Jan 24, 2024 Technical Advisory Committee

PROGRESS. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE.

[1. Call to Order and Recognition of Quorum]

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WE'RE GOING TO CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER AND RECOGNIZE OUR QUORUM.

WE HAVE IN-PERSON QUORUM.

AND HOW MANY FOLKS DO WE HAVE JOINING US ONLINE? SO FAR WE HAVE TEN CHAIR.

EXCELLENT. WE HAVE A GREAT GROUP TODAY.

THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING. WE'LL DO OUR ELECTRONIC ROLL CALL.

MARK. PRESENT. MAYBE.

GIVE ME ONE SECOND, OKAY.

GOOD. EXCELLENT.

THANK YOU EVERYONE. NEXT ITEM IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM NOVEMBER 29TH.

[2. Approval of Minutes - November 29, 2023]

ANY COMMENTS ON THE MINUTES? SEEING NONE.

WELL, CALL FOR THE VOTE ON APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.

BRITTANY? SORRY. THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

BRITTANY. OKAY.

NEXT IS THE APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA.

[3. Approval of Agenda]

ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS ON THE AGENDA, CHANGES? NO. SEEING NONE.

IF WE COULD ALL VOTE ON APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA FOR TODAY.

EXCELLENT MOTION PASSES.

THANK YOU. THE NEXT ITEM IS PUBLIC COMMENTS.

DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS HERE ON ITEMS NOT ON THE REGULAR AGENDA OR ANY ONLINE? REBECCA. WE RECEIVED NO.

SEEING NONE.

EXCELLENT. WE'LL MOVE ON.

WE DO HAVE A GUEST WITH US TODAY.

THAT BILL WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE.

THERE WE GO. OKAY. THANK YOU.

CHAIR. YEAH.

SO, GOOD AFTERNOON TO EVERYONE.

WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE, A MEMBER OF FEDERAL HIGHWAY, WHO'S PART OF THEIR TRAINING HAS CHOSEN TO COME AND, WORK WITH THE BROWARD MPO FOR ROUGHLY THE NEXT THREE MONTH PERIOD.

SONIA RODRIGUEZ, MAYBE YOU JUST STAND UP AND SO EVERYBODY CAN SEE YOU.

SO WELCOME. WE'RE REALLY SUPER HAPPY TO HAVE HERE WITH US.

AND SO IF YOU HAVE A MOMENT AFTER THE MEETING, IF YOU'D LIKE TO GO UP AND JUST SAY HELLO, THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL.

SO THANK YOU.

EXCELLENT. THANK YOU BILL. WELCOME SONIA.

OUR FIRST WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR ACTION ITEMS.

[1. PUBLIC MEETING AND MOTION TO RECOMMEND BROWARD MPO APPROVE Amendments to the 2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP)]

THE ITEM IS IN YOUR PACKET.

IF YOU HAD A CHANCE TO READ THAT.

THEY ARE, AMENDMENTS THAT WERE BROUGHT BEFORE THE BOARD, I BELIEVE PREVIOUSLY AND FOLLOWING THE NEW PROCESS OF NOVEMBER.

SO IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE DO YOUR REQUEST TO SPEAK NOW.

OTHERWISE, IF THERE'S ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS, THIS IS A PUBLIC MEETING ON THIS ITEM.

LET US KNOW. OTHERWISE, WE WILL MOVE ON TO A MOTION TO RECOMMEND THAT THE MPO APPROVE THE 2045 MTP AMENDMENTS.

MOTIONS MADE BY LUIS AND SECONDED BY CHRISTOPHER.

ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS BEFORE THE VOTE? NO. SEEING NONE.

NOW WE WILL VOTE ON THIS ITEM TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL.

GOOD MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU EVERYONE.

OUR NEXT ITEM IS A MOTION TO RECOMMEND THE MPO BOARD APPROVE AMENDMENTS TO THE 2024 TO 2028 TIP, AND THERE'S A SERIES OF

[2. MOTION TO RECOMMEND BROWARD MPO APPROVE Amendments to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 - 2028 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP): A. FM# 4485741 SR-A1A FROM SHERMAN STREET TO SR-822/SHERIDAN STREET B. FM# 4485761 SR-A1A FROM FRANKLIN STREET TO WALNUT STREET C. FM# 4528651 5310 CAPITAL - MIAMI URBANIZED AREA (UZA) - MORSELIFE D. FM# 4511592 5310 CAPITAL - MIAMI UZA (BROWARD/WEST PALM BEACH (B/WP) - CHRISTINA G SMITH COMM MHF E. FM# 4511593 5310 CAPITAL - MIAMI UZA (B/WP) - CHRISTINA G SMITH COMM MHF]

SO ALL THAT INFORMATION IS YOUR IN YOUR PACKET.

DOCTOR CHEN IS HERE. IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS.

THERE IS A QUESTION, PABLO.

PABLO, YOU NEED TO UNMUTE YOUR MIC ON ZOOM, PLEASE.

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OKAY, SO YOU DON'T HAVE A QUESTION.

EXCELLENT. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS AMENDMENT? NO. SEEING NONE.

WE'LL MOVE ON TO REQUEST A MOTION TO RECOMMEND THESE AMENDMENTS BE APPROVED BY THE BOARD.

MOTION IS MADE BY MAQSOOD, SECONDED BY ALEXANDER.

ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS ON THE MOTION? SEEING NONE, WE'LL CALL FOR A VOTE FOR A MOTION TO RECOMMEND THAT THE BOARD APPROVE THESE TIP AMENDMENTS.

AND THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU. NEXT, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO OUR LIST OF GREAT PRESENTATIONS TODAY ABOUT A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT ITEMS.

[1. Federal Grants Update]

ALL RIGHT. EVERYBODY HEAR ME FROM HERE.

BETTER. ALL RIGHT.

HOW'S EVERYBODY DOING? GOOD AFTERNOON.

THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

HAPPY NEW YEAR. I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU GUYS IN A WHILE, SO IT'S NICE THAT WE'RE ALL TOGETHER AGAIN.

I'M JENNIFER TUCY, A PART OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL TEAM OF THE BROWARD MPO.

AND I'M HERE TO GIVE YOU THE GRANTS UPDATE FOR JANUARY 2024.

WELL, SORRY ABOUT THAT.

