing different projects and in addition to that county projects the millions that are going to our local small businesses we share this on our newsletters we share this on social media and we're working with our cities to make sure that they're also sharing this information and this is our business assistance weekly newsletter we would love to subscribe all of you to our newsletter so you can see the information uh is on you you will receive it every wednesday night uh with really important updates related to upcoming workshops when we have mobility advancement program workshops we share the information there as well training to the cities related to our mobility advancement program requirements we also promote that information on our newsletter and it goes to over 36 000 subscribers and last week we moved into a new business management system this new business management system in the office of economic and small business development is basically automating all our core functions that includes our mobility advancement program the compliance review of these programs it includes the payment verifications so the payment verification is now all automated before it used to be a manual process and as of monday of last week we went live we did training with our municipalities in december and we're working on those monthly utilization reports are now automated and the system is integrated for county projects is integrated with the county's financial system which is people soft and on the municipal side the cities are reporting those payments and then those are verified by the primes and the subs um so again progress to date we're getting some really good feedback from our certified small businesses on how much easier the system is as relates to the certification of small businesses and the renewal process and on the monthly reporting our primes and subs are learning the process as well but it's now an automated process uh versus a manual process that we have before with a pdf form that they needed to complete monthly so we're really looking forward to uh continue to engage with our again prime subs and the cities um to implement additional efficiencies as part of this process and it's going to help us uh provide additional reports in the future that's going to have up-to-date information and now i would like to open it up for questions i have a couple but um if i could just go ahead and dive in um always love hearing about the economic development impact of what we do with the surtax dollars um some of the things that i'm curious about and um you can bring up this slide um i am particularly interested in understanding how our municipalities are doing by cities is there a way for us at some point to kind of get a sense of you know how much money is being spent by cities um you know which cities are effectively achieving you know a 30 goal for example you know just so we can figure out ways to enhance their accomplishing those goals um that that's something that i'm really interested in um so a report next time that perhaps shows how they're they're progressing would be helpful um and then of course i'm curious to know um the types of benefit uh businesses that are benefiting the most from surtax um contracting opportunities you know are we seeing printing companies or maybe it's just mostly construction i.t what types of companies are benefiting from that and and and and in the same breath um understanding the types of jobs that are being created and i don't know how much your department is drilling down on that because i know it's really business development focused but i'm curious to know because you know i i work for broward college and i manage our workforce development and so um at least a part a part of that and and so i'm always curious to know how how do we direct those who may be seeking employment how do we direct them to benefit from some of the economic um benefits that are created as a result of these projects thank you so yes we we will be able to provide a report um for the next meeting or when you would like to schedule us to present and provide the information related to uh the basically the performance on the projects do you want completed projects okay we'll do completed projects by city so you can see that information as it relates to uh commitment of the goal versus the final attainment uh we'll be able to provide the type of industries for all the completed projects as well um and then type of jobs i'll get back with you we'll see if uh because we do the modeling um so that's basically a projection um they're not required to report to us the number of jobs or the type of jobs but we should be able to provide some information to you as part of the modeling that we have been doing just an assessment just so we can better prepare our community to access these jobs of course and definitely the type of industries by project we do have that information uh because that's what we use for the modeling so we should be able to provide that as well awesome okay thank you thank you uh go ahead erdel thank you and thank you you know congratulations with everything you know you've been doing um a question i have um the direct impact of these projects or whether it's employment or wages um you know by you know reporting the indirect is done by a certain maybe multiplier in a model uh is that something you have in in-house or contracted you know outside no so so we have in-house staff that is able to uh use implant that's the model that we used implant to do the modeling and we use the the nace codes that's the um north american industry classification system codes uh is used by federal agencies to basically designate uh business activity so we use that information and because we know for each project what percentage of the project is for different nace code we're able to enter that information and we know the total cost of the project we're able to enter that information into the implant model and um and come come up with the direct indirect and induce um so today you're having a modeling class here from the transportation presentation previously and us we'll be glad to provide additional information related to exactly what that modeling entails what the data inputs are um and and how the information is used to enter into the model and what the model outputs are if the board is interested thank you thank you of course i kind of wanted to echo with uh general woman antia said of like how do we take this now you guys are doing a good job we're hitting our small business requirements consistently we see it every every event how do we go deeper how do we how do we like generate that ecosystem to get on the first rung of the ladder how do we incorporate with brownwood community college mcfatter how do we teach the people who don't already pour concrete maybe you go do an internship for a while you pour concrete and then next thing you know you can have a small firm getting these county projects like what what like that last piece if you could just open up or if you guys are working on anything excellent questions yes and um we're always trying to increase awareness and share the success because our goal we're being really selfish we want to make sure that additional businesses are getting certified right in these industries that our madam chair just mentioned we want to make sure that everybody knows it's not only transportation because sometimes they think it's only transportation but we have a lot of different industries that are participating in these projects so we are using these success stories to recruit additional small businesses that can get certified because we want to increase the pool of certified small businesses the more certified small businesses i have the higher goals i can assign to these projects and you're talking about that workforce pipeline which is so important so we already worked as part of our economic development functions in the office uh with our greater further than alliance in many workforce development development partners to improve that pipeline from our high schools and uh the schools you just mentioned and the universities and the colleges to make sure that we're connecting our youth to those uh career pathways so uh so we are definitely combining the two making sure that we are sharing these opportunities uh and working with our workforce development partners to increase um the the the awareness of the opportunities like i said this is my favorite part i really love hearing from your department because it's about economic development and this is a direct return on the investment that our community is making every time they spend a dollar so thank you so much thank you for your awesome work all right so i know we may be getting to that point where people are saying oh it's probably time for a break but i'd like to oh it is that time it really is that time all right so so we'll we'll take the other two um areas that we need to deal with after break so enjoy lunch everyone thank you thank you all right Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then I get to turn it over to other folks to finish it up. So for those of you that received a briefing, I mentioned that we have received additional applications from the municipalities for their formula allocation from fiscal year 2026. And so there are additional funds. So for those of you that we have to do that, so we're going to do that, we're going to do been reiterating that the requirements under the third amendment in order to receive certex funding for microtransit is to have the county named in the indemnification clause of the contract as well as having a certificate of insurance that meets all of the requirements and names the county specifically so those are some issues that we're just waiting to get updates from municipalities there was a municipality that was actually two that we're renegotiating their contracts with their service providers so we're just waiting to get those but it's going very well at least from our perspective I haven't heard from the city's anything else we are trying to you know obviously get these under agreement as quickly as possible and get that money out the door and we'll be providing you updates on that as well Nathaniel so one other thing because of the timing under the third amendment the general practice was going to be that these are projects that should be able to be completed within one fiscal year we are at this point since funds are about to be going out and we're already a quarter into the fiscal year we will likely not be holding cities to finishing those projects in the truncated timeframe and it may wind up that we wind up