Citizens' Independent Transportation Trust - Regular Meeting

to our citizens independent transportation trust meeting of June 24th, 2026 and welcome. This evening, our chair had a work commitment and so I will be chairing the meeting for her and we are, it is, what time is it? Madam Clerk, what time is it? It is five o'clock, so if you would please do the roll.

Omar Bradford. Robert Wolfarth. Present. Caroline Vesta. Present. Harry Hoffman. Present. Quasari Harvey. Kenneth Kirkpatrick.

Present.

David Marin. Present. Miguel Murphy. Paul Schwepp. Present. Meg Daley.

Present.

Mayor Peggy Bell. Mayor Street.

Madam Chair, I have a quorum.

Members on we have been a request to change the action items number 7, a and B move them up on the agenda. Down under item 5. I'd like a motion that second second and all those in favor. All right and anyone against item passes. Thank you. The other item when we will be moving 6 he too and that will be in just before 6 a. Because we're doing an amendment may have a motion for that. second and all those in favor.

I'm madam chair, yes, could I request because I have to leave early also. If if not taking up the item if I could just make comments on item 9. I would prefer after action items are possible.

Madam chair, I think in your revised agenda, you'll see that we are deferring our ambassador of the month recognition to our next month. So

Yes, and and that that member that member would be Kathy Bernstein. So we'll have that on the next next month's agenda. Do we have comments from the citizens today.

Good afternoon chair and trust members of vice chair, vice chair. We do not have any it checked our mail and couldn't see me and I don't see anybody in the audience currently.

Thank you if everyone's had time to look over the minutes if I could get a motion to approve.

Motion to approve minutes from last meeting.

And all those in favor aye against motion passes, thank you. Okay, our next item would be 6, 7, 8, we move 7, I'm sorry correct 7, 8, Mister attorney.

My pleasure, I'm sure 7 a resolution by the citizens independent transportation trust recommend the Board of County Commissioners authorize the use of charter County transportation bond program funds in the amount of 3,896,702 dollars and 0 cents. to reimburse the florida department of transportation for the purchase of 15 buses for the discontinued i-95 express bus service routes for a project which was added to the fiscal year 2026 to 30 five-year implementation plan of the people's transportation plan okay thank you do we have any questions or comments i have a question mr altman what does this mean you can turn on your mic sir

Can you hear me now. What does this mean we're going to give the someone that almost 4 million dollars for buses that we no longer use is that what we're saying.

So this is actually related to an item we had at our last meeting at the last meeting this came as an amendment to our 5 year plan and now this is the actual agreement was explained at that point, but I'll allow the director of the tpw to explain it again.

THANK YOU, THROUGH THE CHAIR.

THANK YOU, THROUGH THE CHAIR. WELCOME. WELCOME.

THANK YOU, STACEY MILLER, THANK YOU, STACEY MILLER, DIRECTOR AND CEO OF DEPARTMENT OF DIRECTOR AND CEO OF DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS. TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS. THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. SO THE SERVICE OF I-95 EXPRESS SO THE SERVICE OF I-95 EXPRESS WAS DISCONTINUED BY DTPW But we continue to use the buses for regular service. Because we stopped using them for the intended purpose, we need to reimburse the Florida Department of Transportation who had funded the vehicles for a specific service. We need to reimburse them for their portion, but we continue to use the buses as part of our regular fleet.

What about the area on I 95 is that still an area that's exclusively used by buses of.

If they do there is no exclusive use of the express lanes for buses they are allowed to use the buses and the service is currently provided by Broward County transit in lieu of being provided by both Broward County transit and the Department of Transportation and public works.

Any other questions?

Yes. Just for clarification, last month we added this item to the five-year plan, and this is the same item we're just now voting on, or is this a different set of funds?

It's the same item. You added it to the plans, and now this is the allowable use of those resources. So it's a complementary item to last month's.

Understood. Thank you very much.

Any other questions on this side of the desk? OK I'm looking for a motion for this item.

Move to approve.

And second all those in favor aye aye opposed. Motion passes, thank you. Item 7 be Mister attorney.

7b resolution by the citizens and independent transportation trust recommending the board of county commissioners authorized issuance of miami-dade county florida transit system sales surtax revenue bonds in one or more series pursuant to ordinance number 05-48 as amended and supplemented in principal amount not to exceed 350 million dollars for purpose of paying all or portion of certain transportation and transit projects for the department of transportation and public works and paying costs of issuing bonds pursuant to certain terms and conditions finding necessity for an authorized negotiated sale of such bonds approving form and execution of certain related documents agreements and bond forms authorized county mayor or county mayor's designee within certain limitations and parameters to finalize terms and other provisions of such bonds and conversion of such bonds to fixed rate or with the board's adoption of a supplemental resolution to an alternate floating rate including selection of bond registrar paying agent and remarketing agents providing certain covenants authorize certain county officials and employees to take all action necessary in connection with issuance and sale of such bonds and subsequent conversion and remarketing, waiving provisions of resolution number R-130-06 as amended and providing severability and an effective date.

Thank you. I see Director Miller is still here in case anyone has questions. I'm looking to my left. Yes, Mr. Hoffman. Well, you can ask your question and she'll jump up.

We're going to issue $350 million worth of bonds, and it does list in the packet all the different things they're going to use it on. Are all those going to start at the same time so they can use the money right away, or is the money just going to sit there?

Our director probably has a good answer for that.

THANK YOU. THE FUNDS WILL BE DRAWN DOWN IN THE FUNDS WILL BE DRAWN DOWN IN TRANCHES. TRANCHES. IT IS NOT GOING TO ALL HAPPEN AT IT IS NOT GOING TO ALL HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME. THE SAME TIME. THIS IS A VERY DIFFERENT THIS IS A VERY DIFFERENT METHODOLOGY THAN WE'VE USED IN THE METHODOLOGY THAN WE'VE USED IN THE PAST. PAST. AND I HAVE SUPPORT HERE FROM OUR management and budget to help answer questions regarding the drawdown process but the expectation is that we are not going to request all of the funds up front it'll actually go in a sequence of use because we don't need all the money up front by doing a different methodology by a drawdown we'll actually save money in the long term

You eloquently answered that. I'm Belkis Romay with Office of Management and Budget. And as she mentioned, we would only be drawing as needed and paying variable rate. So there will be savings in the long run.

So what do you mean by variable rate?

So the first draw, as they draw, it will be in variable rate mode until we go out and fix. Once we hit a certain threshold, which would be $200 million, we would go out and convert the bonds to a fixed rate. It's a shorter term. So it'll be variable rate, there'll be savings associated, Yes.

Okay, so I understand what we're doing is approving a drawdown bond program. Correct. And we've been provided in our memorandum the capital improvements that DTPW is considering this bond program to fund. So for example, this $350 million, there's $113 million in sort of like allocated projected amounts for metro-related projects. Will those contracts, whatever they are for, come to us for approval at some point?

Yes. Each one of them, as part of our process, we work with you all to establish our five-year work program that's updated annually. And as we go to use the resources, we come back to you with information regarding the contract, consultant, et cetera, so that we receive your recommendation to go to BCC for award of a contract.

so what's so i mean if i'm understanding correctly we're creating the bond program um the uh then dtbw will have the ability to go out and acquire these funds uh and at whatever the rate happens to be and then deploy those funds for these specific projects but why are we doing it this way right is this like historic practice or is this a new approach to how to fund these projects

IT'S A NEW APPROACH FOR THE TRANSIT SYSTEM. WE CURRENTLY USE THE SAME APPROACH IN OUR BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES PROGRAM AND IT'S BEEN VERY FUNCTIONAL AND BENEFICIAL FOR THAT PROGRAM. AND BASED ON THEIR DRAW AMOUNTS HISTORICALLY, WE'VE DONE A COMPARISON AND THEY WOULD BE SAVING A HIGH LEVEL COMPARISON OVER $12 MILLION IN INTEREST COST SAVINGS.

I do want to be clear, we've used bonding capacity before as part of CITT. This is just a different methodology of bonding. But we have bonded CITT funds in the past in a more traditional manner.

