Citizens' Independent Transportation Trust Meeting - Jun 24, 2026

to our citizens independent transportation trust meeting of june 24th 2026 and welcome this evening our chair had a work commitment and so i will be chairing the uh the meeting for her and uh we are it is oh what time is it madam clerk what time is it it is five o'clock so if you would please do the role omar bradford robert wolfarth caroline vesta present harry hoffman quazari harvey kenneth kilpatrick present david marin present miguel murphy paul schwep meg daly present mayor peggy bell mary street madam chair you have a quorum members um we have a request to change the action items number seven a and b move them up on the agenda uh down under item five i'd like a motion second second and all those in favor aye and anyone against item passes thank you moving the other item where we will be moving six e2 uh that will be in just before six a um i don't need the agenda because we're doing an amendment um i may have a motion for that so move second and all those in favor aye madam chair yes um could i request um because i have to leave early also um if if not uh taking up the item if i could just make comments on item 9 a and prefer after action items if possible thank you thank you madam chair um i think in your revised agenda you'll see that we are deferring our ambassador of the month recognition to our next month so yes and and that uh that member that member would be kathy bernstein so we will have that on the next uh next month's agenda um do we have comments from the citizens today good afternoon chair and trust members uh vice chair uh we do not have any i checked our mail and we didn't see any and i don't see anybody in the audience currently thank you uh if everyone's had time to look over the minutes if i could get a motion to approve motion to approve minutes from last meeting second and all those in favor aye aye aye against motion passes thank you okay our next item would be six seven a we moved seven i'm sorry correct seven a mr attorney my pleasure madam chair seven a resolution by the citizens independent transportation trust recommending the board of county commissioners authorize the use of charter counter transportation bond program funds in the amount of three million eight hundred ninety six thousand seven hundred two dollars and zero cents to reimburse the florida department of transportation for the purchase of 15 buses for the discontinued i-95 express bus service routes for a project which was added to the fiscal year 2026 to 30 five-year implementation plan of the people's transportation plan okay thank you do we have any questions or comments good question mr hopman what does this mean you can turn on your mic sir can you hear me now yes okay what does this mean we're going to give the someone almost four million dollars for buses that we no longer use is that what we're saying here so this is actually related to an item we had at our last meeting um at the last meeting this came as an amendment to our five-year plan and now this is the actual agreement it was explained at that point but i'll allow the director of dtpw to explain it again thank you to the chair welcome welcome thank you stacy miller director and ceo of department of transportation of public works thank you for that question so the service of i-95 express was discontinued by dtpw during covid but we continued to use the buses for regular service because we stopped using them for the intended purpose we need to reimburse the florida department of transportation who had funded the vehicles for a specific service we need to reimburse them for their portion but we continue to use the buses as part of our regular fleet what about the area on i-95 is that still an area that's exclusively used by buses if if they do there is no exclusive use of the express lanes for buses they are allowed to use the buses and the service is currently provided by broward county transit in lieu of being provided by both broward county transit and the department of transportation and public works any other questions yeah just so just for clarification last month we we added this item to the five-year plan and this is the same item we're just now voting on or is this a different set of funds it's the same item you added it to the plans and now this is the the allowable use of those resources so it's it's a complementary item to last month's understood thank you very much any other questions on this side of the uh this okay i'm looking for a motion for this item move to approve and second all those in favor aye aye opposed motion passes thank you item 7b mr attorney 7b resolution by the citizens independent transportation trust recommending the board of county commissioners authorized issuance of mamadade county florida transit system sales surtax revenue bonds in one or more series pursuant to ordinance number zero five dash 48 as amended and supplemented in principal amount not to exceed 350 million dollars for purpose of paying all or portion of certain transportation and transit projects for the department of transportation of public works and paying costs of issuing bonds pursuant to certain terms and conditions finding necessity for an authorized negotiated sale of such bonds approving form and execution of certain related documents agreements and bond forms authorized county mayor or county mayor's designee within certain limitations and parameters to finalize terms and other provisions of such bonds and conversion of such bonds to fixed rates or with the board's adoption of a supplemental resolution to an alternate floating rate including selection of bond registrar paying agent and remarketing agents providing certain covenants authorized certain county officials and employees to take all action necessary in connection with issuance and sales of such bonds and subsequent conversion and remarketing we have in provisions of resolution number r-130-06 as amended and providing severability and and an effective date thank you i see doctor i'm sorry director director miller is he still here in case anyone has questions i'm looking to my left yes mr hoffman well you can ask your question okay she'll jump up we're going to issue 350 million dollars worth of bonds and it does list in the packet all the different things they're going to use it on are all those going to start at the same time so they can use the money right away or is it the money that's going to sit there our director probably has good answer for that thank you the funds will be drawn down in tranches it is not going to all happen at the same time this is a very different methodology than we've used in the past um and our i have support here from our office of management and budget to help answer questions regarding the drawdown process but the expectation is that we are not going to request all of the funds up front it'll actually go in a sequence of use because we don't need all the money up front by doing a different methodology by a drawdown we'll actually save money in the long term you eloquently answered that i'm belcas romay with office of management budget and as she mentioned we would be only be drawing as needed and paying variable rate so there'll be savings in the long run so what do you mean by variable rate so the first draw as they draw they will it will be in variable rate mode until we go out and fix once we hit a certain threshold which would be 200 million we would go out and convert the bonds to a fixed rate it's a shorter term so it'll be variable rate will be nobody savings associated uh yes okay so uh i understand what we're doing is approving a drawdown bond program correct and and we've been provided in our memorandum the capital improvements that dtpw is considering uh this bond program to fund so so for example of this 350 million dollars there's 113 million dollars in sort of allocated projected amounts for metro related projects will those contracts whatever they are for come to us for approval at some point yes each one of them as part of our process we work with you all to establish our five-year work program that's updated annually and as we go to use the resources we come back to you with information regarding the contract consultant etc so that we receive your recommendation to go to bcc for award of a contract so what's so i mean if i'm understanding correctly we're creating the bond program um the uh then dtvw will have the ability to go out and acquire these funds uh and at whatever the rate happens to be and then deploy those funds for these specific projects but why are we doing it this way right is this like historic practice or is this a new approach to how to fund these projects it's a new approach for the transit system we currently um use the same approach in our building better communities program and it's been very functional and beneficial for that program and based on their draw amounts historically um we've done a comparison and they would be saving a high level comparison over 12 million dollars in interest cost savings i do want to be clear we've used bonding capacity before as part of citt this is just a different methodology of bonding but we have bonded citt funds in the past in a more traditional manner i would assume that this allows you to move more quickly and so instead of waiting for money you have access to funds um which i think is in the spirit of of this board trying to advance projects instead of being stuck because the funds aren't available is is that the philosophy behind this correct and i also want to state that you're not over issuing debt you're only issuing debt as needed so that's very beneficial for the transit department any other yes um just a few questions um so the half penny my understanding is that it's funded through sales tax sales and utility uh taxes right or just sales okay so i just want to be clear just in in light of what's going on with the um the property tax homestead that uh we forecasted that there's no impact right to uh this program as a result of what you're about to do right so in other words the property taxes uh being repealed in terms of homestead the homestead being increased will have no impact on how we collect our receipts here these are two separate programs right this is sales