Heavenly Father, Lord, and Savior, we thank you for this day, the day we've never seen before and we'll never see again. We pray that you bless us, guide us, make us instruments of your will, amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, I'm going to go ahead and open it up for a reasonable opportunity to be heard. Anyone wishing to be heard, please approach the podium, give me your name and your address. You'll have two minutes. I don't see that I have any cards or anything, no one's approaching. Reasonable opportunity to be heard is now closed. Madam Attorney. Good morning. The items to be considered today by this committee are those listed in the final official agenda and in the changes memo. The following items have been added to the agenda. Item 1G1 supplement, the fiscal impact and social equity statement for item 1G1. Item 3F, which is a resolution adopting the major update of the 2026 transit development plan. And item 3G, a resolution authorizing a maintenance map. I need a motion on the agenda. So moved. Second. It's been moved by Commissioner Messin, seconded by Commissioner Raguelotto. All those in favor of approving the agenda, seconded by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed? All right, show the agenda adopted. Let's go. You have a public hearing item, item 1G1. 1G1. We're going to open public hearing for item 1G1. Anyone wishing to be heard on item 1G1? Approach the podium. No one's approaching. I don't have any cards. Show the public hearing on 1G1 closed. We can take up 1G1 now. Are there any questions from the dais? I need a motion on 1G1. Happy to move it. It's been moved by Raguelotto, seconded by Bastien. Is this a roll call? Call the roll. Commissioner Bastien. Commissioner Bermudez. Commissioner Bermudez, your vote, 1G1. Senator Garcia, Vice Chairwoman Raguelotto. Yes. Chairman Gilbert. I vote yes. Motion passes unanimously. All right. For the record, Mr. Chair, this is an ordinance relating to zoning creating section 33-39.5 of the code of Miami-Dade County, Florida, providing for administrative acceptance and approval of covenants relating to the Live Local Act in connection with proposed developments located within transit-oriented developments or areas in the county under certain circumstances, providing criteria, requirements, and procedures applicable to such covenants and modification of such covenants, providing separability, inclusion in the code, and an effective date. Thank you. I was wondering if we read that first. You want me to do another vote just to make it clean? Yes, you can. Thank you. Call the roll on 1G1 again. It's been moved by Regalotto, seconded by Bastien. Commissioner Bermudez. Senator Garcia. Commissioner Bastien. Vice Chairwoman Regalotto. Yes. Chairman Gilbert. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. What now? It's our only public hearing. The agenda. Does anyone else wish to bifurcate any of these items? Good question, right? 3D. 3? Over here, D. D? 3D. I want to do 3D and 3E. 3D. Okay, I'm hearing 3D. All right, so 3D and 3E? All right, could I have a motion on the rest of the items then? Second. It's been moved by Commissioner Bastien, seconded by Commissioner Regalotto. All those in favor on the balance, everything except for 3D and 3E. Signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed? All right, show that was adopted. Let's go to 3D. Read it. Let's open it up. 3D is a resolution authorizing a non-competitive designated purchase pursuant to section 2-8.1B3 of the county code by a two-thirds vote of the board members present. Authorizing additional expenditure authority in the amount of $24,980,000 for a total modified amount of $54,944,855 for contract number RFP 01071. Bus passenger shelter program for the Department of Transportation and Public Works. Authorizing the county mayor or county mayor's designee to execute the supplemental agreement and exercise all provisions contained therein. And authorizing the use of the People's Transportation Plan PTP bond program funds for this project, which was included in the original Exhibit 1 to the PTP. Thank you. Commissioner, Senator Garcia, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I do have a question on this. My understanding how the bus shelter, we recently gave a bus shelter, bus bench contract to, I guess, Outfront Media. Now I'm seeing that we are coming back to ask for more additional dollars. Aren't they responsible for the building of these shelters? Because now we're giving them more money to, they're going to use county dollars to build these shelters? I see the director approaching. I'm assuming she wants to respond. Jimmy? You could, Mr. Chairman, if I may, can you just explain the program to me? Because I remember a couple of years, I think it was last year, there was a contract that was awarded. And we make money off the advertisement. I know they make money off their advertisements. My understanding, I think Hylia had a program and so did the city of Doral a couple of years back. My understanding, how the systems work, is that these bus shelters are placed there by the actual company that's going to make the money off of the advertisement. And then we split whatever advertisement sales are there. How is this different? How about that? Through the chair, Stacey Miller, Director, CEO of Department of Transportation and Public Works. I'm not familiar with the other contracts that you might be referring to. Through this particular contract, we pay for the installation and maintenance of our bus shelters. They do advertise, and we receive revenue from the advertisement. But we do fund the installation and maintenance of the bus shelters. So we're funding the installation and the maintenance, and they make money off the advertisement? Shouldn't they be also responsible for the maintenance of these shelters? It's part of the contract. They're responsible for the maintenance. We install and they maintain? Yes, sir. And what is the profit sharing that we have with them now? I