I would assume that this allows you to move more quickly. And so instead of waiting for money, you have access to funds, which I think is in the spirit of this board trying to advance projects instead of being stuck because the funds aren't available. Is that the philosophy behind this?

Correct. And I also want to state that you're not over issuing debt. You're only issuing debt as needed. So that's very beneficial for the transit department.

Any other? Yes. I'm just a few questions. So they have penny my understanding is that it's funded through sales tax sales and utility. Taxes right this just sounds OK. So I just want to be clear just in light of what's going on with the the property tax homestead there. uh we've forecasted that there's no impact right to uh this program as a result of what you're about to do right so in other words the property taxes uh being repealed in terms of homestead the homestead being increased will have no impact on how we collect our receipts here these are two separate programs versus property tax okay Is there projected annual impact to the surtax funds as your program rolls out?

I apologize, but I'm not sure what you mean by impact. We generate approximately $400 million a year in revenue, but I'm not sure what you mean by impact.

In other words, as you draw down and it's, OK you you're going to draw down is it every 10 million dollars or something like that like like an initial 10 million dollars that you guys are going to draw down. Was there a cap there's a there's a base at 1 million.

Oh no, we're going to do larger projected amounts as needed. Do you want to describe?

I believe he's referencing in the memo. So the minimum draw amount, the initial minimum draw amount is $10 million. So that's when we established the program. When we closed after that, the minimum drama is only $1 million.

But we won't be drawing in million dollar increments. We're going to be a bit more judicious in how we approach our draw downs in order to maximize the funding and minimize the repayment structure.

But, Member Kilpatrick, I just want to understand, there is no anticipated impact of the potential property tax reform on sales tax collection. No, I got that. I got that.

I just want to make sure, just because, you know, things are happening at the center. I just want to ask a question. I understand. Let's put it out there. OK want to be sure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, madam chair and just to follow up with something that you said that kind of I didn't see it in the memo here, but he said once we get to a 200 million dollar draw then it will be combined together and I imagine that's for a better rate. What is the spread on the initial drawdowns that we're going to get like that I know you don't know the exact interest rate perhaps now and the difference that we would be saving I guess that's the 12 million dollars correct. And also the timing of it as well because you don't take until you need absolutely at the last moment. So what is the spread between that point where you first draw down in the $200 million when you kind of refinance it?

It depends the timing, how fast they have to implement the projects. The not to exceed amount is $350 million. This is a four-year program. Once they reach a $200 million threshold, they are required by the program to convert it to long-term bonds. So depending on their draw schedule, it's when we get to the $200 million threshold.

And whatever the interest rate happens to be.

Exactly. It's all market-driven.

Okay. All right. Thank you.

But I'm trying to have one more question. The capital improvement programs to members reps earlier point there's a 113 million set aside well allocated or earmarked for Metro rail related projects. The project above that is a Metro rather much mover project to 5.1 million. And then you have a smart plan program and another 59 million. So is it is it my understanding what is it your understanding that the 3 programs could all potentially be used for Metro rail related projects.

But what we did in providing the list is these are all options for us to use those resources on depending on ultimately how quickly we get to a project. So there's not it's programmatic in nature. But will be defined in the 5 year work program as we determine the individual projects in the funding sources understood of just speaking to a general eligible uses.

Just in terms of what you've listed could it.

It could depending on the amount of projects that fall within those programmatic buckets that occur within the timeline.

There are no earmarked projects then connected to the funds in the county and the programs that you've listed here.

Earmarked projects, it's programmatic in nature, so all of the projects that qualify under CITT funding could potentially be used as drawdown projects for funds.

Okay.

All right, understood, thank you.

Through the chair. Just to understand better, I see here that the repayment term is up to 30 years, right? So I'm just trying to understand, we are repaying the bond through the revenue collected from the SIRTX fund, right? So I'm trying to understand, I understand the trying to expeditiously do these projects, not have to wait for the revenue to come in. What is the annual revenue amount right now?

Well, it's it's been going down, unfortunately, but as the director said earlier, roughly 400 million a year.

OK, so I'm trying to just understand. And I. If we're looking at not to exceed 350 million, but we make more than that in in the surtax, what is the the impetus to go ahead and do a bond that we then have to pay additional fees on if we can? Is there no opportunity to collect it now and spend it now from the taxes collected now?

I think much of that is already committed right between one thing or another so this would free that up we yeah give them additional dollars to free up sooner than having to wait for additional surtax to collect over time.

And if we're looking at this for being for 4 years then aren't we in the rears if we're not paying it back in the until a period of 30 years.

I'M TRYING TO FRAME MY ANSWER. I APOLOGIZE. MOST BOND REPAYMENT STRUCTURES ARE 10, 15, 20, 30 YEARS. THAT'S A PRETTY STANDARD REPAYMENT STRUCTURE. SO I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE IN THE REARS AS WHAT WE ULTIMATELY END UP BECAUSE THE FUNDS THAT WE HAVE TODAY ARE COMMITTED TO PROJECTS ALREADY. THIS GIVES US THE ABILITY TO ADVANCE OTHER PROJECTS AND USE FUTURE REVENUE TO REIMBURSE REPAYMENT STRUCTURE.

But so my concern is that future revenue, will it not also be assigned and earmarked like now to other projects, right? So are we borrowing from something that might not already be, or are these projects already in the plan as planned? These are already in the plan. Okay. So now, okay, I'm sorry. I understand. Thank you. Member Schwab?

Yeah. So, I mean, this is a bond authorization. So from the trust vantage point, what is the fiscal impact to the trust on an immediate basis, right? Because what we're doing is obligating trust funds to pay back these bonds once the bond program is established. But for instance, in 2026, 2027, is there any impact to trust funds? That's one question I had, and then I have a separate question.

Well the administration to answer that but essentially the fees and interest that will accrue as the bonds are drawn down right so I don't know if you have the exact number for this coming year for instance, what's what's the initial.

So initially based on a $20 million dollar monthly draw we just did a $20 million dollar monthly draw in 2026 the payment will be a $129,000. And that monthly draw you're obliged to draw down. You are not you're not.

It's available, but exactly what you tell me is if you drew down $20 million in a particular fiscal year, the repayment would be essentially $900,000. $20,000 a month.

I'm $20 million a month. Okay, yeah. $12 million.

twenty million a month in the first year we've that would be our team okay uh... twenty million a month okay the way you have allocated the three hundred and fifty million dollars among these different uh... capital improvement programs uh... i assume all of that is fungible i mean in other words no one is obliging themselves to do any of these projects or to do all of them. In other words, you could move around the bond funds to accomplish whatever objectives the DTPW wants to get done presumably consistent with what the bond funds are for. Correct.

It would always be these are all optional programs and as we progress towards the projects that are in our five-year work program that you all bless we then come back to you and say this is a project and we're going to use a combination of bond funds and something else or whatever the case may be at that point we'll tell you what the fund source is. But these are all optional programs. As we progress the program, the monies that are eligible, which are all CITT-backed funds, can be used on any of these programs.

Okay, and just to, maybe this question is pointless to ask, since it's, you may end up doing things in a different direction than what's been programmed here. Just going off Member Kilpatrick's question about the $60 million that we see that's for the SMART program, what is that about?

So we have a number of different phases in the work program associated with the SMART plan, or the SMART program, I should say. Obviously at this point, they're all preliminary design and continued right-of-way acquisition. At this point, there is no construction funded in the five-year work program for any particular SMART program corridor.

There are any other questions members Yes, mr. Hoffman, yes through the chair of this ten million dollars for miscellaneous projects That's a lot of money for miscellaneous I'm sorry. I haven't read the this close to half-inch package you have here What are the miscellaneous projects? Can you give us a few examples? I?

I don't know that I can give one off the top of my head, but I am going to ask Melvin if he can. Just one second.

Okay. Is it in there?

so for instance under miscellaneous there's a number of different things it could be elevator and escalator refurbishment it could be security it could be south day trail path enhancements there's a number of different items under the catch-all of miscellaneous

And I'd like to just clarify one thing. We're gonna be on the hook for $350 million eventually. And what we're saying is that these one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight categories could increase, we could have additional categories, or we could move some of this money around to other categories, or is this gonna be it?