tax versus property tax okay um is there projected um annual impact um to the surtax funds as your as your program rolls out i apologize but i'm not sure what you mean by impact we generate approximately 400 million dollars a year in revenue but i'm not sure what you mean by impact in other words um you know as you draw down uh and it's okay you you're going to draw down is it that read 10 million dollars or something like that like like an initial 10 million dollars that you guys are going to draw down or is there a cap there's a uh there's a base at 1 million oh no we're going to do larger projected amounts okay as needed do you want to describe bar i believe he's referencing in the memo so the minimum draw amount the initial minimum draw amount is 10 million dollars so that's when we establish the program when we close after that the minimum draw amount is only 1 million dollars but but we won't be drawing in million dollar increments right we're going to be a bit more judicious in how we approach our drawdowns in order to maximize the funding and minimize the repayment structure but member colpatrick i just want to understand there there is no anticipated impact of the potential property tax reform no no no on sales tax collection i got there right i got that i just want to make sure just because you know things are happening at the center just want to ask a question let's put it out there okay just want to be sure that's all yeah yes madam chair and and just to follow up with something that you said that kind of i didn't see it in the memo here but you said once we get to a 200 million dollar draw then it will be combined together and i imagine that's for a better rate uh what is the spread on the initial uh drawdowns that we're going to get like the i know you don't know the exact interest rate perhaps now and the difference that we would be saving i guess that's the 12 million dollars correct and also the timing of it as well yes because you don't take until you need absolutely at the last moment so what is so what is the spread between that point where you first draw down in the 200 million dollar when you kind of refinance it it depends the timing how fast they have to implement the projects what i um the not to exceed amount is 350 million dollars this is a four-year program once they reach a 200 200 million dollar threshold they are required by the program to convert it to long-term bonds so depending on their draw schedule it's when we get to the 200 million dollar threshold whatever the interest rate happens to be exactly it's all market driven okay all right thank you madam chair i have one more question um the capital improvement programs um to remember swept uh earlier point there's 113 million um set aside well allocated or earmarked for metro rail related projects uh the project above that is the metro rail and metro mover projects of 5.1 million and then you have a smart plan program at another 59 million so um is it is it my understanding well is it uh your understanding that the three programs could all potentially be used for metro rail related projects what we did in providing the list is these are all options for us to use those resources on depending on ultimately how quickly we get to a project so there's not it's programmatic in nature but will be defined in the five-year work program as we determine the individual projects and the funding sources understood i'm just speaking to uh general eligible uses just in terms of what you've listed here could it it could depending on the amount of projects that fall within those programmatic buckets that occur within the timeline so there are no earmarked projects then connected to the funds in the county in the programs that you've listed here earmarked projects it's programmatic in nature so all of the projects that qualify under citt funding could potentially be used as drawdown projects for funds all right understood thank you through the chair um just to understand better i see here that the repayment term is up to 30 years right so i'm just trying to understand we are repaying the bond through the revenue collected from the the surtax fund right so i'm trying to understand i i understand the trying to expeditiously do these projects not have to wait for the revenue to come in what is the annual revenue amount right now well it's it's been going down unfortunately but uh as the director said earlier roughly 400 million a year okay so i'm trying to just understand and i if if we're looking at not to exceed 350 million but we make more than that in in the surtax what is the the impetus to go ahead and do a bond that we then have to pay additional fees on if we can is there no opportunity to collect it now and spend it now from the taxes collected now i think much of that is already committed right between one thing or another so this would uh free that up yeah give them additional dollars to free up sooner than having to wait for additional surtax to collect over time and if we're looking at this for being for four years then aren't we in the rears if we're not paying it back in the until a period of 30 years i'm trying to to frame my my answer i apologize um most bond repayment structures are 10 15 20 30 years that's a pretty standard repayment structure so i don't know that we're in the rears as what we ultimately end up because the funds that we have today are committed to projects already this gives us the ability to advance other projects and use future revenue to reimburse repayment structure but so my concern is that future revenue will it not also be assigned and earmarked like now to other projects right so correct we borrowing from something that might not already be or are these projects already in the plan as planned these are already in the plan okay so now okay i'm sorry i understand thank you remember schwem yeah so um i mean this this is a bond authorization so from the trust vantage point what is the like fiscal impact to the trust on an immediate basis right because what we're doing is obligating trust funds to pay back these bonds once the bond program is established uh but for instance in 2026 2027 is there any impact to trust funds that's one question i have then i have a separate question allow the administration to answer that but essentially the fees and interest um that will accrue as the bonds are drawn down right so i don't know if you have the exact number for this coming year for instance what's what's the initial so initially based on a 20 million dollar monthly draw we just did a 20 million monthly draw um in 2026 the payment would be 829 000. okay and that monthly draw you're obliged to draw down you are not we are not okay so it's available but exactly okay so what you're telling me is if you drew down 20 million dollars in a particular fiscal year the repayment would be essentially 900 000 20 000 a month i mean 20 million dollars a month sorry oh okay yeah 12 million dollars 20 million a month in the first year we that would be our payment oh okay 20 million a month okay um and then the the way you have allocated the 350 million dollars among these different uh capital improvement programs i i assume all of that is fungible i mean in other words no one is obliging themselves to do any of these projects or to do all of them in other words you could move around the bond funds to accomplish whatever objectives the dtvw wants to get done presumably consistent with what the bond funds are for correct generally it would always be these are all optional programs and as we progress towards the projects that are in our five-year work program that you all bless we then come back to you and say this is a project and we're going to use a combination of bond funds and something else or whatever the case may be at that point we'll tell you what the fund source is but these are all optional programs as we progress the program the monies that are eligible which are all citt backed funds can be used on any of these programs okay and just to maybe this question um is pointless to ask since it uh you may end up uh doing things in a different direction than what's been uh programmed here just going off member colpatrick's question about the 60 million dollars that we see that's for the smart program what is that about so we have a number of different phases in the work program associated with the smart plan or the smart program i should say obviously at this point they're all preliminary design and continued right-of-way acquisition at this point there is no construction funded in the five-year work program for any particular smart program corridor are there any other questions members yes mr hopper yes uh through the chair uh this uh 10 million dollars for miscellaneous projects that's a lot of money for miscellaneous i'm sorry i haven't read the this uh close to half inch packet you have here what are the miscellaneous projects can you give us a few examples i don't know that i can give one off the top of my head but i'm going to ask melvin if he can just one second okay is it in there so for instance it's under miscellaneous there's a number of different things it could be elevator and escalator refurbishment it could be um security it could be south dade trail path enhancements there's a number of different items under the catch-all of miscellaneous and i'd i'd like to just clarify one thing we're going to be on the hook for 350 million dollars eventually and what we're saying is that these one two three four five six seven eight categories could increase we could have additional categories or we could we can move some of this money around to other categories or is this going to be it those are the categories that are eligible based on groupings of what's in the work program now in terms of specific projects within those categories again that is somewhat fungible uh however it has to be a ptp eligible project or or expander expense uh it has to come back to us potentially twice once to add it to the five-year plan is if it is already in there and secondly as a contract so i'm going to ask the question so we'll know more specifics as time goes on i guess and and they draw down the funds very selfish how do i find out how much of this money goes to district 11 since they're going to be