All right, guys, we're going to get this party started. Oh, Peter. Oh, we got quorum now. We got quorum. Clerk, can you call the roll? Where are we? Is there a clerk here? Maybe not. Are you going to go get the clerk? No. Let's do it. All right. All right, guys, we're going to have a roll call. We can quiet down in the back and on the sides. The mayors of the cities can quiet down. You know, in your city, you rule, my friend. But here, here you've got to follow the rules. Good afternoon. Board member Roberto Alonso, board member Marlene Bastien, board member Juan Carlo Bermudez, board member Brian Calvo, board member Danielle Cohen-Higgins, board member Alex Desume, board member Christy Fraga, board member Renee Garcia, board member Gilbert. I'm here. Board member Gonzales, board member Hardiman, board member Harris, board member Lago, board member Eddie Lopez, board member Vicky Lopez. Here. Board member Steven Lozner. Here. Board member McGee. Here. Board member Natalie Orbis. Present. Board member Pages. Is that me? Board member Davian Pardo. Board member Raquel Regalado. Zit. Board member Mickey Steinberg. Here. Board member David Suarez. Vice Chairman Eric Diaz Padrón. Here. And Chairman Anthony Rodriguez. I'm present. You have a quorum. All right. We've got a quorum. If everyone could please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance this afternoon. Do we have any field trippers here from Take Your Child to Work Day? We have Sloan. We have Ari. Anyone else? No other kids here? All right. Ari, if you could join your sister and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Get the microphone right there. Turn it on. We're ready. What say? You say a Pledge of Allegiance. A Pledge of 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. Good job. Thank you very much. Board member Higgins. All right. I will now open up a reasonable opportunity for the public to be heard. Please come forward. State the item on which you would be addressing and provide your name and address. Do we have anyone here to speak during a reasonable opportunity? State your name and address, the item you're speaking on, and you have two minutes to speak. Your microphone might need to be clicked. Thank you. And I'm going to start my timer here. Good afternoon. My name is Matthew Goltanoff. I live at 125 Jefferson Avenue. And while I'm not representing, I do serve as the chairperson of the TPO's Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. But this is the first time that I've been to the governing board, so it's a pleasure to be here. Yesterday, I learned that the mayor of Miami Beach will be presenting today. While it doesn't say what the topic is, I kind of guessed that it was on the water taxi. So I took the water taxi over here. And when I got there, it was a long line. And I got to say, it's been a success in terms of ridership. So I want to congratulate you, Mr. Mayor, on that. That all being said, this is the Transportation Planning Organization. And one of the goals is to move people quickly and efficiently and large numbers of people as well. On Miami Beach, the beach corridor, part of the SMART plan, has been polling very well, whether it's in the straw vote in 2024, whether Miami Beach residents, whether they support expanding public transportation. I believe they voted 80 percent in support of that. The CITT had a study, a survey on the Bay Link last year. About 79 percent supported the Bay Link. And I'm here as a resident just to say that I think this is something that we see the success of publicly funded transit, the water taxi. It's a great proof of concept. It should be expanded, no doubt. But I think it's time to have a real honest discussion on how the Bay Link can move forward and how we can link the region's transportation network together. I think that would really serve the residents, the visitors, and the businesses of this entire community very well. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Anybody else? Go ahead. Name and address. Two minutes. John Dahm, 1021 Ives Derry Road, number 119 in Miami. I'm here as the chairman of your F-TAC committee, the Freight Transportation Advisory Committee, with a simple request, a plea. We need more members. I'm coming to you as the parents of F-TAC because you created F-TAC in 2005. We're 21 years old now. We're old enough to drink. We're the good ones, though. The good part is we're not pregnant either. The sad part is we have to rely on others to do that. We're relying on you. We need more members. Miami-Dade's F-TAC was the very first anywhere. It was the model for F-TACs that were created in Broward, in Martin County, in Palm Beach County, in Northwest, in the Panhandle, and all over the United States. It was the very first. The idea now is to incorporate private industry input into regional freight planning. Our chart was a little more specific from you guys. It was to advise you on freight movement and truck traffic needs, especially improvements that impact safety and efficiency. That includes truck parking and inland port work. We do a good bit of discussion on that, and we've got a lot of ideas. Everyone in the Miami-Dade County TPO can appoint a member. Theoretically, we could have 25 of them. We only have five right now. We have five esteemed members. They're very good. We really could use somebody from MIA. We could use somebody from Port Miami. We could use somebody from Hialeah, City of Miami, Miami Gardens, Homestead, Miami Beach. We would have space for appointments of 11 out of the 13 districts. All of those would be very good. We really need your help. We need your appointments. We have lots of candidates that are qualified. Some of them are prior members. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Anyone else speaking in public reasonable opportunity? No? All right. And reasonable opportunity is officially closed. Do we need to... We'll set the agenda here in a second. I wanted to take a moment and recognize Board Member Alonzo on receiving the 2026 Safe Roads Champion Award. Congratulations. Is this here right here? Big deal. Thank you. Congratulations. I'm sure that you did a lot for that. Tremendous amount of work. Thank you to our executive director and the incredible team here at the TPO that really makes all of our work come together. So it's an honor. And this is our award, not just mine. Congratulations, my friend. You earned it. All right. I'd also like to announce that we do have a scheduling conflict on May 21st. So the TPO board meeting will be canceled that day. Do we need an official motion to take it off the agenda or just... I need to announce it and that's it. The attorneys, just letting them know. All right. You can just announce. All right. So it's been announced. Don't show up because there'll be nobody here. All right. Let's move into special presentations. We have, first up, and I think the... I know we have Mayor Miner here as well, but first up we have New World School of Arts on Transportation Safety Influencers Booklet Recognition. It's a pretty cool booklet. I have it in front of me. I don't know that we have copies for everybody. It looks like we do, and they're being distributed. And I think on behalf of all the students that worked on this from the New World School of Arts, I believe we have Jasmine Espinosa present today to accept a certificate. Jasmine, are you here? All right. So our Executive Director, would you like to officially announce it, talk a little bit about the booklet, and bring her up? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. President. The younger generation, so they can learn how to keep safe when they're walking to school. Thank you very much, Jasmine. Mr. Chairman. Absolutely. Let's do it. To mom and dad who came out here as well, thank you for bringing her down here or up here, whatever it is, depending on where you live. Very much appreciated, and you should be very proud of your young, bright-minded daughter. So congratulations. All right. Our next presentation is by City of Miami Beach Mayor Steve Miner. And we all know politicians, but you're going to keep it short, right, Mayor? All right. Your microphone might need to be turned on. There we go. I won't repeat what I said. I assume you heard it. Thank you. A lot of friendly faces here. Appreciate being here. And we'll get right to it. First of all, your leadership at the TPO has been instrumental in getting to where we are and the success that we've had so far in the last two, almost three months now since we launched the water taxi in the Miami Beach. Free water taxi, I should add. And your leadership was instrumental because the TPO did a feasibility study on waterborne transit, which we were able then to utilize, one, to help us navigate a plan, but also to present to the state and FDOT and get necessary funding. So we are doing what we're doing right now for $1.2 million, and I'll describe what we're actually accomplishing. We have a five-day-a-week water transit that starts at 7 a.m. and goes to 7.30 p.m. Generally, it's on the hour. Starting 4.30 to 7.30, it's on the half hour. And we're doing all this for $1.2 million. Think about that. It's actually incredible, the service that we're providing. We're at the point where now we have over 1,000 riders a day, and we're doing that for a little over $1 million. This can be expanded in a big way and probably for much cheaper than most transit options. I just want to take a step back on the vision on this and why this is so important for our city, but not just our city, for the county. Because I vision this water taxi, even though we started in Miami Beach, I picture this as a county-wide network that can interconnect so much of our county and our cities together. Even way before I was elected or even thought about running for office, luckily I have vantage points from work and I live off of Collins Avenue. I see water everywhere, but yet except for seeing a handful of yachts every so often, you don't see a whole lot of waterborne transit. I grew up in New York where it's proliferated. Staten Island Ferry and others and other cities, other major cities, use water transit. It is the next wave that we need to do here in Miami-Dade County. So that's where it started. I also believed it needed to be free or extremely de minimis. Miami Beach in the past had tried some water transit, but they were privately operated and they were extremely expensive. So much so that simultaneously when I was working on this vision, there were other projects that I actually voted against because I believed they would fail, which they did. It needed to