FIRST OFF, AS A REMINDER, WE HAVE OUR MONTHLY GRANTS COORDINATION MEETING, CALL EVERY SECOND TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH.

IT IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO COORDINATE WITH OUR PARTNERS AND COLLABORATE ON PROJECT IDEAS.

USE THE QR CODE OR THE ZOOM LINK TO REGISTER FOR THE MEETINGS.

ATTENDANCE HAS DROPPED OFF A LITTLE BIT, SO WE WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE YOU GUYS THERE, AND GET INVOLVED WITH IT SO THAT WE CAN BRING BETTER PROJECTS TOGETHER.

ALL RIGHT, ON TO THE UPDATE.

THRIVING COMMUNITIES.

THE COHORT MEETING WITH VICE MAYOR MARTIN PAUL CALVARESI AND ANDREW RYDELL WENT VERY WELL.

THEY MET WITH OTHER AWARDEES WHILE THEY WERE IN DC.

THE SCOPE IS BEING REVIEWED ALONG WITH THE COSTS BY THE FHWA.

WE FOUND OUT WE HAVE ONE YEAR TO COMPLETE EVERYTHING, AND THE BIGGEST UPDATE OF IT IS THAT IT'S MOVING.

YAY! SO WE GOT THAT GOING ON.

WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT.

NEXT UP WE HAVE OUR RAIL CROSSING ELIMINATION PROGRAM.

THERE WAS A SITE VISIT WITH THE FRA THAT OCCURRED YESTERDAY AND TODAY WITH ANDREW PAUL, BRIGHTLINE, FEC, FDOT AND THE COUNTY.

THEY COMPLETED A FIELD DIAGNOSTIC FOR THE GRANT THIS MORNING.

COORDINATION MEETING IS SCHEDULED WITH THE CITY MANAGERS FOR NEXT WEEK AS WE GO ALONG.

SO THOSE ARE COMING TOGETHER AS WELL.

ARE THE PROTECTS PLANNING GRANT.

AGAIN, THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ARE INVOLVED AND TRUSTING THE MPO WITH THE PROJECT.

WE ARE EXPECTING AN ANNOUNCEMENT IN EARLY 2024 ON IT.

RECONNECTING COMMUNITIES FOR THE PLANNING GRANT.

WE ARE IN THE SCREENING ROUND, SO THERE HAS BEEN VERY SMALL MOVEMENT, BUT MOVEMENT.

SO THAT MEANS THAT WE ARE IN REVIEW, WHICH WILL BE UPDATED ON THE NEXT MONTH'S SLIDE ON THE LEFT.

WE EXPECT AN ANNOUNCEMENT IN SPRING OF 2024.

THERE WE GO. ALL RIGHT.

THE SMART GRANT.

SO THE BRIGHT MPO IS SEEKING THE $2 MILLION IN SMART GRANT FUNDING TO DEVELOP SMART METRO AND INNOVATIVE TRANSPORTATION MODELING PLATFORM THAT WILL INTEGRATE TRADITIONAL AND EMERGING DATA SOURCES, ANALYTIC AND MODEL ANALYTIC AND MODELING TOOLS, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO CREATE AN IT BASED PLATFORM TO GUIDE NEAR MID AND LONG TERM TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT DECISIONS.

IN THE CONTEXT OF BROWARD COUNTY'S DYNAMIC, MARKET DRIVEN LAND USE, RESILIENCY NEEDS, DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS, EQUITY, AND THE GROWING NEED FOR AN EFFECTIVE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.

CURRENTLY THE NEXT STEPS, WHILE WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR ABOUT THIS GRANT IS.

THE MPO IS CURRENTLY IDENTIFYING USE CASES THROUGH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNER INTERVIEWS THAT WILL LEAD TO DEVELOPMENT OF AN IT ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS PLAN, AND A COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING GUIDE OF A SMART METRO DEVELOPMENT PLAN GUIDE.

I'M SORRY PLAN GUIDING SMART METRO DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY AND SUSTAINED APPLICATION.

THE STAGE ONE GRANT WILL ENABLE THE BROWARD MPO TO IMPLEMENT A PROTOTYPE OF THE SMART METRO PLATFORM THAT WILL SERVE AS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF ANALYTICS

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IT'S A BIG UPDATE THAT JUST HAPPENED, SO WE'RE IF WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THAT, PLEASE CONTACT MARK PLASS.

HE'S VERY HELPFUL AND KNOWLEDGEABLE ON THIS.

ALL RIGHT. NEXT UP THIS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.

SO THE SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL THE NEXT.

THE ANTICIPATED APPLICATION FOR A DEMONSTRATION GRANT ALONG WITH PLANNING GRANTS IS ANTICIPATED TO OPEN IN FEBRUARY OF 2024.

THE BROWARD MPO IS GOING TO BE PURSUING THE DEMONSTRATION GRANT.

WITH THAT, THERE WILL BE THERE IS MORE INFORMATION ON OUR UPCOMING GRANTS PAGE ON SOME OF OUR NEXT SLIDES.

THESE ARE OUR CURRENT GRANT OPEN GRANT APPLICATIONS.

WE ARE SWINGING FOR THE RAFTERS TODAY.

AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE OPEN ALONG WITH OUR UPCOMING GRANT APPLICATIONS, WHICH THERE IS DEFINITELY PLENTIFUL AS WELL.

DEFINITELY TAKE ADVANTAGE TO THESE IF YOU CAN.

ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS, QUANDARIES, JOKES, LIMERICKS, SONGS, HAIKUS, POEMS. I'M OPEN TO ALL OF THEM.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR JENNIFER ON THE GRANT UPDATES? NO. EXCELLENT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

GOOD TO SEE THEM COMING ALONG.

I'M SUPER EXCITED FOR NEXT WEEK, JAMES.

YEAH. THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS THE ROUTE TO 2050 MTP RESILIENCY UPDATE.

[2. Route to 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) Resiliency Update]

HELLO. GOOD AFTERNOON.

HELLO AGAIN. IF I SAW YOU IN CSAC JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO.

I DID PROMISE IN THAT MEETING THAT IF Y'ALL STUCK AROUND, YOU GOT TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR RESILIENCY PROGRAM.

SO NOW I'M OWNING THAT PROMISE TODAY.

MY NAME IS CHRISTOPHER RESTREPO.