tweaking the agreement a little bit because there's always something that could happen on a road project unforeseen conditions and whatnot and the goal to be flexible with the cities you know not to be so I guess finite in terms of when they have to have spent all the money and completed the projects so again it goes with the generalized theme from the third amendment which was providing the cities more flexibility while they also have to take on more responsibility so the how did the 30 million get established again so that came from cost savings that's actually explicitly detailed in the third amendment exactly what the sources of those funds were and will be in the future so that number will change annually yes what happens if right now you're 26 of 30 so it looks like you're gonna be able to take care of everyone this year is that correct well everybody every city is receiving allocations this year if they unless they've asked to defer receipt of their money so they can bank it for larger projects in an out year I'm actually very happy that the fact that some cities have are taking that long-term planning approach of you know we could come up with something really small this year but we'd rather do something really you know more significant more impactful two years from now or next year please send us our money that so is there money based on their request basically no there was a determination utilizing a formula based on centerline miles located in each municipality and then the funds that are available from cost savings in each cycle will wind up being divided between the cities that way although again to your other question or the other aspect of your question after twenty thirty two we go to a much more formula based system so there's going to be a specific percentage each year of the total remittances that are being dedicated to the cities that will go for formula based funding so it should sort of even itself out during so is this over and above their what I call their allocation no this is part this is how they get their out this is this is a significant portion of their allocation along with the grant match program as well and capital projects yes so in that ten percent minimum annual guarantee there's community shuttle there's municipal municipal capital projects R&M projects from this microtransit from this and the grant match program that Nathaniel just spoke to do do we have any idea which cities are getting the bulk of the dollars and I know it changes from one year to the next and I'm just kind of curious I want to make sure that we are keeping tabs on which cities are getting how much so that the smaller cities aren't left behind essentially because sometimes I think some of the smaller underserved where you have higher poverty levels and the revenues perhaps from those cities are not as much that the monies may not necessarily translate the needs are sometimes we've been hired we were specifically asked by the collective city managers Association because we provided different ways of doing the formula and at the municipalities request it was done via the f dot centerline miles which may change from year to year as cities you know and or have different roadway projects but again those historically excluded communities are receiving funds every year that you have the ability to have a meaningful rehabilitation and maintenance projects within their city that is something that was a a key goal from county administration made sure that we included it and it is there awesome madam chair we're gonna in a few minutes we're gonna look at city by city amounts of funding that they've received because that's been a request that you've had and I wanted to just mention this is just a small portion of the overall municipal cert tax program so for some of those smaller underserved municipalities such a mentioning they may have a community shuttle program they may get the vast majority of their cert tax funding for community shuttle and that's something that they really need and they want so we'll talk through that a little bit more in the next presentation but at this time if I may and are there any more questions on this particular side anyone else okay I'm going to ask your finance manager Kelton Harvey to come forward and walk you through just the municipal cert tax level leverage good afternoon everyone Kelton Harvey finance manager for the transportation cert tax program so the information that you are seeing is the municipal cert tax leverage which is the amount of non cert tax funding that municipalities are bringing in for their cert tax projects so as of September 30th municipalities have contributed roughly 87.5 million in additional funding from municipal funds as well as local state and federal grants in total that equates to an 85.7 leverage rate relative to the surtax funding invested in these projects in other words for every dollar of surtax approximately 86 cents is being added from other funding sources a significant portion of the total project funding comes from municipal local state and federal participation with municipalities using surtax funding as the foundational match that allows them to qualify for and attract additional state and federal dollars so of the 87.5 million in leverage 93% is from municipal funds a little over 6% is from state and local funds and a little over 1% is from federal funds so so this is demonstrating that the surtax funding is functioning as intended so thank you so much kelton I just wanted to add for the oversight boards edification that what is not captured in here is grant match program from 2026 which you are going to see in the next presentation so this dollar amount at the bottom will increase because increase because when Alex goes through the dashboard of financials it will include the grant match program leverage from fiscal year 2026. Do we have any questions? Anyone? I have one just out of the the amount of money just take Pompano at 34 million at four I guess 4,000 and change. Why is there such a difference between 34 million and $4,000? I mean are the cities not asking for things or I mean just it's a big difference. It's a good question and it's one of the reasons why the third amendment was so important and as Nathaniel just pointed out the argument that the county was hearing was that not every single city was seeing funding every single year but they were participating in contributing to the revenues. So the third amendment assures that at least some portion of the 10% mag goes to every single city but that started in fiscal year 2026. So what you're looking at here is representative of the program for the six years that the cities were receiving surtax funding without the third amendment being effective. And what that means is it only represents projects that were awarded recommended reviewed and awarded either through the rehabilitation and maintenance process or through the municipal capital project process that was handled by the MPO under their surtax services agreement. That ended December 31st of 2025. So what you're seeing here is representative of what cities both asked for and were recommended to receive using criteria that you all were presented. And so that's why there's that gap. I don't have any better explanation for it than that. Is it fair to say that that gap will probably be less in the future based on the new system. With respect to projects it's hard to say because again these are projects just so that you all understand these are the universe of projects that the cities have that actually have other funding sources associated with them. This is not the full universe of projects. This is projects that have other non-surtax funding associated. So it's very much specific to the type of project, Mr. Coleman, because not every municipal project is going to be a good fit for a state or federal grant. And not every municipal project rises to the level that the city commission or the town's commission is willing to put their own money into it. So it's very much nuanced and it is really about the project itself more than anything else. All right. And also. Wouldn't need also. Sorry. Go ahead. Finish. It doesn't include the county's funds that are spent in the city. We'll see that later I hope. Yeah. This is just the section of the presentation that's specifically focused. These two slides are specifically focused on the municipal surtax program. I would think that need plays a role as well because some of these cities that I see this larger investment are older cities in the county. Pompano, Hollywood, Dania, Fort Lauderdale. You know, most of those cities are well established cities that has been around for a long time. So the infrastructure has deteriorated over time a lot faster than some of the newer cities is what I imagine. Could be part of the explanation. Anyone else? Okay. All right. So now we're going to go to the after lunch portion of your program. Okay. And it's me again. So this is an opportunity for you all to talk to each other. You know, I hear you loud and clear. And certainly we had a nice robust discussion at the December meeting about performance metrics. And we've been having discussions about performance metrics since February of 2019. And I want to assure you all that we are measuring a lot of things, but it doesn't necessarily mean that there are things that are meaningful to you. And so what we try to do periodically is bring you information and demonstrations, which will happen in a moment, about what are we measuring and why, and what would you like more of, what do you want more information about. Mr. Coleman asked for a lot of financials, which we're going to get into. I'm going to start with the programmatic. So you all asked the Office of the County Auditor to conduct a performance audit of the program. And they came to you several times to refine that scope. And they have an audit plan. I met with them yesterday at 4 p.m. to talk through what that audit plan, how it's evolving. So they've asked for a series of documents, and we've provided all of the information that they've requested. Public Works and Broward County Transit have also been asked for information. And that's in the document that you're looking at on these slides. You also have, just so you know, in your binder, you have a full matrix, like a giant spreadsheet. It's the same information, just in a different format. But for the people who are watching and participating, I just wanted to make sure that we were transparent and showing the same information that's in your binder on these slides. So the column on the left and the column in the middle were part of an agenda item that