Kenneth Kilpatrick, David Maron, here. Miguel Murphy, present. Paul Schwepp, Meg Daly, here. Mayor Peggy Bell, here. Mary Street, present. Madam Chairwoman, you do have a quorum. Thank you. Okay, so our ceremonial items are our CITT Ambassador of the Month. It is Marcella Mazur. She's from September 2026. And normally I have a very detailed thing to read, but I'll just wing it. Is she here? Are you sure you don't have it? I don't know. I don't see it. Did I misplace it? Well, in any event, everyone, is she here? Yes, she is. Oh, great. Okay. So the CITT Ambassador Program has people filling out surveys that help our partners improve transit, and they earn points. I don't know. I apologize. I don't know how many you earned in September 2026. I just know that you were the highest. Let's see. Thank you. Let's see. You earned 2,500 points. That's amazing. Great job. And we have a certificate of appreciation for you, which I will come down to bring you now. So Director Stacey Miller, when she has a second. Sorry. I don't know why we're doing all of this at double speed. Take your time. Hold on one second. Thank you, Marcella. Do you want to say anything? Well, after all, thank you for everything. All the staff, they are doing a massive job, very good, about everything. And I can see the difference for the last two years about everything, especially the bus operator and everything. But thank you very much for that. God, it was amazing. I feel like I didn't call this time. Thank you. Thank you so much. And thank you to all of our CITT ambassadors. I think there's an ambassador of the quarter I have to announce when we get back. I don't know who this goes to. Thank you so much again, Marcella. And Hisham Lajani is our CITT ambassador of the quarter for the third quarter of 2026. But he's not here today. So for anybody who's inspired by the transit riders' commitments, we invite you to consider becoming a CITT ambassador. And you can learn more about the program or apply by contacting our CITT ambassador program chairperson and coordinator, Cheryl Mizell, or by visiting miamidade.gov slash CITT. Thank you, everybody, including our partners in the Department of Transportation and Public Works and our municipal partners for their ongoing collaboration. With that, we're going to move on to the citizens' comments. Do we have any? We have some visitors, and we would like to welcome our visitors here. I did ask. We do have one new person that joined, but our prior visitors said no comments are here just to observe and to learn about us and what we do. Welcome. So we're very glad to have them. I did not see anything else via email. Okay. Thank you. Then the next item is approval of the agenda from last meeting from September 23, 2026. Do I have a motion? Motion. Thank you. And a second? Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. All right. Our first presentation is the quarterly community engagement update from Carla Damien. I should have said this earlier. Good evening, trust members, and thank you for joining us today. First of all, we'd like to start with the tour that we did earlier with our central Miami-Dade Transit Central Control. And we really want to thank the Department of Transportation and Public Works and everyone who was able to help us get that done. Our CFTT ambassadors and trust members that joined us will really appreciate that. Also, we had our executive director, Javier Bencord, who did the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Committee Forum on September 23. And we also set up the plaque, a bronze plaque, at the station at 168th Street Station. We are still trying to coordinate with the department so that we can have a photo opportunity for this. And I know Member Kilpatrick has expressed interest in joining us. So if anybody else is interested, please let us know if you'd like to join us for that. Coming up, we have a few very interesting and great events. The first one is, well, actually I should have mentioned earlier today, Director Bencord participated in the UIL Urban Land Institute Annual Fall Meeting. So thank you for representing us there, Mr. Bencord. Also, coming up in the future, very near future, we have on November 16th, the book panel discussion. Former Mayor Manny Diaz will be participating. U.N. Professor Elizabeth Platter-Seiberg will also be participating. And Victor Dover has done us the favor of also moderating again this year. He is the co-founder of Dover Coal and Partners Town Planning. So we want to thank Victor for all his work in helping us put this together, and Miami-Dade College and the book fair staff also for helping us coordinate that. Also look for us on the street fair on November 20th through the 22nd. We'll have like a, not a large booth, a smaller booth or a smaller place, but we'll be there to interact with the public and let us know about, let them know about the work that the CATT is doing and how our projects are progressing. Also coming up is the South Dade Operations Center ribbon cutting. That's going to be on November 18th. And I know the Department of Transportation and Public Works, so the mayor will be sending out an invitation to your trust members. On November, on March 11th, we have our CATT Summit, CATT Mobility Summit, that we are coordinating now. Thank you, Trust Member Murphy, for all your help. I know it's going to be some heavy lifting in trying to coordinate all that at the college. And then we have commotion coming up. I know, Mr. Hoffman, you asked me when that was going to take place. It's 27th through the 28th right now, as far as we know. If I could just add one more, Carlos, that we recently learned that the TPO is also having a Safe Street Summit in late February, I forget the exact time, and we'll be engaged in exhibiting and potentially having our Mobility Matters podcast broadcast live out of that event as well. So it's going to be a very busy start to the year with three back-to-back-to-back Mobility Conferences or Summits. We'll be ready. We'll be ready. And Avanza will be ready, too. We'll be talking about also the podcast, Mobility Matters. We had some great guests this past quarter. I won't go one by one, but as you can see from there, and including some commissioners and also Florida State Representative, Senator. And coming up on Mobility