I'M A PRINCIPAL PLANNER AT THE BROWARD MPO.

I AM ONE OF THE TWO CO-PROJECT MANAGERS OF, ROUTE TO 2050, ALSO KNOWN AS OUR 2050 METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN.

AND TODAY, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE ARE ON ONE OF OUR EMPHASIS AREAS, RESILIENCY.

SO HOLD ON TIGHT.

JUST AS A REMINDER, WE ARE CURRENTLY IN OUR NEEDS ASSESSMENT PROCESS RIGHT NOW, AND WE HAVE DECIDED AS A COLLECTIVE, ALL OF US TOGETHER, THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE HAVING SIX, PROGRAMS WITHIN OUR 2050 METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN.

RESILIENCY IS ONE OF THOSE PROGRAMS, AND IT'S ALSO ONE OF OUR EMPHASIS AREAS.

AND RESILIENCY, ALONG WITH SAFETY ARE GOING TO HAVE A DIFFERENT, FRAMEWORK OR DEVELOPMENT PROCESS THAN THE OTHER FOUR PROGRAMS THAT ARE GOING THROUGH PROJECT PRIORITIZATION RIGHT NOW AND HOW WE PRIORITIZE THOSE PROJECTS IN RESILIENCY.

WE'RE GOING TO EXPLORE THAT TODAY.

SO LIKE I SAID, RESILIENCY IS ONE OF OUR EMPHASIS AREAS.

WHY YOU ALL REALLY KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF CLIMATE STRESSORS THAT WE HAVE IN SOUTH FLORIDA SEA LEVEL RISE, GROUNDWATER, STORM SURGE, ALL OF THAT.

AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A DATA SET AND A PRIORITIZATION PROCESS THAT HELPS IDENTIFY WHAT ROADS NEED THE MOST HELP.

SO TO DO THAT, WE DEVELOP A VULNERABILITY SCORE.

THIS IS A DATA SET THAT TAKES THREE DIFFERENT AVENUES TO COMPILE THAT DATA SET.

WE LOOK AT ADAPTIVE CAPACITY WHICH TAKES UP ABOUT 10% OF THAT FULL VULNERABILITY SCORE.

WE LOOK AT EXPOSURE WITH FOUR OF THE STRESSORS THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA THAT ARE SEA LEVEL RISE, EXTREME HEAT, STORM SURGE, AND THEN FUTURE GROUNDWATER ELEVATION THAT TAKES UP THE BIG, BULK OF OUR VULNERABILITY SCORE AND THEN OUR SENSITIVITY.

WE HAVE A LOT OF BRIDGES THAT ARE NOT SO GREAT CONDITION.

SO HAVING THAT AS CRITICAL, WAYS FOR US TO GET OUT OF PLACES IS IMPORTANT TO CAPTURE IN OUR VULNERABILITY SCORE.

SO REALLY WHAT WE WANT TO HAVE AS DELIVERABLES THROUGH OUR EMPHASIS AREA ARE TWO THINGS.

THE FIRST IS A VULNERABILITY NETWORK.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE IMAGE ABOVE THAT IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH GIS, THAT'S LITTLE ICON THAT TELLS YOU IT'S A GEO DATABASE.

AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THIS VULNERABILITY NETWORK IS.

IT'S A GIS DATA SET THAT IS GOING TO BE USED FOR AS A PRIORITIZATION CRITERIA FOR FOUR OF THE PROGRAMS COMPLETE STREETS, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSIT AND HUBS AND ROADWAY. AND IT WILL ALSO BE USED AS A ROUTE MARKER.

I'LL GET A LITTLE BIT INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER.

THAT WILL BE USED FREQUENTLY THROUGHOUT THE PLAN.

SO YOU'LL BE REMINDED THAT RESILIENCY IS ALWAYS BEING A CONSIDERATION FOR ALL OF OUR PROJECTS.

AND THEN WE HAVE OUR RESILIENCY NETWORK THAT WILL HOPEFULLY BE THE FOUNDATION OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE PRIORITIZE THROUGH OUR RESILIENCY PROGRAM.

AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL TAKE THAT VULNERABILITY NETWORK AND APPLY ANOTHER SCORE, WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT TODAY, THAT I WOULD LOVE TO GET SOME FEEDBACK FROM YOU ALL ON THAT LOOKS AT EQUITY, PUTTING THAT AS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE INCORPORATED INTO RESILIENCY SO THAT WE CAN GET THOSE PRIORITIZED CORRIDORS.

SO OUR VULNERABILITY WEIGHTING RESULTS, WE DID THE ANALYSIS.

WE TOOK IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT DATA SETS TO PUT TOGETHER.

AND YOU SEE THOSE RESULTS IN THE MAP TO THE RIGHT.

THE LINES THAT ARE IN THE DARK PURPLE ARE THE HIGHEST VULNERABLE, ROADWAYS THAT WE HAVE IN BROWARD BASED OFF OF OUR ANALYSIS.

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SO IF YOU WANT TO FOCUS ON THOSE DARK PURPLE AND THE PINK, THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF THE NEED FOR A RESILIENCY COMPONENTS ARE.

WE'LL BE USING THIS DATA SET FOR PRIORITIZATION FOR COMPLETE STREETS ROADWAY TRANSIT HUBS AND TECHNOLOGY.

AND WE WANT TO DEVELOP SOMETHING THAT WE'RE CALLING A ROUTE MARKER OR IN PARENTHESES A CONTEXT MARKER THAT HELPS GIVE A LITTLE BIT MORE SCOPE TO A PROJECT.

A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE GET A PROJECT IN OUR COST FEASIBLE PLAN, IT'S JUST MAYBE 1 OR 2 LINES OF INFORMATION WITH SOME LIMITS AND THEN A FUNDING SOURCE.

WHAT THIS ROUTE MARKER WILL DO IS IF A PROJECT FALLS IN ONE OF THOSE HIGH VULNERABLE OR HIGHEST VULNERABLE AREAS, THAT MARKER WILL LIGHT UP WITH EITHER A BRIGHT GREEN OR A BRIGHT GREEN.

YES, OR A BRIGHT RED NO, DEPENDING ON WHAT KIND OF TERMINOLOGY WE WANT TO USE, SO THAT IT GIVES INDICATION TO ANYONE WHO'S TAKING THIS PROJECT, IT COULD BE US HERE IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AT THE BROWARD MPO.