went to the Broward County Commission on October of 2018. It's at the top of your matrix, the exact date, and I will tell you. It was the 9th of October, and the county commission took an action to adopt the surtax program, both programmatically and financially. So there was a financial plan, and there was a programmatic plan. And the exhibit that had all the program elements is what you're looking at here, left column, middle column. So you've got a category to the left, you have various project types in the middle. And then what we promised over the 30-year time horizon of the surtax, seven years in are the actuals to the right. Now, I've been asked for additional information, much more specific, detailed information from the auditor, which I'm going to share with you today, includes every single project, project ID, project name, and the location. So I'm working through that with my team next week. And there's also some information that I'm going to have to ask for help from Public Works and Transit to respond to. But to just kind of go through this, and you can stop me if you want to talk about anything in particular, you can see that what we, as a county, promised in areas of road, bridge, resiliency, safety, connectivity, are very much aligned with what we talk about as our goals and our foundational elements of the program. So we have this five goals, we have the three foundational elements, and they are sourced from very much other than the economic development and benefits goal from this document, from that original plan. So in the area of resiliency, we have certain project types, bridges, mast arms. When you talk about safety and... Can you go back one time? Of course. You have 127,000 feet promised, and 127,000, you've got 127,500 done. Somewhere there's 100,000 feet that you did that weren't promised. That's correct. Correct? Absolutely. We've far exceeded what we promised, yes. Hmm. You did that because when you dug it up, you found out it needed to be done, or what? I can't say for sure. I think that, you know, there's certainly an element of that in some instances. There are probably a lot of reasons for it. I think that significant flooding a few years ago probably is one of them. I think, congratulations. Could be federal dollars too. Yes, it's very true that at least one of these projects did have state funding associated with it. So when you get to safety and connectivity, you can see we have school zones, which we bring to you every single year in both design and construction. We have bicycle lanes, greenways, things like multi-use paths that we've talked about. Also, the near-miss program is captured here. So annual funding for innovative technologies and approaches that improve safety and improve connectivity is also captured in this area. And then you get to Broward County Transit and improving the transportation system. So increasing the bus fleet and frequency. We talked a lot about that this morning. There are some infrastructural improvements that were promised as part of the original program. You get to the rail, to Primo here, 26 miles of rail. It was very non-committal as to what type for obvious reasons. Transit centers, vehicle maintenance facilities. And then you get to the municipal surtax program, what the cities submitted. And based on their submittals to the county prior to the vote, we had a series of traffic congestion reduction improvements and enhancements. The cities also had projects that were focused on improving resiliency. Obviously, a lot of safety and connectivity projects in the municipalities as well. And then some various transportation-related improvements that prior to going to the voters, we believed were eligible. Some transportation system improvements. Some of these were associated with the existing community shuttle program. As you can see, there was a municipality that requested microtransit as part of the original plan. That is now something that is considered an eligible surtax project expense. And that's it. Unless you all have some feedback, some questions, if you want to have a conversation about any specific items. Maybe if I show you all the funding associated with this, it might be helpful to give you the full context before we have a dialogue and take questions. I don't know, Madam Chair, if that's an approach that you would support. I think that's a reasonable approach. I think more than anything else, I'm kind of interested in seeing a forecasting concept of where we are now and how, if we continue on this trajectory, where we would land in 2048. So, you know, are we on top? Because certainly some of the projects were going to be a little bit more advanced, even exceeding goals, as we've seen. But there are some that there is a lag, and that lag could continue into, you know, the 2040s. But what I want to make sure is that whatever we're doing now sets us up for our ultimate success end date, right? So I want to make sure that we are pacing ourselves appropriately as a board, that we are keeping our eyes on that. So that even if when all of us are retired from this board, that, you know, we didn't, our legacy is not one that puts additional pressure on the next group to have to now achieve our goals. And that we're documenting the hurdles, that, you know, what are the things that are preventing us from being where we should be? So just a timeline forecasting of where we are now, where we expect to be in the next five years, maybe at a five-year increment. And I know it's not as simple, simplistic as that, because so much of this is predicated on matching funding from whether state or federal grants, and even again, what the priorities are for these entities, whether state or federal. So all those factors need to be calculated, but I just want to make sure that we are ahead of it. It must never be said that the first group fumbled the ball, and now we have to run twice as hard to make up for it. And then, you know, of course, costs, you know, with time, the costs increments that we perhaps cannot account for due to inflation. So I think as much as we can get accomplished now ahead of the game, the better it is later on in terms of cost-effectiveness is what I'm thinking. Another way to look at that is if we're seven years into 30, we're a little less than 25% into the dates. Those columns on the right, if they're below 25%, then we're behind. If they're ahead, we're ahead. Correct. Correct. Same strategy I'm talking about. Yes. And that is the scope of the county auditor's work. So they're listening. They're paying attention. They know that I was providing you this information so that you could provide additional feedback on the scope, and you are. So thank you for that. And now I'd like to introduce, reintroduce for some of you, introduce for newer members, Mr. Mayorga, who's been on our team from almost the very inception. He joined in 2019. He's been serving you in a variety of different roles, and he's going to walk through a dashboard presentation for you now. Thank you, Gertrude. Thank you, Gertrude. Thank you, Gertrude. Madam Chair, Madam Vice Chair, members, it is a pleasure to be in front of you today. Thank you, Gertrude. Thank you, Gertrude. Thank you, Gertrude. Thank you, Gertrude. I find myself lucky following our transit presentation in the morning because that's going to make my job a lot easier. And thank you, Gertrude, for introducing the project types, the original project types, because I'm going to talk about that, too. And this presentation builds on a presentation that was delivered to you on the last meeting that included a lot of program information and a lot of project information. And at the time, it was requested to bring financials, and this is going to touch on financials as well as some project types and similar. I have to make a couple of disclaimers here based on the notes that we have in front of us. I need to turn myself in. Because we include information from 2019 to 2026 and what has been programmed for this year, a lot of the numbers we're going to see are going to include unaudited financials and estimations. Not only do we have budget amounts in this presentation right here, but following, we will have leverage information as well that is estimated. So, please keep that in mind. It's the first time in all the presentations that we have brought you in which we are, for projects that overlap multiple municipalities, which are quite a few, both from Broward County Transit and Public Works, is the first time that we're averaging those projects. So, we take the total cost or total budgetary amounts for these projects and we divide by the number of impacted municipalities as a way to provide some sort of weighting for this. Right, because in the past, we had different methods and there's always trade-offs. There is never an exact science when we split projects, but this is just a different approximation so that the funding doesn't look so inflated at a municipal level. Because one of the things that was asked is bringing information at a municipal level. We didn't want to give the perception that the amount of funding for various cities is located in one city for this presentation. Also, the leverage is calculated and presented separately. So, none of this is non-sortax funding. All that we see here is sort of funding. Like Gretchen mentioned before, this includes some of the changes that were brought by the Third Amendment, including the Grand Match Program, and does not include yet, I'm sorry, the rehabilitation and maintenance applications that we have received and micro-transit applications that we have received. Yes, sir. Lastly, we have also quite a number of projects that have been bundled, and what that means is like, at least I speak for municipalities, which I'm more familiar with. There were cases in which a municipality had two or three or four projects, and they were sharing the scope, general location, and for efficiencies and cost savings and other factors that were bundled into a single project. So, for municipalities, it's almost 2,000 projects, so all those are counted as one, because once we start talking about funding and these projects materialize and start going in contracts and stuff, it is only one project that we track. We lose to some degree the ability to maintain these separate, so for practical matters, we count as one of those projects as one, so that is related to the bottom bar chart that we see that has the sort of investment by number of projects. Yes, Gretchen. I just wanted to clarify that there are bundled projects in the public works portfolio as well, and they've come to you, so when we talk about bundled projects, that