paying a half cent sales tax i mean they get very little as it is right now but 350 million dollars a good chunk of money it'll be based on the projects um and obviously when we come back to you with the specific projects and the five-year work program it's denotes which district those projects are within okay thank you has there been like an estimated calculation so if this full amount was taken out and over the period of 30 years what we're looking at as part of the interest that would be you know added to what we're taking out yes there is um i don't have the interest break we're down now but uh the average annual payment would be 22.2 million dollars over for principal and interest for over 30 years okay so that would be an annual amount so i think that's it's the full 350 million but we're not required to draw down the full 350 million i understand but what we're approving is up to today right so just understanding for us as we approve this what would be the full impact over a period of 30 years so that would be the annual amount if the full amount was drawn down as repayment so i think that's important to know is you know that amount would be taken out of technically the 350 correct no it wouldn't come out of 350 it comes out of the annual right right what i'm saying the 350 is what we're what would be taken out if the full capacity was taken out the interest that would account for the full 30 years would be additional monies that would have to come from the surtax to fund correct right correct it would come out of our annual allocation that we receive and that would be set aside first as a repayment structure before remaining funds were applied to other projects and or other bonds in the next 30 years and so what was that annual amount again 22.2 million dollars okay so that would be something to consider that starting every year potentially could be a deduction of the annual amount allotted for these projects i will say by advancing these projects through this bond costs go up over time so while you'll be spending more on interest you'll be saving on you know future escalation of costs which as we've seen in these recent years uh has been dramatic so you know it might balance itself out remember daily i have i have two questions one is this is something this is a methodology that has not been used in dtpw and so in your experience with using this methodology um is there anything that we or any risk that we encounter by doing this and and and i already got the the feedback on the why which makes a lot of sense to me you know so this is something that's been done within the county financing toolkit in the past so this is not brand new to us it is not it's more efficient for dtsbw especially based on their draw timelines and it will benefit the department okay and then my second question is for our staff i mean this is something that we've evaluated and feel comfortable with that with that debt burden it's not even a debt burden it's an interest burden correct yes we want to advance these projects as i said i think that whatever we're paying in interest is probably going to be offset by being able to save um vis-a-vis future potential cost increases right we've seen the cost escalations associated with these projects um in many ways i think far exceed what we're going to be paying in interest so we might actually see a cost savings i want to say that with a grain of salt because i don't have the data to prove that at this point but we're very comfortable with the item any other questions members just want to make one just one comment about the uh cap improvement programs so it looks like there's enough money to get us one station on the north corridor so i'm just going to put that on the record it doesn't take 113 plus 59 plus another 5.1 to build five blocks of rail from 77th street to 82nd i attended a tod um workshop on the north corridor about a month ago you were there madam director and i saw this um robust plan about the north side shopping center being redeveloped um and an 82nd street station right there you have your tod already planned and it's already in the queue so five streets i'm sorry five blocks um if you guys could try and put that in there that'd be very nice and i think there's enough money here to do it and i think one station will get you the rest of them we already know the lpa has been changed and so whatever we move forward with after 82nd street that station could be actually outfitted um to handle the transition from 82nd street to county land route that's all i have well i guess we could start making requests yeah exactly before we vote just i'm gonna put it i'm gonna put it out there because i just don't put it out there okay any other questions last chance well you know i'll give you more chances than that i'm gonna i'm gonna ask for a vote on this at some point i just have one last question i'm sorry let's see i knew we would need a question go ahead sorry and i just want to understand is there currently any outstanding bond money in place right now yes we currently have approximately 37 million dollars from our prior bond issuance those funds have been committed to projects okay and what does that repayment schedule still look like that i don't have um hi um melvin cartagena chief financial officer for dtpw are you referring to outstanding debt or previous issues where we still have balances bond that were issued that still have outstanding payments we have about approximately 2.8 billion dollars still in outstanding bonds the annual debt service about 110 million dollars a year give or take and these are also related to citt funds correct all approved people transportation plan program projects thank you so i'm just going to make a comment we may not have any future projects soon because of all the the bonding out and the money that we're going to pay back um no i i know that's not true i trust that you you have looked at that as well okay any other questions oh comments okay i'm looking for a motion on this item i'll move it is there a second second and uh all those in favor say aye aye aye all those opposed okay and i believe we have one opposition and uh other than that the motion passes thank you or the item passes um okay and now we have mr colpatrick we have moved up uh item 9a and you you are also uh have a report uh right afterwards do you want to is there someone else to give your report your municipal program committee report we could do that if you wish we can okay yeah all right so um i just wanted to make a comment on the full trust follow-up report um last uh last month we asked a question about the was it the 36 39 million dollar uh umsa bus shelter program 500 um new shelters that were proposed uh we asked for the list of the locations you know where are those 500 uh bus shelters going to be placed dtpw said that you know that they're all there's also a list of about 247 i believe uh areas where um bus benches of bus shelters were ineligible and so in those areas there would be a bus bench a tree and a garbage can so based on the report that i received um 84 of the 500 um new shelters are located on the north end district two and three which is where that big north central and i'll say for purposes of transit and what we do here the smart corridor the north corridor um could receive bus shelters through of the 84 bus shelters that i counted that could have been placed on the north corridor only four out of 500 countywide are scheduled for 27th avenue which is also the north corridor so i have a big problem with that talking about 500 shelters and the municipalities cannot participate this is only for the unincorporated municipal service area and there's only four bus shelters on one of the six major smart corridors and actually the first smart corridor the north corridor you only you only get four bus shelters but in that same area you have several on 32nd avenue several on 22nd avenue 27th avenue which is where all the traffic is you only have four bus shelters and we don't have the list of the 247 spots that are not going to get the bus shelter but you can pretty much figure it out that the north corridor probably has the lion's share of those areas that are not going to receive a new bus shelter if i might ask do you think that might have something to do with the planning that has been in in effect for quite some time now for the possibility of the elevated rail in the north because then you wouldn't want to have perhaps all these bus shelters in the exact same place well with the lpa being changed by tpo you know we i i couldn't i couldn't you know we couldn't speculate i would just like to know um you know what is the thing what's the reasoning behind so many bus shelters being funded only in umsa and the north corridor are only receiving four of the new shelters i see director miller here and i think she has an answer i just want to clarify that this is phase two of the program phase one has already been constructed i will go back and provide a list of all of the locations that have already received a bus shelter because the the assumption that you're making is that there's only four being constructed but i believe that is because many were constructed as part of phase one but i want to provide that information to you okay well i appreciate that because we just asked for a listing of the 500 shelters who's getting it right and so we got a list of 500 shelters and yes only saw four so i okay so that's a fair point uh if you could provide you know the number of we'll provide where the existing bus shelters are that have already been constructed this was just the augmentation from phase two oh oh just phase one when did phase one roll out i apologize i don't have that on the top of my head it has been a number of years that that program's been underway more than 10 years you think i i don't want to speculate i apologize i don't have that in front of me i'm asking because your favorite if phase one rolled out in you know 2005 or something you know those bus shelters may be old i don't i don't see a lot of bus shelters long 27th so again i'd be curious we'll provide the information yeah i appreciate that and i guess just for the record so that i don't have to come back and you know lament again if that number is low in phase