Good evening, everyone. Naya, if you could do the roll call for us, please. Omar Bradford. Here. Robert Wilfarth. Carolina Vester. Present. Harry Hoffman. Kenneth Kilpatrick. Present. David Marin. Present. Miguel Murphy. Present. Paul Schwepp. Meg Daly. Mayor Peggy Bell. Here. Mary Street. Present. Madam Chairwoman, you do have a quorum. Thank you. I'd also like to recognize that we have our tax collector, Daryl Fernandez, here. Welcome. Thank you for joining us. Okay, so we have two ceremonial items. First is swearing in of reappointed members. I think we're going to do them all together at once, if that's okay. Yeah, and if I may clarify, it's only those members that were recently reappointed by commissioners. So that's all of you except for Member Vester, who didn't need to do that. You, you, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, so the rest of you, please stand. No, League of Cities, you sit. You're good. One second, Bruce. Let's let Meg come in. She was also one of the reappointed members. I believe, Meg, we have you over here. The members have all signed the necessary paperwork, so now we can do the ceremonial swearing in. Please raise your right hand. I, please state your name. I solemnly swear that I will support, protect, and defend the Constitution and government of the United States and of the State of Florida. That I am duly qualified to hold office under the Constitution of the State. And that I will faithfully perform duties as a member of the Citizens Independent Transportation Trust, on which I am now about to enter. So help me God. Congratulations to all of you. Thank you, everyone. Now we're going to move on to the next ceremonial item, which is recognizing our CITT Ambassador of the Month. His name is Theo, okay, I'm sorry, Karansalas. I apologize. I used to also have a difficult last name until I stole my husband's. Welcome. Thank you. It's with great pleasure that we recognize our April 2026 CITT Ambassador of the Month. As you may know, this program engages frequent transit riders as volunteers who give regular feedback on their experience. And the data that they share is then shared with the Department of Transportation and Public Works and our municipal partners, which help improve transit services across Miami-Dade County. At each CITT meeting, we recognize our top performing ambassadors who have earned the most points completing the transit surveys each month, each quarter, and each year. Theo has earned an impressive 11,550 points completing surveys just this last month. As our top performer, we recognize him as the CITT Ambassador of the Month for April, and we salute you as the reigning CITT Ambassador of the Year. Thank you, Theo, again, and in appreciation for your outstanding volunteer service, we will be presenting you with a certificate in a moment and recognition and award you with 2,500 bonus points, which you can redeem in your CITT Ambassador mobile app. If Javier Betancourt, Stacy Miller, Sean Adgerson, Cheryl Mizell, and Theo, would you please join me for the presentation in the, what do we call this, the well. Thank you. This is a little deja vu, Theo. So we all just did this to celebrate Theo as the Ambassador of the Year two days ago. And now it's a new year, and now he's the Ambassador of the Month and may very well be Ambassador of the Year again. We'll see. We'll see. Got to rack up those points. All right, sir. Good to see you again. Do you have? Okay. Thank you so much again for your participation. As you know, this is important to everybody, and we really appreciate your volunteer service. Would you like to say anything? I feel like you always have very inspiring things to say. First, thank you. Thank you, Sean Mizell, Javier Betancourt, and the entire CITT team. I'm grateful for this recognition and for the work you do every day to strengthen public transit in Miami-Dade County. It's an honor to be part of this program that listens to riders and helps make transit better, safer, and more accessible for everyone. Thank you. Thank you, and in honor of your recognition, here is your certificate. You're going to run out of wall space with all these things. Thank you, Theo. A round of applause for Theo. And, of course, as always, we want to thank the Department of Transportation and Public Works and our municipal partners for all the good work they do in providing the transit services that so many people depend on. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Picture time. And for anyone who wants to apply to become an ambassador, Miami-Dade.gov slash CITT dash ambassador. Okay, moving on. Number three on the agenda are citizens' comments. Do we have anyone here from the public that would like to speak or anyone sent an email? Good evening, Chair and Trust members. We do have a public comment from, actually, our CITT Ambassador of the Month and of the Year. Mr. Theo Caron Salas would like to say a few words, and I did not receive anything via email, though, just so you know. Welcome again. Thank you. Good evening, Trust members. My name is Theo Caron Salas, and I serve as Chair of the Miami-Dade County Commission on Disability Issues. But I'm speaking today in my individual capacity as a transit rider and a disability advocate. I support expanding and improving bus shelters across Miami-Dade County with one essential condition. They must be fully ADA accessible. For people with disabilities, bus shelters are not simply a convenience. They're basic access. In Miami, riders often wait in extreme heat, heavy rain, poor lighting, and near fast-moving traffic. For people who use wheelchairs, walkers, scooters, canes, or service animals, these conditions can make transit unsafe or unusable. Every shelter should have a safe, accessible path to the sidewalk, curb, bus stop, or boarding area. No disabled rider should have to cross grass, gravel, broken pavement, weeds, or other obstacles to reach a shelter or board a bus. I recently raised a civil rights complaint involving similar access problems at the Okeechobee Metro Rail Station in District 13 where poor planning left disabled riders without a safe, usable, pedestrian path. We should not repeat that mistake with bus shelters. Shelters should include seating, lighting, shade, and enough clear space for people using mobility devices to wait and maneuver safely. A shelter is not ADA accessible in any meaningful way unless a disabled rider can reach it safely, wait there safely, and board the bus safely. That should be the standard for every shelter funded under this program. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Anyone? Okay. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the approval of this agenda. Thank you. Second. Great. All in favor? Aye. And then the next item is approval of the minutes from March 18th, 2026. Do I have a motion? Second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Just as a reminder for the record, while we did meet in April, that was a virtual workshop, so no minutes were necessary there. Great. Thank you. So let's move on to the presentations and updates. Our first one is the quarterly community engagement update from our very own Carla Damian. Again, good evening, trust members, Carla Damian, Chief Community Engagement Officer for the CATT. We had quite a few events this past quarters, very successful events. Starting with our CATT Ambassador of the Year and Third Anniversary Celebration, which was a very highly successful, well-attended event. Base, Cheryl and myself, did a post-event survey of our CATT Ambassadors. And most of them felt that the speakers were exceptional, particularly our Ambassador of the Year, Theo, congratulations again. With the Ambassadors feeling that it was very moving, inspiring speech that he gave. The Ambassadors also felt that they had great pride in being CATT Ambassadors and they valued the network experience that they had at the event. We also had great media coverage, both in print and TV media. And a big shout out to our organizers and partners with Miami's Community Newspapers Grant and Michael Miller for, again, another great successful event. Moving on, in April, we had our first inaugural CATT Mobility Matters ceremony, or awards. We want to, again, thank community's newspapers for their great partnership. In particular, we also want to thank our community engagement committee where this idea was born. And our current chair, Mr. Murphy, thank you so much for all your work in helping us with the logistics of the college and getting everything done. We really appreciate that you played a pivotal role in making this a great success. We also want to thank our organizers, again, Memes Community Newspapers, our keynote speaker, Medellin Pomariega, Avanza team, and everyone who participated in this great event. And congratulations to our event, our finalists and our winners. And we also want to thank our leadership who participated at the event. Thank you for handing out the awards and being present there. Prior to the event, we also held a workshop, a transfer informational workshop. Again, also the idea of our chair, Mr. Murphy. He felt that it would be important for students and faculty to know a little bit more about transit. So we had our sister agencies, TPO, DTPW, and others participate. And it was a great success attended by college faculty, staff, and students. Later, we had- Carla, before we move on, I don't think we actually acknowledge the winners. So I do want to say that the Miami-Dade County did win an award for Metro Express, so congratulations to them. We'll hear more about Metro Express a little later on in the agenda. The underline, represented in part by one of our own members, McDaily, won two awards, Trailblazer and the People's Choice Award, which they just beat out the bright line for. And the city of Miami won our other award. I don't think anyone is here from the city, but all very deserving winners of our inaugural awards. Correct, and I also want to mention that at the end of this presentation, or towards the end, we're going to show a mini recap video, so we'll be sharing that as well. I ruined the surprise, I apologize. No, it's okay, it's okay, great. No, that was a good reminder. Okay, so moving on to commotion. We had a great showing where we were able to do our Mobility Matters podcast right on site. So we want to thank the organizers for allowing us to do that. And a big shout out also to our team who did a phenomenal job again of the production and post-production of this event. And Joey, thank you for all your work on that. And to our staff also who participated, engaging with our event participants. The mayor who gave up her time to do an interview with us as well, and everyone who participated. And I wanted to add that photo of Javier on the scooter because we don't just do the talk. We walked, what is it, what's the saying? We walked the talk. Yes. Never mind that I'm riding the scooter on a sidewalk, which I guess you shouldn't be doing. But I was very careful not to kill any pedestrians. He was being very safe, very safe. He's a safe driver. Okay. Moving on, community outreach events. I also had the privilege of participating at another event where Mr. Murphy was working with students at the Florida Caribbean Student Association. This was at the Miami-Dade College North Campus. So all of these events, we are engaging and telling students, participants, about the CATT and our projects and how to become a member. That's one of the things. Moving on to Mobility Matters, we had several guests, including our very own, Mr. Kenneth Kilpatrick. Thank you for joining us as a guest. We enjoyed having you there. We have several that are coming up, including Director of Public Works from City of Miami Beach and several mayors. Move on. And thank you again to Miami-Dade Community Newspapers for partnering with us on the podcast. Media coverage, quite a few articles that have been published, including national publication, Passenger Transport, which is a transit national publication that is featuring our CATT Ambassador Program and our Ambassador of the Year, Theo Carranzales. So congratulations again, Theo. We will be sharing that soon, the link to the article. They'll be coming up either this week or next week. Member recruitment, again, as I mentioned before, we have been doing a lot of engaging with the public at different events, where we have been talking about how to become a member, including at the past two previous events. We've been doing advertising, a newspaper, and that is an example of one of the advertisements that we've done. And we also, at the last CATT check-in ambassador, check-in with Javier and Cheryl Maizal, they shared a special leadership track presentation that Cheryl will be talking a little more about that when she talks about the Ambassador Program. And so now I would like to hand it over to Joey, who will be talking a little bit about the KPIs for social media. And as always, they're going to give just some highlights. You have much more information in your package, but we'd be here all night if we went through it all in detail. And so much fun, too. Instagram followers slightly increasing, not much else to say there. Likes and reactions slightly above the kind of consistent amount, aside from a few anomalous months and kind of less boom and bust, a little bit more consistent. Instagram impressions or views, formally impressions, same thing. And these are our top posts for Instagram, mostly videos, of course. Followers for Facebook slowly increasing. Likes and reactions are generally up this quarter. Impressions up, you know, compared to previous quarters, but on a downtrend through the quarter. And then our top posts for Facebook. Followers after, for X, excuse me, compared to the previous quarter, actually up, which is a nice change. Likes down a bit, but I expect that to increase in April in the wake of the two events that we had that Carla mentioned. Impressions, though, did have a big boost in February. And then our top posts for X. LinkedIn followers are up. Likes and reactions increased through the quarter. Same with impressions. Big leap in March. And then our top posts for LinkedIn. This looks a little bit different because we had some issues with Sprinklr, which is our social media aggregate platform. But it's the same information as the other platforms. And I will hand it off to Cheryl. Good evening once again. To get coordination between my hand and my mouth here. So the CITT Ambassador Program, we recognized in our, from first quarter, there we go, our Ambassador of the Year, Theo Caronzalez. And the quarter was Alex Montalvo. And he was also, for the first month, Ambassador of the Month, and Kathleen Ahmed Vargas, February, and Jimmy Hame in March. Moving on, our highlights for the first quarter. We had our check-in last week, May 14th. And we have the next one scheduled for October 1. As far as the focus group, and Carla mentioned earlier, the CITT Ambassador Leadership Track was the focus of the focus group this time. And in the focus group survey that the ambassadors complete at the end, they indicated that they were interested in this program that we've launched. Where top performing ambassadors can be invited to learn more about transportation and the process of serving as a trust member. So we'll start inducting participants, which will be initially looked at from the ones who are ambassadors of the month, ambassadors of the quarter, and ambassadors of the year. We've also launched our referral bonus program, where CITT ambassadors can now help us recruit new ambassadors. So when they refer someone who is approved, onboarded, and completes their first survey, then they can receive points. And Velocia is working with us to develop a new tool to flag zero coverage route stations in on-demand coverage areas. And this will help us to more quickly identify where we need coverage. And working with CITD to more quickly identify applicants who are riding the routes, that need ambassadors. So we're trying to improve our operations process. As far as KTIs, we'll move through these pretty quickly. And let us- The slide. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Hand, mouth, hand, mouth. I'll get it together soon. Work with me. Approximately, and actually slightly more than a half of the routes are being covered. And so the ambassadors who are on board, they are constantly filling out those surveys. And as a result, those surveys remain stable. I've seen them peak as high over 1,000 in peak months. And so it looks like this last quarter they were around 900. Moving on to safety, well, again, the ambassadors, they're 97% feeling safe. Slide. Thank you. Feeling safe and very safe. And I'll leave you to explore those remaining KPIs. Meanwhile, we'll move on to the Mobility Matters Awards Recap that Carla mentioned earlier. Play the video, please. I'm proud to recognize nine outstanding finalists whose work reflects creativity, commitment, collaboration, and impact in the mobility and transportation space here. It was really hard to make a decision because they had, you know, we had both organizations and individuals that were making different kinds of impacts and different levels of impact, but they were all making a real difference in the community. The Trailblazer Award goes to the Underline. Woo! The Underline! The Underline is a 10-mile, 120-acre urban park that resides underneath the county metro rail system. It connects from Dayland all the way up north towards Burkos. The Innovation and Impact Award goes to Metro Express! Woo! This project is really special and I think very deserving of this award because it has truly changed the way that people get around in South Dayton. Onward and Upward Award goes to the city of Miami. It's an amazing feeling to just be able to run 13 routes within the city of Miami and do it with the staff that I have. It's amazing. To be recognized for it is even amazing. And the winner of the People's Choice Award 2026 is the Underline! Round of applause! Round of applause! It's a community-led project and the fact that we won two awards today is really indicative of the importance of the project to Miami and Miami-Dade County. Thank you everyone for being a part of this, for supporting the work, and for helping to move Miami-Dade forward. I think you have an alternate career as a game show host. Right? As an emcee? That concludes our presentation. Thank you guys. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Any questions? I just want to congratulate you all on putting together that event. It was really great. Thank you. Thank you. It was very much of a group effort. I want to thank our team, our Vanessa team as well, for everything and our staff who supported us. Thank you, Javier, also. That's it? Okay. Thank you. And Chair Murphy, thank you. Our next presentation is the South Corridor Operations Update from Mr. Arenas. Thank you, Madam Chair. Good evening, Madam Vice Chair and members of the trust. Congratulations to those who were reappointed today or appointed today. My name is Herman Arenas. I'm Assistant Director with the Department of Transportation and Public Works. I'm here today to give you a quick operations update on the South Corridor. The first slide, basically what we have is a quick number at the top that means a lot to all of us in the county, not only to DTPW. 205 days to days in the day that we launched, extremely significant for all of us. October 27, 2025, it was the launch day. A new service system started, and since that point, we are doing optimization to the system and also working on the data that is part of our commitment with our partners and stakeholders. The next one, it's basically data that we started collecting, as you see, from left to right, basically starting October 27, there are three different indicators. You have a color for all routes within the department. Then you have Route 601, which is Metro Express. Then 602, which is the local service. And as you can see, the beginning period, it has been adjustment process. And as you can see all the way up to May, the different iterations with the lineups is actually getting us way up there, close or surpassing our on-time performance goal of 78%. Now, Sherry, some of the numbers that are definitely important to us as we move through. So this first one will give you information of six-month relevance on two indicators. The first one is the total corridor data coming from 2024 and 2024, 25 prior to the opening of the Metro Express. And also the combined data for both the Express 601 and 602 lines. As you can see, actually, there is a trend going up. The numbers actually here are actually consistent with the original plan. We had five original routes that were either completely or partially going through the transitway. And those are the ones that we're comparing against the 6 and 1 at the CISO 2, which are the only two routes that are running today through the transitway. Going to some very exciting numbers that we have here all the way to the month of April. This is the monthly year-over-year for the express rides. So this is a comparison of the total express routes that we have before, which were the 34 and the 39, compared to only the 601. And the numbers are truly amazing and showing very good results. Then to finalize, basically, is what we're at today. This is basically ongoing activities. We continue doing data collection and analysis. We definitely continue monitoring all the operations, doing all the optimization that needs to be done, you know, trying to stabilize the operation, and making sure that it continues and continues to improve. Balancing also the VRT operations and making sure that all the coordination that needs to happen on our commitments with our MOU, MOU, with the state also, are complied to. And this is the presentation. Thank you. Thank you so much for your presentation. The ridership increase is really impressive. I guess it's the build it and they will come thing. Does anyone else have any comments or questions? Yeah, Madam Chair, I just wanted to ask a question. And thank you, Mr. Arenas, for a great presentation and congratulations on those numbers. Those are really, really great. I just have a question about what we've talked about here with this trust before, which is the gold standard, which is really important to the Miami-Dade County transit community and something that was promised to the Miami-Dade residents as well. And so I know you've been operating for almost seven months now. I think you started October 25th, as you mentioned. And I think that there is a window in order to apply with ADTP for the gold standard. And just wanted to make sure that was still on the radar with DTPW to make sure that we are following through with that commitment. Yes, thank you. So there is no provision by ADTP as to when we have to go back to them. They say run at least six months. So they would not want us to go then, to actually come back here to do the operational review prematurely or anything like that. So we are actually continuing doing the optimization. And after the whole process comes together