also means that there were in the original plan. When this goes back to the auditor asking what was in the original plan and what has happened to those projects and what has progressed and what's been canceled, when we look at status, we have to look at whether or not projects have been bundled for both city and county projects, just for clarification. What you're looking at here is city and county funding. It's all projects. You mean by bundling? It's not multiple projects, it's multiple funding source? No, it's multiple projects, Madam Chair. So, you know, when we bring you projects in August and they have an ID associated with them, and sometimes there are projects that are happening on the same road, but different project limits, but they're contiguous, and the delivering entity, whether it's a municipality or the county, says, oh, it'll be a lot easier if I were to roll these projects together or solicit it as one project. And so they started off as two, and they become one. Got it. So you will recognize these major project types on this area that I'm, like, hovering on the mouse on. It is also in your spreadsheet that you have printed, these are the four major project types, and all those under the description area on your spreadsheet are these what the screen is calling categories. As we continue to make selections, you will see that some of these are filtering, and it's easier to, like, assess them individually. So my approach will be I will go over each of these project types, maybe talk a little bit about the major contributors to each type, by project type, and then I will do the same by municipality. And perhaps we can also find some way to correlate both, which is going to be more relevant for some distinct projects that are large in size. So, again, once I make a selection, you will see that the universe becomes, like you said, 100% resets. So now we're just talking about this category and the composition of that category. Not to be confused with the distribution of the first overview. Can you click? Yes, of course. We'll drill down into each of these. If you don't mind, I want to study motors, but we don't. That's fine. But I'll come back here and we'll talk about this one. So, sorry. Traffic congestion. Here you will see that the major contributors are naturally road expansion. These are very expensive projects. So, you see like 50% of it is road expansion and another big chunk is fiber. Then these are somewhat distributed along those things. But generally, at a municipal level, those that have road expansions, you will see that those are also a big part of it. Other smaller projects may be tiny. But fiber adapters in the control that are like normally distributed along the county and or across the county. And road expansion is going to be the major contributors to this category. These are the descriptions in your spreadsheets. So, you can have a look how much that contributes to the total funding. And this one is really interesting because I think it's very well distributed. This takes about 50% of the funding for improving resiliency. And the remaining is like distributed by mass arms and bridge rehabilitation. But drainage improvements, they have been all over the county. Like Christian said, there have been some emergencies. And both the county and municipalities have seen the need to increase a lot of investments on drainage. I think I have a selection here. I need to clear it. Here we go. Safety and connectivity. This is, for me, one of the most interesting ones because safety and connectivity could be sometimes competing, I would say. Like you will see the resurfacing as part of connectivity and perhaps to some extent safety for a vehicular. But then we also see elements like bike lanes, sidewalk, safety improvements and traffic calming, which are like impacting multimodal, multimodalities and all the ways that people used to travel. Mainly also, complicity projects are very interesting. These are municipal projects. These are all municipal projects that include various elements for multiple ways of travel. A typical complicity project will include sidewalk improvements, drainage improvements, road resurfacing or reconstruction, some lighting and ADA improvements and stuff like that. So when you look at safety and connectivity, you're really looking at multimodal travel. That's a way in which I will summarize it. Now, in here is when we start seeing a little bit of a, not a contradiction, but you will see a contrast between the number of projects. Because you see, most of the projects are school zone, but they're not most of the funding because these are smaller projects, smaller in nature and easier to deliver, faster to deliver. And we will see some of that in public transportation as well. Here's another example. We have bus shelters and bus stops, although they're over 400 and almost 420, over 420. They're not the most expensive type of projects because of the way that transit allocates a project at a bus stop and a bus shelter level. And this does include also municipal projects and community shelter, as you see. We have about three or four municipalities that, as part of their capital projects, they included bus shelter improvements. So those are also counted here. And the community shelter program, which is a service and it's funded by service, is also included for 20 municipalities. That's what that 20 over there means. Now, bigger contributors here will be probably rail and bus rapid transit system. We have also maintenance facilities. These are small in number, but they are large in impact and also in funding. So with that introduction to the types and the type of categories that comprise these higher level types, I will take some time and go and look at municipalities discreetly. I don't see anybody asking anything, so I'll go ahead. Broward Municipal Services District. This is the county delivering these projects. When you look at safety and connectivity, again, sidewalk improvements, there are lighting, bike lanes, drainage improvements. These are all county delivered. And let's see, Coconut Creek. Some municipalities, as you see this one, are kind of like well distributed. They have a, you can see like a very, I don't want to say equitable, but very balanced. Balanced is a good word. The slices are about the same size, but we will see how the delivery of big projects starts curing some of these slides. But I will take this opportunity to also talk about how those big projects that I mentioned in public transportation especially are going to affect how we're going to see these municipalities. And I want to bring your attention to cities like Coral Springs. Coral Springs has for 61% of the funding that they have is in safety and connectivity. They have very large sidewalk projects, and you will see also Miramar. And those cities on the southwest area are very heavy on reduction of congestion because they have large widening projects. But there are cities like Fort Lauderdale, and I want to, that these are where those big remote and transportation projects are going to be delivered. That in what has been budgeted to date for safety and for congestion reduction, it may be comparable in amount of dollars to those cities. But when we see the slices are dwarfed by the amount of investment in public transportation. This is the same for Denia Beach, for example. It's another parade that has rail. Hollywood, and I think Holland, they also have part of commuter rail here. So, all to say that even though these slices look kind of small, it's only because this slice is just so big. And that's going to be a theme when we go over those four municipalities. This is another one because it's located in the southwest area, and I think there's a big county project of road expansion. Cooper City has a big chunk of reducing traffic congestion. And it has a large number of bus shelters, but I don't think it's going to be very impactful, bus shelters like we said. Cora Springs, as I explained before, has a lot of funding on sidewalk and safety. I can recognize, for example, there's two municipal projects there that are together about $40 million. So, it may be largely represented here. Denia Beach, in addition to being also impacted by those Primo projects and rail projects, has also a decent amount of drainage projects. Two of the municipal capital projects that the city sponsor are precisely drainage. That's a big priority for them. We will see, continuing with the theme that I mentioned when I spoke about Myanmar, those congestion management, or we call it reduced traffic congestion projects, are going to be present also in those southwest cities, like Cooper City, Davie, Miramar and Weston. So, we have Davie here. Needless to say, road expansion is 60% of the funding that they have. There's Phil Beach. I see that they have a big chunk of rail funding. We get back to Florida, though. I think, well, you can see the distribution there. They have sizable funding in almost every aspect of the main types of projects. And because of those large projects, the PeopleMover and Interval Center and all the Red and Primo projects that are programmed along Florida, they are going to, even when averaged, that 340 million are going to dwarf anything else. Same for Harlandet Beach. Harlandet Beach has a bigger slicer because of, I think, Community of Red South is here. Now, Hillsborough Beach, I believe that the only thing they have is community shuttle so far. So, all you can see is 100% of it is transit service. City of Hollywood did have a big drainage project, but it was not mainly funded by surtax. It had a lot of leverage. One of the big reasons for that is because it was an infrastructure project and the surtax amount only applied to the road surface, not really to utilities and other things that are not related to transportation. So, even though it was a very large project, only 5 million of it was funded by surtax, and they had, like, over 20 million funded by different other sources. We have a lot of lakes and a big chunk of it, I think, as you can see, it has rail on it. Oh, there you go. You're correct. Rapid transit is, like, really screwing on the other ones. Lord of the Sea, similar to Hillsborough, so far they have benefited mostly from community shuttle service. Sorry, community shuttle. Yes, community shuttle, right? Lord of the Sea has also a very strong community shuttle, and that is going to… They apply to some projects, but they don't have a lot of municipal projects, and community shuttle becomes the major force of something. This is another one that is kind of, like, well distributed when you look at the slices. I think they do have a