be, it needs to be free so people will use it. I also want to mention because water transit is a component of a larger picture that we're doing in Miami Beach. We have shuttle service, which we offer for free. We obviously have the county bus service, which we utilize. We have bike lanes, 40 miles of bike lanes. We're a seven-mile island. We have 40 miles of bike lanes. We also take pedestrian safety very seriously, and there's a number of measures on that. But today we're talking about water taxi and why I'm here today, which is very significant to me, because when I was working on this project, even before the water taxi was launched, in my mind I said, we have to make this a success so I can get in front of the TPO and talk about the vision for what's next. Where can we go next? I can tell you I've already received calls from a number of mayors of neighboring cities in Bell Harbor, Bay Harbor, and Surfside, and other cities asking how they can connect to our network in Miami Beach. It's not really our network in Miami Beach because it really should be our network in Miami-Dade County. And that's what I'm here to ask because, again, there are a couple of different drop-off points in Miami Beach that we can utilize. Right now we're from Maurice Gibb Park, which is roughly 17th Street. The marina south of 5th is a great pickup drop-off location. There's the North Beach as well. So we can have three pickup and drop-off locations within Miami Beach taking to different points in the county. Right now it goes to the Venetian Marina, but it can go to Brickell. It can go to other areas. I've even had some conversations with private partnerships. We're looking to have a pickup and drop-off potentially by Mount Sinai, our largest employer in Miami Beach. The Miami Marlins had mentioned to me that they would be interested. I know a lot of this work has been done. I present it also to the Downtown Development Authority and a lot of the work they have done. So there's a lot of work that has already been done, plans that have been made, and the key is now is the future funding to make sure that this continues. I'll just mention one other last vision, and this is maybe Miami Beach specific, is to have pickup and drop-off points as you go through Miami Beach. And that's important because that will connect us also to our neighboring cities as you keep moving north, whether it be Bell Harbor, Bay Harbor Village, Surfside, and even beyond. There can be an interconnection between the 34 cities in Miami-Dade using the water taxi. So appreciative of your time. Also appreciative to my appointee, to the TPO, Commissioner David Suarez, who I know has a resolution on this month's agenda for FDOT for more funding. But, again, I just wanted to highlight the success we had. I'll mention one last point. We're going to do a survey in the next couple of months about exactly who is riding the water taxi right now. It seems to be a mix of visitors and residents. I've actually had a number of residents from Miami, because it is going to Miami, also Miami Beach, who do use it daily to commute to and from work. So there's a mix. Families going on. And, actually, over the Passover holiday, one of the intermediate days of the holiday, I took my family, my wife and two kids, to take the water taxi. I showed up 12 minutes before the water taxi left. I could not get on the water taxi. Actually, they recognized me and they said, do you want to come to the front of the line? You're not going to be able to get on. I said, no, no, no. We're going to go in order. I waited. And, actually, the 55 capacity hit before I could get on. And that's an issue right now. As successful as it is, and the ridership keeps increasing. Last month, in February, it was 800. Now we're over 1,000. And it keeps increasing. We're actually turning down about 10% of the people that show up, which shows the need to continue expanding this service. But I look forward to working with all of you, not only to make it a Miami Beach, but to be a countywide successful operation. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Miner. And thank you for leading by example and not skipping the line there at the water taxi. It's been noted now. Appreciate it. Look, I'm okay with the item that Board Member Suarez is bringing. I mean, it's just we don't have funds for this right now. So, I mean, I guess that's the whole idea of bringing it is to look for it. And then FDOT maybe give us some. But I know we don't have funds for that right now. And we could discuss it more on the item. But Board Member Regalado. Thank you. And thank you to the Mayor for coming. I've actually written the water taxi. It's spectacular. Commissioner Steinberg and I, there's an item that covers her district that our Public Works and Transit Department did that came to the county about a year and a half ago, specifically regarding water taxis. And it started at Hollover and went down. And I wanted it to include my district and go all the way to the city of Miami's Marine Stadium and Crandon. And we actually worked on that. And the issue there is the Manatee Protection Zone. And I know that there's also currently a desire to have water taxis on the river, specifically stopping by river landing. And the problem there is the Manatee Protection Zone. So we brought