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Safety and Health Committee - Mar 09, 2026

Miami-Dade County, FL Board of County Commissioners March 9, 2026 44 minutes
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So if we can get started with an invocation led by Commissioner Garcia, if he would do us the honor, sir. And colleagues, if you could join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Okay. To the attorneys, would it be proper to open up a reasonable opportunity to be heard? Yes, Mr. Chair. Reasonable opportunity to be heard is open. I do not have cards. Is there anybody present that would like to be heard? Now is the time to be heard. Going once, going twice, and let's close reasonable opportunity to be heard, please. Can I get a motion to set the agenda? Moved. Moved by Commissioner Lopez, second by Commissioner Garcia. All in favor, signify by saying aye. A little unreadiness. If we need to any continuances deferrals, we should do it now. Now would be an appropriate time, Commissioner. Right. So I want to just amend that motion to defer to the next meeting, item 3B. Item 3B? Correct. I believe that's a motion. Well, the motion would be a motion to set the agenda included with the deferral. Is that okay? Yes, Mr. Commissioner. That's fine. Yes. Any other? I'd like to bifurcate 3A, Mr. Chair. Show item 3A bifurcated. Mr. Chair, I'm sorry, we're setting the agenda at this time? Yeah. Okay. All right. So can we set the agenda with the deferral? All in favor, signify by saying aye. So the agenda is being set today. I'm sorry, Mr. Chair, reflects the addition of item 2B and the deferral of item 3B. Yes. And the bifurcation. The deferral item 3B, not 3A. 3B. 3B. 3B. Item 3B is deferred with the setting of the agenda. Awesome. And now we have a bifurcation for item 3A. Any other bifurcations, colleagues? Mr. Chairman, yes, if I may, 2A, because I need to offer an amendment to it. Item 2A, show item 2A bifurcated as well. Any other bifurcations, colleagues? Okay, can I get a motion to put forward the rest of the agenda? So moved. Moved, it's been seconded. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Awesome. So let's begin with item 3A. Commissioner Bastia, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. As for an amendment, this item retroactively approves the Community Service Department's grant application and award, it's always good, to Project DADS, developing and advancing DADS for success for a five-year grant period. I want to congratulate Director Burgess and the Community Service Department for creating this program and also for winning this grant, this support. The program will enhance father-child relationships, improve parenting practices, and co-parenting skills, strengthen family and relationships dynamics. It will also increase economic stability. Programs like this ensure that we build strong families that in turn build strong communities because we know that strong families equal strong communities. So I do have an amendment to this item, requesting an annual impact report. Through an impact report, we will ensure that this program receives the documentation and accolades necessary to receive future grant funding for expansion, which we do hope. Thank you for your support. And then please, Mr. Attorney, just read the amendment. Mr. Bastian moves to amend item number 3A to add a section 7 on page MDC 009, requiring the administration to prepare and provide to this board an annual impact report for the Project DADS program and a place that completed report on an agenda of the full board without committee review, pursuant to rule 5.06J of the board's rules of procedure. Thank you. And to Commissioner Bastian, I just wanted to thank you for bringing this item forward. I've had time to be briefed on this, to read it. It is a wonderful, wonderful item. Fatherhood is extremely important. Family is extremely important. I wanted to ask you if I can co-sponsor this with you. Of course. By all means, Mr. Chair. Thank you so much. And if I can get somebody from CASDI to just explain what some of these funds are going to be used for. Mr. Chairman, if I may, she has a co-sponsor as well? Absolutely. Attorneys? Did you get that? Mr. Chairman? I'd also like to co-sponsor that item. Absolutely. Attorneys? Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, Chair, Commissioners. Thank you for your kind words. Commissioner Bastian, I'm Kathy Burgos, Director of the Community Services Department. I am so proud of our team. And to really follow up on what both of the commissioners spoke about, this grant is so important because it's really looking at ways to equip dads when it comes to really building strong families. What this grant covers is a partnership with Miami-Dade Family Learning Partnership. It's a five year grant period along with South Florida workforce. It's up to $300,000 that really focus on a parenting curriculum training to really equip these fathers as well as the job employment piece. It also adds not only workshops but also case management services in order to deliver a wrap around care for the dads as well as their families. Chief, thank you for that explanation. I commend your office for this work. Would love to get