complete state project on sample road that is represented here substantially. And so on, Margate, a lot of these projects are all, when it refers to traffic congestion, are not only expansion but also fiber and adaptive signal control. I would bet, yeah, this is a fiber project and a nice chunk of adaptive signal control. Margate is not a place where we will typically expect to see a road expansion. But because fiber and adaptive signal also contribute to reducing congestion, they are also reflected there. Excuse me a minute. Yes, sir. I need an explanation, first of all, what's in the four colors on the left. I can't even read what it is. There's got to be more than what the legend is. And I don't understand the legend at the bottom. I don't understand the graphics because I can't read that up there, and it wasn't in a book. So let's start with the four colors. Right. Tell me about what yellow says and what's in it. Because without understanding that, I can't even understand the graph. And then when you combine it with a legend which you can't read, I don't understand it. I might be the only one. It's okay. It's okay. Give me just one second. This is supposed to complement the programmatic information that I provided to you in the previous slides and in your handout. If you look at the handout, you'll see that there are four main categories that we're reporting to. So you have traffic congestion relief. What? Okay. Tell me. Congestion relief. What projects are under traffic? Inside congestion relief, fiber, adaptive traffic signal control. Same thing as in your binder. So if you look at the way that it's structured in this document. Yeah, but my point is I just got that when I got here. Oh, I know. But it's in your presentation also. Okay, that's the yellow. So yellow is congestion management. Okay. I can go over again. So these are like the four major groups and bigger groups in the spreadsheet that you have. And the first one being reduced traffic congestion. And the contributors to that project type are the categories on the bottom, which includes fiber optics, adaptive signal control, intersection improvements, road improvements, road expansion, and traffic signals. So those relate to the yellow bubble. That's right. The green is almost the green as either of the two had nothing to do with that. This is an explanation of the dollars in that. Yes, sir. This is a breakdown. So just the legend on the side. I know we can't see it so clearly. It has a list of all the cities. Then you have the project type. And the project type starts with that yellow color. And then you have on the yellow, you have reduced traffic congestion. Then you have improved resiliency. Then you have improved safety and connectivity. So every time he uses the mouse to press on, say, yellow, it's giving you all of the different variables associated with reducing traffic congestion. Under traffic congestion, you have fiber optics. You have adaptive control. You have all these different variables that are a part of that. Is that okay? That's correct. So that's what he's talking about. And so you can kind of see how each of these variables are functioning with respect to how much dollars were spent. Right. And then by checking on the city, you see. And you can check by city. Right. By check by city. I don't even know what's in the left column. Right. It's, yeah, it is hard to read. It is hard to read. Okay. Sorry for that, but I... No, no. You're absolutely right to do so. And I can explain it again. And so when I select a button from this area, like the chair was saying, reduced traffic congestion, and we see the breakdown by the type of projects that make up that project type. And I click on one of them, so you will see the roadway improvement project type contributes 10% or 39.9 million towards the overall reduced traffic congestion goal, let's say, or project type. So what I've been trying to do is like highlight the first, the major contributors to each of these project types. Like I mentioned, road expansion, you will see is a big chunk of who are reducing traffic congestion means. And fiber and adaptive center control are some of the biggest ones also. And when we speak about resiliency, drainage improvements, bridge rehabilitation, sorry, and mass arm conversion. So we spoke that drainage improvements was just over half of improving our resiliency. Yes, sir. So I can assume if you haven't highlighted a city, that's all the cities combined. If I touch the city, I would know exactly what's been spent in the city. I wish you would have told me that before you started, but that's okay. I now understand. I can't start over. And just to get a fresh look at it, when we speak about safety and connectivity, we talk about school zones, bike lanes, sidewalk improvements, the complexity projects that I mentioned before, which are municipal projects that have multimodal elements to them. And generally speaking, safety and connectivity relates to multimodality. It includes greenways and complete street lighting and stuff like that. So after getting familiarized with the project types and the type of projects within each type, then I'll go ahead and do municipal projects again. But transportation, like transit, we spoke about rail being the main contributor for all those big projects that were presented earlier today. By funding level, but you will see in the bottom, this shows the number of projects. By number of projects, we see that there's almost 420 shelters and bus stops that have been built in the past six years. We're good. So this is your opportunity to ask specific types of questions if you want to drill down into the information. I know that it's difficult to see, and I apologize for that. We spent a lot of time trying to make it accessible and create an informational tool with the money that would correspond to the programmatic information that the county auditor's office asked for. Alex did this very quickly and using tools that aren't as flexible as we would like as far as being able to blow up font or change colors. But we're going to be bringing you the internal dashboard information that we've brought to you over the years later in the year. And one of the ways that we'd like to do it is perhaps to give you all access to tablets so that you can look at it, blow it up, you know, if you want to. We can demonstrate it for you. We'll do it in a workshop setting so that whatever way you want to get the information, it works for you. But really, this is responsive to your request. And so we just want to make sure that you have the information that you need to do your jobs. I think that information is great. I'm hoping that the cities are looking at it because you might have to have a show and tell. I would suggest that you might want to, when you meet with the cities, this would be a good thing for them to understand. Because I'm sorry, I'm fairly bright, but I'm a little, I was a little dense on this. I mean, it didn't help that I couldn't read it, but sorry. But I think it's great. It is. But it's a lot of information and understanding how to use it. Now that I understand, it's even better than I thought it was. Yes. It is an excellent tool and allows us to really kind of see in real time what's happening. My question, though, I kept thinking, which comes first, the allocation of funding or the project request? I was trying to figure out, you know, how were the dollar amounts assigned for each of the four categories, whether you're talking reduced traffic congestion? Was that based on requests that came in from the various municipalities and that's how the budget essentially evolved? I mean, I see all the variables related to reduced traffic congestion, for example. But I don't know that we, we ever had a chance to say, well, we want to assign 2 million to X and so on and so forth. It really came as a result of requests that we got from cities, correct? Or maybe some assessment that was done. It's actually county and municipal projects because, remember, the municipal surtax program is just a small portion of the overall surtax. So when you get your August budget workshop and regular meeting materials, you see everything that's being requested, every proposed project and proposed expenditure, either in the county, in the, you know, agencies that participate in the surtax program because they're eligible to, and the municipalities. To your question, to your question, Madam Chair, everything that's here is related to what has been requested and recommended to the county commission in their budget. And up until this fiscal year, fiscal year 2026, cities were requesting projects based on what they believe they needed. They prioritized their projects and then they requested what they needed or what they wanted. Same thing with the county. We track at your request and at the auditor, I'm so glad because the auditor wants it too. We track what was in the original plan. We want to be able to tell you and the public and our commissioners and all the stakeholders that we are doing what we said we were going to do. So we know what we had in the original surtax plan from 2018. That's kind of what this is about. That's what this exercise is about. And then what we're trying to show you is how much money has gone to each of those categories and what types of projects build those categories. But how they come is either A, they were in the original plan or B, a city or the county identified it as a need and it was in the county administrators recommended budget. Perfect. Perfect. Good. I just wanted to remember how some of that evolved. I know a lot of these were projects that we approved and or nodded and said it was a good plan, but I was just trying to remember which came first and I couldn't. So Madam Chair. Go ahead. I have a question about the rail funding. I don't remember. It shows up in several cities. It's just an example. It could be bus rapid transit. Did the cities request that funding or like how does that, I don't understand how the graphic works. So what you're seeing is county and city funding and projects. And so the BCT Primo, as Alex was explaining, anything that's in the Primo plan that touches one of these cities ends up with an allocation based on the total cost of that particular corridor allocated across however many municipalities would be impacted by it. So this is the first time we've ever done that for you, trying to average and then allocate based on estimated costs. I think it's important to add that everything the county bills and plans for necessarily, it impacts cities, right? So when I select a city, it doesn't mean necessarily the city requested it, but that the