and the whole resources are together, then, of course, that is the plan so far to go back. And so I understand you need to get your numbers in line first in order to see where we are. And so things look very good. But are you telling me that there is no deadline with ADTP in order to make the application? It's open until whenever? Yes. What they have shared with us is that they don't want to come to any property earlier than six months, right? So after six months is when they actually welcome the invitation. That's what they have shared with us. Okay. So I guess on maybe the next update we can ask again because I think it's very important that we continue to follow through to make sure that we do get that gold standard status. And so I don't really hear any type of time period at this point yet other than continuing to gather the information. Yes. At this point in time, we're focusing that the system continues to provide service and that we continue to optimize to see those numbers actually going up and up. And certainly we'll be more than glad to give you an update in the next update. Okay. All right. Very good. Thank you. You're welcome. Ramami, is the designation, if you get it, is it a yearly thing that you need to do? Or how long does it last for? No, it actually lasts for, it all depends. So once they qualify you, there's two-step process, right? So there's the design process we already went through and the operations process. So the operations process, they come in and they basically secret shop the system. And once they're done, they give us a designation. After, they basically come by invitation, by the system invitation. They do work independently, however, once they're here. But after that, what I have been related by other properties is that years can go by. Sometimes they, ITDP says, okay, it's been X amount of years. Let us go in to see if you're keeping your status. And their 2024 update that they did for their, you know, basic KPIs and markers is pointing into them being a little more proactive into that. But some properties, five, ten years go by and they don't go back. Yeah, because I remember there being a discussion about even the standards change over time. So, you know, qualifying in one year doesn't necessarily mean you would meet the same qualifications of a later year because the standards have changed. That's correct. Go ahead, Vice Chair Bell. Thank you. Good presentation, Mr. Arians. I appreciate it. How are we doing on the synchronization of the lights, the traffic lights? We work on that on a daily basis, ma'am. On a daily basis. Those are the complaints that I hear. Are the, you know, people sit on the sidelines, you know, from the roads coming from the other directions? Or, you know, it just doesn't seem to be fixed yet, I guess is what they're telling me. So what it is is the optimization process is always going to go back to the premise. The premise that we have is the concept of operations, and that defines our peak hours. During our peak hours, you will see the preemption activated, and that actually gives priority to the bus during those periods. The rest of the periods, it's basically just what we call priority, which is a different alignment of what synchronization happens. And what we are doing right now is basically getting to optimize so that we get it to perfection. It's a very difficult system, 47 intersections, 20 miles, two bounds. So what we're trying to do is to make sure that hopefully as we go in, we get to that sweet spot, right? Right now what we're doing is to make sure everything works well, and we're observing the behavior and learning. And that's the premise. I understand. So it's an ongoing process, and you're continuing to improve it pretty much is what you're saying. And going back to the gold standard, perhaps the organization will let people have five to ten years, but I know it was a commitment from our mayor, our county mayor, and to our residents when we were not given the rail. But we were given that assurance that we would. So is this going to be a priority for the county to continue to work toward the gold standard? And what is your guesstimate of how long that might take? Because to have an open end five or ten years is really not going to satisfy people that expected it. I think just to clarify, the five or ten years was him saying once they got the gold standard that they don't necessarily force them to recertify. They come back maybe in five to ten years. That's what I understood. That's absolutely correct. My apologies. I misunderstood. So where are we then in the process of perhaps getting the gold standard? So right now what we're doing, we're adjusting. We're focusing on making sure that we clear any issues that are affecting your constituents, yours, and every single municipality that is crossing. That's our priority right now to make sure that we can actually move people from A to B. through that optimization process, once we get there, absolutely we can look into that option as well. Okay. Thank you. Madam Chair. No? Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Let's move on to our action items. 7A, please, Mr. Attorney. 7A, resolution by the citizens. I'm sorry. And the attorney does have to provide some revised language to that. I was going to revise language based on conversations that have happened between DTPW and CITC staff. And I'm looking to DTPW staff to confirm that what I'm about to read is going to eventually make its way as a substitute item to be presented to the Board of County Commissioners. I will read the resolution as it's going to be revised here and for the full DTPW. Resolution by the Citizens Independent Transportation Trust recommending the Board of County Commissioners authorize a non-competitive designated purchase pursuant to Section 2-8.1B3 of the County Code by a two-thirds vote of the Board members present, authorizing additional expenditure authority in the amount of $24,980,000 for a total modified amount of $54,944,885 for contract number RFP-01071 bus passenger shelter program for the Department of Transportation and Public Works, authorizing the county mayor to execute the supplemental agreement and exercise all provisions contained therein, and authorizing the use of People's Transportation Plan bond program funds this is the change, of up to $24,980,000 upon approval of a subsequent capital budget. For this project, which was included in the original Exhibit 1 to the PTP. As revised, as amended, that is Agenda Item 7A. To the attorney's question. Stacey Miller, Director and CEO of the Department of Transportation and Public Works, and yes, I can affirm that that will be submitted. Mr. Attorney, for my sake, can you read just the part that was added? Of up to $24,980,000 upon approval of a subsequent capital budget. Okay, thank you. Does anyone have any motion or questions or comments? Madam Chair? Yes, go ahead. I did have a few questions, if I may. So the item says that there are 2,304 total bus stops, and that's UMSA countywide, correct? That is UMSA. That's UMSA countywide? Yes. Okay, and then 1,557 of those bus stops currently have bus shelters. That would be once this current contract is completed, yes. The addition is 500 additional more bus stops leaving 747 without shelters. I thought the item was adding 500, leaving 247. I'm sorry. Yes, 247. I apologize. You're correct. Okay. So my question to you is, do you have the geographic location? Where are the 247 in UMSA located that are going to receive just the bus benches and the trash cans? We can provide a map. Okay, but you don't have that information. Do you know if it's the north end of UMSA, south, south end of UMSA? We would have to provide a map. It's not a