Matters, the podcast we have, Ms. Natalie Orbis. Now we have to reschedule, but we'll be doing that fairly soon, we hope. Andrew Frey also will be joining us, and Commissioner Damian Pardo from City of Miami will be joining us. We want to also continue to thank our partners, Miami's Community Newspapers, for their great partnership in this. News, we were not as much covered as in previous quarters, but we did have still some good coverage of our meetings and what is mentioned on our meetings. And on the next quarter, we'll feature our op-ed piece, which we're very glad to see that the Miami Herald published. Recruitment, we have had advertising in Miami Today and in other locations, and also we did advertising, we did like a whole social media campaign for the recruitment. And we continue to develop our leadership track. Cheryl will be talking a little more about that when she talks about the ambassador program. And I know that now coming up to social media, we're starting a whole new campaign in which we are featuring municipalities prior on the trust. I know, Meg, we've had some discussions and some other trust members where we wanted to feature the municipalities, the work that they're doing. We want to work closer with them. And so we launched this series, well, initially, we did the PTP presentations. Javier did the bulk of them. Some of our other staff members also participated. We went to all the municipalities and presented before the PTP, well, most of them, anyway. And so now we want to, instead of just telling, we want to show. And we want them to tell their stories. You know, how is the PTP, how is the surtax money that they receive impact in their communities? So with Avanza, with the help of Avanza, our great production team, we have launched the first two where we recorded with them and we're showing the projects that are improving people's lives. And so now I'd like to ask them to, we're going to show you just two very brief clips about some of the social media clips that we're going to be showing. So if you can please play the first one, I think it's Miami Springs. We have several projects coming up. One of the ones that is going to be the next one up is our South Drive improvement. That's going to provide a bike lane from South Royal Poinciana Boulevard all the way to Northwest 36th Street. Our second project that will be coming up is Forest Drive. It's a smaller project. It also included some improvements on East Drive for our transit system. Without the CITT funds, that wouldn't have been done. Without this money, we wouldn't have been able to do a lot of the improvements that we've done, a lot of our projects, roadway projects. It's been absolutely a crucial tool in getting these projects done. The city has installed sidewalks where there's no sidewalks and provide ADA accessibility where there is done so that ease of movement is fairly simple. Mobility is about confidence and knowing you have safe, efficient transportation options now and later. We make sure that our residents receive their service and their surtax funds to use. We also partner with Miami Springs. We share the circulator. We fund them, which is great because this transportation provides a great service. We're looking to improve some sidewalks that need repair, some crosswalks. Thermoplastic, ADA, ramps, and some road improvements. With CITT, it's helped us with the next step in getting it cleaned and manageable for our residents here in the village of Virginia Gardens. Last project that we've done by the canal, we've placed a walkway to do exercise so it keeps them healthy as well. So those are just two of the first ones that we've done. We hope to continue making many, many more. We want to thank Mariana Price, our municipal program manager, for her help. Avanza did a great job. Joey, thank you for all your work. So, again, we hope to have these as showpieces of what other municipalities can see, you know, the public learn more about what's being done in their communities. And now, bringing Joey up for social media updates. Thank you, Carla. Not quite as exciting, but we press on. These are our followers for Instagram. We saw a decent jump in August and September. Likes and reactions made a bounce back in July over the previous two months. Same thing for views. I mean, these are the top performing posts. As you can see, the three of the top four posts are videos. That's something that we're working on, incorporating more of Facebook followers, holding steady, increasing slightly. Again, similar bounce back in likes and reactions in July. And same for views, formerly known as impressions. And, again, two of the top four posts for the quarter were also videos. X, after a string of slight decline month over month, we've seen a small increase in followers for X. Similar bounce back in July for likes and impressions. Top performing posts, again, two out of the four were videos. LinkedIn followers continue to trend upwards. LinkedIn is our golden child. And then July sees another bounce back in engagement. And the top performing posts, again, two out of the four were videos. So, again, that's something that we're trying to incorporate more of as we go forward. And I will hand it off to Cheryl. Thank you, Joey. Good afternoon, everyone. The CITT Ambassador Program continues to recognize top performers. Our top performer for the third quarter and the month of July was Hisham El-Ajani, who will be recognized by the Transportation Committee of the Commission at a later time. And for August, Johnny Vong. And for September, Marcella Mazur, who will be recognized today. Moving on to CITT Ambassador Program, third quarter highlights. We reached a major milestone with the recent launch of our new CITT Ambassador Program dashboard that Nate Huff built for us. While the existing Power BI dashboard focuses more on survey results, this new dashboard shows us more about the program overall, allowing us to see gaps in the coverage, spotlight issues, track ambassador engagement collectively and individually, thereby making the data more valuable. CITT Ambassador Leadership Track will participate in a special session with Highly Air Bettencourt on November 12th to learn more about the purpose, roles, structure of the Transportation Trust. And our quarterly Ambassador Check-In