this up. When Commissioner Cabrera was with us, he actually brought an item to redo that. And it came back that they didn't want to change it. So I say this all to say that there's a huge interest in it, but there's an issue on the Manatee Protection issue. And there's also where the water taxi can stop. Because, for example, the one that we were looking at, I'm working with the Parks Department to eliminate the restriction on these water taxis being able to stop at parks. Because currently the county doesn't allow that. So even though Public Works wanted to do that, it's jammed up on the park side with our administration. But I think that there is funding for this. We're spending out of the half penny money for Baylink that we could be using to do a match. There is funding that is going into planning for something that I don't think anybody wants. My only concern with this current model is we cannot afford free transit. I don't agree with the free people mover. I understand that the cities do the trolleys for free. But that's fine because that's your use of the half penny. That does not impact the county's budget. But on the county side, we can't, as it is, we can't afford the transit that we subsidize at 80%. So when we subsidize it at 100%, it becomes untenable. And now we're not able to pay for maintenance. I know that there was the Poseidon right before the pandemic that was charging, and it was still functioning. I don't know if you've ever considered charging some sort of amount so that it's not, I mean, I know that it's great that it's completely free. But at the same time, that makes it difficult for us to bring it as a competing interest, right? So have you all thought about charging something if it is extended? So through the chair, thank you, Commissioner, for bringing those issues. Believe it or not, when we did have the Poseidon, there was a small fee. And there was nowhere near the same ridership that we have today. And the idea of making it free initially is to really garner the attention and engagement of both cities, Miami Beach and the city of Miami, to let them know that there is a water taxi. The idea here is to expand upon this to a greater scope. And if that involves a supplemental funding or payment for ridership, that's something we're definitely willing to explore. But, you know, we would like either the TPO or whoever the funds come through, the federal, to have some skin in the game. And I think it's a great win for everyone. But, yes, we're more than willing to get to the point where we charge a fee to cover maintenance and all the other costs associated with boats. Look, I'm a boater. Boats are very expensive, especially outports. So that's certainly in the realm. And have you looked at, through the chair, have you spoken to Durham about these expansion areas? Have you all met with Durham on this and the manatees? Well, we've only met so far with the locations that we're obviously able to do it. All the locations that we have, there is no manatee exclusion zone. So we go from one marina to the next. And there's no issue with a pickup and drop-off there. I think once we may start expanding to locations that don't necessarily have a dock or a facility for pickup and drop-off, that might get a little complicated. However, what we're envisioning is using the existing infrastructure that we have now. For example, the mayor, minor, mentioned Miami Beach Marina. There's already infrastructure there for a pickup and drop-off. If in actuality, there is already a paid-for taxi that does come out of Miami Beach Marina, and they go to the city of Miami. So we would leverage the existing infrastructure for the expansion of the water taxi. And through the chair, if I may add, the DDA has also done a lot of studies on the very issues that you're addressing. So that's been done, and our transportation department. So a lot of these conversations have happened. I also want to address the water taxi is maxed out at 8 miles an hour, so that is the speed. It cannot go faster than that. It's an 18-minute ride right now between Miami Beach and Miami. But obviously, we're cognizant of certain areas that have the mandate restrictions. Listen, I'm happy to send you the item, and I think you need to talk to our transit and public works folks about what they were looking at with water taxis. I know we had talked about it on the dais about wanting to expand it. Just because there is a dock doesn't mean that there isn't manatee protection. So I know because in our areas, we have docks, we have marinas, but we still have manatee protection. So there's transit areas. The issue is not where you're docking. It's where you're transiting and how close you're coming and how far out. And because they move so slowly, it is better, but if there's seagrass, then we get into this whole other thing. And my only concern, again, I think you should, one thing is to get people excited about it and say, look, for this period of time, we're going to do it for free. But right now, it's new, it's shiny, it's clean, right? But then it starts getting expensive, and I think it's easier for us as a TPO to ask for funding if something is being charged and there is some sort of revenue stream. FDOT at this moment is not interested in things that do not at least pretend or try to be self-sufficient. Board Member Regalado? All right. Can you, Mayor, can you get with Board Member Regalado on all these stuff she's going to educate you on? Because the roads are about to start closing downtown, and we need to start getting out of here. Commissioner Lopez? Just one less through the chair. There is some private partnership interest as well. No, no, no, no, but through the chair means you, Mayor, Mayor, no, thank you. Commissioner Lopez, Board Member Lopez at this point. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So I have obviously ridden the water taxi with the mayor and know the impacts on both sides, both in my district on the beach and then I think in Commissioner Hardiman's district on the mainland when it comes through at Edgewater. And I guess I would say this, you know, I actually polled some of the people that were on there and I'm looking forward to receiving the data of who's actually riding it, but I happen to have ridden it and then stood outside a line one time and just said, you know, are you a resident? Are you a visitor? And I think it doesn't, it wouldn't be bad. I actually think the residents told me they're riding it because it's free. If it were to be, if there were to be a charge, I think you would see a significant drop off. Now, I don't know that tourists and visitors would expect it to be free. They might, we might be able to get away with charging them a nominal amount to subsidize the cost, but the residents were very clear with me. I've never, I never wrote it before because it was, you know, it had a cost associated with it, but now that it's free, it really makes sense. And it has, in fact, increased the ridership. So I just wanted to put that on the record for the mayor and Commissioner Suarez to think about because the visitors didn't seem to think that that was, you know, unreasonable to charge a nominal amount. But I think the residents would definitely care. You're going to have to allocate some money to new pamphlets if you change the, because that's free right now, so you're going to have to get new trifolds. All right. Thank you very much, Mayor Miner. Our last presentation, and you have two minutes, is the SFRTA. Sorry to cut you short. You've got two minutes to tell us what you want to tell us. And also, to the executive director, I think I'm getting bamboozled here. I remember under OVO, the meetings were like you called roll, we did like everything, and we were out of here within 30 to 45 seconds. I think you're really taking advantage of me now. I'm being bamboozled here. We've got all these presentations. We've got, you know, people talking, everybody want to do motions and request things. I mean, it's just, it's a lot. I moved the agenda. I moved the second agenda. All right. You moved the second. Well, we've got an SFRTA presentation first, but let's do this presentation, and then I'll recognize you for that. All right. You've got two minutes. Please introduce yourself. Your microphone. Good afternoon. Diane Hernandez del Calvo, and I serve as the interim executive director for SFRTA TriRail. So thank you to the TPO Governing Board. A special thanks to our vice chair, Commissioner Raquel Regalado, and a special thanks to executive director Eileen Buclay, who invited me here today to share the great story of SFRTA TriRail and InterMiami. And I, for one, am super excited because did not expect to see the results that we saw with the InterMiami games and the extra service that we have been providing in the last two games, and we hope to continue to see. So one of the things that we saw on game one, we saw our eighth-highest leadership on a Saturday. For us, that is impressive. We weren't expecting to see that. We were prepared for the increase, right? And when you say, wow, eighth-highest, what does that mean? Well, for us, it means the unexpected. 9,131 rides that day. In comparison, our typical Saturday ridership is around 6,000 rides. On those extra trains, we saw 1,000 new rides. That is fantastic ridership. When we had spoken to InterMiami and they said, yes, we expect you guys to have some extra rides, and we were like, well, no, we expect to see more, and the expectation was more. The reality was more. So our team had prepared for that, and our schedule did not need to be changed. We have hourly service, and when our riders came on board, we were prepared. They were able to get to the game, enjoy it to the last whistle, come out of the game, and come in and get on board the trains and get home on reliable service that we were able to provide. That's great news. Thank you so much. On April 11th, we saw the fourth-highest ridership. So thank you, and we look to provide that service again this Saturday. Thank you. Thank you. That's great news. Good to hear that. All right, can we entertain a motion to set the agenda at this time? I'm going to set the agenda. Mr. Chairman. Moved by board member Gilbert, seconded by member Lopez. Mr. Chairman, the following changes to your agenda are requested. Go ahead. Read them up. Read them into the record. Yep. First, there was an email comment received from Mr. Sean Holloway regarding State Road 934, JFK Causeway Bridge. A copy of that correspondence is filed with the clerk, and just wanted to make sure that's provided in the record. A place