Transportation Committee - Regular Meeting

Bow your heads. 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'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, 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.

It's been moved by Commissioner Messon. Second by Commissioner . All those in favor of approving the agenda, signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed? All right, show the agenda adopted. Let's go.

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. Showed 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 Regalado. Second by Bastien. Is this a roll call? Call the roll.

Thank you. I was wondering should we read that first? You want me to do another vote just to make it clean?

Thank you. Call the roll on 1G1 again. It's been moved by Regalado, seconded by Bastien.

Does anyone else wish to bifurcate any of these items is a good question, right? 3D. 3.

Okay, I'm hearing 3D. All right, so 3D and 3E? Yes.

It's been moved by Commissioner Bastian, seconded by Commissioner Regalado. All those in favor on the balance, everything except for 3D and 3E, signify by saying aye. Those opposed? All right, show that was adopted. Let's go to 3D. Read it. Let's open it up.

Thank you. Commissioner, Senator Garcia, you're recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I do have a question on this. By understanding how the bus shelter, we recently gave a bus shelter, bus bench contract to, I guess, Out Front 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? 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 advertising. I know they make money off their advertisements. My understanding, I think Hialeah had a program and sold it to the city of Dorau a couple of years back. My understanding how the systems work is that these bus shelters are 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 thi

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? They're responsible for the maintenance. We install and they maintain? And what is the profit sharing that we have with them now?

I don't have to apologize. I got it. Cause this is sprung into you right now. I will, I have a couple of other questions, but I guess we'll, we'll let, let's have a conversation as we, this moves forward before the, the full board. I'm just not beating a hundred percent comfortable with happy to do so. Thank you. Appreciate you.

Director, I think probably the confusion was your answer. You said that we were, we're responsible for the installation and maintenance. And then you say that you said that they responsible for the maintenance and we, profit shares. Are we responsible for the maintenance or are they responsible for the maintenance?

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 from .

Thank you. And I was going to say that because 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. 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, 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 th

Yeah, let me just get a motion on the item. Unless there's something else. Commissioner Bastian, you move it? Move by Commissioner Bastian. Second by Commissioner Bastian. It's all those in favor. Hold on, I wanted to- Are you a question? You're right.

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 that regulation in place, it was actually us. Yeah, so- Yeah, we did the bus bench, not the bus benches. So, but what occurred yesterday? Did I miss something? You said something occurred yesterday?

I'd just be over minding my Miami Gardens business. I didn't even know.

I am completely comfortable with enforcing our ordinance and Commissioner Regalado. 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 she had at the board. Because I think all of us need to be involved. I just, I've always been really weary about us. in what, how we regulate which speech is allowed on our assets. I've always been worried of that and so as we go forward in that conversation, I would just advise my colleagues be mindful of what you say on the record because it is perilous for us when we place ourselves

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, thank you for answering to our questions and being prompt in sending the information that we requested. I appreciate that. I have a quick question. So what is the timeline for installing all these benches?

Give me an idea. What are we looking at?

Okay. Will you be sharing that 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 where there's specific need, there's deliberate action. 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.

Thank you. Move it. It's been moved by Commissioner Regalado, seconded by Commissioner Bastian. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed, show the item passing and forward it favorably to the board. All right, do we have anything else on the agenda?

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 and I'm getting a little concerned about the budget.

Okay, Jesus, I was like, what? You mean the chairman put you on probation? You need to enunciate, okay. No way.

I talk a little fast, it happens sometimes. So abbreviations 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 im

Um, why don't you prepare a discussion item and submit it? I, I don't have a problem with that, but the chairman still has to actually, I'm just, I'm, 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. But you're forewarned at this point. So all those in favor of adjourning, signify by saying aye.