one what can be done to improve that number for the north corridor for that stretch of umpsa in the north corridor because you know there's the surtax and you know these county funds the only show in town there are no municipal um funds collected there's no municipality by which to uh to service that area understood yeah we'll provide you with more information regarding the number of bus stops the bus shelters those that are were incorporated as part of phase one those that are being incorporated with phase two and if there are stops that aren't receiving a shelter we'll provide you the information as to why thank you a potential partial answer to your question in our five-year plan we're showing that the bus shelter program contract was awarded in 2020 this i guess would be the prior project and then additional funding was approved in 2024 so it's been multiple tranches of shelters but as noted 247 i believe is what you indicated those are the amount of shelters or excuse me locations that are not eligible for shelters countywide we are covering a great deal of the county with this program when you say countywide you you you are still referring to just umpsa umpsa county yes yes sir because this program is only for umpsa the cities are responsible for constructing and maintaining their own bus shelters within incorporated areas understood all right and by the way the bus shelters and bus stations are an eligible use of a municipality surtax funds and many municipalities have used their funds towards that purpose i know on the cutler bay was a good example and we still have many to do still as i drive down the street um satisfied with your answer for now thank you thank you okay do you want to um do the the report are we going to do it later in the municipal i think we can do it later yeah per the agenda okay so we are going we are now at uh item 6 e2 this is definitely which is uh dtvw smart project uh with maria perdomo good evening board all right thank you again for the opportunity to provide an update on the smart program um so the presentation up so um as well i know the smart program has several quarters some of these quarters are uh being on different phases whether they're already almost completed in construction some of them are in planning others are in design i'm going to go a little bit through that i'm going to focus on the south uh dade uh transit way the northeast corridor the beach quarter then the east west quarter those are the ones that dtvw are um responsible at the moment and later on we'll have nilia represent ft ot and she'll be reviewing and going over the north court and other segments of of the smart programs so for the south dade uh transit corridor obviously the south corridor i hope everyone on the board has been had the opportunity to to write it um and experience those improvements it's a 20 mile corridor is bus rapid transit uh has 14 stations um and uh the the two parking rights it connects to the existing metro rail which currently it's in um in an improvements as well in the dayland south section the cost of the project was 368 million and that was split uh 33 percent ft ot 33 percent state which ftd uh federal and 33 percent local this is a great example of a partnership between the agencies to be able to get this project out in october of last year we opened a revenue uh so it is in service today and uh we are projected actually no project we're still um in substantial completion and construction which that means for us is that everybody sees it as it's completed we're just kind of like finishing some final push items out um the existing uh transit way and how it's working what you see here on the graph is an example of what the blue is today um the orange is what was last year same time and what you see here for example for january you see a 12 percent increase in in ridership um the time performance as of for may is 75 71 for route 602 and 77 for route 602 601 that's um that we're getting there on on time and the average duration of the transit way is for the southbound is 58 minutes during peak 68 minutes off peak and for the northbound 54 minutes in peak and 72 minutes off peak that is from 344th all the way to the dayland south so i know one of the projects that we have on those transit ways you know the corridors are massive they're long and but there's always improvements within each of the corridors this park and ride is one of them so park and ride 168th which is opened it opened in april of this year it provides a seamless access to the metro express and the local buses as you see there in the image it's underneath you could basically park take the elevator down and be able to get onto the platform it has 24-hour security it has public bathrooms it has several amenities um and so forth like wi-fi um as i mentioned that project is constructions company right so that's one of those um success stories um another one that we're working on currently which is in a different phase is in the engineering phase that means that we've finalized what's the planning um it's the northeast corridor uh project um we've actually uh been in that phase for about a year and some change a couple months and that's a 13.5 mile corridor on an existing rail line this project is just one of three pieces right the next phase or the next piece of the project is the broward and then um the palm beach section but our section here in miami-dade county goes from the existing um bright line station here in our backyard all the way to aventura and within that corridor which in those three and a half 13 and a half miles we have five stations that are being proposed currently the project is estimated at 927 million um the programming for the fund have changed um last year the state removed the 200 million dollars and i believe kept eight million of their allocation for the project as far as we know today that's still the case um so when we look at the funding for this project we're looking at an fta 42 percent contribution a federal which is basically the flex funds that the ot that tpo um flexes to it i believe is a state to tpo i might get corrected on that and then to us is 14 uh percent the state that's at 8 million it's not even 0.01 percent uh our local ptp funding here is 21 percent and then the remaining is still to be determined um we're hopeful that hopefully the state comes and and there's some contribution on on this project um when it comes to the court just some additional information as i mentioned this is just one of the segments of the coastal link this is a southern one um the five stations are miami central winwood design district little haiti north miami the fiu and the existing west aventura obviously the miami central we have it today the west aventura we have it today so it's only the five in between that we'll be building on the right hand side you see an image of what that would look like we're also in addition to the five facilities and obviously the five stations we're building a vehicle maintenance storage facility in the hialeah yard this is a location that is owned by ft ot we're building three buildings one's for vehicle maintenance the other one's a car wash and the other ones are truing building so that we're building the capacity not only for us but we're also working with broward county to make sure that once their project because it's right behind us is ready they're also going to be able to use and operate out of out of that section out of that that design um so the project rated really well um it's a median high overall which for that for us for the federal transit administration means that they're contributing that funding um so that's that's good news um the cig new phase as i mentioned we're in the engineering phase so right now we have 45 percent design for the vehicle maintenance facility that's completed we're going to go to 60 percent um for the main line we're already at 60. we're ntp-ing the 60 percent basically the next phase for the yard now uh we finished it we're at the ntp-ed main and we're working with bright line on progressing obviously uh the negotiations and so forth um to be able to present to um a recommendation to the administration and bcc may i yes the clarification yes with a stop at citt i first administration no but before it goes to the bcc uh yeah i the process whatever the process is that's what we're going to be complying with okay um absolutely so for the northeast corridor for the third uh party agreements there are several agreements that we have um obviously not only with broward with palm beach with fdot and so forth um but we have um here you see some of the agreements some of them have completed and there's other ones that are still open or ongoing and that's kind of like the a big high level of all the of some of the agreements that we've we're currently working on this is a rendering of what we are proposing for it to to look like and then this is our schedule right um our schedule right now is as i mentioned we're working through the design is if everything goes well we'll be able to secure um our grants in september of 2020 2028 which means we could start construction um right after that because the process is you get the grant and then you'll be able to to initiate construction the lead time and the reason why let me go back just so for everybody's knowledge the reason why it's still it you know you think okay it's an existing track why is it going to take so long the reason why it takes longer is more because of the rolling stock and the amount of time that it takes to be able to purchase and to be able to build the vehicles not so much the action the actual construction activity all right on the beach corridor um this corridor uh is currently working with ftot and with us to see what the next phase of the corridor looks like the beach corridor i'm going to put the map i think it's easier to explain it's three different sections you have the one on south beach which goes from fifth all the way to the convention center this is more of a bus service uh type of of proposed uh improvement um this one which is actually i'm going backwards it's the third one on this list is the one that we're working with the city of miami beach um for them to be able to initiate and complete being that