Those are the categories that are eligible based on groupings of what's in the work program.

Now in terms of specific projects within those categories again that is somewhat fungible. However, it has to be a PTP eligible project or expender expense. It has to come back to us potentially twice want to add it to the 5 year plan is if it is already in there and secondly as a contract. So I'm going to ask the question that will no more specifics as time goes on I guess and they draw down the funds.

Very selfish. How do I find out how much of this money goes to District 11? Since they're going to be paying a half-cent sales tax, I mean, they get very little as it is right now, but $350 million is a good chunk of money.

It'll be based on the projects, and obviously when we come back to you with the specific projects and the five-year work program, it denotes which district those projects are within.

Okay, thank you.

Has there been an estimated calculation, so if this full amount was taken out and over the period of 30 years, what we're looking at as part of the interest that would be added to what we're taking out?

Yes, there is. I don't have the interest breakdown now, but the average annual payment would be $22.2 million for principal and interest for over 30 years.

So that would be an annual amount.

So I think that's the full 350 million, but we're not required to draw down the full 350 million.

I understand. But what we're approving is up to today. Right. So just understanding for us as we approve this, what would be the full impact over a period of 30 years? So that would be the annual amount if the full amount was drawn down as repayment. So I think that's important to know is, you know, that amount would be taken out of technically the 350. Correct.

No, it wouldn't come out of the 350. It comes out of the annual.

Right, right. What I'm saying, the 350 is what would be taken out if the full capacity was taken out.

The interest that would account for the full 30 years would be additional monies that would have to come from the Sir tax to fund correct right correct it would come out of our annual allocation that we receive and that would be set aside first as a repayment structure before remaining funds were applied to other projects and or other bonds in the next 30 years and so it was that annual amount again.

22.2 million dollars.

Okay, so that would be something to consider, that starting every year potentially could be a deduction of the annual amount allotted for these projects.

I will say, by advancing these projects through this bond, costs go up over time. So while you'll be spending more on interest, you'll be saving on future escalation of costs, which, as we've seen in these recent years, has been dramatic. So it might balance itself out.

member daly i have i have two questions one is this is something this is a methodology that has not been used in t t p w and so in your experience with using this methodology Is there anything that we or any risk that we encounter by doing this? And I already got the feedback on the why, which makes a lot of sense to me. So this is something that's been done within the county financing toolkit in the past. So this is not brand new to us.

It is not. It's more efficient for DTSBW, especially based on their draw timelines, and it will benefit the department. Okay.

And then my second question is for our staff. I mean, this is something that we've evaluated and feel comfortable with that debt burden. It's not even a debt burden. It's an interest burden, correct?

Yes, we want to advance these projects. As I said, I think that whatever we're paying an interest is probably going to be offset by being able to save vis-a-vis future potential cost increases, right? We've seen the cost escalations associated with these projects in many ways, I think far exceed what we're going to be paying an interest. So we might actually see a cost savings. I want to say that with a grain of salt because I don't have the data to prove that at this point, but we're very comfortable with the item.

Any other questions.

Members just want to make one just one comment about the cap improvement programs. So it looks like there's enough money to get us one station on the North Corridor. So I'm just going to put that on the record. It doesn't take on a 13 plus 59 plus another 5.1 to build 5 blocks of rail From 77th Street to 82nd. I attended a TOD workshop on the North Corridor about a month ago. You were there, Madam Director. And I saw this... robust plan about the north side shopping center being redeveloped um in an 82nd street station right there you have your tod already planned and it's already in the queue so five streets i'm sorry five blocks um if you guys could try and put that in there that'd be very nice And I think there's enough money here to do it. And I think one station will get you the rest of them. We already know the LPA has been changed. And so whatever we move forward with after 82nd Street, that station could be actually outfitted. to handle the transition from 82nd Street to County Land Rope. That's all I have.

Well, I guess we could start making requests. Yeah, exactly. Before we vote.

I'm going to put it out there because... Might as well put it out there.

Okay, any other questions? Last chance. Well, you know I'll give you more chances than that.

I'm going to ask for a vote on this at some point.

I just have one last question. Sorry. See, I knew we would need a question. Go ahead. Sorry, and I just want to understand, is there currently any outstanding bond money in place right now?

Yes, we currently have approximately $37 million from our prior bond issuance. Those funds have been committed to projects.

Okay.

And what does that repayment schedule still look like?

That I don't have.

Hi, I'm Melvin Cartagena, Chief Financial Officer for DTPW. Are you referring to outstanding debt or previous issues where we still have balances?

Previous bonds that were issued that still have outstanding payments.

We have about approximately $2.8 billion still in outstanding bonds. The annual debt service is about $110 million a year, give or take.

And these are also related to CITT funds?

Correct, all approved People's Transparency Program projects.

Okay, thank you. So I'm just going to make a comment. We may not have any future projects soon because of all the bonding out and the money that we're going to pay back. No, I know that's not true. I trust that you have looked at that as well. Okay, any other questions? Comments? Okay, I'm looking for a motion on this item. I'll move it. Is there a second?

Second.

And all those in favor I I all those opposed. And I believe we have one opposition and other than that the motion passes, thank you. or the item passes. Okay, and now we have Mr. Kilpatrick. We have moved up item 9A, and you also have a report right afterwards. Do you want to, is there someone else to give your report?

Your municipal program committee report? We could do that if you wish.

We can, okay. Okay, yeah.

All right, so I just wanted to make a comment. on the full trust follow report. Last the last month we asked a question about the was the 3639 million dollar. I'm so bus shelter program 500 new shelters that were proposed We asked for the list of the locations, you know, where are those 500 bus shelters going to be placed? DTPW said that, you know, that there's also a list of about 247, I believe, areas where bus shelters were ineligible. And so in those areas, there would be a bus bench, a tree, and a garbage can. So, based on the report that I received, 84 of the 500 new shelters are located on the north end district two and three, which is where that big north central, and I'll say for purposes of transit, and what we do here, the Smart Corridor, the North Corridor, could receive bus shelters through. Of the 84 bus shelters that I counted that could have been placed on the North Corridor, only four out of 500 countywide are scheduled for 27th Avenue, which is also the North Corridor. So I have a big problem with that. Talking about 500 shelters and the municipalities cannot participate. This is only for the unincorporated municipal service area. And there's only four bus shelters. On one of the 6 major smart corridors and actually the first mark order North corner, you only you only get 4 shelters. But in that same area. You have several on 32nd Avenue several on 22nd Avenue 27th Avenue, which is where all the traffic is. You only have 4 Bush. And we don't have the list of the 2.47 spots that are not going to get the bus shelter, but you can pretty much figure it out that the North corridor probably has the lion's share of those areas that are not going to receive a new bus shelter.

If I might ask, do you think that might have something to do with the planning that has been in effect for quite some time now for the possibility of the elevated rail in the north because then you wouldn't want to have perhaps all these bus shelters in the exact same

Well with the LPA being changed by TPO, we couldn't speculate. I would just like to know, what is the reasoning behind so many bus shelters being funded only in UMSA and the North Corridor only receiving four of the new shelters?

I see Director Miller here and I think she has an answer.

I just want to clarify that this is phase two of the program. Phase one has already been constructed. I will go back and provide a list of all of the locations that have already received a bus shelter because the assumption that you're making is that there's only four being constructed, but I believe that is because many were constructed as part of phase one, but I want to provide that information to you.

Okay. Not appreciate that because we just asked for a listing of the 500 shelters who's getting it right and so we got a list of 500 shelters and yes, only so far so I go OK so that's a fair point of you could provide you know the number of.

Well show provide where the existing bus shelters are that have already been constructed this was just the augmentation from phase 2.

Oldest phase one when the phrase one rollout.

I apologize, I don't have that on the top of my head. It has been a number of years that that program's been underway.

More than 10 years, you think?

I don't want to speculate. I apologize, I don't have that in front of me.