with you or somebody from your office. I'd like to work directly with you guys to highlight some of these initiatives within the county. Would love to work with you guys to set something up either in my district or in an appropriate place. Absolutely, our department always takes a no wrong door approach to ensure that we're not only providing wrap around services but also a model that works well for the districts. I also wanted to publicly congratulate Dr. Riestra who has really dedicated her career to working with families and elevating programs like these to really make our families stronger. Amen, amen. Get married, be a good father and have kids. Yes. Love it. Colleagues, anybody else? Yes, Commissioner Lopez, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Kathy, for a job well done. I just wanted to emphasize that over the years I've worked with men who are coming out of jails and prisons, but in particular those fathers who've been away for a very long time. And there have been some very good programs that really have helped them reconnect with their kids and become good dads. And so I'm hopeful that some of this money can be used with that population as well in mind because so many of them really want to come home and do well by their kids but don't have the resources or even know where to start. So I'm hopeful that we can focus on some of that population within the county as well. Through the Chair, Commissioner Lopez, thank you for being such an advocate for a population that too many times is forgotten. And to answer your question, yes. Through our merger, community services, we also have criminal justice reform types of initiatives. So we make sure that we serve all families, but thank you so much for your advocacy. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Lopez. Would anybody else like to be recognized? I'd like you to move it as amended. Absolutely, Commissioner Bastien. Commissioner Hardiman, would you like to be recognized, sir? Yes. So this is a no-bid contract, right? So some millions of dollars we're giving it to, what entities are we actually giving this no-bid to? Who are our grantees and potential sub-grantees of this particular award? Commissioner, thank you. Through the Chair, Commissioner, thank you. You're recognized? Thank you so much for a very important question. It does include two providers, as I mentioned at the beginning, which is the Miami-Dade Family Partnership, as well as the South Florida Workforce. And the reason why we're working with those two providers is because they joined us on the grant application. So we received the funding as a partnership. Mr. Chair, so do we expect them to do the work, or are they going to be hiring sub-grantees to do the work? Commissioner, I would like to check in with staff on that. I would like to ask Assistant Director to join me. Assistant Director, you're recognized. So Career Source South Florida will be providing a trained parenting person who will, or parenting coordinator, who will be providing an evidence-based parenting curriculum for the fathers in the program. And then Career Source will be providing the workforce portion of the partnership, which is required by the grant. I don't know if you've answered my question. So Career Source South Florida, that's what we're talking about? Yes. They usually provide matching grant funds, is that correct? Do they give money towards aims, or are they actually a body of people who are going to be doing the thing? They will be providing one person who will be focused just on the work for this particular grant. So you described to me two people. One for the parenting curriculum, and the other one for workforce. So you're telling me this money, only two people are being provided. There's no other organizations, entities that are getting paid to provide services beyond these two individuals. The county and the two agencies that we mentioned, yes. So you do not have a list of any organizations that are going to be doing this work? Two people, provided by? Family Learning Partnership and Career Source South Florida. Do you have a copy of the actual budget for this item? Yes. Can I have that? Mm-hmm. No, I mean like now, you have a copy of it now? Because it's not in the, I mean, the item. So it sounds, Commissioner, we just checked in with staff. It sounds like we don't have the budget on us right now, but we can definitely provide that information to you. Yeah. I mean, like for instance, Exhibit A. Exhibit A, I mean, this is just the Department of Health and Human Services notice of award, an approved budget. It has salaries and wages of $270,000, fringe benefits of $145,000, total personnel costs of $414,000. I don't know if that's for those two people, but maybe it is, I don't know. Travel, $23,000, $40,000 in supplies, $162,000 in contractual things, $700,000 in total direct costs. So you're looking at about a $703,000 budget, right? So I'm assuming that's from year over year. That's for the first year. Okay. And what you're telling me is that that's for the two individuals? No. Community Services Department will also be doing part of the work as part of the Head Start program. And so there's the social work component as well, the comprehensive