IT COULD BE FDOT WHO'S DOING A PD ON A PROJECT, OR IT COULD BE A LOCAL AGENCY WHO'S TAKING THIS PROJECT THROUGH THEIR LAP PROCESS.

IT WILL HIGHLIGHT AND SAY, HEY, YOU HAVE A VULNERABLE AREA HERE BASED OFF OF THE DATA THAT WE'VE COLLECTED, MAYBE WE NEED TO ADD A LITTLE BIT MORE SCOPE TO THIS PROJECT BEFORE WE FINALIZE DESIGN.

SO THAT'S THE GOAL, THE INTENT OF THAT.

THE NEXT THING FOR US AFTER WE HAVE THAT DATA SET IS WE WANT TO, FOCUS OUR DOLLARS ON WHERE THE ROADS NEED THE MOST HELP.

SO TO DEVELOP OUR RESILIENCY PROGRAM, WE ARE SUGGESTING THAT WE FOCUS ALL OF THAT EFFORT ONTO OUR REGIONAL NETWORK.

OUR REGIONAL NETWORK IS A ROADWAY NETWORK THAT IS COLLECTIVELY DECIDED ON, BY BROWARD COUNTY, PALM BEACH COUNTY AND BY MIAMI-DADE.

AND WE DECIDE THAT THESE ARE THE ROADWAYS THAT GET US TO WHERE WE NEED TO GO WITHIN THE TRI COUNTY AREA.

SO BY TAKING OUT ALL OF THE OTHER ROADWAYS WE CAN FOCUS THESE DOLLARS ON HERE.

THIS ISN'T NECESSARILY THE CRITICALITY, BUT IT'S THE CLOSEST THING WE'VE GOT TO IT.

SO WHAT I WANT TO PROPOSE TO ALL OF Y'ALL HERE TODAY FOR SOME DISCUSSION AND MAYBE SOME FEEDBACK FOR US IS HOW, AFTER WE'VE TAKEN A LOOK AT THE PROJECT'S VULNERABILITY SCORES BASED OFF OF THE, REGIONAL NETWORK, HOW DO WE RANK THESE PROJECTS AGAINST EACH OTHER? DO WE LOOK SPECIFICALLY JUST AT THE VULNERABILITY SCORE AT 100%? WE TAKE THAT AT FACE VALUE, OR DO WE LOOK AT AN OPPORTUNITY WHERE WE CAN INJECT A LITTLE BIT OF EQUITY HERE? ONE OF THE POSITIVE THINGS FOR HAVING EQUITY IS THAT WHEN WE GO OUT FOR A GRANT, THEY ALWAYS ASK, DID YOU INCORPORATE EQUITY INTO THIS? SO WE CAN SAFELY SAY THAT WE DID.

IF WE GO THAT ROUTE, WHAT WE'RE SUGGESTING IS SORRY, TALKED A LOT.

OUR VULNERABILITY SCORE, WHAT IT DOES RIGHT NOW IS IT BREAKS IT OFF INTO FIVE TIERS.

VERY GOOD. IT MAKES IT VERY SIMPLE FOR THE ROUTE MARKER AND FOR PRIORITIZATION.

BUT IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY TELL US THIS PROJECT IS MORE VULNERABLE THAN THE OTHER.

IF THEY'RE ALL IN THE SAME TIER, WHAT AN EQUITY SCORE WOULD DO IS IT INTRODUCES ANOTHER DATA SET WHERE WE WOULD BE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE A DECIMAL PLACES.

THOSE DECIMAL PLACES MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IF BOTH PROJECTS ARE IN THE SAME TIER, WHICH ONE GETS THE MORE MONEY FIRST? WE'RE SUGGESTING 15% BECAUSE IT'S CONSISTENT WITH ALL OF OUR OTHER PROGRAMS FOR, TECHNOLOGY.

COMPLETE STREETS, TRANSIT AND HUBS AND ROADWAY.

ALL OF THOSE PROGRAMS LOOK AT EQUITY, AND THEY INCORPORATE ROUGHLY AROUND 15% INTO THEIR PRIORITIZATION PROCESS.

SO WE WANT TO KEEP THAT CONSISTENT WITH THOSE PROGRAMS AND WITH THE RESILIENCY PROGRAM.

OKAY, THAT'S A LOT.

SO WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE ON A MAP? THESE ARE THE TWO MAPS IN FRONT OF YOU.

TO THE LEFT. YOU HAVE 100% VULNERABILITY, 0% EQUITY.

AND THEN TO THE RIGHT YOU HAVE 85% EQUITY AND 10% SORRY, 85% VULNERABILITY AND 10% EQUITY.

NOT MUCH CHANGE IF YOU FIRST GLANCE AT IT.

THE ONLY MAJOR DIFFERENCE THAT WE HAVE HERE IS OVER TO THE LEFT OR TO THE WEST SIDE OF THE COUNTY.

YOU'LL NOTICE, US 27 AND I-75, THEY GO FROM HIGHEST VULNERABLE TO HIGH VULNERABLE.

SO THAT DROPS A LITTLE BIT BY INTRODUCING AN EQUITY SCORE.

BUT IF YOU LOOK AT ALL THE OTHER ROADWAYS, THEY'RE MOSTLY UNCHANGED.

AND THAT'S GOOD BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ROADS ARE STILL HAVING THE APPROPRIATE VULNERABILITY SCORE ATTACHED.

HAVING THAT EQUITY THERE HELPS BREAK THE TIE BETWEEN THEM.

SO I'M SURE THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND I WOULD LOVE TO ANSWER IT.

BUT OUR NEXT STEPS ARE, WE WANT TO BUILD UP OUR RESILIENCY PROGRAM WITH IDENTIFIED PRIORITY CORRIDORS.

ONE OF THOSE TWO ROUTES IS HOW WE WANT TO GO AND ACHIEVE THE PRIORITY CORRIDORS.

WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO CONDUCT CORRIDOR EVALUATIONS TO BUILD UP THAT FRAMEWORK AND HOPEFULLY GET THESE PROJECTS READY FOR PROTECT GRANTS INTO THE FUTURE.

AND MY NAME IS CHRISTOPHER.

I'M HERE FOR QUESTIONS.

EXCELLENT. THANK YOU CHRISTOPHER.