was held on October 1. The next one will be targeted for mid-January. We will be reaching out to our transportation partners to provide updates directly to our ambassadors. Moving on to our KPIs. Our coverage remains consistent at about half, but growing. As I mentioned, we will be adding on, we'll be able to add on more ambassadors with this new tool. So our surveys, but they remain consistent. The surveys themselves have decreased slightly. We're coming out of the summer months, so they're always slow in the summer. But with our new tool, we will be, you know, building our numbers to cover new routes, stations, and on-demand areas. There are several other KPIs in here, and you can take a look at those. But most importantly, ambassadors report an excellent or good experience at 95%. Thank you. Thank you so much. Does anyone have any comments or questions? Yeah, just Madam Chair. And thank you. Thank you, Joey, Carla, and Cheryl for a great presentation. Cheryl, regarding the new milestone with the dashboard that's taking place, just want to just cross-reference in it with the number of ambassadors we have right now. And you mentioned that we'll be able to get more information about the coverage, which is approximately half right now. In what way does the dashboard actually do that, and does that help in the recruitment of ambassadors? Sure, because it allows us to move through the process faster. Before, we couldn't readily see the routes, the stations, specifically probably more so the bus routes and the on-demand as well as the trolleys. We really couldn't see those, like, readily that didn't have coverage. But now it's just a click of a button, and it gives me a whole list of the routes, the bus lines, everything that needs coverage. So I can go through the applications a little faster and find ambassadors who ride those routes and match them up much quicker. Yeah, because I imagine that the issue is we have all the heavy urban areas pretty well covered. I guess it's more the suburban that we're having, or? More so the trolleys, you know, most of the trolleys and on-demand zones with the freebies and MetroConnect, just trying to get to see, make sure we have one ambassador covering those zones, you know, covering a zone or, you know, for each of those trolley areas as well as the on-demand services. Thank you very much. Yeah, Member Wolfhard, you know, we have a lot of applications that are just kind of redundant to routes that are already being served. And so if we just wanted to get numbers up, we could bring them on board and get those numbers up. But then you're going to be over-surveying certain routes and kind of throwing the numbers off. So, you know, we purposefully held off on incorporating, or I should say, bringing certain applicants into the program. And now this will allow us to actually target those routes that need ambassadors to bring those numbers up in a way that better reflects the entirety of the system. So it's going to be helpful. I know, and I think that's a great approach to do on it, not have too much redundancy. Right. Thanks. Thank you. Member Murphy, would you like to introduce the people who came during the presentation? Absolutely. Thank you, Chair. And I do recognize some familiar faces. I will do my best. I know all of you, in fact. Trenelia, please rise. Gabrielle, Janae, Leah, Destiny, Travis, Nahum, Christian, Jamar. Or, okay. There's someone hiding. Okay, yes. You're already standing, Trenelia. And I don't see your advisor. He's in the back. But definitely led by no stranger to the CITT space, John Myrie. He has brought, really, a class of scholars from Miami-Dade College this evening to observe. And I think it's everyone's first time. Hopefully it won't be the last time. But this group, you know, has been definitely engaged at the college on a number of activities throughout the term. And many of them, it's their first year. I see some second year students ready to transition on to bigger and brighter things. And hopefully transportation, transit is part of that. I know many of you take the metro. Okay. All right. I know many of you go to single stop and leverage that bus pass. Two of you at least work in that department. And so you see a lot of our students that do, you know, come for that support service. And the transit, and this is the ecosystem that moves, right, the buses, the rails, the metro mover, et cetera. So thank you for the opportunity to acknowledge this group of scholars from Miami-Dade College. Yeah, welcome. Thank you for coming. And Madam Chair, I see some potential ambassadors here as well. So if any of you ride transit and are interested in learning about the ambassador program, it's a wonderful program. Please speak to Cheryl, wave your hands over there by the door, and she'll tell you all about it. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay. Our next presentation is the South Corridor Operations Update from DTPW. Thank you, Madam Chair. Good evening, and good evening to the members of the trust. Today coming with a quick update. We do often for the operations of the South Corridor. I am trying, but it's not changing. There you go. So a quick agenda. We'll be talking about already a year, so that's a great milestone that's coming around. Monitoring performance, intersection optimization is continuous and daily, and the biannual performance report for FDOT and also FTA, that is actually ongoing. So very proud to the charts that you see in front of you, a tremendous improvement of, you know, really, truly a village behind all these efforts. As you can see, we have gone through three different lineups, and as of right now, the 602 is definitely over our target of 78%, and the other two, which actually are the 601 Express, and the blue one is a totality of all routes. So as you can see, so as you can see, you know, the beginning of October, tremendous improvement on the on-time performance. This is year-over-over-year comparison that you can see how the growth is being tracked month by month, and every month actually is providing information for elevated ridership. The month of June is actually topping at plus 20%. This comparison is also year-over-year, but it's comparing to the former Express routes that we had, the 34 and the 39, and with that comparison against the 