I'm asking because if phase one rolled out in 2020, 05 or something. You know those bus shelters may be. I don't I don't see a lot of bus shelters on 27 of so just again, I'd be curious what will provide information. Yeah, I appreciate that and I guess just for the record so that I have to come back and you know limit again if that number is low in phase one. What can be done to improve their number for the North quarter for their stretch of answer in the North quarter because you know this. The Sir tax and you know these County for is the only show in town there are no municipal. Funds collected there's no municipality by which to to service that area.

understood yeah we'll provide you with more information regarding the number of bus stops the bus shelters those that are were incorporated as part of phase one those that are being incorporated with phase two and if there are stops that aren't receiving a shelter we'll provide you the information as to why all right

Thank you the potential partial answer to question or 5 year plan we're showing that the bus shelter program contract was awarded in 2020 this I guess would be the prior. Project and then additional funding was approved in 2024.

So it's been multiple tranches of shelters. But as noted, 247, I believe is what you indicated, those are the amount of shelters or, excuse me, locations that are not eligible for shelters countywide. We are covering a great deal of the county with this program was the county where you use you're still referring to just I'm so I'm so yes, sir, because this program is only for I'm so the cities are responsible for constructing and maintaining their own best shelters within incorporated areas.

All right. And by the way, the bus shelters and bus stations are an eligible use of a municipality surtax funds, and many municipalities have used their funds towards that purpose, I know. Understood. On the Cutler Bay was a good example.

And we still have many to do still as I drive down the street. Satisfied with your answer for now. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Do you want to do the report? Are we going to do it later?

I think we can do it later. Per the agenda.

Okay. So we are now at item 6E2, which is DTPW smart project with Maria Perdomo.

Good evening, board.

Good evening. All right.

Thank you again for the opportunity to provide an update on the SMART program. Is the presentation up? So, as we all know, the SMART program has several corridors. Some of these corridors are being on different phases, whether they're already almost completed in construction, some of them are in planning, others are in design. I'm going to go a little bit through that. I'm going to focus on the South Dade Transitway, the northeast corridor. the Beach Corridor, then the East-West Corridor. Those are the ones that DTPW are responsible at the moment. And later on, we'll have Nelia represent FDOT, and she'll be reviewing and going over the North Corridor and other segments of the SMART programs. So for the South Dade Transit Corridor, obviously the South Corridor, I hope everyone on the board has had the opportunity to ride it and experience those improvements. It's a 20-mile corridor. It's Bus Rapid Transit. It has 14 stations and the two parking rights. It connects to the existing Metro Rail, which currently it's in improvements as well in the Dayland South section. The cost of the project was $368 million, and that was split 33% FDOT, 33% federal, and 33% local. This is a great example of a partnership between the agencies to be able to get this project out. In October of last year, we opened a revenue, so it is in service today, and we are projected, actually not projected, we're still in substantial completion and construction, which that means for us is that everybody sees it as it's completed, we're just kind of like finishing some final push items out. The existing transit way and how it's working, what you see here on the graph, is an example of what the blue is today. The orange is what was last year, same time. And what you see here, for example, for January, you see a 12% increase in ridership. The time performance as of for May is 71% for Route 602 and 77% for Route 601. We're getting there on time. And the average duration of the transit ways for the southbound is 58 minutes during peak, 68 minutes off-peak, and for the northbound, 54 minutes in peak and 72 minutes off-peak. That is from 344th all the way to the Dayland South. So one of the projects that we have on the transit way, as you know, the corridors are massive, they're long, but there's always improvements within each of the corridors. This Park and Ride is one of them. So Park and Ride 168th, which is opened, it opened in April of this year, it provides a seamless access to the Metro Express and the local buses. As you see there in the image, it's underneath. You could basically park, take the elevator down, and be able to get onto the platform. It has 24-hour security. It has public bathrooms. It has several amenities and so forth. Like Wi-Fi. As I just mentioned, that project is constructions company, right? So that's one of those success stories. Another one that we're working on currently, which is in a different phase, is in the engineering phase. That means that we've finalized what's the planning. It's the Northeast Corridor project. We've actually been in that phase for about a year and some change, a couple months. And that's a 13.5 mile corridor on an existing rail line. This project is just one of three pieces, right? The next phase or the next piece of the project is the Broward and then the Palm Beach section. But our section here in Miami-Dade County goes from the existing Brightline station here in our backyard all the way to Aventura. And within that corridor, which is in those 13 and a half miles, we have five stations that are being proposed. Currently the project is estimated at $927 million. The programming for the fund have changed. Last year the state removed the $200 million and I believe kept $8 million of their allocation for the project. As far as we know today, that's still the case. So when we look at the funding for this project, we're looking at an FTA 42% contribution, a federal, which is basically the flex funds that TPO flexes to, I believe it's a state, to TPO, I might get corrected on that, and then to us is 14%. The state, it's at 8 million, it's not even .01%. Our local PTP funding here is 21%, and then the remaining is still to be determined. We're hopeful that hopefully the state comes and there's some contribution on this project. When it comes to the corridor, some additional information, as I mentioned, This is just one of the segments of the coastal link. This is a southern one. The five stations are Miami Central, Wynwood, Design District, Little Haiti, North Miami, the FIU, and the existing West Aventura. Obviously, the Miami Central, we have it today. The West Aventura, we have it today. So it's only the five in between that we'll be building. On the right-hand side, you see an image of what that would look like. We're also, in addition to the five facilities and obviously the five stations, we're building a vehicle maintenance storage facility in the Hialeah Yard. This is a location that is owned by FDOT. We're building three buildings, one's for vehicle maintenance, the other one's a car wash, and the other one's a truing facility. building so that we're building the capacity not only for us but we're also working with Broward County to make sure that once their project because it's right behind us is ready they're also going to be able to use and operate out of out of that section out of that that design So the project rated really well. It's a median high overall, which for that, for us, for the Federal Transit Administration means that they're contributing that funding. So that's good news. The CIG new phase, as I mentioned, we're in the engineering phase. So right now we have 45% design for the vehicle maintenance facility that's completed. We're gonna go to 60%. For the main line, we're already at 60. We're NTPing the 60%, basically the next phase for the yard. Now, we finished it, we're already NTPed in May, and we're working with Brightline on progressing, obviously, the negotiations and so forth, to be able to present to, a recommendation to the administration and BCC.

May I? Yes. The clarification. Yes. With a stop at CITT.

I first administration.

No, but before it goes to the BCC.

Yeah, I the process, whatever the process is, that's what we're going to be complying with.

Okay.

Absolutely. So for the Northeast Corridor, for the third part of agreements, there are several agreements that we have. Obviously not only with Broward, with Palm Beach, with FDOT, and so forth. But we have here, you'll see some of the agreements, some of them have completed, and there's other ones that are still open or ongoing. And that's kind of like a big high level of some of the agreements that we're currently working on. This is a rendering of what we are proposing for it to look like. And then this is our schedule, right? Our schedule right now is, as I mentioned, we're working throughout design. If everything goes well, we'll be able to secure our grants in September of 2028, which means we could start construction right after that, because the process is you get the grant and then you'll be able to initiate construction. The lead time and the reason why, let me go back just so for everybody's knowledge, the reason why it's still, you know, you think, okay, the existing track, why is it going to take so long? The reason why it takes longer is more because of the rolling stock and the amount of time that it takes to be able to purchase and to be able to build the vehicles, not so much the actual construction activity. All right, on the Beach Corridor, this corridor is currently working with FTOT and with us to see what the next phase of the corridor looks like. The Beach Corridor, I'm gonna put the map, but I think it's easier to explain. It's three different sections. You have the one on South Beach, which goes from Fifth all the way to the Convention Center. This is more of a bus service type of proposed improvement. This one, which is actually, I'm going backwards, it's the third one on this list, is the one that we're working with the City of Miami Beach for them to be able to initiate and complete, being that the proposed improvements are being done on their corridor. Then we have, I'm gonna go back to the top, the Miami Extension, which is the Design District Extension. That one is on an existing county corridor. and that one we will begin to look at the feasibility, the ridership is what we wanna look at starting next year. It's part of the CITT five-year program and also BCC's proposed budget. So once those two items are approved, we're gonna be able to initiate that study. And then we have the beige crossing, also known as the trunk line, which is the one that goes from the Perez Museum Station all the way to Fitz Street on the 395 causeway. So that project is the one that we're currently working with FDOT to look at its visibility, look at its value engineering, and to see what the next steps are going to be for that corridor. For the east-west, this project, I don't have a map and I apologize for it, but this project is the project that is a BRT service that connects from the time Miami existing parking right that we have. We built a couple years ago all the way to downtown with several stops. This project, the TPO requested for the LPA to be re-looked at and for us to look at opportunities for us to work with CSX and see if there's opportunities for us to look at that as an LPA as an alternative. We're working on that feasibility study now, and we're gonna start engaging CSX to see if that is an option, and we'll be able to report more information on that project in the next couple months. Hence why everything on that screen says to be determined, just because we have to do that evaluation. So those are the quarters that DTPW are responsible for, and I'm open for questions.