social work that will be done as part of it. And who's doing that work? We are doing it. We are doing that work, Commissioner. When you say we, do you mean the county? The county, correct. We have social workers within our community services department. Folks, I don't mean, I don't mean to cut off the commissioner, but you do understand that you're, this, this is, this is about to be passed. And I'm getting the notion that you're not prepared because you don't have a budget and you're not answering his questions. Can we please, please, please be prepared when an item comes up and we're talking about millions of dollars going to you. And this is a great cause. I'm co-sponsoring the item. I love the item, but you need to be prepared. Absolutely. Commissioner. Commissioner Hardiman, you have the floor. I yield the floor to you. I mean, I can be more specific if you like. I believe, assistant director, with all due respect, I believe that was his question. I believe his question was for you to be specific as to who is going to get the money, how many people are going to be working on this. And when, and respectfully, when you say only two people are going to get the money, that it leads the conversation into a direction that we didn't have to go into. Would you be able to clarify, please? Absolutely. So the family learning partnership who will be providing the parenting services will be out of the five year cycle, will be receiving $250,000 out of the five year cycle. Okay. Careers for South Florida will be receiving $300,000 out of the five year cycle. And the rest of the funding will come to the department to do the wraparound services that are needed as part of the grant. So we're paying, we are paying Career Source South Florida to provide services. Is that correct? Yes. And we, it's, it's a requirement from the grant that we partner with careers, um, um, Career Source South Florida. And will they be providing any funds towards this particular program? Because I know they do that from time to time. Because for instance, I'll let you ask, answer that question first. Will they be providing dollars towards this or is this only what we're paying them and they're giving us a service? We are paying them to provide a specific person for this particular grant. And that person is going to do the workforce development, employment services, training, job readiness, on the job training, paid apprenticeships. So where's the money for the paid apprenticeships, apprenticeships come from? That would be part of the services that they will be providing to us, to the parents. So they're paying the apprentices. So the money that we're receiving, that they're receiving, provides all this host of services to the participants. Okay. Mr. Chairman, Commissioner, I think Commissioner Bastian wanted to be recognized. So let's recognize her and then I'll recognize you, sir. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think that the details that were not provided is how the grant came about, who's part of it, and who's going to do what, and then who's, who and how they're going to do it. Because the way you sounded at the beginning was that, oh, we're going to hire two people. You didn't specify, thank you for precising it afterwards, that it's a five-year grant, right? And the grant was written with two organizations. When the grant was submitted, it was submitted with two different organizations. And both organizations will have specific deliverables. And then these deliverables will be provided, right, to a period of five years, right? But these are not the only two employees. Miami-Dade County also will be working on the grant, and then you do have deliverables as part of that grant. Correct? Correct. So, you know, you needed to be more, your explanation needed to be more comprehensive because the way it sounded at the beginning, it's like you're hiring two people, 600,000. It wasn't clear whether it was a one-year grant, five years. You're absolutely right. It is a five-year grant that was applied for by Miami-Dade County in conjunction with two organizations that are part of that grant. And then that will be part of this grant implementation. Correct. So right now, as we speak, do you know how many folks will be, how many employees will be part of that grant throughout the five-year process, the five-year term? Do you have that information? Or, because usually, you know, I was CEO of a not-for-profit for many, many, many years. When you have the grant, after you receive the grant, there has to be a plan. Correct. You need to have a five-year plan of how the grant will be implemented, right? How will they be assessed over the course of the five years, who's going to be doing what, and how it's going to be measured? Have you gone through that process yet? Yes, ma'am. Okay, so you do. Yes. And then do you know now, as we speak, how many people all together, because it sounded like there would be two people, which triggered. Let me clarify. Yes. Let me clarify. As you mentioned, Commissioner Bastian, the grant was applied by Miami-Dade County with these two partners in mind. Each of the partners will be providing one specified person to do their deliverables. Aside from that, on the county side, we'll have a project director that will be overseeing the process of the five-year grant, two social workers, and one accountant over the process of the five-year period. This is a beginning grant, so we hope that after the five-year period, we'll be able to expand. Does that? Yeah. That's helpful, and that's why in my amendment also request, you know, a report, a one-year report every year. Yes. Absolutely. For you to let us know how this implementation is going, what impact is the grant having, how many people are served, how much money is being spent, and an assessment of how the real impact of the grant. Absolutely. Commissioner Garcia? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think when the Commissioner started asking, I was trying to figure out why these two organizations, if there's other organizations that could do it, why do we pair up with them? You're saying it's part of the grant, right? Mm-hmm. You're all part of the grant, but what was the process? Why were these two organizations selected as part of this grant? You're saying it's built into the grant. That's perfectly fine, but are there other organizations that could do this job as well? Well, so the Career Source South Florida is a requirement of the grant, so they receive the funding from the Department of Labor, and as part of the grant, we have to partner with them. So that's one of them. The Family Learning Partnership has been providing parenting courses to our community for many, many years. They already have the personnel that is required and trained to be able to effectively come on day one and provide the parenting courses. These are evidence-based programs that, you know, not anybody can do. And I appreciate that, and it makes sense. And I'm not trying to cut you off, but the thing is where it sparks, you know, I'm a Northwest Hialeah guy, and I'm trying to figure out why can't we partner up with some organizations in Hialeah? Maybe he's thinking, well, can we partner up with organizations? Why do we consistently use the same organizations that receive the funding? That's how I'm looking at it. So I appreciate the dialogue, appreciate the conversation, but I'll go ahead and move this item. I think we already moved it, right? I know there's a move in a second, but move it. But can you please make sure we get some of those details by the time I get to the BCC so we can be clear and understand, you know, why the organization was chosen? And if there is going to be other dollars or contracted services out in the community, then we make sure that we select organizations that maybe traditionally have not had an opportunity to work with the county and serve the community as well. So I think that's where I'm coming. Absolutely, and if I can address through the chair the importance of what Senator Garcia is saying. Senator, although we went into writing this grant for these two specific organizations, and to Dr. Riestra's point, one of them was a requirement. I just want you to know that all the initiatives that are implemented in the department that I run, community services, all of them, we collaborate with all of our providers. We have a network of providers, so that's a really important piece for me. That although, yes, this grant is paying for these, specifically these two organizations, this is a wrap around approach. This has case managers infused in the work, which means that according to what these dads need, we will link to different services, different providers in the community according to their needs. So that's a part of our foundation. It would be great to understand which organizations are going to be partnering up with as well. So if we can get that through by the time that gets to the county commission, I would appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Garcia. And just to piggyback off that, I want you both to understand that I find you both to be brilliant, especially you, Director Burgos. I think that you're brilliant. I've seen how you handle yourself as well, Assistant Director. You're both brilliant. Please do not come back to my committee unprepared. The highest honor is to be able to serve the people of Miami-Dade County. You're both extremely brilliant. The reason that we have these conversations during committee is so that we don't have to get a report by the time we come back to the county commission. I know that certainly Commissioner Lopez is used to something different at the state. Let's bring seriousness back to Miami-Dade County. Do not come back to this committee unprepared, please. It seems like you were prepared because we kept having great conversations, but I dislike the fact that we need to come back with a report by the time we come back to the county commission. Because the whole point of this discussion is so that we don't have to have that conversation at the county commission so that we can pull out all the items and have all the real meat and potato discussions during these committees. Commissioner Lopez, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So I only had another question, which was, do we know whether these funds will provide services to all 13 districts? Because I never really know what's happening in my