ANY QUESTIONS?

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SO CAN YOU GO BACK TO, LIKE, THE FIRST MAP THAT SHOWED THE GREEN, RESILIENCY? THAT ONE. YEAH. SO WHAT IS THAT VULNERABILITY SCORE LIKE? WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? IS IT THE ELEVATIONS OR HOW DID YOU DETERMINE THAT THOSE AREAS ARE VULNERABLE.

YEAH. SO, WHAT WE DID IS WE TOOK A COUPLE DIFFERENT DATA SETS TO GET THAT SCORE TOGETHER.

AND THIS IS KIND OF THE TREE THAT DEVELOPS THAT SCORE.

WE LOOK AT THE DATA SETS THAT WE HAVE READILY AVAILABLE SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO RECREATE ANY OF THOSE.

SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ADAPTIVE CAPACITY, WE'RE LOOKING AT AVERAGE ANNUAL DAILY TRAFFIC AND POTENTIAL DETOUR LINKS THE LENGTHS.

IF A PROJECT WERE TO GO UNDER WATER, WHAT WOULD THAT DETOUR LENGTH LOOK LIKE? WE LOOK AT EXPOSURE.

THERE ARE SOME DATA SETS THAT BROWARD COUNTY PROVIDED FOR US AND THAT WE HAVE, COLLECTED.

I'M GONNA LOOK OVER HERE AT YANGFEI TO SEE WHERE THE SOURCES ARE FOR THOSE ARE.

BUT THERE'S FOUR DIFFERENT, STRESSORS THAT WE HAVE THAT MAKE UP 70% OF THAT SCORE.

AND THEN WE LOOK AT BRIDGE CONDITIONS THAT I BELIEVE FDOT KEEPS UP TO DATE AND THAT WE INCORPORATE THAT AS WELL.

OKAY. AND THEN IF YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE MAP, I NOTICED THERE ARE SOME PURPLE LINES ON MAJOR CORRIDORS ON THIS MAP THAT DID NOT END UP ON THE FINAL MAP.

OH, DAVIE BOULEVARD, A-1-A LIKE SOME PRETTY BIG CORRIDORS THAT ARE NOT ON THERE.

WHY DID NOT ALL OF THE PURPLE CORRIDORS FROM THE FIRST MAP END UP ON THIS MAP? RIGHT. SO WHAT WE'RE SUGGESTING IS THAT WE LOOK AT THE REGIONAL NETWORK TO DEVELOP THOSE PRIORITY CORRIDORS FOR OUR RESILIENCY PROGRAM.

SO A-1-A SHOCKINGLY, IS NOT PART OF OUR REGIONAL NETWORK.

I WAS VERY SURPRISED BY THAT AS WELL.

BUT WE CAN MAKE A DECISION TO MAKE SURE THAT WE INCORPORATE THAT INTO IT.

DAVIE BOULEVARD IS ANOTHER ONE THAT I BELIEVE IS NOT PART OF OUR REGIONAL NETWORK.

THAT'S CRAZY. YEAH, IT IS THAT IT IF THAT GOES UNDERWATER, ALSO IMPACTING RAIL AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING, AND THAT IS A MAJOR CORRIDOR AND A ROUTE 295 IF OTHER THINGS ARE BLOCKED.

SO I WOULD THINK THAT IS.

AND THEN JUST MY COMMENT ON THE EQUITY SCORE.

SO IS IT THAT YOU WOULD RANK PROJECTS WITHIN YOUR NEW PROGRAM USING THAT, OR IS IT OVERALL IF SOMEBODY APPLIED TO C-SLIP AND THAT WOULD BE A SCORE. SO THIS WOULD BE SPECIFIC.

SO WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS TAKE WHICHEVER VERSION WE HAVE HERE.

THOSE CORRIDORS WILL CREATE OUR RESILIENCY PROGRAM.

SO THE LIMITS THAT ARE HERE WITH THESE ROADWAYS, THAT'S WHAT WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME THE LINE ITEMS IN THAT PROGRAM.

THE EQUITY SCORE WOULD HELP DECIDE WHICH ONES ABOVE OR BELOW EACH OF THEM.

BUT THEN YOU SAID IT DIDN'T REALLY SEEM TO MAKE MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE FOR.

SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE COLORS, IT KEEPS PROJECTS WITHIN THEIR TIERS.

BUT IF YOU HAVE THE TIER, YOU STILL A LOT OF THEM.

LET'S TAKE THE HIGHEST ONE, RIGHT? IT'S TIER FIVE.

YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE LIKE MAYBE TEN PROJECTS, MAYBE 20 PROJECTS THAT ARE IN TIER FIVE, BUT THEY'RE ALL GOING TO HAVE THE SAME SCORE OF FIVE.

INTRODUCING THAT EQUITY SCORE HELPS BREAK UP THAT SCORING.

SO THEN NOW YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO COMPARE AND SAY THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE MORE VULNERABLE, NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT'S PHYSICALLY VULNERABLE BUT IT'S ALSO SOCIALLY VULNERABLE.

OKAY. THANK YOU.

WE SPURRED SOME MORE QUESTIONS.

ANDREW. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

JUST A QUESTION FOR YOU, CHRIS.

REGARDING MORE TOWARDS THE PROTECT GRANTS, THE GRANT TIMELINE, WHEN DO WE SEE IT COMING OUT? WHAT? YOU KNOW, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO GET APPROVED? I KNOW TYPICALLY IT'S A 3 TO 5 YEAR.

JUST SOME MORE DETAILS ABOUT THAT, IF YOU CAN AT THIS TIME.

SURE. YEAH. I'M NOT AN EXPERT IN THE [INAUDIBLE] GRANT PROGRAM, UNFORTUNATELY.

BUT AS PART OF OUR NEEDS ASSESSMENT, WE'VE TAKEN ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE COLLECTED THROUGH OUR CALL FOR PROJECTS PROCESS, AND WE'RE DEVELOPING A MATRIX TO DETERMINE WHICH OF THOSE PROJECTS ARE BEST SUITED FOR CERTAIN, PROGRAMS OR CERTAIN GRANT PROGRAMS. OBVIOUSLY, THE PROTECT PROGRAM IS GOING TO BE SPECIFICALLY TO OUR RESILIENCY PROJECTS.