investment is occurring in the city, being because the county decided that way or because the city requested, because it includes both municipal and county projects is both. So to complement the rail question, it may include community shuttle that the city works with BCT, and it may also include BCT-only type of projects in the city. Thanks, Alex. This is really useful. I feel like it shows a lot of information. I know Power BI can be a struggle and feels like it's got you handcuffs sometimes. I think something that may be useful is if we code all the Primo projects, and maybe there's a way to make a clone, so we can turn, look at one with all Primo removed, so it's not oversaturating the graphs. Maybe it's just a clone or maybe there's a toggle to code them out. I think this is a really good framework to build off of. I think it would be useful to break the project types down a little bit more. I would probably like to see safety and connectivity separated out. I would have to take a greater look at what level and how much nesting would want to be done to get a good picture, but I think this is really useful. I would like to see it, too. I know this is when it gets more complicated, but the number of projects by category, if we can toggle that, too, and do it, organize it by spend and stuff like that. Right. That's just for the Power BI section. In terms of questions for the metrics section, so I think you clarified this, and I guess I'll look it up. So the promise of the 2019, that's what you're referencing came from a county agenda? Is that what it was? Yes. It was, right? Through the chair. Yes. So on October 9th of 2018, prior to the vote, so not 2019, 2018, the county commission took action to adopt, approve the surtax financial and programmatic plan so that there would be a record of what the Broward County commission was promising to the voters. And that's what were being held to report on to the auditor. So what did we, what was in the plan? What did we promise? How much money associated with the various project types? And then just for everyone, the office of the county auditor is going to come back to you all and say, and to county administration and to the commission and say, they're on target. They're not on target. We have findings. We think there are opportunities for improvement in these particular areas based on what that original commission agenda included. Okay. So, um, I don't know, I would have to look at that source document to kind of get a better understanding for the metrics. But one metric I would always love to see is the sidewalk improvement projects broken down by protected or not protected. But if the source document doesn't dictate that, then, then whatever, maybe we evaluate that in the future or the commission does. Um, for a personal metric as an oversight, I still would like to see fatality data constantly updated. I know it's not something we're going to put on the GSI map, but pedestrian and bicycle fatality, I will say at every meeting, it should always be our North Star. Um, I know, I know it's, I know it's a hard number to internalize because it adds layers, but. No, I want to be clear that it's not that it's hard or that it adds layers. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because the surtax is just a funding source and the vast majority of bicycle and pedestrian fatalities are occurring on roads that were built before the surtax even existed and have nothing to do with the surtax program. That's why we don't report on it because what we're trying to bring you as metrics are things over which the surtax has influence impact or control and people dying on, on the roads or being severely injured is not something that this board and this program was specifically focused on. Now, when we get to the safety and connectivity, those projects that have surtax funding. Absolutely. We want to make sure that after we do those improvements, safety improves. That's a metric that we're going to bring to you because we can own that because we had some influence over it. But do you understand like why we don't do you just in general? So I understand why, but if we don't and we're the oversight board with the biggest amount of funds, if we're not looking at transportation deaths, I'm not sure who in the county is. So who is like who's owning that data because that's important data to own. Well, the state owns it for roads that are under its jurisdiction and the county owns it for roads that are under its jurisdiction, regardless of how they're funded. Right. So, again, if the surtax is funding a project that's related to safety on a road, then we're happy to bring you information about how safety improves or changes after that. That's fair. But with respect to all of the of the roads and bridges and sidewalks and bike lanes that have been funded with non surtax funding, it's just not within your purview. Okay. Well, if it's not within our purview, it's not. I, I guess, yeah, maybe I'll reach out to the I don't know. I mean, like, it's, it's a, it's a really tough one for me to digest. It's such, it is the defining metric of the ballot language, improving safety and connectivity. And the metric of seeing pedestrian fatalities decrease and bicycle fatalities decrease shows a correlation that the dollar spent had the outcomes that we intended. So then why wouldn't we track? We are happy to do it for the projects that are funded with the surtax. That's what I just said. And we will. And we do. And we, and that, that is absolutely fair. If the surtax is paying for it, you oversee it and you can ask for that. But if the surtax didn't pay for it, we don't want to own it. But so then this is the chicken or egg, because let's say Broward Boulevard gets redeveloped with the Broward Safety Action Plan. It needs county dollars. But if those county dollars and the surtax dollars don't get used for it, then that means we're not owning that the fatality data until our projects on it. Madam Chair, I'm just going to say that if it's on a state road, the surtax isn't Broward Boulevard is a state road. So I think you may be conflating to two different things, right? So we have our responsibilities and jurisdiction, if you will, over projects related to surtax dollars. If you're saying to us that you have an interest in understanding the fatality rate in the county in general, whether it's state dollar streets or federal dollar streets, you know, dollars from federal or state paid for these streets. You just want to know this information in general. And you think that this is something that we should pay attention to. That's okay. I mean, everyone in the county should pay attention to who is being killed on our streets, whether it's through cars or whatever reason. We all should pay attention to that and bring some level of empathy and advocacy to that. So that's a separate issue. And certainly there must be somebody in the county or the state that is capturing that information and can share it with us. Whether or not we'll have any ability to change it using any of the surtax dollars is another story. If you want us to be a voice of advocacy on behalf of people being killed in the streets. But it's not just, is it just because they're driving a car or it's because they've been gunned down? I mean, people are dying in our streets all over the nation. I mean, where do you draw the line is what I'm trying to understand. What I'm talking about is not like violence of guns. It's strictly, I know how to find this data. The data is updated. The state maintains it. The county maintains it. There's people that track this data. I'm saying when we get review ourselves in the future, this data is important. Because if we don't decrease it, and it was in the ballot language of safety, it's equivalent of not fixing congestion. If we have more congestion in the future, then that part of the ballot language failed. So it just seems like a measurable metric to me. We have ownership of it in a sense, because if you understand, like pedestrian and bicycle fatalities happen for multiple reasons, but mainly it's infrastructure based. When the infrastructure allows too many cars to speed, et cetera, it creates unsafe environments that increase the collision risk with a pedestrian, bicycle, car on car. The decisions, the projects that are coming through the pipeline throughout the year, I would like to see that there's a metric fixing that. I mean, I don't. But we are not dictating, we don't dictate the projects that get approved. Nope. They come to us and we review them. And at that time, it is a prerogative to maybe identify maybe some gaps that could create safety issues. And at that point, be an advocate for safeguards being implemented to make sure that that strip of road that we're assigning surtax dollars to have all the safety measures in place. And hopefully over time, you know, those smaller projects will amount to a larger component of us improving safety in the county. But, you know, it's almost difficult for us to pay attention to road safety across the entire spectrum when we don't have purview over all of every road that's built or has ever been built in the county. So we're measuring something and getting data that is inconsistent to our jurisdiction. We don't have the terrain of everything. The debt is not saying, I'm not saying the surtax, the debts that are occurring right now are not the surtax's fault. And they won't be the fault of the surtax in the future. It's just to guide how the money flows. And I think it, I, we could, there's a philosophical debate about what the surtax is actually supposed to do. But the ballot language said safety. Right. And we're paying attention to safety on every project that comes before us. Of course. So, which if we are, but that's if the projects are coming before us. But if the county is not funding the Broward Boulevard safety improvements, although it is a state road, the county can contribute funds to improve the safety of it. If they're not, then that shows you that it's the chicken and egg. We're only tracking what we fix. But that's the range of our jurisdiction. But it. Essentially. No. So let me offer, let me offer this. Okay. We are going to be making a presentation to the MPO next Thursday on the low stress multimodal mobility master plan. And that's funded with the surtax, partially funded with the surtax. It's also funded with gas tax. It's come before you several times. It's been ongoing for a couple of years now. And part of the, what I'm hearing you say, because when we say safety in the ballot, we don't say bike and pedestrian safety. It's just safety, right? There's no clarity around safety