district. And I know that each one of us here thinks that we have dads who can benefit from this program. So has that been included as part of your five-year plan? It's part of the, yes, and it's part of the item of all 13. It's a Miami-Dade county-wide effort. As a follow-up, Mr. Chairman. So would we know then how many people we want to serve in each of the districts? You know, what is, I guess when you look at, and it's only, it's $3 million. Yes. So I don't know how far. Over five. Over five years. So I don't know how, you know, whether you've contemplated. We need to serve so many people and we need to distribute that either equally or where we see the biggest needs. But I think that's also information that would be helpful when we're deciding, you know, whether to move an item or not. So to the chairman's request, that's the kind of information that I would love to have now versus, you know, even after the commission. Because I usually don't find out how many people are going to be served in my district until it's too late. You know, like maybe someone else's district got 200 people and I got 10. And I can't, you know, I'm unable to then weigh in and lean into that discussion. So that's just something that I think is also important to all of my colleagues, those that are here and those that are not. So the target for implementation over the five-year period, it's 445 fathers. The effort, it's a great effort because these are fathers, low-income fathers, who have to go and complete the program. So you're talking about 18 to 20 weeks of parenting classes plus the workforce compliance. And so it's, there has to be fathers who need to complete all of the requirements of the grant. So it's 445 fathers across the five-year span. We're targeting 30 the first year. And then as we move forward, we increment the number of fathers that we will be touching because we want to make sure that the implementation is to fidelity of what we've written in the grant. So it's a small grant, hoping that we will get a larger grant when the five-year period ends. Thank you, Assistant Director. But I believe, I believe the question was geared towards how many are going to be serviced specifically in her district and in other districts. Do you have that information now? It depends. I think I can come up with it. It depends on the number of Head Start and Early Head Start centers that are by district. So I think, I think her question was that if you can come up with that answer, we would appreciate the answer. Will do. Can you come up with that answer now or is it later? I can come up, I can give it to you later, Commissioner Lopez. Is that satisfactory to you, Commissioner Lopez? It is. It'll be interesting to see how many Head Start centers there are in each of our districts. Right. Yes, that's what it's going to show. Yeah. You're right. Thank you. Thank you. And again, just for clarity, next time, we need this information at the committee. Commissioner Hardman, you are recognized, sir. So I'm sure there's somebody that knows exactly how many Head Start centers are in each of our districts. And I think that's what part, what makes this look, Mr. Chairman, to hear you say what you say is important. It's important because I think that many people expect that the thing that come before us, we just pass along. But we know that that's just not how things work. We do it as a matter of courtesy almost. And for instance, if I'm deferring an item, it's in lieu of sitting here and talking to you for an hour and a half. And so that's in courtesy to my colleagues. So at least if there's something I have an issue with, we can iron through them. You know, the question that our dear Senator asked about why this certain organization was selected, you know, honestly, it's not answered. I mean, you spoke highly of the organization. I'm sure he can speak highly of other organizations, but he wants to know why. So, for instance, not saying that this is the reason, but even if the why was I went to school with, you know, the guy that runs the program. He's been doing a great job and we like him. So we just we picked him and that's why we applied with that person. But we could have picked any other person. I mean, I like that answer, but it's the answer. It's a truthful answer. So somebody somewhere in our organization said we want to choose this group and then it gets passed on to us for us to approve it. Right. And that's important because I tell people this all the time, you know, people look at commissioners and they say all these things are going on, all these county commissioners. There are more deals going on with the administration than they could ever be in county commissioners because they have so much more hands on experience with the business that's actually being taken care of. And so when you start to drill down on these things, then you start to find and then, you know, things that sometimes make people uncomfortable. Right. They don't want to give the answer that you're asking for. And so they dance around it. And so here, you know, we are where we are, but it's important. Right. It's important to have these questions answered, because sometimes when the answers aren't provided, people are not likely to