I'm gonna ask a quick question Is there and maybe I should wait for the other presentation? But is there anything? Has come out recently about the Marlin station in the south The South End project I'm not from okay, so I can I can wait and find out about that The other thing is in in your presentation and thank you for your presentation. First of all, I don't see any BRT. I

Nobody's doing BRT anymore. So the east-west has that option, but because the TPO has asked us to re-look at the LPA and look at an opportunity to use the existing CSX line, we're going to engage in that feasibility. We haven't eliminated the opportunity for it yet, but we're...

It's good to hear that some of these projects are you know somewhat moving forward. I know it planning takes so long. For those of us who would like to see things happen faster. I think just about everyone but but it does seem like you know all these projects that are moving forward. are in the same area they're basically in the north in the northeast and with the exception of you know the the rail for for north state um so just want to say that seems like it'll be really good for uh tourism and and other things like that but when i look at uh 68 minutes to get from florida city to Metro Rail, which is not always the end of the trip either. Then they're going to take another God knows how long. Metro Rail goes pretty quick, maybe 15 minutes. It's pretty hard to swallow still. So I'm just going to, I'm sorry, I have to say that because I'm getting an awful lot of people in South Dade telling me, why did we not get rail? And we can't go back into time until somebody invents that time machine, which I'd like that to happen too. But I'm just interested to see why nobody seems to, on the TPO, want BRT. Okay, that said, do we have any questions? Yes. Yes, let me start with, yes, we'll start and move.

Thank you for the presentation. So on the Northeast Corridor, Uh, I get, I understand there are a lot of moving parts here, right? So has the operating entity been resolved? Cause there was like a three party, three County agreement. Have you got no, um, and what is the status of the operating entity issue?

So I think we're currently, even though we're still coordinating with SFRTA and we're coordinating with Brightline, I think that we're first trying to engage us being able to build it and being able to use the facility as in parallel we're still talking to the operator. I think as a department, we're first focusing on that negotiations with Brightline and being able to say we're gonna be able to build the facility.

That makes some sense. I mean, you would think if you want this to run across three counties, whatever access agreement gets sorted out with Brightline should be the same agreement for all three counties. Right. But what you're telling me is No, each county is sort of trying to work out its own. No?

No, no. We're working with Broward County. Palm Beach is, they're not, it's not that they're lagging, but they're, I'm not sure if they've started their feasibility study or if they're planning. But Broward and us are coordinating with SFRTA and with all the parties that be. So there is that coordination. Stacey, you want to add?

So the, I mean, and I understand the, Access agreement, I guess, is what to call it. Is that what it's being called with Brightline? To use their right-of-way and their rail lines. It's called an access agreement.

It is an agreement that we're actively discussing and it's ongoing. The methodology by which Miami-Dade versus Broward County versus Palm Beach County access the rights to use Brightline's capacity within the FEC corridor is up to each individual county. The operation agreement will be discussed more broadly. We are already in discussions regarding the operating agreement, but that would, at this point, really be Miami-Dade and Broward discussing with Brightline and its potential operator. Palm Beach has not even begun the project development and environmental study. So while they're in the room with us, they don't have as predominant a role in the discussion of the operation and maintenance of the ultimate commuter service.

And will the ultimate agreement with Brightline be brought to the CITT for review and approval?

So, all agreements that require the use of CITT resources come to you for your recommendation to BCC.

Okay. So, I mean, and I appreciate it's a negotiation and there could be sensitivities around that. So, good luck. But, you know, we look forward to receiving it and like as, trust members, we're really dependent on our expert staff, uh, to review that and then advise us. I know how we should, uh, view the proposal. So, you know, we'll appreciate that coming to trust staff with sufficient time for them to sort of, uh, dig into it before we have to look at it.

Understood. Excuse me, member Hoffman.

Thank you very much manager. You mentioned CSX lines in the East West. I thought most of the CSX in fact all of their lines go South down to the homestead Florida city area where they were heavily involved at one time in moving produce out where they have their tracks that go across Kendall drive or Flagler

So they're right north of the 8.36. There's an existing rail line. Basically, it's parallel to the 8.36.

But does it go the whole length all the way out to FIU?

It goes from to the west. It would connect to Dauphin, to the Dauphin station out there today, and then it would go all the way to the make.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, thank you. Oh, yes, remember that.

I hope we took your item early so you can go home and take care of that laryngitis.

I hope it's not that.

Maybe my memory is failing me, but weren't the PTP funds closer to 33% for the Northeast Corridor? Has that been, or has it always been 21%?

I don't recall the exact percentage. I just know that it was the local match to attract both federal and state dollars. So in my mind, it's always been roughly a third, a third, a third. But it may not be exactly those percentages. What you may be conflating a little bit is the South Day quarter, which was literally a third, a third, a third.

was normally the distribution is local and state are one half of the non-federal share and it depends on how much the federal share is as to how much one half of the non-federal share from a county perspective versus a state perspective. But those numbers have changed as we received our, as was previously noted, favorable rating, so we received a specific amount of resources through the SIG program. As the cost of the project adjusts, percentages adjust, and obviously we're still trying to backfill the funding stream from FDOT.

And that's where I was going next 23% of the project is unfunded and the project is progressing is what time do you have to effectively stop work because we haven't been able to come up with that gap.

We are still discussing that timeline. It's part of our conversations internally with the administration and our discussions with our partners at Brightline and Broward County. Obviously, from our perspective, we're moving along. We want to get to 60%. As we said, we're 60% on mainline. We want to get to 60%. at Hialeah Yard, that way we set ourselves up to be successful but we do need to realize that there are expenses associated with progressing the project and want to be assured that we have some assurances that the remaining resources will either become available or the county will need to pick that tab up and those are the conversations we're having today.

Okay, thank you. The third question I have on the beach corridor, I just have to tell a story. Spoke to a guy moving from New York, loves Miami, hates the traffic, and there's always these conversations like, Is education the most important thing? Is health care the most important thing? And his opinion is that without expansion of mass transit, you know, he doesn't see how we can continue to grow. And I know that that is on everybody's mind. And Miami Beach has exploded. The South has exploded. The North has exploded. Everything is growing in Miami. And $2 billion has to be secured for the beach corridor to happen. I just like wonder how does that happen? And what's our tipping point? Like if we can't make these things happen, how do we move? I know it's sort of like a philosophical question, but it's also an engineering question too.

It is a bit of both. Obviously, we are progressing as was mentioned. We want to value engineer the project as it is today to try to reduce those costs. but we do know as we've progressed all of these projects, the costs have increased exponentially on many of them, and that both the Board of County Commissioners and the TPO will ultimately want to have more in-depth conversations regarding how to fund these projects and what projects will move forward in what manner that is not for us necessarily we just provide information but we know that there will be forthcoming conversations at a deeper level regarding the corridors there the proposals for each corridor and how to fund them

You thank you for that and wasn't intended to say that you know the answers are here. But we have to go from existential to real and it there's a and this is what you guys have to do every day is do what you can with what you have. But a 2 billion dollar project and not questioning the cost of it and question the reality of the problem that we have here.