of what safety of bridges safety of what the low stress multimodal master plan, which is kind of the tip to me, it is foundational to this program. It's setting the vision for the next 20 years of bicycle and pedestrian improvements that are not going to just be funded with the surtax because there's not ever going to be enough money in the surtax to fund all of those hundreds of projects. We are going to be making that presentation. We're going to bring you a presentation in April, and we're going to talk to you about baseline data, and we're going to talk to you about metrics, and we want to get your input and your feedback. And we, listen, I want this to work for everyone on the board. And I want this data to be meaningful and measurable and impactful. And I'm just sharing with you why we haven't provided you this data on bicycle and pedestrian fatalities previously. If it's the will of the board for us to do it moving forward, we're happy to do that. I'm just sharing with you what the reasoning has been for not doing it. And when it comes to projects that are in that low stress master plan, we'll be tracking them, and we'll be happy to bring you back periodic updates on that, too, over the next 20 years. So I can offer you that right away. Yeah, that's fair. If the board wants it, and the board wants to see this data because they think it's an important metric to measure a real measurement of what happens in this room and all the rooms and the funding sources and construction, real tangible results would be a safer Broward County. And I think that's within what we can do. When we think safety, though, it cannot just be that we're talking about pedestrian safety and so on, because it's safety across the board. There are some, some of our streets where they're poorly lit and crime is happening every day because they're poorly lit. I mean, where do we draw the line on? Not, because not violent crime, not, that is not, 100% is not the purview of this board. I get that. I'm talking about strictly fatalities that happen within our transportation infrastructure, people crossing crosswalks where there was no crosswalks, people getting hit on high speed roads where people have multiple times complained that this road shouldn't be high speed, someone getting hit in Fort Lauderdale on Andrew Avenue of the Arts Bridge twice in a row because there's no protected bike lane. I'm like, at a certain point, we should have that feedback system. That's just how I think. Okay. All right. And we've had that in the past. We've had some presentation annually about safety on the roads, just so we get a sense of the safety issues. But again, we don't bring the projects to us. So, you know, maybe part of the advocacy across municipalities is if you are aware of roads that have dangers, this is the hotline to notify us so we can pay closer attention when we have projects coming to us. So, you know, there's a heightened sense of awareness that on Commercial Boulevard at the corner of such and such, even though there may not be penny tax dollars assigned there, it might be something for us to look at to improve the safety. So, but, but, you know, again, hopefully the cities and the county can come together on how they fund it. Right? So, but, but certainly a hotline perhaps or some, some, some measure of building awareness so we can be an advocate in that regard. Gretchen, refresh my memory. Didn't we have a presentation from a group that's studying safety with whether it's cars by, we're looking at that obviously, but we're just looking at it on, on areas that we can say something about, correct? So that's really where I was going with this is we have a near miss study and it's looking at obviously near misses between vehicles, vehicles to pedestrians, bicycles to, you know, pedestrians, but it's, it's limited in its scope. And so we can provide you with really good clean data because it's our project and we have the baseline and we know exactly what was changed. And they did a presentation to you to say, okay, we did all the signage improvements and here's how it improved safety, but it's, you know, it's limited in scope. It's that one area that we paid for. Um, we can talk about this, you know, obviously more when we bring you additional metrics. And when we talk about the low stress multimodal master plan, um, but for the purposes of right now, uh, is this helpful? Is this what you all are looking for? Just so that I can let Alex sit down. Is this, is this the type of data and in the manner that you were hoping to receive it? I would say yes, absolutely. And, and of course we know that with time things evolve certainly, right? Because even when we talk about the safety issue, we may be talking about pedestrian, but you know, you're going to have another faction in the community saying these roads are not lit well. And as a result, you know, someone got hit. And so we, we have to figure out how do we tackle that when surtax dollars doesn't necessarily speak to the lighting piece or whatever, whatever the challenge. It's part of, it's part of this. There is a street lighting component actually because of that exact reason. It is a safety issue and it's part of the safety and connectivity bucket. Erdo? Um, sometimes difficult to hear, you know, from the speakers. Um, just wanted to, to clarify, um, this is the most complete, you know, data information measuring, you know, we have had so far, at least I can speak, you know, for myself. Um, and it includes the entire surtax program from beginning till, you know, recently, um, and by policy areas and also by, uh, municipalities, you know, the entire Broward County. Um, is this going to be available on the, um, website? It's a, just what, just wanted to, you know, there's unaudited financial data associated with it. It gets real sensitive. Um, I didn't need to talk to some other folks inside the county before I could promise that, but you know, that's something that we're trying to work towards right now. This is all internal and it's something that we share with you during your meetings. We don't make it publicly available. Uh, but our goal eventually, and we have been working really, really hard. I just like to give a shout out to so many members of my team that I'm looking at. Thank you, uh, for the work that they're doing to try to get to a place where everyone in this organization can be comfortable with the financial data so that we can share it more publicly. Right now, most of what we provide is at a planning level. It's at the budget level. It's cost estimates, and we don't really get into the actuals, but we know as this program is evolving that that's something that we're going to absolutely have to do. It's, it's a, it's a reasonable request of our stakeholders and the public that they see, um, budget versus actuals on the website. Yes. But I think it really, you know, helps us to, you know, uh, when we are asked question inquired, you know, why is this city is not getting that much, you know, money or in, in, in proportion to the total and this will, this could be quite, you know, helpful. Just all you need to do is just click on the, uh, man, you know, municipality and it shows a different kind of, you know, the projects and priorities and, and so forth. And it doesn't have to be as detailed, you know, for public consumption, but that could be our goal maybe down the road. But, but it is, it is very comprehensive. Yeah. Thank you. I love it. Excellent job. Thank you. Right. Thank you. And you're correct. The, some of the questions that the report intends to answer is how much of that funding goes to each city, right? And how that funding distributes among these priorities. And within these priorities, break it down by category, by number of projects. It is challenging to present in one format, but at the same time, had it been, let's say a printed version of it in a table, you may lose the ability to drill in and look at something. If there's something that really interests you to know, um, like Gretchen was saying, something like this is, gives you that opportunity to, you were interested in this, Broward Municipal Services District, uh, sidewalk projects. We can do that. We can show you the proportion of the, of these type of projects in the locality, um, as well as the number of projects and, uh, and how it relates to other projects in the same jurisdiction, for example. So that was the intent. Um, right. Uh, sure. We deliver, I should think. Okay. Cool. I think. Roy, can you take over? Thank you. So, um, I just want to piggyback on some of what Raymond said regarding the safety thing. It's still kind of in my, in my head. And I'm just wondering whether or not we could establish a hotline that if folks wanted to call in, I don't know if that would help at all. Um, if there's an intersection in the neighborhood and that, you know, it's a way for people to report on roads or areas in their city that may be having some safety challenges. Um, and then, you know, every quarter, so we can just kind of see what's going on, um, from various cities, what the location, have some requirements around, um, what they need to tell us. You know, it's the address, um, time of day, perhaps that there are more accidents happening there than usual, just so we can get some real time data on that, if that helps. And then at some point we can look at it. If nothing else, even if we cannot, um, you know, I know dollars may not necessarily be assigned to it because if the cities aren't asking for it and the county funding is not assigned to it, nothing may happen. But at least we can be a part of the advocacy for improving safety in that particular area. Right. So that's my suggestion. Okay. All right. With that, I'd like to move into our regular agenda and ask for a motion to approve the minutes of December 12th. Can I get a motion, please? Some more. Any second? Second. All in favor? All right. All right. Thank you. All right. All minutes was approved. Um, and now I just want to ask if there are any, uh, reports from general counsel, any comments, board coordinator, and of course, members of the board, anything you'd like to report for the good of the cause, starting with you? No. Thank you. No. Nothing. I, I, I do. I would like to just, um, encourage all of you to reach out to anyone through professional or personal avenues to encourage folks to apply for the vacancy. If they are eligible to do so, we have a vacancy on this board, uh, left by Mr. Hooper in the category of engineering slash construction management. You all are very familiar with the ethics limitations associated with serving. But if you know someone who might meet them and might