vote for it, even if it sounds good. You know, this seems and sounds like something that's very straightforward, very good. And I think people are willing to move forward with this. And that's what the city was getting at. But his answer wasn't really answered. His question was not really answered. And so, you know, I'm prepared to move forward, Mr. Chairman, but I think it really is important. It's important because we know that if you're applying for a grant, we know you've planned this out. And so when you don't give us these clear answers, it feels different than what you've, it feels like the answers are not in something that I can read. They're in somebody's mind. And when, you know, when we have these grant processes in somebody's mind and the answer's not in the paper, it just, it gives me a little bit of uneasiness because people can wiggle out of things. And there's been a lot of wiggling going on on, you know, in the, and through these administrative processes that made me feel very uncomfortable, but it has nothing to do with you in this, but it just, that's what brings about the questioning. And so in the committee, it's our time to drill down on it. So if I chose to drill down on it, I could, I could be asking you, how much is the person getting paid? I could be asking you, what's the person's name? Because you've clearly identified this person. I could be asking you, do they work on any other assignments? Is this the only paid job? Do they have multiple of them? What organization did they come from? Who hired that person? Why are they selected? Where did they work before that? Who do they work with? Who do they associate with? Do they do a complete background check? Is this somebody who was a past fellow? Is this person related to anybody that we know in our organization? The second person, I can ask those same questions. So I can get very, very, very technical because right now you're telling us it's just, oh, it's two, it's two positions. But no, sometimes we know who the bodies are. Is the person in the room? Were they here yesterday? Did they go and see this commissioner or that commissioner? There's so many more questions that can come from this if we really wanted to know. But many times we just kind of let it, you know, and it's okay. But when we don't sort of give the answer, it makes me feel like I should be doing that. And then this committee experience become a very different thing. And it's not about you. It's just it's the curiosity in the thing. We can have so much more curiosity in all of this. It will slow us down tremendously. But, you know, here we are. So I think the basic questions when we get those answered, then it just makes us at least feel somewhat comfortable moving on and not having to ask all those questions. Because in these districts where people do need jobs, where you do have professionals that provide all of these services and people are trying to find placement, people do want to know how is it that this person got an opportunity to apply with Miami-Dade County to write them a job that did not exist before. People want that privilege. I don't have that privilege. My job is codified through Miami-Dade County. What do you call it? The charter. They pay us how much? $6,000 to do it. So I'm the least paid employee here. Just a few questions. Thank you very much. Thank you, Commissioner Hardman. I certainly echo a lot of your sentiments. And again, I don't want either of you to think this is geared towards you. But I do think that it is imperative that whenever something comes to this committee or any committee for that matter, you are more prepared. You're over prepared. You have to be. Because if you're not, that's how these conversations arise and that's how uneasiness happens. And frankly, I'm not going to do this, but I could defer the item and then give everyone ample opportunity to prepare for a second time. Commissioner Bastien, you're recognized. Thank you so much. I'd like to thank Commissioner Hardman for his, you know, questioning. I think you're right. You're correct. And some of the issues that you raised, I mean, some of the questions you asked should have been answered. And I also concur with you, Chair, that both Director, Chief Bergerson, and you should have been better prepared. So what we're going to do, what I want to make sure that you do is to heed all the information, all the feedback you got today, and then to be ready for the commission. I congratulate you again for getting the money. It is important. The issues that will be resolved are extremely important. We have a lot of dads in the community who will benefit from this. But we also know that we have a responsibility to be a good steward of dollars, grand dollars that we get. We have to be a good steward. I hope that you will heed all the feedback that you got today and that you will be ready. Be ready. Because there will be hard questions. This is a lot of money, even if it's in a five-year period of time. And then we have to be prepared. And if you don't prepare, we don't have a strategy, you know, things can go, you know, left. Understood. Understood. Understood. Absolutely. Commission. Commissioner Lopez, you are recognized. Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. So an example of something that I would look for. So I heard that there's going to be 30 participants in the first year. So I would be looking for how you're going to recruit them. So now we know that it will be wherever in any commission district that has a head start center. Right. But what is the process? Right. Because I think and you'll hear me say this over and over again. I'm very focused on process because my constituents will say, well, how did they select the first 30 participants, especially if none of them are in my district? I wouldn't be able to answer. Right. I have no idea how what is the process? Will it be that you'll go to each 13 if we if there's a head heart head start center? And will you say, OK, we're going to recruit because I understood very clearly that they in order to go through the program, they have to comply with everything. Right. The the career source compliance plus the eight to the 18 to 20 weeks of classes. We won't know that until they get into the program. And I've done this long enough to know that everyone gets really excited at the beginning of a program and then halfway through some stay and some don't. So then what's the process if someone jumps out and says, no, this is too much work. I wasn't interested in it. So you see, if you can follow me and you know, this is just how my mind works. I need to understand because I need to be able to explain it. And more importantly, to those that I represent who because I believe it or not, District five as low income dads who would probably benefit from this. And so and there are organizations that do work with those dads now. And so they'll ask the question. And right now I wouldn't be able to give them an answer because they don't know what the process is. So to the to the remarks of all of my colleagues being prepared to think about because it's difficult. I know because you're not you're not you don't have to answer to my voters or to my constituents. But I do. And so that requires that you to think about how I have to think when I make a decision here. That'll be an excellent exercise for you all about the first 30, because if I do my math right, you could do two from every district and still have some leftover. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Lopez. And, you know, just to I don't want to beat that horse here, but I think you've heard the sentiments of my colleagues. I think that you both agree that you are highly capacitated for this very position. And it is an extreme honor to serve the folks of Miami Dade County director. You are a CEO. That's what you are, girl. And you're good at it. Right. Assistant director, you are the equivalent of a CEO of a major corporation and you are equipped to do it. I know you are. But next time, let's come very prepared over prepared. Understood. Thank you. And so it's been moved by Commissioner Bastien. Do we have a second? Second. It's been moved. It's been seconded. Mr. Chair. Sorry, is that as amended? As amended. It's been moved as amended. Second. Is this a voice vote? Clerk? Mr. Chair, you can do it by voice vote. All in favor? Okay. Now I believe we have item 2A, Commissioner Garcia. I mean, Senator Garcia, you are recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This amendment comes from the Behavioral Health Task Force that a committee or advisory committee that I chair. And this amendment, this legislation, what it does, it's granting $50,000 from the Behavioral Health Task Force funds to actions for progress in an effort to come up with a pilot program that relates to performance-based modeling and performance-based reimbursement. The reason they were selected was because they're the ones that have been talking to our committee for an extensive period of time and the committee voted on it. And we're just moving this forward to try to make sure that we try to see if we can position ourselves to receive a lot more federal dollars when it comes to performance-based reimbursement model that's coming down the pike. So with that, Mr. Chairman, there is an amendment which waives the procurement process because it's already being selected who we want to do business with. And that's why I bring it up and wanted to waive it to be very clear as to why they were selected. Any other comments from any of my colleagues? Can I get somebody to move it? Can I read the amendment? Go ahead, please. Senator Garcia moves to amend Item 2A to waive implementing Order 338, make certain technical revisions, and make informing changes to the title. It's been moved by Commissioner Bastian. Mr. Chairman, if I may, can we waive it to the next County Commission meeting, please? I have no problem with that to the County Attorney's Office. What do we need to do that? Noted. We'll note the request, Mr. Chair. It would just be subject to any notice and legal requirements, and it would require the standard notification memorandum. Okay. So see it done. It's been moved. It's been second. All in favor? Signify by saying aye. Aye. Okay. To the County Attorneys, do we have anything, any other matters pending? That exhausts your agenda, Mr. Chair. Can I get a motion to adjourn? All right. We are adjourned. Thank you, folks.