will have to ask the team. I apologize. I don't have to. You don't have to apologize. I get it because this is sprung into you right now. I have a couple of other questions, but I guess let's have a conversation as this moves forward before the full board. I'm just not being 100% comfortable with. Happy to do so. Thank you. I appreciate you. Of course. Director, I think, probably the confusion was in your answer. You said that we're responsible for the installation and maintenance, and then you said that they're responsible for the maintenance and profit shares. Are we responsible for the maintenance, or are they responsible for the maintenance? It's part of the contract that they maintain the bus shelters, pick up the trash, go out and handle that as part of the contract. So they're responsible. So they're responsible for that maintenance, the cleanliness and that type of thing, and we're probably responsible for the physical plant structure of the maintenance. So that's going to be the division. That's the confusion. You're recognized, Mr. I got it. Thank you. And I was going to say that because we, there was a whole long conversation about the trash cans that we added to them when we had that contract and how often they picked up the trash. I remember we went like two rounds on that. Um, I, I know that the county has different rules for advertising, but I think that at some point we need to look at these rules again, because, um, Senator, you mentioned Doral and obviously the city of Miami also, but city of Miami doesn't subscribe to Lady Bird. So they have a lot more flexibility than we do, but there are a lot of limitations on the types of ads that they can put at bus benches, um, that was passed in the prior administration that were very controversial, but if we want to highly monetize these things, we can do it. So as we go into our transit cliff, we, we might want to rethink, um, some of those decisions. Um, the big moneymaker is, um, that we do not allow political advertising. So our, our, our bus benches don't have that. And that was a decision the board made some time ago, but as we all know, um, there's a lot of money in that. So we, I would love when we talk about the revenue share to maybe kind of revisit that because, uh, we're leaving a lot of money on the table here. Um, I don't say, I don't think we have to go as far as the city of Miami that has like a bus bench that's, you know, um, sponsored by absolute vodka and has like a sofa. That's the city of Miami thing. But I think we could, as we look at different revenue opportunities, get a little more dynamic about these bus benches because we're very, very prescriptive. And I think we should probably kind of look at it and see what's happening in the market. And it's weird because we said no to political advertisements and all these different advertisements. And then all of our bus benches have weirder advertisements than those. I won't get into the specifics, but they're very personal in their nature. Let's just say that they're around health decisions, um, which the neighbors get a little freaked out about too. So I, I, I think we should probably rethink that and look at making a little bit more money so that we can maintain them better and potentially also expand them. Um, yeah, let me just get a motion on the item unless there's something else. You got Commissioner Bastian, you move it? Move by Commissioner Bastian. Second. Second by Commissioner Bermuda. It's all those in favor. Hold on, I wanted to see. Oh, you have a question? Oh, you recognize it. If I forget, cause I, it's, well, I'm not against the political advertising part. I want to remind everybody and I want to make sure Ms. Miller as director, cause we pass an ordinance that on our buses, we had, today is very timely on this, that we have, that we make sure that, you know, the advertising, cause that happened in my campaign. And my opponent, my opponent, for a year, put a fake picture of herself and put it all around, uh, our buses. And when we talked to the vendor, their lawyer's argument was, well, you don't have any rules. Now we have rules. I just want to make sure that that doesn't happen again. And, and, and now on a day like today, which is a day after something occurred in the first case, I just want to make sure that people, uh, you know, follow the rules and it be fair for everybody. Uh, I'm not, uh, so I want to make sure that, uh, this particular company, not only on the bus benches, but certainly on, on the other app, because they do the advertising for our buses also. So, uh, so, uh, if they could please, uh, make sure that they are following our ordinance that was passed, uh, on political advertising. Um, okay, so, yeah, the reason I was rushing to the vote is because I do remember that it wasn't a prior commission who put those, that regulation in place. It was actually us, um, yeah, so. Yeah, we did the bus bench, not the bus benches. So, um, but what occurred yesterday? Did I miss something? You said something occurred yesterday? Well, yeah, my opponent took a plea. So some of that money was used for some of the advertising, which is exactly why I want to make sure that we don't do this in the future. I, I, I just be able to mind in my Miami gardens business. I didn't even know. Well, I know, but I know. Yeah, there you go. Well, I suffered it. So the bottom line is I want to make sure that the rules are the same for everybody. And when I talked to this company, not about the bus benches, but about the bus says. And their attorney sent us back a very nice letter saying, blank off. So for me, it's now that there's an ordinance, let's make sure that the company that does the bus benches and our buses understands our rules. Yeah, I am completely comfortable with, um, enforcing our ordinance and Commissioner Regalado. I mean, I don't necessarily, I won't be rushing to put it on this committee's agenda, but I'm okay with the broader discussion I think you had at the board because I think all of us need to be involved. I, I just, I've always been weary, weary about us, um, in what, how we regulate which speech is allowed on our assets. I've always been ready to do that. And so as we go forward in that conversation, I, I, I would just advise my colleagues to be mindful of what you say on the record because it is perilous for us. When we place ourselves in position as gatekeepers to what speech is allowed on our assets. So I, I voted for the last item. I thought we were walking a very thin line. Um, and so I don't want us to have the type of problems that I've seen other cities have, but I've defended other cities when they, when they had those problems. And so, um, let's, let's just be mindful as we move up that conversation. Commissioner Bastien. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, first of all, thank you for answering to all questions and being prompt and sending the information that we requested. I appreciate that. Uh, I have a quick question. So what is the timeline for installing all these benches? That's an excellent question. It is a multi-year contract and will take several years to deploy all of the new assets. Well, give me an idea. What are we looking at? I'm going to have to check back with the team. I apologize. I don't have that in front of me. Will you be sharing that? Yes, ma'am. Before the next meeting? Thank you. Please follow up with the commissioner on that. And then commissioner, if there are specific areas that you know, and maybe you could break it down for the areas that are actually in her district. Yeah. So let's just make sure that, that where there's specific need, there's deliberate action. We will do that. All right. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Those opposed, show the item passing and forward it to the board favorably. We have one more pulled item. Was it 3E? Yep. 3E is a resolution ratifying a contract between Hitachi Rails STS USA and Miami-Dade County in an amount of $6,729,260 for the purchase of rail parts for Miami-Dade County's Department of Transportation and Public Works pursuant to resolution number R-896-21, section 2-8.1B5 of the Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida, and implementing order 3-38. Commissioner Bermuda S.U. Yeah. I, by the way, I have no problem with having a discussion on political advertising, but just one need to have the rules to be clear. The, I pulled this just to make a comment. This was awarded in December of 2023, and, you know, this maybe goes more to the administration, but this is two and a half years later, and I know that the 120-day window was missed or whatever we call it, but, you know, two and a half years is, you know, whatever. Actually, yeah, two and a half years later is two and a half years later, so I'm going to support it, but I think, if I remember correctly, when we went to Japan, Chairman, we even went to see these trains or went to the company that made it. So, I think it would have been nice to have not had a two and a half year wait to have it in front of the commission, so I want to put that on the record. I know that there was a changes in DTPW's transition in management for goods and services and all those things that we talked about, which I understand it, but it, this is the example of timeliness, sometimes, you know, it could have been 180 days, 300 days. So, I just want to make that comment on the record. I support it, Mr. Morales, but I wanted to make that comment so it could be taken back and the administration can at least hear it publicly. Thank you. Move it. It's been moved by Commissioner Regulado, seconded by Commissioner Bastien. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Those opposed, show the item passing and forward it favorably to the board. All right, do we have anything else on the agenda? That completes the agenda. A motion to adjourn is in order. Hold on. To the department, do we need to send any of these things, request any of these things be expedited? No? We're good? All right. Commissioner. My appropriation meeting hasn't met in three months. It hasn't met in three months, and I'm getting a little concerned about the budget. Is it you're on probation? What? Appropriations hasn't. Appropriations. Okay, Jesus. I was like, what? You mean the chairman put you on probation? Oh, you need to enunciate. Okay. No way. I talk a little fast. It happens sometimes. So, appropriations hasn't met in some time, and I'm a little concerned about the budget. And as you know, we've been talking about the transit cliff for some time, and there's a lot of things moving. So, I was wondering if we could have a discussion about the transit piece here in this committee next month, because I think we really – I don't want us to have the conversation again as part of a broader thing, and it get a little lost. I think that there is some opportunities for us, and there's a lot of other items that are coming to this committee that impact the budget. And I know that you brought an item about the SMART plan, and we've talked about it at different places. So, I just – my humble request that we talk a little bit about it at our next meeting as we start moving closer to the budget so it doesn't get caught up. Why don't you prepare a discussion item and submit it? I don't have a problem with that, but the chairman still has to actually – I'm just – I'm asking you if you're okay with it. I'm fine with that. Okay. Happy to do it. I'll submit it. Thank you. All right. Anything else? And the department – so you all heard her say she's going to request that, so you all can probably start to think ahead. I don't want you all to wait until the agenda comes out and then say, oh, by the way, we didn't have time because it was just approving the agenda. You all are probably doing some of that work already, I would imagine. So – but you're forewarned at this point. So, all those in favor of adjourning, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. It goes adjourned. Thank you. And don't use the word probation.