I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE PAUL CALVARESI, WHO COULD TELL ME A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE HE'S OUR GRANT EXPERT, BUT WE'RE.

BUT WHAT OUR GOAL IS TO SET THESE UP SO THAT T'S A IGOOD FOLLOW THROUGH, AND WE HAVE A, LIKE, A CONVEYOR BELT TO GET THESE PROJECTS INTO THE PROJECT GRANT.

EXCELLENT. [INAUDIBLE], CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE CAN HEAR YOU. WE CAN.

THANK YOU. CHRISTOPHER.

SO, ANDREW, I BELIEVE YOUR QUESTION WAS ABOUT THE PROTECT PROGRAM.

AND WHAT WOULD THAT.

SHOULD WE WIN THE GRANT, WHAT WOULD THAT DO FOR US? YES. SO THIS IS BEING LED BY LEVI STEWART IN OUR OFFICE, BUT FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, THE GRANT, SHOULD WE WIN, THAT IT WILL BE A

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SO IT'S PRETTY MUCH TAKING WHAT CHRISTOPHER HAS ALREADY LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR AND TAKING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

TO GET MORE GRANULAR AND MORE SPECIFIC ON WHAT THOSE VULNERABILITIES ARE AND MORE SPECIFIC TREATMENTS.

OKAY. THANK YOU PAUL.

THANK YOU ANDREW. THANK YOU CHRISTOPHER.

THANK YOU. CHRISTOPHER.

GO AHEAD. THANK YOU.

I REALLY DID PROMISE TO CONTACT YOU OUTSIDE OF THE MEETING TO GET A LOT OF MY QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

BUT I'M HERE.

LIFE COMES UP, RIGHT? IF I UNDERSTAND.

RIGHT. WITH YOUR DISCUSSION ABOUT THE TWO MAPS.

I JUST WANT TO SHARE.

WHEN I WAS A KID, WE HAD THIS THING CALLED A NEWSPAPER, AND IT HAD A COMIC STRIP PAGE, AND THERE WAS THIS ONE THAT WAS CALLED HOCUS FOCUS.

AND IT LITERALLY WAS TO FIND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO PICTURES.

AND I SWEAR, I LOOKED LIKE FOR HOURS.

AND UNTIL YOU SAID THAT, LIKE 27 AND 95, 95 HAD LIKE A DIFFERENT COLOR, I COULDN'T FIND IT.

SO THANK YOU FOR SOLVING THE HOCUS POCUS FOR ME TODAY.

BELCROSS FOUND THE DIFFERENCE.

I WANT TO TALK ABOUT, THE SPLIT BETWEEN THE TWO MAPS.

AND I KNOW WE'VE HAD SOME PRELIMINARY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT GOES INTO, THE EQUITY SCORE, BUT HAS THAT BEEN FINALIZED AS PART OF THE DISCUSSION WITH THE MVP? YES. FOR THE EQUITY SCORE THAT HAS BEEN FINALIZED, WHAT WE USE IS OUR TITLE SIX COMPOSITE SCORE THAT WE DEVELOP, PRETTY ROUTINELY, AND WE UPDATE IT WITH THE MOST CURRENT CENSUS AND, DATA THAT WE HAVE.

SO YES, WE DO HAVE THAT AS PART OF OUR CRITERIA IN OUR OVERALL PRIORITIZATION PROCESS.

AND WE HAVE THAT AS A DATA SET THAT YOU CAN EXPLORE A WONDERFUL STORY MAP ON OUR WEBSITE.

YEAH. WHEN YOU BRING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE 15%, DID YOU RUN OTHER SCENARIOS OF HIGHER PERCENTAGES? YES, AND DID WE HAVE LIKE MORE DISTINCT.

AND CAN YOU RUN THROUGH LIKE WHAT? SURE. ACTUALLY, IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

I WAS HOPING SOMEBODY WOULD ASK IT.

SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.

SO WE ACTUALLY RAN THROUGH A COUPLE SCENARIOS, AND I BELIEVE I HAVE THE DRAFT ASSESSMENT AS AN ATTACHMENT IN THAT TAC ITEM.

IF NOT, I WILL AFFORD IT FOR IT TO ALL OF YOU ALL.

BUT IN THAT ASSESSMENT, STILL IN DRAFT FORM, YOU CAN SEE, SOME OF THOSE DIFFERENT SCENARIOS THAT ARE THERE.

WE LOOKED AT A SCENARIO THAT LOOKED AT 75% VULNERABILITY, 25% EQUITY.

WE LOOKED AT, 66%, 33%.

AND THEN, TO HELP ME, WAS THERE ANOTHER ONE 5050? SO WE LOOKED AT 50/50.

AND WHAT WE WERE FINDING WAS THOSE SCORES WERE, SHIFTING A LOT OF THE NEED FOR RESILIENCY INTO THOSE HIGH EQUITY AREAS. AND THAT'S NOT TO SAY THEY DON'T DESERVE IT.

OF COURSE, EQUITY AREAS, THEY ALL NEED HELP, JUST LIKE ALL OF THEM.

BUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RESILIENCY, WE REALLY WANT TO GET TO WHAT THE STRESSORS ARE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS.

AND WE THOUGHT THAT MAYBE IT WAS BETTER TO MAKE SURE THAT THE STORY OF RESILIENCY WAS BASED OFF OF THOSE PHYSICAL STRESSORS, THINGS LIKE SEA LEVEL, RISING GROUNDWATER, STORM SURGE.

SO WHEN WE LOOKED AT THOSE OTHER SCENARIOS, YOU SAW A LOT OF THOSE, DARKER PURPLE AND PINK COLORS AND BASICALLY THE I-95 CORRIDOR, WHICH IS IT'S FINE, BUT, YOU KNOW, HIGHLIGHTED I-95 QUITE A BIT I-95, WE DON'T NEED TO PUT MORE MONEY ON THAT.

SO WE THOUGHT THIS WAS A BETTER THING.

IT STILL TELLS US THE STORY OF RESILIENCY, BUT, EQUITY IS STILL A VERY IMPORTANT KEY HERE TO BREAK UP THE PRIORITY.

OKAY. I THINK THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT ON THAT.

CAN WE GO TO THE VULNERABILITY SCORE? THE BREAKOUT OF, LIKE.

YEAH. THAT GRAPHIC? SO THE STRESSORS SEA LEVEL RISE.