601 only, tremendous improvement on the ridership as well. Last but not least, it's basically, you know, the ongoing activities that we have, as I mentioned earlier, system data collection and analysis continues with monitoring the operations and the intersections. The governance of the program is on top of it extremely regularly to make sure that we continue the optimization. The stabilization of the service elements through the optimization is actually noticeable at this point. We're also balancing the BRT operations and intersection performance in coordination with our stakeholders, and the traffic data acquisition and reporting is continuous. We're meeting our MOU requirements with FDOT as a funding partner, and we have already started to submit our quarterly reports that are required by MOU, and that's pretty much it. Thank you so much. Vice Chair Beall, do you have any comments or questions? Okay. Does anyone else have any comments or questions? No? I have one question, Madam Chair. Yeah, sure. So thanks for the presentation, and congratulations on getting the ridership numbers up. And you can see it's been a slow, steady increase. And I think it's – when you compare the on-time performance figures, though, 602 is doing really, really well. Do we know what's driving the difference between the 601 and the 602? Why is one not performing as well as the other one? Well, we're going to bring our chief of service planning. It's assisting me on the presentation today. Thank you. And also, do you have any – do we have any plans to rectify that, correct it, and get the ridership on all those lines up? Good evening, trust members and Chair. Linda Morris, chief of service planning and scheduling. So I think there were two questions there. So the on-time performance, the differences between the 601 and 602. So the 602 is doing fantastic. And it's – what the on-time performance is is really a marker of the operations versus our schedules. And so you can see we've made three different scheduling changes during the opening in the last year. We've got another one coming up in November. And so what we're doing in each of the changes is adjusting the schedule and seeing how the operations are working. Obviously, with the 601, we have a different signal in terms of the timing and the preemption. And so there is a bit of a difference there. And so we're constantly tweaking the signals and making sure that they're working as best as they can. And so I think what you're seeing there is the work that's been done across the year and in conjunction with our scheduling changes and the improvements in the signals. So we continue to do this. And, again, November will be another service change. But we are continuing to make improvements on the signals as well. That's great. And I'm glad to hear that because you guys are responding to the needs of the community and the ridership. And you're tweaking it as we go along to make sure that things are run much more efficiently, which you can see in the numbers are – have been happening over the past year. Thank you. In that chart, the – I don't know if it has a page number, but in that chart with the on-time performance data, with the vertical red lines, the lineup, is that what you mean by the schedule? Like, is the lineup the – when X bus is supposed to arrive? Yes. Okay. Yes, correct. That process takes place – go ahead. Sorry to clarify. So a lineup is a service change. And so we've had three lineups or service change during the past year or so. But what is changing in the service? So in a service change, we would change the schedule. So if we give the service 60 minutes in the previous lineup, maybe we give it 63 minutes to account for any changes. That's the sort of changes we would make in a lineup. How is this – you know, the gold standard, the BRT gold standard, how has that been keeping up with that? Like, I mean, this is a factor in it, right, the on-time performance? So on-time performance – Stacey Miller, Director, CEO, DTPW – on-time performance is one of the many myriad of factors that would potentially go into the assessment of the corridor as a whole and the services that we're providing. But I do just want to clarify one other thing, and Linda and German have done a great job explaining all of the charts and graphs. We are still under active construction on this corridor. So Dadeland South is still under construction. It does have an impact on our on-time performance because we are not running the service through the physical location that allows us to have a turnaround quickly. We're about to open a component of the facility that will expedite some of the movement within Dadeland South itself, but we're still not doing ingress-egress for the express service in the right location. So you're going to continue to see tweaks and adjustments, and as the construction – as additional components of the construction are completed, you'll start to see more and more on-time performance and adjustments that are being done through Linda and her team so that we can hone in on that number. We are looking for – and it's really actually quite exciting, whether you're looking at the 601, the 602, or in general, how close we are to our on-time performance goals. And when you look at the entire system, that accounts for every bus in the entire network working throughout our entire county and all of the things that impact the time versus the schedule. So I think the team is doing an outstanding job of making sure that we have reliable service for our patrons. Right, and obviously it's – I mean, the ridership is – Well, for the Metro Express, it's ballooned. And obviously from our perspective, the fact that we're at a year and we've seen this sort of an increase and the feedback that we're getting is mostly positive. I mean, there's obviously going to be situations where, you know, an individual or a patron might not have had the perfect experience, but we're getting much less complaints about cross-street traffic, and that is an indication of what our traffic signals and signage team are doing in working in collaboration with the scheduling team and with our operations. Thank you. Thank you. And Cheryl, do we – I mean, do we have ambassadors that are assigned to the Metro Express route already? I'm fairly certain the answer