the proposed improvements are being done on their quarter then we have i'm going to go back to the top the miami extension which is the design district extension um that one is on an existing county corridor and um that one we will begin uh to look at the visibility at the ridership that's what we want to look at starting next year it's part of the citt five-year program and also bcc's proposed budget so once those two items are approved we're going to be able to initiate that study and then we have the beige crossing also known as the trunk line uh which is the one that goes from uh the perez museum station all the way to fitz street on the um 395 um causeway so that project uh is the one that we're currently working with fdot to look at its visibility um look at its value engineering and to see what the next steps are going to be for for that corridor for the east west this project um i don't have a map and i apologize for it but this project is uh the project that it's a brt service that connects from um the time miami existing uh park and ride that we have we we built a couple years ago all the way to downtown with several stops this uh project uh the tpo requested for the lpa to be re-looked at and for us to look at opportunities for us to work with csx and see if there's opportunities for us to look at that as an lp or as an alternative we're working on that feasibility study now and we're going to start engaging csx to see if that is an option um and we'll be able to report more information on that project in the next couple months hence why everything on that screen says to be determined just because we have to do that evaluation so those are the quarters that uh dtpw are responsible for um and i'm open for questions okay i'm going to ask a quick question um is there and maybe i should wait for the other presentation but is there anything um has come out recently about the marlin station in the south uh the south end project i'm not familiar okay so i i can i can wait and find out about that um the other thing is uh in in your presentation and thank you for your presentation first of all um i don't see any brt or nobody nobody's doing brt anymore so the east west has that option um but because the tpo has asked us to re-look at uh the lpa and look at an opportunity to use the sx the existing csx line uh we're also we're we're going to engage in that um that feasibility we haven't eliminated the opportunity uh for for it yet uh but we're it's good to hear that some of these projects are you know somewhat moving forward i know planning takes so long um for those of us that would like to see things happen a little faster i think just about everyone but um but it does seem like you know all these projects that are moving forward are in the same area they're basically in the north in the northeast and with the exception of you know the the rail for for north date um so just want to say that seems like it'll be really good for uh tourism and and other things like that but when i look at uh 68 minutes to get from florida city to metro rail which is not always the end of the trip either you know then they're going to take another uh god knows how long you know the metro rail goes pretty quick maybe 15 minutes um yeah it's it's pretty hard to swallow still so i'm just going to you know i'm sorry i have to i have to say that because i i'm getting an awful lot of people in south dade telling me why did we not get rail and we can't go back into time until somebody invents that time machine which i'd like that to happen too but um but i'm just you know interested to see why nobody seems to on the tpo want uh want brt okay that uh that said do we have any questions yes yes uh let me start with uh with yes we'll start and move um thank you for the presentation so uh on the northeast corridor i get i understand there are a lot of moving parts here right so has the operating entity been resolved because there was like a three-party three-county agreement have you got no um and what is the status of the operating entity issue so i think um we're currently even though we're we're we're still coordinating with sfrta and we're recording with with bright line um i think that we're first trying to engage uh as being able to build it and being able to use the facility as in parallel we're still talking to the operator but i think i think as a department we're first focusing on on that negotiations with with bright line and being able to say we're gonna be able to build the facility that that makes some sense i mean uh you would think if you want this to run across three counties whatever access agreement gets sorted out with bright line should be the same agreement for all three counties right but what you're telling me is no uh uh each county is sort of trying to work out its own no no no we're working with broward county uh palm beach is they're not it's not that they're lagging but they're they're they're i'm not sure if they've started their feasibility study or is their planning um but brower and us um are coordinating uh with with sfrta and with all the parties at being so there is that coordination yeah stacy you want to add so so the the i mean and i understand the uh access agreement i guess is what to call it is that what it's being called with bright line to use the right away and and the rail lines it's called it's called an access agreement that is an it is an agreement that we're actively discussing and it's ongoing the method the methodology by which miami-dade versus broward county versus palm beach county access the rights to use bright lines capacity within the fec corridor is up to each individual county the operation agreement will be discussed more broadly we are already in discussions regarding the operating agreement but that would at this point really be miami-dade and broward discussing with bright line and its potential operator palm beach has not even begun the project development and environmental study so while they're in the room with us they don't have as predominant a role in the discussion of the operation and maintenance of the ultimate commuter service so and will the ultimate agreement with bright line be brought to the citt for review and approval so all agreements that require the use of citt resources come to you for your recommendation to bcc okay so i mean and i appreciate it's a negotiation and there could be sensitivities around that um so good luck but uh you know we look forward to receiving it and like as trust members we're really dependent on our expert staff uh to review that and then advise us i know how we should uh view the proposal so you know we'll appreciate that coming to trust staff with sufficient time for them to sort of uh dig into it before we have to look at it understood excuse me member hoffman thank you very much madam chair uh you mentioned csx uh lines in the east west i thought most of the csx in fact all of their lines go south down to the homestead florida city area where they were heavily involved at one time in moving produce out where do they have their tracks that go across kendall drive or flagler so they're right north of the 836 there's an existing rail line basically it's parallel to to the 836. but does it go the whole length all the way out to fiu it goes from to the to the west like it connects to connect to dolphin to the um dolphin station out there today and then it would go all the way to the mic okay thank you okay thank you annie and oh yes remember david i hope we took your item early so you can go home and take care of that laryngitis i hope it's not that um maybe my memory is failing me but wasn't weren't the ptp funds closer to 33 percent for the northeast corridor has that been or has it always been 21 i don't recall the exact percentage i just know that it was the local match to attract both federal and state dollars so in my mind it's always been roughly a third a third a third but but it may not be exactly that those percentages what you may be conflating a little bit is the south day corridor which was literally a third a third a third a third um it was normally uh the distribution is local and state are one half the non-federal share and it depends it depends on how much the federal share is as to how much one half of the non-federal share from a county perspective versus a state perspective but those numbers have changed as we received uh we we received our um as as was previously noted um favorable rating so we received a specific amount of resources through the sig program as the cost of the project adjusts percentages adjust and obviously we're still trying to backfill uh the information you know the funding stream from fdot and that's where i was going next um 23 percent of the project is unfunded and the project is progressing is at what time do you have to effectively stop work because we haven't been able to come up with that gap we are still discussing that timeline it's part of our conversations with uh internally with the administration and our discussions with our partners at brightline and broward county um there has to obviously from our perspective we're we're moving along we want to get to 60 percent as we said we're 60 on mainline we want to get to 60 percent uh on the um at hialeah yard that way we set ourselves up to be successful but we do need to realize that there are expenses associated with progressing the project and want to be assured that we have some assurances that the remaining resources will either become available or the county will need to pick that tab up and those are the conversations we're having today okay um thank you the sec the third question i have on the beach corridor i just have to tell a story um spoke to a guy moving from new york loves miami hates the traffic and there's always these conversations like is education the most important thing is health care the most important thing and his opinion is that without expansion of mass transit you know he doesn't see how we can continue to grow and i know that that is on everybody's mind and miami's beach is exploded the south has exploded the north has exploded everything is growing in miami and two billion dollars has to be secured for the beach corridor to happen i just like wonder how does that happen and