Understood, which is why in the instance of the east-west corridor, the TPO asked us to go back and reevaluate. There might be other potential needs for us to reevaluate other corridors. The same can be said of Flagler. FDOT is going to speak on those, but As we all know, we were going down a certain path with Flagler. That ultimately was not a solution that was viable for the Florida Department of Transportation, and they're pivoting at the TPO's request to evaluate other options.

Thank you.

Okay. Any other questions from members? No? Thank you both very much. Thank you. I believe that this brings us back to the City of Miami.

With director Santana Good afternoon madam chair Members of the board who when I sent on a director for the Department of Resilience and Public Works in the city of Miami Thank you for having us here today welcome Just give you an update again a ridership continues to to be strong. We continue to operate are 13 routes. We've augmented a couple of them along the way we've added some service hours and and along this presentation. There's another augmentation that we've made for for one of our routes and I'm sure with that that with the momentarily. And so the Little Havana route, we received a request to add a sixth trolley to that. It's giving us a little bit more visibility and accessibility to the service. We've initiated that already. That started last month. And that's where we plan on continuing to operate until anything may change later on as we continue to work through our our trolley master plan update Here are our numbers on our monthly ridership over that the first quarter and as i mentioned before we are in the process of evaluating our entire trolley route program we have completed public input meetings we had multiple meetings in every city commission district two to be exact i think um Nine of the ten were in person. We had one remote meeting We provide we received Excellent feedback. We had a workshop. We had a lot of note-taking we had all the maps out there. We are also taking Information and feedback from our writers during the route. So we've got staff and our consultants working on that. We also have a Availability for folks to chime in via their their personal devices. So we're taking all that information in obviously we've already started Coordinating with DTP W's planning department because there's definitely an overriding intent to better align with the better bus program and looking at what those impacts who are Our routes will be and again that is that is continuing efforts once we compile all those recommendations will be doing another round of feedback with our elected officials and with the public and then moving forward with presenting that final plan. On-demand, this is a great little effort that we put together and we got this approved both by the city and by the county. This has kicked off, so this is a CITT-funded on-demand mobility service. I believe this is the only one that we operate. Currently it's serving coconut grove. It's it's a two years contract and It's being handled with circuit is the contractor for this Just a quick list of our roadway infrastructure projects that that are funded through CAT either entirely or in in part and We did a reappropriation so this is what some some cleanup that we did recently we had some projects that were closed out not a huge amount just over $200,000 and we move them over to existing projects that that we prioritize and bringing some more money into continue to to move those along. This is one project, this is a CITT project. This is one of those projects that we had shovel ready when funding became available. This project has been completed. We had a ribbon cutting with the commissioner about a week, a week and a half ago. So this is, again, this is proof in the pudding that we were able to quickly move forward with projects that we had available and put that CITT money to good use. This one also had a joint participation agreement. with many the water into or so all the properties receive new water services that we now have fire hydrants along the stretch so everyone's going to be able to benefit for having reduced insurance cost because of that added fire protection. In the South Grove. This is an ongoing project. We we're moving on to a second phase that we've already initiated through public approval through through commission. We've got some funding remaining so we're going to continue working through but we have already installed 10 and we've got an 11th location that will be going to construction soon. Silver Bluff traffic flow modifications we're going to continue to keep you updated on this is part of our interagency in agreement with the county for traffic coming for this entire neighborhood. TAMI AMI BOULEVARD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. THIS IS A PROJECT THAT HAS MULTIPLE FUNDING SOURCES INCLUDING A MILLION DOLLARS THROUGH DOT. WE'VE COMPLETED THE FIRST PHASE OF WORK AND WE ARE NOW GOING THROUGH A SECOND PHASE BEFORE WE PUT THAT PROJECT INTO CONSTRUCTION. IT'S GOING THROUGH REVIEW THROUGH THE ERC OR THE ELECTRONIC REVIEW. system at the OT in order for us to be able to continue to move forward and spend that that funding and move this project into construction and it will be making use of that city funding that you should see that's available. But obviously local drainage project again. This is another project that was in the latter stages of design And we've already completed it started construction in January Northeast 49th Street is is complete and we moved over to 50th Street again We've been able to take full advantage of other funding that was made available and get this project Going in well underway notice here on on our numbers you'll see that again with the construction projects getting heavily into into production and into completion you'll see that this is a this quarter showed over 4 million dollars on the transportation side so I know that this was something in the past We're funding for construction activities. We're not moving along as smoothly. I think this shows again that we're making significant progress in that effort and our projects being completed and breaking ground. So this is on our 2526 and from 2425, our total expenditures on the transit and transportation side. Here we have the commitment of $84 million for city funding for 57 projects of which we've already spent about 30% 25.5 million dollars of that in those projects continue to move forward. And last but definitely not least we greatly were humbled by the recognition. That was bestowed upon us with the onward and upward. Award and thank you again and we look forward to our continued collaboration and partnership with the city. Any questions.

Thank you director Santana I have a question about traffic calming just want to know I know there's so many different ways you can you know we can have circles you can have pumps you can have God forbid the little awful things that they used to use but But I it's probably different depending on the area and maybe even narrowing the roads, you know There's so many different things. I'm really interested to hear what you feel Is there something in particular that you feel it's been working the best? traffic calming

So last year we we executed a new interlocal agreement with a county so we standardized all the details actually we now have the most current interagency agreement with the T P W for traffic calming we we added additional details SUCH AS CHOKERS AND CHICAGNS THAT WEREN'T IN MAMMY BEACH AND CORAL GABLES. AND ANOTHER THING IS THAT WE'RE NOW ABLE TO USE THEIR CRITERIA WHEN WE'RE EVALUATING LOCATIONS WITHIN THE CITY ON OUR LOCAL ROADS THAT MAY NOT MEET CERTAIN CRITERIA, BUT WE'RE ABLE TO AVAIL OURSELVES OF WHAT MAMMY BEACH AND THE CORAL GABLES HAVE. we we are now putting in all all traffic devices we're using raised intersections speed tables speed cushions a lot of coordination going on with our emergency services because traffic calming was kind of dormant for a few years and again with the influx of the citt money coming in we've got traffic calming projects in every district currently either under design or in construction and in the planning phase, so we've got traffic calming everywhere every every day we have It seems like a new request coming our way and we are We're putting them in the ground everywhere and and using different solutions sometimes There's different levels of traffic calming that we can incorporate whether it's a vertical like a speed table or speed hump or like you mentioned reducing the pavement with with it with a choker and So we've got this is you know a grand part of we have full-time assigned staff Just working on traffic calming for our city roads.

Thank you. I Really feel very strongly about traffic calming so and I've had gone to a lot of Conferences about it many many years ago and had some very strange ideas back in those days. So things have come a long way Thank you any questions from members for the director? Thank you very much. You're very welcome. Thank you. Good presentation. Okay, our next item is the quarterly report, municipal program update. Mariana.

I know everybody wants to get home to watch a soccer match, so I asked her to keep it brief. What soccer? Is there soccer going on today?