is yes. Cheryl, a question was posed as to whether we have ambassadors on the Metro Express BRT route. I believe we do. We do. In general – I'm sorry to put you on the spot, but in general, do you know what the feedback has been? We would have to – we can share that information. Look, that would be interesting. But anyway, thank you so much for the presentation. Does anyone else have any comments, questions? I just have a general question that I'd like to ask, and it's the on-time performance goal of 78 percent. Where does that come from, and is that overall transportation in the county for the entire bus system, and is it appropriate to use that for BRT where we have such a huge investment where we're trying to get it maybe a little bit better? Great question. So 78 percent is actually in our service standards that were set in 2009. We're actually embarking on an update of service standards specifically to accommodate new services that we've created since 2009. So we're certainly going to be looking to review the new services like BRT and if it is appropriate for potentially different service standards. Okay, great. Thanks. I mean, the 602 right now is exceeding it significantly, so it's not – So it's a success, according to, you know, our goal of 78 percent. But, you know, I was just – my thought was just, you know, we have this huge investment in BRT in the South Corridor. And I think it might be, you know, in the future as we move forward, you know, and as the times get better, we may – the department may want to think about adjusting that 78 percent for maybe our smart corridors. So while Linda did a great job, we would like to make sure that we're reassessing some of our prior standards and expectations that haven't been reviewed in a number of years. So we're actually establishing a methodology by which every five years we're going to do better reevaluations of the system in general and will also at that time determine what our cadence should be of updating our standards because you're absolutely correct. We have different types of services, and right now everything is on the same standard. And we need to determine how best to achieve our goals and what our incremental standards should be depending on the type of service. But right now it is a flat number for our entire system. Understood. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. 7A. Mr. Attorney, if you could read that for us. 7A, resolution by the Citizens Independent Transportation Trust recommending the Board of County Commissioners approve supplemental agreement number one to the design-built services agreement for project number DB19-DT. DTPW-01, contract number CIP155-DTPW19-DB between OHLA USA, Inc. and Miami-Dade County for the South Corridor Transitway project from Southwest 344th Street to Dayland South Station for the Department of Transportation and Public Works, increasing the contract term by 507 calendar days and the contingency time by 51 calendar days, resulting in a revised contract duration of 1,884 calendar days and a revised contingency period of 189 calendar days. We replenish contingency funds previously utilized, approve a total fiscal impact of $387,681,818.42 to be funded from the project contingency, authorize the county mayor or county mayor who does need to execute the supplemental agreement and exercise all provisions contained therein, and authorize the use of charter county transportation surtax funds in the amount of $2,448,325 for this project which was added to the People's Transportation Plan in February 2020. Thank you very much. Does anyone have any comments, questions, or a motion? Go ahead. Just a few questions to staff on specifically the supplemental agreement just for our understanding. So the reason for the additional funds for the contract as well as the duration of the contract, that's due to existing condition discrepancy on both parties? Thank you for the question. Again, Stacey Miller, the director, CEO. The issue is, this is a design-build project, and we began the project and the construction and the development of the 168th Street parking garage with a certain set of criteria. During that development, there were additional criteria that were developed by the fire department because a component of this particular garage includes electric vehicle charging. And as those criteria evolved, our project needed to evolve with it. So really, this is the evolution of that criteria changing and us adapting to that criteria. Okay. And then, just to understand, so from what I'm reading here, the additional redesign requirements, it's basically that there would be a redesign, but the additional funds that are going to be attributed to this also include whatever redesign changes come up, not just the design itself? Yes. Yeah, this is an all-inclusive. Okay. So this would ideally not come back? No, this completes this component. And then, just out of curiosity, for contingency, what's normally the percentage allocated for these projects? I'm going to ask Alex to address that particular question. I don't know off the top of my head. I apologize. Okay. Good evening. Alex Byers, assistant director of construction, DTPW. This funding is coming from the project's approved budget's contingency. Our construction contracts typically have a 10% contingency. That's for the overall project. The project's budget that was approved through CITT and through the board and through the budgeting process does have a project contingency, which was what we're using for this to cover this expense. Right. So in that instance, this is not additional resources being requested. It was already allocated to the overall project. It's just moving it from the overall project contingency to the contract. So when it says replenishing the contingency, that might not even be used? So it's replenishing the contingency in the construction contract. So the construction contract has a 10% contingency. We're replenishing that with budgeted money in the overall project's contingency. So there's a construction contract that has a budget, and then the overall project for design construction for all the elements has an overall budget. We're taking contingency from the overall budget and moving it into the construction contract. But you are correct in that the construction contingency