singular geographic area. Okay. And maybe the amendment took care of what I wanted to ask about the financing of it. It looks like just the member review form that we have shows that the total cost is PTP, which I guess maybe it's still PTP. Okay. But the item, the agenda item alluded to a generating revenue through advertising. So is any of that going to be made available at all? Because my understanding is that in 2020, the program launched. And from that time to now, that advertising revenue has been sort of a supplement to keep that program moving. Is that accurate? So the majority of the revenue generated from the program actually funds the operation and maintenance of the bus shelters. DTPW does receive a revenue share. We have a minimum guaranteed revenue in each instance so far since the program's inception. We have received greater than, which is 5% of the revenue generated. To date, we have, since June of 2020, we have received a little over $800,000 from the program. Understood. So I just wanted to put on record, I would like to see the map. I'd like to see where the shelters that are not eligible for this program are located. Where the stops are, yes. Yes, and I just want to also note, you know, also to the trust members that I know that there are several bus stops in Amson North Central that currently do not have shelters. So my fingers are crossed. I was hoping to get the answers, hopefully today, that this program was going to fund shelters for those bus stops. So I'm very interested in seeing, you know, where the bus, where the 500 are going to be located in the 247 that will not receive it. We can do that. Thank you. So the director will get that to me, and I will share it with the members. Thank you. Through the chair. Go ahead. Thank you. Just drafting off of member Kilpatrick's question, we appreciate that the map may not be available at this moment. Can you give some sense in terms of the basis of the prioritization of the 500 versus the 247? So of the 247, based on engineering analysis, a bus shelter cannot fit in that individual location. So we are installing, so this gets us to 89% shelter for all AMSA bus stops. But the remaining stops, the way they are currently, where they currently exist, a physical shelter can't be built to meet engineering standard. It's an engineering issue rather than a geographic. It has nothing to do with geography. It has all to do with geometry. That's good to know. Thanks. Through the chair. Yes, of course. Go ahead. Thank you. I just wanted to commend the staff for the very thorough report. I was very impressed being, this is the second meeting, and actually seeing the staff report, the exact questions I had were answered in the report. But I do have one more question, and that's regarding maintenance. So I see there's an additional, and correct me if I'm wrong, which is very commendable. The shelters are an additional 350 shelters, is that correct, to the current shelters? We're building 500 additional shelters? Okay, so for the 500 additional shelters, I saw a comment in the graph at the very bottom that maintenance was going to be provided as part of the contract through 2035. Correct. So is that maintenance for all the shelters as they get completed? All of the shelters built to date. Okay. And then once they're completed, since there's additional shelters now that are going to be maintained, is that already contemplated on additional funding for maintenance to maintain those additional shelters? As I mentioned, the maintenance of all shelters is actually provided through the marketing funds that are received from out front, who is our contractor. Again, those marketing opportunities fund the maintenance and will fund it through 2035. DTPW does receive about 5% of the proceeds, which is greater than the minimum guarantee in the contract. So we receive a small portion, but the majority of those funds go to the operation and maintenance of the shelters through 2035. And what happens after? We'll contract separately at that point. And that's through the marketing? Or you're saying through? We would contract separately as this contract would expire, and we would go out for a new contract to operate and maintain our bus shelters. The likelihood is it would be another marketing-type contract where someone would obviously provide marketing opportunities at those physical locations. The majority of the monies would go towards operation and maintenance, and DTPW would receive a revenue share. So through the marketing, they would basically be self-funded to maintain? Okay. Thank you. Hi, Director Miller. Based on, I think, the commentary of our neighborhood ambassador was talking about ADA compliance. So I assume all of these are ADA compliant. That's great news. And do you have any sense of what advertising is going to be generated for the newer shelters? Do you have any projections on that? It's the same advertising contract. So, again, we have a minimum guarantee, but we, to date, have received over the minimum guarantee, which is 5%. So if you're asking me what the projected potential amount would be. You have a sense of it. Yes, I do. So right now we receive anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 a month on the existing shelters. So you could extrapolate that out with an additional 500 shelters over a three-year period. We'll still receive somewhere in that range. It also is dependent on season, the location. There's a number of different factors as to how much each particular shelter generates in revenue. Great. Thank you. Go ahead. Bye, Strupa. Thank you, Madam Chair. Director Miller, thank you. I think it bears repeating that you're doing a wonderful job in moving forward with these very much-needed upgrades to the bus shelters. And, you know, for the reasons that were stated by Citizen earlier, absolutely. My question is, because this was originally anticipated, as things change, I understand that, for, I believe, the, was $29 million originally for the PTP contribution, and now this is an additional approximately $25 million, yeah. So my question is then, are there any grants or anything else? I'm sure you've tried to pursue things like that. I'm sure you do that. I think it's probably silly of me to even ask, but I have to, you know. And is this something that, you know, is this going to be the absolute end of it for this year? Because this is only for the unincorporated areas of the county. So I know there's lots of cities that, you know, that's on them. They have their funding, and they should be upgrading theirs as well. And I know some are. I'm not putting them down. But this is a gigantic expenditure, and though it's really needed, I guess I'm wondering, why is it all CITT funds? And if it is, yay, yay for CITT funds for that half-penny sales tax. It's definitely a kudos for the half-penny sales tax. And the fact is, this is well within the wheelhouse of what we expected to spend these sort of resources on. Obviously, we're always looking for alternative sources of funds, and we manage throughout the entire program resources and how best to fund our various different projects. In this instance, there were no additional resources available. We did come to you with a request. But this is only for UMSA. As you clearly stated, the cities are responsible for the construction, operation, and maintenance of any bus shelters within their incorporated areas. I think it's a very good way to advertise that, you know, this is your half-penny at work while people are getting some shelter from the 150-degree. Oh, no, it's not that bad. It feels like 150. It feels like. Thank you very much, Director. Of course. And I do just want to reaffirm that this is an original Exhibit 