Facilities and Construction Committee - Regular Meeting

Yes, because you know they were coming. Yet another month, yet another proportionate share mitigation agreement. I will say we had a great meeting yesterday. I think the ball is moving forward, and we will be on track to provide an innovative option in South Dade.

Thank you. Thank you to your team, Mr. Perez. I know I don't represent the City of Miami, but I am always happy to see win-win situations where the public gets more access to the facilities that they own, both in our parks and our schools. They're all public assets. Mr. Perez, can you give us really quickly an overview of... other joint use agreements that we have where there is investment going in from our municipal partners into our facilities?

Thank you so much, and through the chair, this makes so much sense. I know you're working on a couple within my district, and I look forward to landing those, because again, our public should not be paying for two playgrounds next to each other if we can find ways to share those facilities, and of course, after school, weekend hours, it makes a lot of sense for our general taxpayer. Thank you so much.

Just very briefly, just because you mentioned Doral and Board Member Santos mentioned, I know we had a couple pending ones, and Mr. Bueno was working with the city of Hialeah. There was a change in leadership with the new mayor now. I just want to remind us if we can please reach back out to them and update them on what the progress was because there was two pending facilities that they were working on and want to make sure that they're aware of the full process because it has been a while and they still haven't come back with finalized agreements.

Board Member Alonso. So this is in my district. I want to congratulate staff, especially Dr. Cabrera and Raul and his team, for working on this initiative. It was a board initiative to go out and look for these early learning centers and partner with them. and have them come use underutilized spaces. Not only is it a service to our community, but it's also a pipeline to our schools in bringing those students on our campus early on and also providing relief to families, right? When they drop off their older siblings, they can now drop off the little ones too. So I think it's a great way of a co

Thank you. Through the chair, I recently met with our Office of Efficiency and learned that we have some data from our first full year after completion of our guaranteed energy performance contracts, both at Robert Morgan and at Coral Park. And we are nearing a million dollars in savings at only two sites after implementing the some energy efficiency upgrades. This is tremendous news, and it's very exciting at a time where we need to find every dollar. Finding close to a million dollars is a big deal. And I really wanted to ask our staff, our facilities office, our office of efficiency, what o

Yeah, thank you. Through the chair, basically, I would love to get a concrete timeline because now this is not a projection on paper. Now these are real significant realized savings from where we have invested. I understand we are strapped for initial investment, but through energy as a service, we have the opportunity to basically zero dollars up front realize these savings through these new contracts. So I would just really love for us to understand concretely when we will be able to sign on new sites and get these improvements going. And maybe you can follow up with those concrete dates or

Thank you, Board Member Alonso. Just to follow up on that, Just last week, I was at Hialeah Garden Senior High School for a presentation at auditorium. It was probably 54 degrees in that auditorium. Then this past Monday, I was at Hialeah High with Mr. Bueno and Ms. Diaz, and it was probably 59, 62 degrees in their auditorium. It's out of control. That is just bleeding cash away. And I'm going to turn him out of office and we're still having conversations. And Raul, I know you're trying the best you can, but we need you, Mr. Steiger, and the teams to come together and resolve this. now because