what's our tipping point like if we can't make these things happen how do we move i know it's sort of like a philosophical question but it's also an engineering question too it is a a bit of both obviously um we are progressing as as was mentioned we want to value engineer the project as it is today to try to reduce those costs but we do know as we've progressed all of these projects the costs have increased exponentially on many of them and that both the board of county commissioners and the tpo will ultimately want to have more in-depth conversations regarding how to fund these projects and what projects will move forward in what manner that is not for us necessarily we just provide information but we know that there will be forthcoming conversations at a deeper level regarding the corridors their the proposals for each corridor and how to fund them thank you for that it wasn't intended to say that you know the answers are here um but we have to go from existential to real and there's a and this is what you guys have to do every day is do what you can with what you have but a two billion dollar project i'm not questioning the cost of it i'm questioning the reality of the problem that we have here understood which is why in the instance of the east-west corridor the tpo asked us to go back and reevaluate there might be other potential needs for us to reevaluate other corridors the same can be said of flagler fdot is going to speak on those but as we all know we were going down a certain path with flagler that ultimately was not a solution that was viable for the florida department of transportation and they're pivoting at the tpo's request to evaluate other options thank you hey uh questions from members no thank you both very much thank you i believe uh that this brings us back to the city of miami with uh director santana good afternoon madam chair um members of the board who when i sent out a director for the department of resilience and public works for the city of miami um thank you for having us here today um just give you an update um again our ridership continues to to be strong um we continue to operate our our 13 routes um we've augmented a couple of them along the way we've added some service hours and and along this presentation um there's another augmentation that we've made for for one of our routes and i'll share with that that with you momentarily and um so the little havana route we we received a request to add a a sixth trolley to that that's um giving us a little bit more uh visibility and accessibility to to the service um we've initiated that already that started last month um and that's where we plan on continuing to operate until anything may change later on as we continue to work through our our trolley master plan update um here are our numbers on our monthly ridership over that the first quarter as i mentioned before we are in the process of evaluating our entire trolley route program we have completed um public input meetings we had multiple meetings in every city commission district two to be exact i think um nine of the ten were in person we had one remote meeting we provide we received excellent feedback we had a workshop we had a lot of note taking we had all the maps out there we are also taking information and feedback from our writers during the route so we've got staff and our consultants working on that we also have an availability for folks to chime in via their their personal devices so we're taking all that information in obviously we've already started coordinating with dtpw's planning department because there's definitely an overriding uh intent to better align with the better bus program and looking at what those impacts to our our routes will be um and again that is that is uh continuing efforts once we compile all those recommendations we'll be doing another round of feedback with our elected officials and with the public and then moving forward with presenting that final plan on demand this is um this is a a great little effort that we put together and we got this um approved both by the city and by the county this has kicked off so this is a citt funded on-demand mobility service i believe this is the only one that that we operate currently um it's serving coconut grove it's it's a two years contract and um it's being handled with uh circuit is the contractor for this just a quick list of our roadway infrastructure projects that that are funded through uh catt either entirely or in in part we did a reappropriation so this is some some some cleanup that we did recently we had some projects that were closed out not a huge amount just over two hundred thousand dollars and we moved them over to uh existing projects that that we uh prioritize and bringing some more money in to continue to to move those along this is one project this is a catt project this is one of those projects that we had shovel ready when when funding became available this project has been completed we had a ribbon cutting with the commissioner about a week a week and a half ago um so this is again this is uh proof in the pudding that we were able to quickly move forward with projects that we had available and put that citt money to good use this one also had a joint participation agreement with mammy date water and sewer so all the properties receiving water services that we now have fire hydrants along the stretch so everyone's going to be able to benefit for having reduced insurance costs because of that added fire protection in the south grove this is an ongoing project we we're moving on to a second phase that we've already initiated through public approval through through commission we've got some funding remaining so we're going to continue working through but we have already installed 10 and we've got an 11th location that will be going into construction soon silver bluff traffic flow modifications we're going to continue to keep you updated on this as part of our interagency and agreement with the county for traffic calming for this entire neighborhood tamiami boulevard improvement project this is a project that has multiple funding sources including a million dollars through through dot we've completed the first phase of work and we are now going through a second phase before we put that project into construction it's going through review through the erc or the electronic review system at dot in order for us to be able to continue to move forward and spend that that funding and move this project into construction and it will be making use of that tit funding that you should see that's available buena vista local drainage project again this is another project that was in the latter stages of design and we've already completed it started construction in january northeast 49th street is is complete and we've moved over to 50th street again we've been able to take full advantage of the funding that was made available and get this project going in well underway and notice here on on our numbers you'll see that again with the construction projects getting heavily into into production and into completion you'll see that this is a uh this quarter showed over four million dollars on the transportation side so i know that this was something in the past where funding for construction activities um were were not moving along as smoothly i think this this shows again that we're making significant progress in that effort and our projects um being completed and breaking ground so this is on our 25 26 and from 24 25 our total expenditures on the transit and transportation side here we have the commitment of 84 million dollars for citt funding for 57 projects of which we've already spent about 30 percent 25.5 million dollars of that and those projects continue to move forward and last but definitely not least um we greatly and we're humbled by the recognition um that uh was bestowed upon us with the onward and upward uh award um and thank you again and we look forward to our continued collaboration and partnership with with citt any questions thank you um director santana i i have a question about uh traffic calming just want to know i know there's so many different ways you can you know you can have circles you can have pumps you can have god forbid the little awful things that they used to use but um what i it's probably different depending on the area and maybe even narrowing the roads you know there's so many different things i'm really interested to hear what you feel is there something in particular that you feel has been working the best traffic calming so um so last year we we executed a new interlocal agreement um with mamie-dade county so we standardized all the details actually we now have the most current uh interagency agreement with dtpw for traffic calming we've we added additional details such as chokers and and chicanes that weren't in mamie beach and coral gables so and another thing is that we're now able to use their criteria when we're evaluating locations within the city on our local roads that may not meet certain criteria but we're able to avail ourselves of what mamie beach and the coral gables have we we are now putting in all all traffic devices we're using raised intersections speed tables speed cushions a lot of uh coordination going on with our emergency services because traffic calming was kind of dormant for a few years and again with the influx of the catt money coming in we've got traffic calming projects in every district currently either under design and or in construction and in the planning phase so we've got traffic calming everywhere every every day we we have uh it seems like a new request coming our way and we are we are putting them in the ground everywhere and and and using different solutions sometimes there's different levels of traffic calming that we can incorporate whether it's a vertical like a speed table or speed hump or like you mentioned reducing a uh uh the pavement with with it with a choker um so we've got this is you know a grand part of of we we have full-time assigned staff just working on traffic calming for for our city roads thank you i i really feel very strongly about traffic calming so and i've had gone to a lot of conferences about it many many years ago and had some very strange ideas back in those days