1 project that the voters voted on in 2002. So it's one we're very comfortable supporting. And the cities can use their share of surtax funds to build shelters within the municipalities as well, and many have done so. Director, I have kind of a tangential question. When the cities build their own shelters, do they have to coordinate with DTPW in terms of the design and, you know, the compliance with ADA or what's the oversight? Is it internal to the city? So obviously nothing can be built that does not meet engineering standards and justifications. Anytime we build something new, it has to meet engineering requirements, ADA compliance, et cetera. Many of the cities have a shelter program where they have a unique shelter within their individual city. We just discuss with them that this is the look and feel that they're going for. They explain to us the engineering behind it, and off they go. I was just curious because there's some in the city of Miami on, like, four-foot sidewalks, and it's not – obviously I'm not complaining about having the shelter, but I always look at that and I'm like, how did that fit? I was just curious. Okay. Does anyone else have any comments, questions, or a motion? I will just say that those do meet ADA standards. Although it is a narrower sidewalk, there is a minimum requirement of three feet. In front of the shelter? Oh, interesting. Okay. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Director Miller. And thank you for the revised language. I'm so much more comfortable with this item now that we are up to that $24 million plus. But going back – on the original allocation, the $29.5 million, is there an analysis that is – what you've built out so far, like what is the balance in that fund that can be moved over to fund some of these shelters? Like, is there analysis – what have we not spent yet? So there is still a remainder of approximately $4.5 million in the existing contract. Okay. And that will be used for – It will be used for the shelter program. For the shelter program. Okay. Thank you very much. And with that, Madam Chair, I'll move the item. Second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Anyone against? No. Madam Chairman, that's as revised. As revised. I'll abstain my vote. Abstain. Okay. All right. 7B, please. Madam Chair, can you – I just need not to disagree with your vote, but I just – in my experience, we have never been able to – I think it's because of the number, right? Because we have enough people, he can abstain, or is that not – And he – if the – I was going to interject. I just want to know the rules. If the abstention – normally you cannot unless he's indicating that he has a conflict of some kind. Oh, okay. I apologize. If he has a conflict, then he's accusing himself. If it's not, then he – if he's physically in the room, should cast a vote. Fair enough. It's not because I have a conflict. I would prefer to see the map to get a more fulsome understanding and picture, not to question the basis, you know, whatsoever. But that's where my comfort level is at the moment. But if I have to go up or down, just let me know, and I can put that on the record. Yeah, and either affirmative or negative vote. Okay. Well, then I'll affirm. Thank you. Sorry about that. All right. 7B. 7B is resolution by the Citizens Independent Transportation Trust recommending to the Board of County Commissioners amendment to the fiscal year 2026 through 2030 update of the five-year implementation plan of the People's Transportation Plan to retroactively include the purchase of 40-foot buses for I-95 Phase 1 and Phase 2 projects funded by Charter County Transportation Surtex Fund. 7B. Thank you. Does anyone have any questions, comments, or a motion on 7B? Go ahead. I was wondering why it was diesel buses versus electric? Director Miller? I believe your question was the... Yes. Diesel versus electric buses. These were purchased pre-COVID through a grant through the Florida Department of Transportation. Ultimately, these buses weren't used for their originally intended purpose, but they are used for our fleet and continue to be used for our fleet. But at the time, that was not contemplated. Thank you. So, Madam Director, so from what I understand, this is, so these are existing buses purchased during COVID. And for FDOT reasons, we are reimbursing DTPW on a pro-rita basis or on a depreciated basis. So, it's a little more complicated than that, unfortunately. So, these were buses purchased pre-COVID and intended to be used for I-95 Express, which was a service provided through the Florida Department of Transportation to run on I-95 Express between Miami-Dade and Broward County on a number of different routes. I, obviously, was a DOT employee during all of this, not a member of DTPW or the county. Ultimately, the Department of Transportation determined that those buses were used by DTPW to provide regular service, not I-95 Express service. So, working with the Department of Transportation, we depreciated the value of the buses because they've been in service, used on our regular routes. and wanted to reimburse them because they were not used for the original intended purpose of I-95 Express service. Okay. And so, these buses are still in operation today because even though it was… They run today. They are intermixed with our fleet and running on various routes. Okay. So, do you know, Director, can you give us the amount of the PTP funding that's requested for this item? I think it might be in the… I believe it is 3,896,702. And that's to reimburse FDOT. That is to reimburse FDOT for the depreciated value of the buses that we have used and continue to use for regular service. Understood. Thank you. You're welcome. And just a follow-up, as long as that exact number was brought up. So, this is the depreciation from the point that they were used or they were used… They were used for the not intended purpose… Correct. …until what time period? Until I wrote a letter. Okay. Until I, as the district secretary, wrote a letter… Okay. Okay. …to the county and then, as the county, wrote a letter back. So, we determined a date certain by which we worked through the depreciation because we knew there was still residual value for the vehicles as they're still in use. Okay. And again, how many vehicles are we… It's 15. 15. Okay. That this reimbursement is associated with. What's the useful life of each of those buses? That's very dependent. So, there are standards for… through the Federal Transit Administration. Often, many of our buses exceed that. It can go by years. It can go by vehicle miles traveled. But, oftentimes, our vehicles are in good enough shape and are still performing well that we exceed the life expectancy through FTA's minimum requirements. So, is there an estimate on how much longer these buses would be on the road? It's very dependent on each individual bus, how many runs they do, how many hours they are in service. But, all of them are running. They're all fine. There's nothing wrong with that portion of our fleet. Do we have any other comments, questions, or a motion on 7B? I'll move it. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Anyone against? No. Okay. All right. We have our informational reports, A, B, and C. First one is our financial report. So, that is the one I do typically like to point out, although I don't really want to this time because it's not great news. Collections came in nearly 18% lower in February than the February of the previous year. So, that's one of the highest percentage decreases that I've seen since I've been here in my eight years. So, that's not great. And total fiscal year to date, collections are down about 8.5% over the previous fiscal year. And that is all due to a variety of circumstances. And hopefully, those circumstances will change and these numbers will come back up. Just a follow-up question on the variety of reasons that it's down. Can we attribute it to what I may believe might be the largest contributor, which was the change in state legislature, which was for the collection of commercial real estate? We have not performed an expert analysis. So, let me just take that for the record. But, yes, I think a large percentage of that is certainly due to that. And that's been consistent since that law took effect. Now, this is higher than it's been compared to some of our previous months. So, I imagine there's something else going on. The state of the economy, inflation, people not spending money as a result. I'm not quite sure, but this is definitely higher than we've seen. Well, since I've been here on CITT with generally, with the exception of COVID, for a short period of time, have had general gradual increases due to people spending more money, more people coming into the economy. And so, now that we, it might be more than what the Florida legislature has, the impact of that, is there a plan to do some sort of an analysis to kind of find out, like, why is it down so substantially and has been over the past period of time? I mean, there isn't a plan at the CITT. I don't know if the Office of Management and Budget at the county is performing any such analysis or planning to, or the state, to be honest. As we get to inquire. Yeah, I think it's important to inquire to see if the Office of Management and Budget would be looking into this, because, you know, it really does affect the surtax collections, which, you know, which we really are trying to push for the expansion of mass transportation. So, I think that I'd appreciate looking into that. Thank you, Mr. Director. Thank you. Does anybody have any old business? No? Okay. I'm going to move on to the 10A, the chairperson's report. Um, first, I'd like to thank the Board of County Commission, um, for reappointing all of our CITT members to the trust in the recent weeks. Um, it's a testament to your dedication and heart, the members' dedication and hard work to the, on behalf of the citizens of Miami-Dade County. And it's an honor and a pleasure to serve with all of you. I'm looking forward to many more years of us doing so. We continue to have several open vacancies and I encourage anyone who is interested in being a CITT member who resides in either District 9, 10 or 12 to reach out to their district commissioner for an appointment. We're also pending the TPO's appointment for their newly established seat, and we must decide about what to do with that new at-large seat to be appointed by the CITT. Um, this will be further discussed at our upcoming annual strategic workshop, which brings me to the CITT strategic workshop, which, um, we, you should have received the calendar invite for the upcoming workshop, which is tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday, June 9th. As always, we encourage trust members to participate if you can, as the discussion and consensus exercise conducted at the workshop provides critical guidance to staff in preparing the next fiscal year strategic objectives in the CITT's operating budget. Finally, I want to thank once again all members who attended our recent events, including the CITT Ambassador Recognition Breakfast, the inaugural CITT Mobility Matters Awards, and the Co-Motion Miami Conference. Special thanks to our Community Engagement Committee, led by Member Murphy, and prior to him, Member Daly, and to Carla Damien and her team as well for the highly successful string of prominent events that helped keep us engaged with the community. Well done, everybody. Um, and then, go ahead, Javier. Okay. If you could move on to the, um, Executive Director's Report. Uh, we do have the Community Engagement Committee report after yours, if you don't mind, uh, Member Murphy. And then... That's fine. Go ahead. Thank you. So, before I, uh, continue, I do want to, um, acknowledge two highly civically engaged scholars, um, at Miami Dade College in their own right. Please rise. To be acknowledged, Mr. Angel Lopez and Mr. Samuel Aquil Polanco de Oleo. Welcome. Thank you for joining us today. And they also were volunteers at our recent, um, CITT Mobility Matters, um, ceremony, welcoming our guests, um, at that, that activity. Thank you. And thank you for being here. And being so invested in, uh, CITT and, uh, Transit Affairs. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. So, on May 13th, um, just last week, we convened our Community Engagement, uh, Committee Workshop, where we discussed the potential of combining the CITT Ambassador of the Year event with the CITT Mobility Matters Awards Ceremony. And we are currently evaluating the advantages of combining both events and assessing what date or dates would be best to hold, um, the event. This is a topic that perhaps we can, um, further discuss at our upcoming CITT Strategic Workshop, as mentioned, on June 9th. And, um, I also want to go back and thank, um, President Madeline Pumariega, uh, for being our keynote speaker, um, uh, at the recent CITT Mobility Matters, uh, award ceremony. And I do want to also thank all of my colleagues here on my fellow CITT Trust members for attending and supporting all of our events, including, uh, the recent Community Engagement Workshop. So, definitely, your feedback and engagement is always welcome and deeply appreciated. Thank you. Thank you so much. Mr. Director. Okay. Thank you, Madam Chair. Um, between your report and Member Murphy's report and Carla's report, uh, you stole all, most of my thunder. So, uh, I'll just skip ahead to a couple of remaining items here. Uh, we are actively looking for guests for future episodes of Mobility Matters. We've had so many episodes at this point, over 100, that it's been challenging now to, uh, find new guests. Uh, if you have anyone in mind that you think would make a good guest, please send them our way. Um, if you would like to appear again, or if you haven't appeared before and want to appear for the first time, Member Vester, I'm looking at you. Um, please let me know. We'd love to have you on. Um, really importantly, please remember to complete and submit your annual financial disclosure forms by the due date of July 1st. Or risk fines, or even potentially the loss of your seat on the CITT. You should have received a notice and form from the county clerk's office. But if not, please let our board secretary, Naya Lake, know and she will provide that information to you. So again, by July 1st, make sure you submit those financial disclosure forms. I have to do the same. Um, we have copies of the final five year plan as approved by the Board of County Commissioners. Let me know if you want to take one home today. I know it's a lot to carry. Otherwise, we'll send it to you via courier. But if you wish to take it home today for your reading pleasure, if you have trouble sleeping at night, let me know. And we have copies available. That's it. Thank you. Thank you so much. Um, are there any new business or member issues that anyone would like to raise at this time? Okay. Seeing none, I'll move on to if there are any citizens comments for people to come and provide. Carl, I don't know if anyone emailed or if anyone here is in person and would like to talk two minutes each. Both shelters in between on the route. So I kept hoofing it. Hello. Good evening. And I'll tell you out of the meetings that I've attended. My name is Madame Renita Holmes. I'm an Executive Director of Wave of Women. Toxic Tour in Miami-Dade County's one of 100 resilient women selected by the BBC. A resilient