I'M GOING TO ASK ABOUT DATA SOURCES ON THIS BECAUSE I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THEM.

OKAY. SO WHOEVER YOU'RE POINTING OUT.

YEAH. WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME UP HERE, PLEASE? THANK YOU SO MUCH.

BUT IN IN THE MATERIAL, IN THE BACKUP, YOU GIVE KIND OF AN EXPLANATION ON EACH OF THESE.

AND LIKE, SEA LEVEL RISE IS DETERMINED BY ONE, TWO AND THREE FEET OF SEA LEVEL RISE AND INUNDATION.

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THAT WAS ACTUALLY BUILDING OFF THE 2015, SOUTH FLORIDA CLIMATE CHANGE AND ADAPTATION, PILOT PROJECT THAT WAS DONE.

SO THEY COLLECTED THOSE DATA AND THAT WAS, WE WERE BUILDING OFF THE ANALYSIS THAT WAS DONE AT THE TIME AND THEN MODIFYING IT TO INCORPORATE NEW STRESSORS LIKE EXTREME HEAT AND GROUNDWATER ELEVATION AND SUCH.

BUT THEN WE KEPT THOSE THAT'S ORIGINALLY COLLECTED AND ANALYZED THROUGH THAT STUDY.

SO THAT INCORPORATES THE [INAUDIBLE] CURVES THAT WERE.

YES. AND WE'RE USING I THINK THAT STUDY FOR SOLARIZE, IT'S THE INUNDATION DEPTH.

THAT'S THE FACTORS THAT'S CONSIDERED IN THE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT.

SO FOR THE STORM SURGE AND PRECIPITATION INDUCED FLOODING, YOU, YOU INDICATE THAT THERE'S TWO METRICS.

ONE IS THE CURRENT FLOOD INDEX AND THEN THE FUTURE FLOOD INDEX.

AND ARE THOSE TIED TO A CERTAIN STORM EVENT OR ARE THEY GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE BACKGROUND ON THAT.

I IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, THE, CURRENT ONE, IT'S TIED TO THE 100 YEAR STORM AND THEN THE FUTURE ONE ARE THE, IN THE 2015 STUDY, IT'S THE SEGMENTS THAT'S ADJACENT TO THOSE, CURRENT ONES, WHICH ARE AT THE TIME, I THINK IN THE STUDY THAT WAS DONE AT THE TIME, THEY THINK THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE MOST LIKELY TO GET, FLOODED IF THINGS GET WORSE, YOU KNOW, EXPANDING FROM THE CURRENT CONDITION.

RIGHT. THANK YOU.

LAST ONE. SURE.

DREAM HEAT. YES.

THIS IS ONE THAT MY CITY ACTUALLY PRIORITIZES.

WE HAVE A TREE PROGRAM THAT ACTUALLY COMBATS, OR WE TRY TO COMBAT, HEAT EXTREME HEAT BY PLANTING TREES WHERE IT'S MOST VULNERABLE. I'M WONDERING WHERE, AGAIN, YOUR DATA SOURCE FOR THESE DAYS OVER 95 DEGREES CAME FROM.

IT'S FROM THE DOWNSCALE MODEL.

I NEED TO GET TO THE EXACT SOURCES FOR THAT, BUT IT'S, I THINK THE CLIMATE CENTER'S FUTURE CLIMATE CENTER'S PROJECTION, WE TOOK FROM THE DOWNSCALE PROJECTION MODEL AND THEN USE THE TEMPERATURE, AND THEN THE NUMBER OF DAYS WITH MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OVER 95 DEGREE AS THE INDICATOR.

SO. I THINK I'M DONE WITH DATA SOURCES.

OKAY. I HOPE THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION.

I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND WHERE ALL THIS INFORMATION COMES FROM BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, TEN YEARS FROM NOW, SOMEBODY IN THIS POSITION OR ONE OF THESE IS GOING TO BE LIKE, WHERE DID THIS COME FROM? AND WHY ARE WE USING THIS DATA? AND IS THIS THE MOST CURRENT STUFF.

SO BEING KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THAT AND LIKE HAVING THAT OUT IN FRONT BECAUSE 2050 IS A LITTLE WAYS DOWN THE ROAD.

RIGHT. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT.

SO THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. LAST QUESTION I HAVE I THINK NO ACTUALLY ON VULNERABILITY SCORE, SEA LEVEL RISE, EXTREME HEAT, FUTURE GROUNDWATER ELEVATION, STORM SURGE, ALL MAKE UP EXPOSURE 70%.

IS THERE A GRADATION OF EACH OF THOSE FACTORS MAKING UP THAT 75% OR 70%? YES, THERE IS ACTUALLY, I DO NOT HAVE THAT ON THE SLIDE.

BUT YES, SOME WERE WEIGHED A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN OTHERS.

JINGFEI. DO YOU REMEMBER? YEAH, ON TOP OF MY HEAD.

[INAUDIBLE] SO, I BELIEVE, WE TESTED, LIKE, FOUR TYPE OF WEIGHTING OPTIONS, JUST TO SEE WHAT MAKES SENSE.

AND THEN, WE ALSO BRING IT UP TO THE COMMITTEE, THE HOUSING AND RESILIENCE COMMITTEE TO GET THEIR FEEDBACK.

AND THEN WE LANDED ON A WEIGHTING OPTION WHERE, THE CIVIL RIGHTS, I THINK TOOK UP ABOUT 50% OF THE WEIGHT AND THEN, EXTREME, STORM SURGE AND FLOODING, PRECIPITATION INDUCED FLOODING TOOK UP.

I THINK IT'S 30%.

AND THEN THE OTHER TWO EXTREME HEAT AND FUTURE GROUNDWATER ELEVATION IS ANOTHER, 10% EACH.

OKAY. THANK YOU.

I WANT TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF KAREN'S COMMENTS ABOUT ROADS THAT AREN'T ON THIS PURPLE MAP.

LET'S DO IT. IS IT THE REGIONAL NETWORK? AND I KNOW WE ALL PROBABLY HAVE OUR OWN ROADS THAT WE'RE ALL ADVOCATING FOR HERE, BUT, I WAS SURPRISED AS WELL THAT A-1-A WASN'T ON THAT

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WILES ROAD 48TH IS ANOTHER ONE.