available for TPO members if they wish to obtain that correspondence. In addition, item 6B4 substitute was added to the agenda. In addition to that, board member Lossner wishes to add the following motions to your agenda. First motion, TPO board member Lossner moves to urge the Miami-Dade County mayor to prepare a report and present said report to the TPO analyzing the current operations of the bus rapid transit from Southwest 288th Street to Southwest 4th Street in Homestead, which corresponds to Southwest 324th Street, including any impacts to vehicular traffic in the vicinity. Said report shall also include potential modifications to promote improved, safe, and efficient vehicular flow. Also, TPO board member Lossner moves to direct the TPO executive director or designee to coordinate with all partner agencies to determine a funding source and prepare a potential transportation improvement program, TIP amendment, to include a new traffic signal project at the intersection of Southwest 152nd Avenue and North Gate Place for the fiscal years 2027 through 2031 TIP. All right, the agenda has been moved and seconded, I suppose, as amended to include these motions. Mayor Lossner, I think your best bet for this is that you have a conversation with the mayor of the county and speak to your county commissioner to request, not so much a TPO thing. I guess you're using the TPO mechanism as like an urging, like an avenue to get to the county, especially on the signal part. You're correct, Mr. Chair, if I may, to put it in context. Last night at our county, the baseline situation is that the BRT has created traffic chaos in Deep South Gate. Oh, I bet, yeah. The signalization is not synchronized. You know, it gets worked on, it becomes unsynchronized. My point being that last night at our city council meeting, we passed a resolution asking the mayor to direct the Department of Public Works and Transportation to revert the system back to the signalization that existed under the old busway from Southwest 288 to Southwest 4th Street in Homestead until either the contractor or the county can get itself together and get these intersections properly synchronized. It's probably a result that we have unique circumstances with closely aligned parallel roads as well as angle roads coming into most of the intersections, and it's not a one-size-fits-all. And I understand that, and I agree, by the way, on the bus thing. I know we've been dealing with that ourselves. So I guess my thing is I think you should also, like, perhaps communicate directly with the mayor and your commissioner from the district just because I don't know how much just the written urging from the TPO on this will, how far that would go. But I think if you lobby your county commissioner down there and speak to Mayor Kahl, I think. Okay. But I hear you. All right, we've got a motion. We've got a second. All in favor of setting the agenda with the motion, signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. I'll show the agenda here set as amended. Public hearing items. Public hearing. No, no, no. I know you were going to do a motion to adjourn, but hold the horses there. Well, no, I'm not going to move the entire agenda. You saw I did that on Country Fest weekend? Hold the horses. You got that? All right. It's not a dad joke. Mr. Attorney, can you read all the public hearing items at this time? Certainly, Mr. Chair. 6A1, fiscal years 2027 to 2031, transportation improvement program. Resolution approving the final draft, fiscal years 2027 to 2031, transportation improvement program. 6A2, fiscal years 2026 to 2030, transportation improvement program amendment, addition of the Marlin Road Expansion Project, financial management number 451290-2. Resolution approving an amendment to the fiscal years 2026 to 2030, transportation improvement program. To add the Marlin Road Expansion Project, financial management number 451290-2. Roll call vote is required on both items. All right. Public hearing is now open. Anyone wishing to speak on any of the public hearing items? Seeing none, public hearing is now closed. Any bifurcations? Seeing no bifurcations, do I have a motion to move the remainder of the public hearing items? It's been moved by Commissioner Board Member Gilbert, seconded by Board Member Lopez, all in. Clerk, please call the roll. Board Member Alonzo. Yes. Board Member Bassian. Yes. Board Member Bermudez. Yes. Board Member Cohen-Higgins. Yes. Board Member Fraga. Yes. Board Member Garcia. Board Member Gilbert. Yes. Board Member Hardiman. Four. Board Member Lago. Four. Board Member Lopez. Yes. Board Member Lassner. Yes. Board Member McGee. Yes. Board Member Melian Orbis. Yes. Board Member Regalado. Yes. Board Member Steinberg. Yes. Board Member Suarez. Yes. Vice Chairman Diaz-Padron. Yes. Chairman Rodriguez. I vote yes. The motion stands. The motion stands. Congratulations, Board Members, for passing the largest five-year plan that we've seen here at the TPO. $13.9 billion, so big deal. All right. Mr. Attorney, can you read all the non-public hearing items? And do we need to read them, or can I just have a motion to pass the remainder of the agenda? No, Mr. Chair, you can have a motion for the remainder of the agenda. I would just note it would be 6B4 substitute instead of 6B4. Okay. Board Member Goober