woman within Clio Institute and a person living with disability as well. Member Kilpatrick, I've watched and I'm concerned about North Central Dade as well. I appreciate seeing you again, sir. I engaged him on a daily basis when I came down here and I learned a lot. And I'm grateful to see that this board is doing what it does. You make me very proud and willing to be more engaged. However, I have a request and a concern about the actual climate and the resilience in the design. The number of bus shelters in North Central. The ladies and the gentlemen that sit on those bus stops, believe it or not. And how hot it is. For persons like myself who have respiratory illnesses and allergies, three feet is not enough. When I see three feet in the inner city part, it's not as good. And hopefully that we can engage with more persons out of the inner city and the municipalities and leadership. Honestly, not having you so near or having meetings there. And not having as much engagement with Professor Theo Carosal. This is my professor at Miami Dade College. We don't get the opportunity to share with you just how real it is in that area when it comes to utilizing transportation. We don't get much of an opportunity as women and mothers to tell you how important it is. And we do have some ideas. We do support you. But it's very difficult when you're not just a member of the community that's volunteering. It's very difficult to get people to translate what they say. And I like to ask that you engage with us a lot more. That you listen to some of us that are going to come here now. Some of us that catch the bus. Some of us that are wearing socks by the time we get there. Some of us that are burnt. But most of us who are persons with disability. Heat means a lot more than just getting skin burned or making sure you wear the right stuff or carry enough that you can actually peel off layers. For mothers and children, it's deadly. For some of us, the respiratory illnesses, the climate issue. And I'm going to hope that we do get more feedback and that you will invite me back to tell you or share with you or us back and open it up for them to share with you. This is getting home from work time. This is making sure you get there and the kids there. It's making sure that when I'm at that shelter that we have a little bit more than just three feet. That we have signs that tell people to slow down and that understand what the carbon monoxide when buses take off. It can really choke you. But I just wanted to tell you more so than ever, I'm very proud that you're on point. I've watched you grow. And I have no idea where my half a penny is going. And I've got a funny feeling it's going to be more than half a penny. So I want to put my two cents in it. We want to put our two cents in it. And we want to give you the continued support that I think you deserve for being a board that's working, that's communicating, and that's inviting us to participate. So thank you again for allowing me the opportunity to speak. Thank you so much for coming and thank you for your kind words. I think that, you know, I've been on this board for, what, since 2021. And I think that it was one of the first community, I'm sorry, one of the first workshops we talked about. How do we engage the community more? How do we get the word out? And as you know, we're all volunteers. We're not elected officials. This is not our main job by any means, but we all take it very seriously. And it's been an honor for me to work on this board and to watch that aspect of it grow the community engagement, the outreach, the CITT ambassador program developing and the mobility matters podcast, everything that we're doing to try to be more visible, be more accessible, have that back and forth between the community and this body and what we're trying to do. Um, because we are, we are in a way representing the, you know, the districts and the county as a whole. And I think we all have the same goals. Um, so it's been very inspiring and very an honor and it's really nice to hear somebody like you come and have, you know, recognize it. Thank you so much. And I agree. It's not easy getting around this county, whether you're in a car or in on public transit. So this, and especially if you have kids in tow, I, I very much can certify that as well. I entrust my communication to you. If I may, I entrust you with it because I know the integrity of, uh, Javier. I said be this door down before we had to go through security guards and he was always had an open attitude. I haven't seen him participate in any projects that have been productive. But when we talk about climate, when we talk about safety, when we talk about the environment, we need to have some real communication because the sun and mother nature doesn't really give a hoot. And I'm going to tell you right now, they're going to have to make sure that things are clear enough for fire and rescue to get through. That people are going to be homeless persons in regards that will come there and say, okay, but there is a community that's without. And I hope that you continue to advocate that we have those basics because it is killing heat out there. So I entrust with you. You say the right things. You ask the right questions. I've been watching you from afar, you know, and I've watched you grow, but I hope that you're even more open to some of the things that we're going to question. And about the science of it all, because bottom line, you can say things, you can design things. But when it comes to the science, some of us love science and mother nature is my best friend. Just as sure as a nice breath and ability to access water or cold water and coming from the smile trust as a volunteer. Oh, we have a watering program. We're at doctors beyond borders. And there are some great ideas that we see in working small places, but we don't get to share. And if you're open to listen, we're going to enhance your impact on what you're already doing. Okay? And then, of course, your volunteer time. Okay? So stay hydrated. Thank you. You too. If anyone else have any comments, go ahead, Member Kilpatrick. I just wanted to very quickly, Ms. Holmes, thank you for coming down. You're welcome, sir. And we appreciate the support. And that's what this open forum is for. This is not a closed forum. This is an open forum for the community to come out and engage and learn the process. So I'm so proud of you and others who have come from the community. I want to encourage you to continue doing that and bring others out to also engage. Thank you. I just don't, it would be, it would really be bad to not say thanks to Cheryl. I've known her for years. You know, she's done a great job. She's been very inviting. She represents you very well. It's downright even personal. So with all of you, it's really personal now because I made it to the first mic. And then you gave me a little bit more than two minutes. That already says integrity. But thank you, sir. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your open-mindedness. And thank you all for your dedication. We're going to have some mamas talking to you real soon about Toxic Tour. And I think you'll get a lot more insight. And we're going to invite you to walk with us, as a matter of fact. So you can actually feel it, see an experience, and keep us on an equal level of understanding, of knowledge, and of being able to improve things. You've had a great impact in my life. Thank you for seeing people work so hard, especially you. I'm still reading that book, but thank you very much. Thank you so much. Our next meeting is Wednesday, June 24th, 2026, at 5 p.m. in the Stephen P. Clark Center. And I think with that, we're adjourned. Thank you so much.