I already know the score, does anybody want me to tell you? Good evening, members of the trust, Marianna Price, municipal program manager. I'm here to provide the quarterly municipal program update. So I always like to start off with ridership unfortunately year-over-year it has gone down almost 6% but at least quarter-over-quarter it's gone up slightly it hasn't decreased so we can say that that's a good thing. Why it would have decreased almost 6% I am not sure I would have to look into that but there are some more charts here that we can observe. These are the last six quarters of municipal ridership separated into fixed route, on-demand, and micromobility. And you can see that it's pretty stable for the fixed route, just a slight slow decline, it's not drastic. And on-demand continues to increase, and micromobility is pretty flat overall, but slightly increasing little by little. This is a better visual of the decrease that Mike right ridership has had over the past 6 quarters so you can see that there was a dip but we are on the up and up. Quarter to spending. We spent 23 point almost 5 million dollars and that's an increase since quarter one by 3 million dollars. These are the transit services currently provided by our 33 participating minutes municipalities. 21 provide fixed route 25 now provide on demand and 7 provide like a mobility services in the form of either scooters or bicycles. This is my Jenga image to show which municipalities provide all three forms of transit and which provide the others in different ways. So this past quarter has been a busy one. I met monthly as I do with staff to discuss the latest municipal audits and any issues with maintenance of effort. Today you heard a presentation by City of Miami and I met with Cheryl to discuss ambassador issues and to relay that communication to the municipalities and we held our municipal program committee on June 10th. I decided this presentation had some pictures to jazz it up a little bit. I attended to city of Miami ribbon cuttings one for their project on Northwest 2nd sorry 6th Avenue and as well as the ribbon cutting for their circuit launch in coconut Grove. We also had a, we have quarterly meetings at the University of Miami for the, to discuss the potential of forming a transportation management association with South Miami, Coral Gables, and other nearby stakeholders. I also attended several municipal meetings. As a Leadership Miami alum, I was invited to speak on a transportation panel at the Homestead Speedway in April, and also we staff supported the commotion conference at the Miami-Dade County Wolfson College. We had the Mobility Matters Awards. I was happy to participate. to see that two of our municipalities, Cutler Bay and City of Miami, won awards in transportation. And I continue to have one-on-one meetings with municipal liaisons. I have a North Miami Beach meeting scheduled next week. We also had our now semi-annual Transportation Partners Coordinating Committee in April. I met with county attorney's office to discuss municipal issues. We constantly have new and interesting questions on eligibility, so we're always in communication with them about that. I hold regular meetings with DTPW, Linda Morris and her staff to discuss outstanding interlocal agreement issues for both fixed route and on demand. And the clerk of the court and comptroller is currently auditing 6 municipalities to are in process and for have been initiated so excited to have. Those audits come soon. And that is all I have. Thank you.

Thank you for your presentation and you are one of the hardest working people I know so I really have I'm sure of the rest of us appreciate what you do any questions. Questions okay, we will move fast. Thank you. There's a game on Remember daily is all outfitted already for the next game Okay, our next item is 6c. That would be the county's first and second quarter budget update and that would be Miss push Nikki Does that sound about right?

I hope.

As somebody whose name was always mispronounced, and believe it or not, even my mother-in-law told me when Bell becomes your name, nobody can pronounce it. So you just, kinda odd, but yeah.

Good evening, members of the trust. Patricia Broznicki, DDPW budget chief. I will be brief. We are going to discuss the first and second quarter of expenses compared to the adopted budget. So for revenues is your first slide. And most of the revenues are received throughout the fiscal year. We expect to receive them by the end of the fiscal year. During these first two quarters, we received proprietary funding, and it's below what we expected for the first six months. So some of the highlights of what we've seen in the different proprietary areas, we have some additional funding received for the Smart Plan TODs, advertising, joint development, permits. And then we saw a decrease in fares and fees, and we have pending reimbursements for transportation disadvantage, MetroConnect, and the underlying that we expect to receive by the end of the fiscal year. And then for the expenditures, we are trending slightly over budget for the first six months. And some of the highlights are expenses in categories that went over budget include personnel, overtime, inventory that gets distributed by the end of the fiscal year and some security services. And then contractual services are trending lower than budget. And those are the highlights for the first six months.

Thank you any questions from members. Appreciate your.

Thank you good evening.

Your next item would be. 60 North quarter update and I believe this part I F D O T is also can also do the smart project.

Yeah, I think so just go from one straight into the next.

Good evening, trust members. So I believe most trust members are very familiar with the North quarter project as it was as envisioned 10 mile extension of Metro rail along 27th Avenue with 8 stations and 7 parking rights. A little bit of background. I know most of you are all familiar with the original PD&E study that was started back in 2016 with the adoption of the smart plan at that time. That PD&E went through a hold, a brief, a bold hold in 2020, and then it was restarted in 2024, and it's currently being worked on as we speak. Right now where we are with that PD&E study is we are refining the elevated heavy rail option, and we're doing some additional analysis on structure type, also doing some additional conceptual work on a light maintenance facility at the end of the line, and also looking at a project cost savings initiative and phasing plan. And just to recap, some of the options that were looked at last year in close collaboration with our partners at DTPW, we looked at some strategies to try to bring down the cost. As you all know, it's a very costly project. UPWARDS OF $4 BILLION. SO WE LOOKED AT A FEW OPTIONS TO MAXIMIZE SPAN LENGTHS WITH THE STRUCTURE. WE LOOKED AT WIDENING THE ROAD TO TRY TO MAKE THE MEDIAN LARGER TO ACCOMMODATE PEERS IN THE CENTER. AND THEN WE ALSO LOOKED AT OPTIONS WITH AND WITHOUT A LIGHT MAINTENANCE FACILITY. SO THOSE ARE THE OPTIONS THAT YOU SEE THERE. ULTIMATELY IN MAY OF LAST YEAR, THE TWO AGENCIES SELECTED OPTION TWO IN THAT GREEN BOX. that you see there that includes the light maintenance facility, includes some roadway widening, and allows for a larger median so that you can then put those piers in the median. So just to give everyone a quick snapshot of that option and how it would rate in terms of FTA cost effectiveness, which is one of several performance measures that FTA uses to rate projects for funding. As you can see there, the cost effectiveness for option two with a light maintenance facility is around $54. As you can see on that chart there, that rate puts us below the low category. A LITTLE BIT A LOT OF DETAIL ON THIS SLIDE A LOT REALLY A LOT HAS BEEN DONE TO TRY TO REFINE THE COSTS OF THE HEAVY RAIL PROJECT TO BRING IT DOWN. RIGHT NOW WE ARE WORKING ON LIKE I MENTIONED THE PROJECT RIGHT SIZING AND PHASING TASK WHICH IS OUR MAIN FOCUS AND TRYING TO WRAP UP THAT ITEM. WANT TO SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME HERE ON THE LOOK AHEAD. AS YOU CAN SEE, IN APRIL, THERE WAS A TPO RESOLUTION TO EXPAND THE LOCALLY PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE TO INCLUDE NOT ONLY ELEVATED FIXED TRANSIT, BUT ALSO TO INCLUDE NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES. SO THAT MEANS THAT WE ARE EXPANDING THE SCOPE, IF YOU WILL, OF THE ANALYSIS THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. So with that said, the blue line on top shows the look ahead for the current elevated rail focused PD&E. So we are going to focus on, again, completion of the right sizing cost-saving strategies that we're currently working on for the heavy rail option as well as the phasing plan meaning how much of that 10 miles could be built right and at what cost right and how would that score from an FTA perspective that yellow line that you see there at the bottom in parallel. So we are, of course, responding to the resolution from the TPO. We are currently putting together a scope of work to do an alternatives analysis as is prescribed by the resolution to look at other options, right, other technologies, other alignments, so that that effort is going to be underway. ULTIMATELY, THE TAKEAWAY HERE IS THAT ONCE WE COMPLETE THE PROJECT RIGHTSIZING AND PHASING TASK ON OUR CURRENT PD&E, OUR CURRENT PD&E WILL GO ON HOLD AND WE WILL PIVOT AND FOCUS ON THE ALTERNATIVES ANALYSIS EXERCISE. AND ON THIS SLIDE, JUST PROVIDING HERE A QUICK SNAPSHOT OF THE RESOLUTION PASSED IN APRIL. And that is my presentation for North quarter happy to take any questions.

Thank you. I do have a question. So can you give us an example of what alternative. What you're looking at for you know it is it possible that it won't be elevated rail is it is or is it just other alternatives of how the elevated rail is built.

So the resolution calls for all options, right? So it could be heavy rail, it could be light rail, it could be a streetcar. There's a universe of possibilities that we have to look at now.

Because rail at grade is enormously less expensive than elevated rail.

There's a cost savings right because you don't have a structure and that is a significant cost of of these types of projects. But then there's also other challenges that are presented once you put a rail at grade you have pedestrian safety concerns you have traffic operational concerns right at the roadway level so there are other challenges that would need to be overcome.

And I just remember when we were looking at this, it doesn't seem that long ago it was $1.2 billion for elevated rail, and now we're at, what, 4.2. Like everything else, cost of eggs. I shouldn't use eggs, but cost of everything has gone up so much. Okay, any questions from the other members? Yeah, everybody wants to see the game? I'm sorry. Meg. It's okay. Hit me next time.