be interested, please ask them to apply. We have our appointing authority meeting to, um, to appoint an individual on April 1st. So time is short. Um, Madam chair, if I could just for a moment, see if I have everything for the, your April meeting, it's going to be a very packed meeting. It's going to be a full day unless the chair tells me to take something off of this agenda. So right now I have a low stress multimodal master plan, uh, update, including conversation about, uh, bike ped fatality data and metrics, uh, for the implementation of that 20 year program. We have a Broward next land use plan update on the transportation element. This is a continuation of a conversation from a planning council. Uh, the bike bicycle and pedestrian facilities data visualization that you all have asked for. This is looking at, um, bike and ped projects that have been completed using surtax dollars at your request. You wanted to see exactly what type of projects, what the elements of those projects were protected, non protected, painted, not painted. And then also how are they connecting on either side of the project limits to other facilities? We've been working very closely with the innovation team to try to come up with a visualization format so that you can let us know if it's meeting your needs. Uh, hopefully we'll have that ready for you in April. Uh, TriRail county regional collaborative update. If we have one, um, the, obviously our, our surtax fund independent financial audit will occur in April as it always does. Um, legislative session update. OESBD and the requests for information. I talked to Maribel as she was going out. So the city by city, uh, types of jobs, types of industries, and some overview of how the in plan model inputs and outputs are actually, uh, created. We will have an update on our metrics. Part two, um, shared is Sheridan street capacity expansion project led by our highway construction and engineering division. And as you know, there are possibility that we will have public comment from residents. And it's been a long time, but FDOT has asked if they could provide a, um, TSMNO. That's the traffic, uh, system management and, um, master plan presentation. So an update to that. So a lot, anything that I missed. I hope not. Sounds like a long day. All right. So one by one, uh, Phil, do you have anything? Phil? Raymond? No. Doug? Yes, I got two things. I have a question on the municipal surtax chart. I would hope that when we build this chart, we do one for the county and show it by cities, because I think it distorts the amount of money that's being spent surtax. Because it, I obviously live in Fort Lauderdale, so I'm, and the other thing is I would, the surtax briefings, I was under the impression from the very first day that we were obligated to do those. I understand that may or may not be the case, but I would encourage all of us, if you're not taking advantage of the surtax briefing, you're certainly wasting some of our time public and everyone else. Those briefings will answer some of the questions that are brought up. So I wish it, I thought it was mandatory. I thought I did too. I wish it was. And I wish if this board could do something about it for sure. It it's, it's not fair to anyone. Just joking. Again, the briefings are, Mr. Coleman, the briefings are not mandatory. They certainly are encouraged. Especially when we have, I mean, that April agenda sounds daunting. And I think that in particular for that one, briefings are going to be pretty in depth. But again, they're offered to all board members as a courtesy, and we would certainly encourage everyone to take advantage of them. Are we tracking who's attending the briefings and who's not? Yeah. Because I think if, if someone is habitually not attending briefings, that is something that should be addressed. And it's not to say, I mean, I have conversations during the briefings. And I will say sometimes in the moment that this is something I plan on bringing up at the meeting here. Because some questions that are asked in the briefing still requires us to make a statement while we're here publicly. So the, you know, our folks who are tuning in understand that we have a sensitivity about this and that it's a question that needs to be answered publicly. So because you have a briefing privately with legal and with Gretchen, it doesn't mean that you can't bring it up. But what having the briefing does is eliminate a redundancy of questioning or a lack of knowledge that, you know, you may not understand something, but it can be clarified in that moment. And so you're not wasting everybody's time asking a question that perhaps in previous meetings had been answered and so on and so forth. So for the sake of efficiency, because, you know, we're spending hours here. Right. And, and also, I think when you attend a briefing and you understand it, you can express yourself and ask appropriate questions that is not confusing the public as well. Because I think sometimes some of this questioning back and forth just confuses the way the presentations are made. Well, this is why this morning, I asked that we hold off on the questioning because when we're interjecting all the time, it interrupts the flow of information coming to us and coming to the public. So it's really important that if you are a member of this board that you are attending those briefings so you can become more informed about what we're discussing here and be better prepared to address this. It's a responsibility. And I know it's time consuming. But, you know, it shouldn't be a habit that you miss the briefings. A good example of that, I, was that chart that was presented, it wasn't in our packet that I got email or otherwise, right? The dashboard about all those, because obviously. The dashboard can't be part of your presentation. Okay. Because it's a live interactive Power BI based tool. There's an example, if I had seen even one of them, I would have been able to understand. I wouldn't in this case, but. But that's on me. Well, but I'm saying. I'm not smart enough to be able to navigate it like Alex said. I want to second everything our chair said. Thank you. Any other comments around that? Go ahead. Anything? Anything? Nobody else? Okay. One more thing. For all of you who have terms that are expiring in your binder, you'll find a letter that's been prepared to make your life easier. If you fill it out and you leave it with me today, you don't have to do anything further except perhaps update your resume if you need to. Thank you so much, Roy, for your help with this. I did want to let you all know that I did meet with the chair of the appointing authority. These letters and your accompanying resume will act as the packet that the appointing authority will act on for your reappointment if you're interested in continuing to serve when they meet on April 1st. So I do need you to provide this to me so that they can act on your reappointment. And, of course, Nathaniel's team can opine on whether or not you are eligible to continue serving. The only other thing I would ask is that you leave your old badges if you received new badges today. If you will leave them on the table, that would be fantastic. Go ahead. Do we have a briefing from council today or not? I think he's asking for an update on the ethics training. So, yes, in your briefings for the April meeting, there'll be a customized five to ten minute ethics discussion associated with, I guess, there's no legal requirement for annual ethics training for this board, just like there is no annual cybersecurity training that is further required of this board. But it is obviously best practice to do a refresher on some of the issues relating to ethics, gift law, public records, which I'll be doing in your individual briefings in advance of the April meeting. We're not doing that today. Oh, no. Oh, thank you. Question. In Tallahassee last year, there was a lot of talk about the ethics, the form, about changes to the reports and what has to be reported. Did anything change last legislative session that we need to account for our financials? Not for the members of this board. So, you're continuing to complete the financial disclosure. Form one. Form one in terms of your disclosures as you have in the past. If anything changes this session that may go into effect for July, I'll be absolutely letting you all know. If it's in between meetings, you'll still find out from me so that you can make your appropriate disclosures. All right. And we're doing good time. It's like 2-17, so we're doing good. But I just wanted to close by, again, first thanking my colleagues at the table, board members for your service. I know this is taking time out of your work schedules or just your personal life. The fact that you choose to be here when we have these meetings and spend time, even before you come to the meetings, preparing is really appreciated by me and I'm sure by so many of our residents in Broward County. So, I want to thank you for that. I also want to thank our staff that support the work that we do here. I know putting these meetings together is never an easy deal. And it seemed like every time either you or our staff presenters come before us, we're asking more and more and more. And I don't want the county to come to a screeching halt because folks on this board is just constantly layering on work that may not necessarily translate in real-time impact. So, you know, I think push back when you need to, if it becomes overbearing. I think we need to be realistic about how we move forward in this work because there needs to be a dedication to fiscal responsibility and how we spend our time and the resources that has been entrusted to us. I think that our presenters every time come in with a high level of wanting to be transparent in the work that they're doing, a level of accountability that I've seen over the period since we started this process is obviously there. The visioning, all of that, we're seeing every time we meet. We are going to continue to push the envelope because that is our responsibility to the residents and to the county to make sure we're asking the hard questions and that we are also bringing some levels of innovation to some of the ideas presented to us. That is still part of our responsibility and we will always still ask some tough questions in a respectful manner always, I expect. And, but I just wanted to convey my gratitude to all the presenters who come and those who just are here to just support the work that's being done. I want to thank you and have a happy Valentine's Day when it comes. Stay warm. We're adjourned. We adjourned. Thank you. Don't forget that.