moves the remainder of the agenda. Mr. Chair. Board Member McGee or Steinberg seconds the motion. Mr. Chair. And Board Member Regalado. I just have a question about 6B2. Okay. Go ahead. Okay. So 6B2 includes, it has the study attached to it, and I want to say staff did a great job, but it picks two alternatives, and I don't have an issue with the two alternatives, but right now we can't afford them. I would like to see if the maker would consider adding Alternative 3, which is the Corridor Rail SFRTA and FEC Railroad. As you know, the Board of County Commissioners just approved the Little River stop, and when you look at the Little River stop and how this would work, it would be the cheapest way to do this connection between the port and the airport. Currently we're working at the airport with a land swap, and we've made a huge investment in the MIC. A few moments ago we were hearing about how successful the MIC is and how folks are using TriRail to get to the MIC. We already own these easements, as opposed to the two alternatives that you're considering, we would have to buy easements. So this is just an agreement with FEC, and we're currently working with FEC for an inland port at Port Miami and at the airport. So I just want it considered because what I don't want is to come back with this report, and then it says that it's $400 million and we can't afford it. So the most expensive part of transit right now is buying these easements, and in this case we already have access to the rail lines. May I be recognized for a response? Thank you so much. Thank you, Commissioner, for the friendly amendment. I have a question to our director. This particular item we've studied, talked about, discussed, pondered for quite some time. My question is, why was it never previously brought to my attention what Commissioner Regalato is bringing up now? Thank you for that question. What we're looking at is the direct connect, and even though the existing right-of-way, rail right-of-way, is being fixed, we do not have access. That is a private third-party-owned property that we would like an opportunity to engage. In this particular board item, similar to the port tunnel when it was originally conceptualized, this is the initiation of the project concept and not the setting of an alignment or the selection of a technology. This is in the outer years closer to the 2045 time range that allows us time to sit down and have these conversations, not just for the alternatives we looked at today, but also any other right-of-way that might be available and any new and emerging technologies that might be presented to us over the time horizon in the long-range plan. And this is the initiation of the federal planning process by entering this project as a concept in the outer years unfunded and allows us to start refining the project so that I can bring back to the board a viable project for adoption. This is similar to the creation of the port tunnel, which was once entered as a project concept and didn't really even have the right alignment, but with state and federal partners we were able to refine. So if it's okay with board member Cohen Higgins, if you agree, I would like to accept the recommendation offered today as well as also have the opportunity to sit down and refine alignments and technologies over the planning horizon and hopefully bring back to this board a concept that's financially feasible that we can move forward with funding partners at the table, federal and state. And right now it's a concept with preliminary recommendations based on today's technologies. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Director. So with that explanation, I'm happy to accept the amendment and include it. Thank you. And we're currently negotiating with FEC, so the moment is now. Thank you. So then I will second as amended. Mr. Chair, may I? All right. It's been seconded as amended. Thank you. To the Director, and I know that you chair the Airport Committee, so thank you for moving this forward. But since the airport's in my district, I would like a briefing on this if possible. Absolutely. Because, you know, much like my colleague, I wasn't aware of the funding issue with this, so I would like to be briefed so that we can move it forward appropriately. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Sounds good. So we have the balance of the agenda is being moved as amended. We have a motion. We have a second. Clerk? All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. I'll show the balance of the agenda approved. It's been moved to adjourn. I have to make an appointment. Mr. Chairman, I have to make an appointment. Any appointment? Board Member Orbis for an appointment. Thank you. I would like to appoint Janelia Liu to the F-TAC. All right. It's been moved. It's been seconded by our Vice Chair. All in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Thank you. All opposed, nay. Show us Steinberg. No, I just, to the F-TAC board, I used to have a member. I guess I no longer do. And I would like to see if our director has a list of people who are interested or who have contacted the office in the past who are interested in serving so that you can pass those names along so that we can fill those vacancies. Thank you. Good point. All right. Show us adjourned. Thank you.