so things have come a long way thank you any questions from members for the director no thank you very much you're very welcome thank you appreciate a good good presentation okay our next uh item is the uh let's see the quarterly report municipal program update mariana and everybody wants to get home to watch a soccer match so i asked her to keep it brief started what soccer is there soccer going on today i already know the score does anybody want me to tell you good evening um members of the trust mariana price municipal program manager i'm here to provide the quarterly municipal program update so i always like to start off with ridership unfortunately um year over year it has gone down almost six percent but at least um quarter over quarter it's gone up slightly it hasn't decreased so we can say that that's a good thing um why it would have decreased almost six percent i am not sure i would have to look into that but there are some more charts here that we can observe these are the last six quarters of municipal ridership separated into fixed route on demand and micro mobility and you can see that it's pretty stable for the fixed route just a slight slow decline it's not drastic and on demand continues to increase and micro mobility is pretty flat overall but slightly increasing little by little this is a better visual of the decrease that um my ridership has had over the past six quarters so you could see that there was a dip but we are on the up and up quarter two spending uh we spent twenty three point almost five million dollars and that's an increase since quarter one by three million dollars these are the transit services currently provided by our 33 participating municipalities um 21 provide fixed route 25 now provide on demand and seven provide micromobility services in the form of either scooters or bicycles this is my jenga image to show which municipalities provide all three forms of transit and which provide the others in different ways so this past quarter has been a busy one i met monthly as i do with staff to discuss the latest municipal audits and any issues with maintenance of effort today you heard a presentation by city of miami and i met with cheryl to discuss ambassador issues and to relay that communication to the municipalities and we held our municipal program committee on june 10th i decided this presentation to add some pictures just to jazz it up a little bit uh i attended uh i attended uh two city of miami ribbon cuttings one for their project on northwest second sorry sixth avenue and as well as the um ribbon cutting for their circuit launch in coconut grove we also had a we have quarterly meetings at the university of miami for the uh to discuss the potential of forming a transportation management association with the south miami coral gables and other nearby stakeholders i also attended several municipal meetings as a leadership miami alum i was invited to speak on a transportation panel at the homestead speedway in april and also we staff supported the commotion conference at the miami-dade county wolfson college we had the mobility matters awards i was happy to um to see that two of our municipalities cutler bay and city of miami won awards in transportation and i continue to have one on meetings with one on one meetings with municipal liaisons i have a north miami beach meeting scheduled next week we also had our now semi-annual transportation partners coordinating committee in april i met with a county attorney's office to discuss municipal issues we constantly have new and interesting questions on eligibility so we're always in communication with them about that i hold regular meetings with dtpw linda morris and her staff to discuss outstanding interlocal agreement issues for both big straw and on demand and the clerk of the court and comptroller is currently auditing six municipalities uh two are in process and four have been initiated so we're excited to have those audits come soon and that is all i have thank you thank you for your presentation and you are one of the hardest working people i know so i really you know on behalf of i'm sure of the rest of us appreciate what you do any questions questions okay we will move fast thank you there's a game on remember daily is all outfitted already for the next game okay okay our next uh item is uh 6c that would be the uh county's uh first and second quarter budget update and that would be miss pushnicki does that sound about right i hope as somebody whose name was always mispronounced and and believe it or not even my mother-in-law told me when bell becomes your name nobody can pronounce it so you just kind of odd but yeah good evening members of the trust patricia bros nicki ddpw budget chief um i will be brief we are going to discuss the first and second quarter of expenses compared to the adopted budget so for um see revenues is your first slide and most of the revenues are received throughout the fiscal year we expect to receive them by the end of the fiscal year during these uh first two quarters we received proprietary funding as and it's below what we expected for the first six months so some of the highlights of what we've seen in the different proprietary areas we have some additional funding received for the smart plan tods advertising joint development permits and then we saw a decrease in fares and fees and we have pending reimbursements for transportation disadvantage metro connect and the underlying that we expect to receive by the end of the fiscal year and then for the expenditures we are trending slightly over budget for the first six months and some of the highlights are expenses in categories that went over budget include personnel over time um inventory that gets distributed by the end of the fiscal year and some security services and then um contractual um services are trending lower than budget and those are the highlights for the first uh six months thank you any questions from members comments um appreciate your presentation thank you good evening our next uh item would be uh 60 north corridor update and i believe uh miss cartaya from fdot is also can also do the uh smart project yeah i think she'll just go from one straight into the next good evening good evening trust members nilia cartaya with fdot district six i'm going to be presenting on the north corridor update so i believe most trust members are very familiar with the north corridor project as it was as envisioned a 10 mile extension of metro rail along 27th avenue with eight stations and seven park and rights a little bit of background i know most of you are all familiar with the original pd and e study that was started back in 2016 with the adoption of the smart plan at that time that pd and e uh went through a hold a brief about hold in 2020 and then it was restarted in 2024 and it's currently being worked on um as we speak right now where we are with that pd and e study is we are refining the elevated heavy rail option and we're doing some additional analysis on structure type also doing some additional conceptual work on a light maintenance facility at the end of the line and also looking at a project cost savings initiative and phasing plan and just to recap some of the options that were looked at last year in close collaboration with our partners at dtpw we looked at some strategies to try to bring down the cost as you all know it's a very costly project upwards of four billion dollars so we looked at a few options to maximize span lengths with a structure we looked at widening the road to try to make the median larger to accommodate peers in the center and then we also looked at options with and without a light maintenance facility so those are the the options that you see there ultimately in may of last year the two agencies selected option two in that green box that you see there that includes the light maintenance facility includes some roadway widening and allows for a larger median so that you can then put those peers in the median so just to give everyone a quick snapshot of that option and how it would rate in terms of FTA cost effectiveness which is one of several performance measures that FTA uses to rate projects for funding as you can see there the cost effectiveness for option two with a light maintenance facility is around 54 as you can see on that chart there that rate puts us at below the low category a little bit a lot of detail on this slide a lot really a lot has been done to try to refine the costs of the heavy rail project to bring it down right now we are working on like i mentioned the project right sizing and phasing task which is our main focus and trying to wrap up that item i want to spend a little bit of time here on the look ahead as you can see in april there was a tpo resolution to expand the locally preferred alternative to include not only elevated fixed transit but also to include new and emerging technologies so that means that we are expanding the the scope if you will of the analysis that needs to be done so with that said the blue line on top shows the look ahead for the current elevated rail focused pd and e so we are going to focus on again completion of the right sizing cost saving strategies that we're currently working on for the heavy rail option as well as the phasing plan meaning how much of that 10 miles could be built right and at what cost right and how would that score from an fta perspective that yellow line that you see there at the bottom in parallel so we are of course responding to the resolution from the tpo we are currently putting together a scope of work to do an alternatives analysis as is prescribed by the resolution to look at other options right other technologies other alignments so that that effort is going to be underway soon ultimately the takeaway here is that once we complete the project right sizing and phasing task on our current pd and e our current pd and e will go on hold and we will pivot and focus on the alternatives analysis exercise and on this slide um just providing here a quick snapshot of the resolution passed in april and that is my presentation for north corridor i'm happy to take any questions thank you uh i do have a question um so can you give us an example of what alternative what what you're looking at for you know