and the project contingency, in theory, may not all be expended. Again, it was contingency. So that is that 10% buffer on the project, which is pretty standard on a construction project. But, yes, potentially we won't consume the entire 10% for the overall program. I have one last question. My last question, I was trying to understand. So there's a 10% not to exceed. Is that for the time extension or for the dollar amount? For both. It's in 521 county contingency period. So I was just trying to understand what the max 10% is allocated for. That would be in the contracts contingency. Yeah. I think that is the construction contract contingency. Contingency. But for time or for dollar amount? That's what I was trying to understand. Because it says here for allowance for time extension. So I'd have to look that up. I can't find it in here. So the typical contract dollar amount contingency is 10%. We also have a 10% contingency for time. So when we add time, so we're adding the contract time to the contractor because of the delays caused by this. We're also adding contingency time that the department can give at its discretion to extend the contract farther. So if you're referring to 5.2.1, that is referring to the time associated with the contract. So would that have to be updated as well? I mean, I know you're adding time. Or is that within the allowable temperature? Within the allowable. Perfect. That's it. Thank you so much for all the answers. Sorry. I had to just get to that point within the booklet. Go ahead. Do you have a comment? Yeah, so just to clarify, because you're asking to, and I'm still a little unclear about the 2.4 going into the contingency. And you're also changing the base amount of the contract, too. So these are new monies. They are not new monies. So if I can clarify, this project, the South Corridor had multiple projects within it. The South Corridor itself, the 168th Street parking garage, Mast Arms, and different elements to it. The 168th Street parking garage is budgeted for a total, I believe, of $61 million, which is the project's budget allocation. The actual construction cost was closer to $57 million. We're just moving some of that balance from the 61 that was approved as part of the overall project's budget into the construction contract. Okay, so we're not asking for additional allocation. There's no additional draw that has not already been approved. There's no additional funding request that has not already been approved by the project's overall budget. It's a reallocation of funds that are already within the program of the South Dade Corridor. Okay, understood. That's very clear now. And just one other question. What is the, like, why do we need an additional, why are you calling for an additional 507 days? It seems to be substantially completed. Is this new work going to actually take a year and a half to do? No, this is to make sure that the project ultimately can be closed out within the time allotted for the overall contract. So this just rectifies. That's why it's non-compensable days. This just rectifies the time associated with this element of work. When you say rectify, what are you trying to align? We want to make sure that there's not a situation where our contractor who is doing work is out of contract time and potentially is in liquidated damages or other issues. So we're aligning the contract time with the work that needed to be completed. So this ensures that they are working exclusively within the contract time allotted for this element. Okay, it just seemed like it was, I understand that. It just seemed like it was a long, quite a bit of a long period of time. But if that's what you guys need to protect the county and the taxpayers, then I'm all for that. So the $2.4 million surtax impact, is that going into the contingency? Is that the replenishing? It goes into the contingency of that particular component of the project because the prior contingency was consumed. So we're replenishing the contingency, which may or may not be consumed before the completion of the project. But it gives us the buffer in the actual construction project should something else arise. Something else outside of this station, this issue? Something outside of the issue that I spoke of, which was resolving the additional fire department criteria associated with electric vehicle charging. Okay. Because I think one of the questions that staff asked was how much is in the contingency. And off the top of my head, I think it was $168,000, the balance that's in there, which for a project like this is kind of low. So I understand where you're coming from. Again, overall, as we complete the project, there is the potential that funds will be returned because the contingency won't be consumed. Okay. Go ahead. I have a question. Will this pretty much wrap up this project? I mean, you know, this is predominantly the 168th Street garage and the need to change things around or make some repairs or whatever for the electric buses. But is this going to, I mean, are we going to then have more parts of it come back? So there is the possibility. As Alex mentioned, the overall South Dade Transitway project program is made up of a series of projects. Several of them are still under construction. As I mentioned, Dadeland South, which does impact or is part of this overall program, is still under construction and may, in fact, have supplemental agreements or change orders in the future. The 108th Street garage is winding down, but that's not to say that every element associated with the overall program is complete at this time. I believe it is, we're still about a year away from completing Dadeland South. South, correct. So there is the possibility, depending on how that progresses, we may have to come back to you on Dadeland South. For financial, but not for time? Because... It's unknown at this time. 507 additional days? That was for 168th Street parking garage. Right. So this project could take longer than... I mean, most projects do take longer than we expect, but this could continue for years? No. Our expectation... Say within a year, that sounds good. Our expectation is that this would wind down by around November 2027, so about a year from now. Thank you. Thank you both. Thank you so much. Does anyone else have any questions, comments? No? Anyone have a motion on 7A? I'll move 7A. Thank you. I'll second. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Anyone against? No. Yes. There's one again. Oh, two no's. Who said no? Oh. Okay. I think we have one no, Member Hoffman. Sorry. It threw me off. Register one no, correct? Yes. Thank you. All right. Our informational reports. Okay. As usual, I'd just like to point out, at the very least, our financial report, 8A. Unfortunately, this has been the trend. July of this year is down approximately 17.5% compared to July of last year with respect to collections. That is the second worst decline this year so far. Overall, for the year, we're down about 9.5% compared to last year. As you recall, this is largely likely due to the elimination of the business rent tax, so it was not unexpected, but hopefully those numbers will pick up. Thank you. Does anyone else have any comments or questions about the other B through H informational reports? Go ahead. A quick question. On the NIP reports? G. DTPW NIP report of the PTP money? Yes. Just no color it is. I went to District 13 because I'm biased, but the peach-colored lines, I guess, when it says the PW design, project management, inspector, and operating costs for the different years, what is that? What does that mean? I apologize. What page of it? You can go to the District 13, all the way at the end, it says page 3. There's a bunch anywhere, but the last page, a lot of the peach lines. Okay. If I'm not mistaken, this was provided to us by DTPW, so I'll ask for their assistance in explaining that. Which item is this? G. G? G. G. Yes, we're on 8. It's the 8G neighborhood improvement projects update, and he was looking at his district. I just want to clarify that we are talking about page 3 of District 13, right, and under the resurfacing component? Any of them, because they have resurfacing. I think it starts on page 1. Yeah, we could do resurfacing. That's fine. I mean, those are – are you questioning what the charge is? Yeah, like what is it? Can you restate the question? For example, let's say the resurfacing one. Underneath has the three peach lines. Right. So those are our internal staffing charges assigned to the project. So we have design fees and construction, engineering, and inspection fees, and we charge those fees to the project. There's a normal means of us managing the overall cost of a project. So we have in-house charges, consultant charges, and then the actual construction. So we have to design it, we have to inspect it, and we have to construct it. They're like cross-departmental charges? Well, there are charges. It's our staff time, but we charge our staff time to projects. It's the PW part of DTPW. The public works part of DTPW, yes. Like to maintain what you built. It allows us to – To build it. To design it, inspect it, and there's a construction cost, but these are the charges for our staff to design the project, inspect the project. Then we have the construction cost, and then ultimately we have maintenance costs, but that's not what this is. Thank you. Thank you. That's a good question. Does anyone else have any comments, questions? No? Okay. Do we have any old business? No? All right. So for the chairperson's report, CITT staff sent out Hold the Dates for next year's CITT Mobility Summit. We'll be combining our previous ambassador recognition ceremony along with the Mobility Matters Awards that we separately – we had two separate events last year. We're going to combine it in one and also with a couple of panel discussions. The event is set to take place on March 11th, 2027 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Miami-Dade College, Wolfson's Campus. Thank you. This year we're opening the award nomination process to the public, and we've already begun to solicit nomination. Please help us by sharing our posts to your respective groups, and if you're so inclined, submit nominations of your own. The nominations will be accepted via the CITT's website through the end of this November. Thank you, Madam Chair, for the executive director's report. So as a reminder, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This year, like previous years, the county participated in the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. The goal of this campaign, of course, is to get as many people as possible involved in raising awareness and funds to help support life-saving research. Our very own team, MDC, represented the CITT at the walk, and are on track to reach our fundraising goal by December. Remember, early detection saves lives. And I want to thank Monica Cejas, who kind of leads that effort for us every year, and is in full pink regalia today, I think. I forgot my pink tie. Monica, you've got to remind me. On October 14th, it was my honor to moderate a conversation with City of Miami commissioners Ralph Rosado and Damian Pardo at the APA Florida's conference in Miami, where we discussed mobility and a host of other intersecting issues. Earlier today, I represented the CITT on a transit oriented development panel, TOD panel, at the Urban Land Institute's annual meeting taking place here in Miami. But I was just a warm up act for the star studded panel that followed, featuring member Daley and the underline. And I do want to point out, this was distributed to each of you, what, about an hour ago? This is our proposed schedule of meetings for 2027. Please take a look at that. If you see kind of any major issues, please let us know. Right now, we are proposing to follow largely the schedule that we have been following now for several years, which is meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month, as allowed by holidays and other potential conflicts. And finally, I believe our staff distributed the TPO's long range transportation plan to you, also about an hour ago. There's a large book, if you want it, and then there's the highlights, which is what I'll be reading. So, have fun reading that. And that's all I have. Thank you. Does anyone have any citizens comments? We have so many citizens. I believe we do. Good evening, Chair. Yes, we do. We have Brendan McPhillips, who I believe is here to speak about pedestrian bridge. Hello, everyone. My name is Brendan. I just wanted to make a comment here. I'm a frequent user of Metrorail. And I've