Okay, help me. I'm looking at four options. No, option one, option two, option one, option two. And the range in cost is between $4.1 billion and $4.3 billion. I mean, I know millions are millions, but they all seem, like, close. Maybe I'm just misreading it.

Right so yes, so the the range your spot on right it's between 4.1 and 4.3 billion so. Those were the that was the range of of costs for those options. And what is and what is a low FTA reading mean. So a low FTA rating on cost effectiveness means that you're again it means that on one of the many performance measures that FTA uses, which off the top of my head, it's about nine of them, right? Out of one of those performance measures, you're basically failing, right? You're not getting a competitive score, right? So ultimately, it's an average of all the rating that you get on different performance measures. So they have a performance measure for land use. FOR MOBILITY AND OTHER METRICS. BUT ON THAT PARTICULAR RATING, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT, RIGHT, YOU'RE NOT MAKING, YOU'RE NOT GETTING AN A-PLUS BASICALLY.

YOU'RE GETTING A LOT LESS.

EXACTLY.

DOES THAT IMPACT YOUR ABILITY TO RAISE SECURE FUNDING FROM THE FTA IF YOU HAVE A LOW RATING?

YES YES BECAUSE OVERALL AGAIN THAT'S ONE MEASURE OF NINE OR TEN RIGHT BUT AGAIN THEY'RE ALL LUMPED IN TOGETHER SO IT DOES AFFECT YOUR ABILITY TO YOU KNOW GET FEDERAL FUNDS AND BE COMPETITIVE RIGHT BECAUSE IT'S ALSO A DISCRETIONARY PROGRAM SO YOU HAVE TO COMPETE AGAINST OTHER PROJECTS SO YEAH

We had a discussion recently about the study, the funding that's been directed to studies for the North Quarter specifically. Do we have any idea of what the total expenditure has been for the studies over time?

I don't have that information at hand.

No, and a lot of that was actually not done by FDOT. Right. So many of those were done by the county in the past. It might have been different entity.

That's correct, yeah. So maybe we can look at that number or reach out and then talk about that next time?

Sure.

Okay.

Thank you. Yes, Member Marin.

One quick question. Is there like a deadline or a timeline for the alternative analysis to be done, completed by, or?

So we're currently developing the scope. We're defining the parameters of what we're going to study. And we're also trying to identify funding, right? Because we have to fund the new study. So that's still in progress.

Okay. Any other questions? No. And you have also the smart projects for us? Yes. Thank you.

So moving into the smart projects. I'm going to start with Flagler since all of my north corridor slides were covered in the previous item.

Okay.

All right. Okay. So I don't know if we can get the slide up. All right, so again, we saw these, so I won't go through these again, just page through. Okay, so the Flagler feasibility study being led by FDOT as well. As you may recall, back in 2024, FDOT received a directive from the TPO to look at elevated options to connect downtown Miami to FIU. We kicked off our study in February of 2025. We have some conceptual initial alternatives and I'll go into a little bit more detail on those in a later slide. Right now we are in our public survey number one period and I'll share that QR code with you all and I welcome you to share that on your channels and help us to get participation in our survey. We're also developing our ridership forecast methodology And like I mentioned, our conceptual screening alternatives, which are under review. So here are our 10 conceptual alternatives that we are looking at currently. We have four people mover options, and we have six heavy rail options that we are currently looking at. For our 12-month look ahead, as I mentioned, we are currently screening all 10 of our conceptual alternatives. These dates, I do want to say these dates have shifted since we produced this presentation. So a lot of these dates will be pushed out a little bit. So that informational item to the TPO might happen a little later. We're going to be refining our conceptual alternatives in the fall. And in December, we should have some screening, some initial results from that initial screening. And then we'll be opening up a number two survey to get input on those refined options. We're going to have a public meeting early in 2027 once we have some refined options to share with the public and again, have an opportunity to get feedback from the public. And then we will be presenting at our final presentation in spring of 27 to the TPO and here as well on the recommended option, the one option, right, that would come forward out of our screening process. AT THAT POINT, PRIOR TO SHARING WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS, WE WOULD ALSO HAVE A PUBLIC MEETING, AGAIN, GOING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY, SHARING THE ONE OPTION, THE RECOMMENDED OPTION COMING OUT OF THAT STUDY. AND THAT TAKES US TO A CONCLUSION OF OUR STUDY IN THE SPRING OF 2027. AS PROMISED, HERE'S OUR QR CODE FOR OUR PUBLIC SURVEY NUMBER ONE. IT IS CURRENTLY LIVE, SO PLEASE DO FEEL FREE TO SHARE THAT IN YOUR MEDIA CHANNELS. And with that that concludes my presentation.

Thank you very much any questions Yes, sorry to delay the game Can you tell us is this? Flagler study The same as the east-west study or these two different things. There are two different studies Even though they're essentially on the same general geographic area They are two different studies Was there is there a reason as to why there are two different studies for essentially the same general area.

So originally the Flagler corridor was part of the Burt network. I don't know if you recall, there was a bus express network that was laid out with the smart plan back in 2016. That's evolved, of course. Now we're at a feasibility study for elevated option. And then the east-west corridor, which is the other corridor you're referring to, that one's being led by Miami-Dade County. So that one is on its own path.

So Miami-Dade County is doing the east-west, and FDOT, the state of Florida, is doing the Flagler.

That's correct.

Okay, thank you. Sure.

Okay, thank you very much, Ms. McCarty. You're welcome. At this point, I have the comments. I thank the members for participating in our annual CITT Strategic Workshop, June 9th. We had a very productive discussion, came to a consensus on a few items. Our staff is now incorporating our ideas into the CITT strategic objectives and CITT operating budget for your review and approval in July. For your financial disclosure forms, please remember to do that. This is your last remember to complete and submit your financial disclosure forms by July 1st. or you may risk fines and the loss of your seat on the CITT. You should have received a notice informed from the county clerk's office, but if not, please let our board secretary, Nya Lake, know as soon as possible. She's very wonderful, and she will get it to you. And I'm going to send it over to our director.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Very quickly, touching on the Municipal Program Committee report on behalf of Member Kilpatrick. We had an update on our Transportation Management Association efforts with the cities of South Miami, Coral Gables, and the University of Miami, and others. And then we also shared a very informative overview of several municipal traffic calming projects. Moving on to my Executive Director's report. First and foremost, please join me in welcoming to the CITT our two summer interns. I'll ask them to stand at this time. Sasha Santo joins us as our data analytics intern. She's pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance at Syracuse University, New York, and is expected to graduate in May 2028. Wave to the crowd, Sasha. Thank you. And Brian Bermudez joins us as our community engagement intern. He's pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration and Management and Marketing at FIU with an anticipated graduation in December 2026. Wave to the adoring fans, Brian. Thank you. um quickly moving on since our last meeting we've had two episodes i'm sorry three of them episodes of mobility matters featuring patrice gillespie smith with the underlying mayor diegas with the town of miami lakes and mayor fernandez with the city of south miami up on deck for future episodes or officials with the town of cutler bay city of miami city miami beach and dtpw I was happy to participate in a Miami-Dade County public space and trails peer exchange organized by the underline. It's a day-long workshop that brought together some of the brightest minds and leaders in that space. Tomorrow, I will be emceeing the TPO Safe Street Cinema event focused on ideas and efforts for making Miami-Dade County a safer place for cyclists. Members were all previously invited to attend that event. If you still wish to do so, I believe we could still register you just let us know That's it for me.

Thank you Thank You mr. Executive director and We have a new any new business or member issues No seeing there's none and we have any citizen comments known citizen comments Go Scotland. We had one citizen comment. Our next CIT team meeting will be July 22nd at 5 o'clock, same location. I won't see you there, but everyone else will, hopefully. And I'd like a motion to adjourn.

You can't vote.

Move. I take it back. I'm sorry. We're adjourned. Okay, let's do it.

Thank you.

Go.

Thank you.