is it possible that it won't be elevated rail is it is or is it just other alternatives of how the elevated rail is built so the the resolution calls for all options right so it could be heavy rail it could be light rail it could be a streetcar um there's a universe of possibilities that we have to look at now um because you know rail at grade is enormously less expensive than than elevated rail there's a cost savings right because you don't have a structure um and that is a significant cost of of these types of projects but then there's also other challenges that are presented once you put a rail at grade you have um pedestrian safety concerns uh you have traffic operational uh concerns right at the roadway level so there are other challenges that would need to be overcome and and just remember when we were looking at this it doesn't seem that long ago it was 1.2 billion dollars for elevated rail and now we're at what 4.2 like everything else cost of eggs you know i shouldn't use eggs but um cost of everything has gone up so much okay any any questions from the other members yeah everybody wants to see the game i'm sorry meg it's okay hit me next okay help me i'm looking at four options no option one option two option one option two and the range and cost is between 4.1 billion and 4.3 billion you know millions are millions but they all seem like close maybe i'm just misreading it right so um yes so the the range you're you're spot on right it's between 4.1 and 4.3 billion so um those were the that was the range of of costs for those options and what is an what is a low fta reading mean so a low fta rating on cost effectiveness means that you're again it means that on one of the many performance measures that fta uses which i've off the top of my head it's about nine of them right out of one of those performance measures you're you're basically failing right you're not getting a competitive score right so ultimately it's it's an average of all the rating that you get on different performance measures so they have a performance measure for land use they have one um for mobility and other metrics but on that particular rating which is you know it's very important right you're you're not making you're not getting an a plus basically so right you're getting a lot less right exactly exactly is that does that impact your ability to raise secure funding from the fta if you have a low rating yes yes because overall again that's one measure of nine or ten right but again they're all lumped in together so um it does affect your ability to you know get federal funds and be competitive right because it's also a discretionary program so you have to compete against other projects so yeah we had a discussion recently about the study the funding that's been directed to studies for the north quarter specifically do we have any idea of what the total expenditure has been for the studies over time i don't have that information at hand um no and a lot of that was actually not done by fdot this is right so many of those were done by the county in the it might have been different that's correct yeah so maybe we can look at that number or reach out and then talk about that next time sure okay thank you any yes member maren one quick question is there like a deadline or a timeline for the alternative analysis to be done completed by or so we're currently developing the scope we're defining the parameters of what we're going to study and we're also um trying to identify funding right because we have to fund the new study so that's still in progress okay any other questions no and you have also the uh smart projects for us yes thank you so moving into the smart projects i'm going to start with flagler since all of my north corridor slides were covered in the previous item okay so i don't know if we can get the slide again we saw these so i won't go through these again page through okay um so the flagler feasibility study uh being led by fdot as well as you may recall back in 2024 fdot received a directive from the tpo to look at elevated options um to connect downtown miami to to fiu we kicked off our study in february of 2025 we have some conceptual initial alternatives and i'll go into a little bit more detail on those in a later slide right now we are in our public survey number one period and i'll share that qr code with you all and i welcome you to share that on your channels and help us to get participation in our survey we're also developing our ridership forecast methodology and like i mentioned our conceptual screening alternatives which are under review so here are our 10 conceptual alternatives that we are looking at currently we have four people mover options and we have six heavy rail options that we are currently looking at for our 12 month look ahead as i mentioned we are currently screening all 10 of our conceptual alternatives these dates i do want to say these dates have shifted since we produced this presentation so a lot of these dates will will be pushed out a little bit so that informational item to the tpo might happen a little later we're going to be refining our conceptual alternatives in the fall and in december we should have some screening some initial results from that initial screening and then we'll be opening up a number two survey to get input on those refined options we're going to have a public meeting early 2027 once we have some refined options to share with the public and again have an opportunity to get feedback from the public um and then we will be um presenting um at our final presentation um in in spring of 27 to the tpo and and here as well um on the recommended uh option the one option right that would come forward out of our screening process um at that point uh prior to you know sharing with um these stakeholders um we would also have a public meeting again going back to the community sharing the the one option the recommended option uh coming out of that study and that takes us to a conclusion of our study in the spring of 2027. as promised here's our qr code for our public survey number one it is currently live so please do feel free to share that in your media channels and with that that concludes my presentation thank you very much any questions yes sorry to delay the game uh can you tell us is this uh flagler study the same as the east west study or are these two different things they're two different studies even though they're essentially on the same general geographic area they are two different studies was there is there a reason as to why they're two different studies for essentially the same general area so originally the flagler corridor um was a um was part of the burt network i don't know if you recall there was a bus express network that was laid out with the smart plan back in 2016 um that's evolved of course now we're at a feasibility study for elevated option um and then the east west corridor which is the other corridor you're referring to that one's being led by miami-dade county so that one is is on its own path so miami-dade county is doing the east west and fdot the state of florida is doing the flagler that's correct okay thank you sure okay thank you very much ms picard tayo you're welcome at this point i have the uh comments um i thank the members for participating in our annual citt strategic workshop june 9th and we had a very productive discussion came to consensus on a few items our staff is now incorporating our ideas into the citt strategic objectives and citt operating budget for your review and approval in july uh for your financial disclosure forms please remember to do that this is your last remember to complete and submit your financial disclosure forms by july 1st or you may risk fines and the loss of this 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 as soon as possible she's very wonderful and she will get it to you and i'm going to send it over to our director thank you madam chair uh very quickly um touching on the municipal program committee report on behalf of member kilpatrick um we had an update on our transportation management association efforts with the cities of south miami coral gables and the university of miami and others and then we also shared a very informative overview of several municipal traffic calming projects moving on to my executive director's report first and foremost please join me in welcoming to the citt our two summer interns i'll ask them to stand at this time sasha santo joins us as our data analytics intern she's pursuing a bachelor of science in accounting and finance at syracuse university new york and is expected to graduate in may 2028 wave to the crowd sasha thank you and brian bermudez joins us as our community engagement intern he's pursuing a bachelor of business administration and management and marketing at fiu with an anticipated graduation in december 2026. wave to the adoring fans brian thank you um quickly moving on since our last meeting we've had two episodes i'm sorry three of them episodes of mobility matters featuring patrice gillespie smith with the underline mayor diegas with the town of miami lakes and mayor fernandez with the city of south miami up on deck for future episodes or officials with the town of cutler bay city miami city miami beach and dtpw i was happy to participate in a miami-dade county public space and trails peer exchange organized by the underline it's a day-long workshop that brought together some of the brightest minds and leaders in that space um tomorrow i will be emceeing the tpo's safe street cinema event focused on ideas and efforts for making miami-dade county a safer place for cyclists members were all previously invited to attend that event if you still wish to do so i believe we can still register you just let us know that's it for me thank you thank you mr executive director and uh we have a new any new business or member issues no seeing there is none and we have any citizen comments known citizen comments go scotland we had one citizen comment uh our next citt meeting will be july 22nd at five o'clock same location so you i won't see you there but everyone else will hopefully and uh i'd like a motion to adjourn you can't vote you just have to move i take it back i'm sorry we're we're adjourned okay let's do it thank you go