seen quite a few people almost get run over and killed at the Coconut Grove Metrorail station. We've had some development in the area and the underline. And there's no pedestrian overpass like there is at Vizcaya, Douglas Road, and University Station. So, I really think, I don't know if it's something that's already in the works or not, but it's something that I see on a daily basis. And just as a citizen of, I'm a lifelong resident of Miami-Dade County and the city of Miami. Over the years, I've seen some accidents there, but also I see on a daily basis people leaving the Metrorail station, crossing US-1, going southbound on Southwest 27th Avenue. And it's just something that, if it's not in the works, it should be considered. And the only other comment that I wanted to make is, I really appreciate the underline. I use it all the time. And I'm so happy that it's so clean and well-maintained. Because if it wasn't, there would be trash everywhere and I don't think people would enjoy it as much. So, that's all I have. Thank you very much. Yeah, I live at 1401 Southwest 22nd Avenue, or Southwest 22nd Street, Cora Way, in the city of Miami. Thank you so much. Thank you. I live around there, too, and I also see what he's talking about, unfortunately. I mean, most intersections with US-1 are dicey, but that one in particular. And it's because, and it's made worse, unfortunately, by the development, because there's more reason to be on your feet or on your scooter or on your bike instead of in a car, which is great, but risky. I'd like to follow on with a couple of comments. First of all, thank you for your nice comment about the underline. Really? I was like, yay! I'll take it back to my team. They earned it. I'd like to talk about the pedestrian bridge. We, the underline commissioned, actually FDOT commissioned a study years back for a pedestrian bridge across 27th North and South. And one of the reasons that bridge was abandoned, not just because of cost, is because we have an ADA specification of a 2% grade, which has made the bridge very, very long and clad with concrete. So it felt, makes US-1 feel more like a turnpike, you know, than a city or, which it is Federal Road, but a city road. If I recall, we've had a lot of discussion over time about crossing North and South across US-1. One of the issues back in the day was where does the bridge land? And I believe there was a discussion with the Wawa development that was going to be there to have the bridge across US-1 land there. I know anecdotally, I see what you see every single day. And I don't think at this time there's anyone leading the charge on adding that pedestrian bridge. But as a citizen, you can get things done. And by being here tonight, that's just the first step in, you know, getting people interested in that initiative. Thank you so much. Anyone else? No one in the... Oh, go ahead, Member Hoffman. Do we have any sort of conclusion date? Microphone. There is no microphone. I'm supposed to turn on microphone. It doesn't exist. Okay. Thank you very much. Do we have any conclusion date yet for the elevator at Dadeland North? I'm going to have to ask DTPW to answer that. The question was a completion date for the new elevators, or is this a repair of an elevator? Looks like it's a new one. Good. So the new one. So do we have a completion date for the new elevator at Dadeland North, right? Yes, sir. Dadeland. So I believe we're about 10 months away from that completion. We do keep an updated conveyance website regarding all of our conveyances, elevators, and escalators at all of our sites, but we're probably still about 10 months away from the completion at that location. And as a follow-up, when was that started? The construction of the project or the construction of that particular element? The whole thing. Whenever you guys started to plan for it. So the overall contract was executed approximately a year and a half ago for that location. So we're saying that approximately two and a half years for the elevators from start to finish? We phase the work so that there are conveyance systems that are operational. So I wouldn't say it's the full contract time associated because each element is part of a schedule of an overall project. But elevators and escalators do have long lead times. So we can get you more detail if that's what you're looking for regarding when we took an elevator out of service or when we started the construction of an elevator. But it's not the full construction time associated with the contract. Is the year that you're approximately planning to still work on that, is that typical with the rest of the stations that we have? Yes, it is typical. And we'll be happy to share that webpage with the schedule of all the projects with you. Thank you so much, Director. All right. Does anybody have any new business or member issues? All right. Seeing none. I'm going to restate. So the combined meeting with the panel is going to be March 11th from 11 to 4 at Miami-Dade College Wilson Campus. So save the date. I'm just saying it again. And then our next meeting is November 18th. Oh, my gosh. So if I may, I just had a conversation with the department a little while ago. That may change. They may want that to happen earlier for an important reason. So just stay tuned. We may be changing the date of our November meeting. Changing the date or the time or both? The date. So tentatively November 18th at 5 p.m. But we can't go forward because of the holidays. They would go back. I think they need us. They may need us. Hasn't been confirmed to meet earlier because of some issues with the Board of County Commissioners calendars. Typically, the Board of County Commissioners meet in December. This year, they're not meeting, which is creating some potential issues. So just stay tuned. I still need to have some follow-up conversations. Well, thank you. Unless you have a comment. I mean, the earlier we can get that change on our calendars. Of course. Yeah. I mean, I'm personally happy to accommodate the date change. And I'm sure so many of the colleagues are here as well. So it's just getting super busy out there. I understand. I understand. Thank you. Of course. So, yes. Thank you so much. Thank you all for coming. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Right. Thank you. Thanks.