COPANS. ROYAL PALM AND THEN STERLING.

I WAS SURPRISED THAT STERLING WAS NOT INCLUDED ON THAT NETWORK.

AND I WOULD SUGGEST THOSE BE ADDED SO THAT WE MAINTAIN THOSE EAST WEST CONNECTIONS THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT.

ONE THING I WILL MENTION, LIKE.

YES. I'M SO SORRY.

NO. YOU'RE GOOD. OKAY.

IT'S. YES, I AGREE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE REGIONAL IS NOT PERFECT, BUT WE ARE DEVELOPING THIS ROUTE MARKER, SO EVERY SINGLE PROJECT THAT GOES THROUGH OUR PRIORITIZATION PROCESS WILL HAVE VULNERABILITY AS A COMPONENT OF ITS SCOPE.

IF IT'S IN ONE OF THOSE HIGH AREAS BASED OFF OF THIS MAP THAT YOU SEE HERE, NOT THE ONE ON THE REGIONAL NETWORK.

SO A LOT OF PROJECTS ARE GOING TO HAVE RESILIENCY TREATMENTS AS PART OF IT.

SO IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, OUR RESILIENCY PROGRAM, THERE'S GOING TO BE A CERTAIN SET AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE HAVE AS MPO ATTRIBUTABLE DOLLARS.

AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THOSE DOLLARS ARE GOING TO THE MOST IMPORTANT.

I MEAN, WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION WHICH ONES ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT? OUR BEST EDUCATED GUESS WAS TO START WITH THE REGIONAL NETWORK.

BUT I TOOK THOSE ROADS DOWN.

I'VE GOT WILES, DIXIE, STERLING AND SAMPLE HERE.

[INAUDIBLE] NOT SAMPLE.

OKAY. SORRY. THANK YOU.

YEAH. SAMPLE SHOULD BE ON THERE.

OKAY. BILL, I SAW YOU WERE ABOUT TO CHIME IN.

DID YOU WANT TO ADD SOMETHING? OKAY? YEAH. IF I COULD, THROUGH THE CHAIR.

SO LET ME JUST SAY IT.

ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE DON'T INCLUDE ALL THE ROADS IS THAT, ULTIMATELY, THIS IS A COST FEASIBLE PLAN, AND WE KNOW WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY.

SO, YEAH, WE CAN ADD MORE ROADS IN AND, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY JUST SHOW EVERY ROAD.

BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE FUNDING THAT.

AND FEDERAL LAW IS THAT WE HAVE A COST FEASIBLE PLAN.

AND SO THAT'S WHY WE TOOK THE DECISION TO START WITH THE REGIONAL MAP.

THERE HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EFFORT THAT'S GONE INTO THAT MAP THROUGH THE THREE MPOS OVER A 20 YEAR PERIOD.

IT'S BEEN ADOPTED BY [INAUDIBLE].

AND THESE ARE CONSIDERED WITHIN OUR REGION TO BE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT, AND, YOU KNOW, REGIONAL ROADS.

SO THE OTHER ROADS ARE NOT TO SAY THAT THEY'RE NOT IMPORTANT.

AND SOME OF THEM CARRY TRANSIT, AND THEY ALL SERVE A PURPOSE WITHIN OUR NETWORK.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE LIMITED FUNDS.

SO THAT'S WHY WE PARED IT DOWN TO THIS REGIONAL NETWORK, BECAUSE IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS AN EXISTING AND APPROVED NETWORK.

NOT TO SAY THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE TO LAND.

SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE WITH THIS GROUP TODAY, YOU KNOW, TO RECEIVE YOUR FEEDBACK.

BUT THAT WAS THE KIND OF THAT'S THE LOGIC BEHIND IT.

AND I HOPE ALL OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THIS REGIONAL NETWORK.

AGAIN, IT KIND OF IT'S BEEN DEVELOPED, LIKE I SAID, OVER 20 YEARS, WITH OUR PARTNERS, WITH FDOT, AND IT DETERMINES WHAT ROADS ARE, BASICALLY ELIGIBLE FOR TRIP FUNDS.

OKAY. THANK YOU.

MY LAST POINT.

THERE ARE A COUPLE OF ROADS AGAIN ON THE PURPLE MAP THAT REALLY AREN'T CONSIDERED PART OF THE.

THEY'RE LIKE EVACUATION ROUTES.

SO I'M THINKING ABOUT THE 14TH STREET CAUSEWAY.

I'M THINKING OF LAS OLAS.

I'M THINKING ABOUT SOME OF THE OTHERS FROM THE BARRIER ISLAND THAT GET US EASTWARD AND CONNECT INTO 95.

I WOULD SUGGEST MAYBE LOOKING AT THOSE HURRICANE EVACUATION ROUTES AND USING THAT AS A JUSTIFICATION FOR ADDITIONAL RESILIENCY.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

YEAH. THANK YOU. CHRISTOPHER, I WILL SECOND THAT.

ALEXANDER. THANKS, CHRIS.

WHEN IS YOUR SCHEDULE TO FINALIZE THE MAP AND MAKE THAT DETERMINATION TO USE 0 OR 15% EQUITY? SO, WE ARE SET WITH OUR DATA SET FOR THE, VULNERABILITY SCORE.

SO THAT MAP WE'RE SET WITH FOR THIS PRIORITIZATION PROCESS, WE'RE CURRENTLY IN NEEDS ASSESSMENT.

WE WOULD LOVE TO GET YOUR FEEDBACK ON A DECISION.

MAYBE NOT A DECISION, BUT LIKE SOME FEEDBACK SO THAT WE CAN GO TO THE DRAWING BOARD TO FINALIZE THIS.

WE ARE GOING TO BE PRESENTING THIS TO THE BOARD, EARLY NEXT MONTH TO GET THEIR FEEDBACK AS WELL.

BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO GET THIS DONE SOONER RATHER THAN LATER SO THAT WE CAN START POPULATING IT WITH PROJECTS, BECAUSE WE ARE COMING TO Y'ALL IN MARCH WITH OUR DRAFT COST

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COULD WE MAKE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE EQUITY OR NOT AT THIS MEETING OR IT'S NOT AN ACTION ITEM TODAY? I THINK IF WE JUST SHARE OUR COMMENTS AND GIVE SOME DIRECTION ON WHAT WE THINK, AND SO THAT CHRISTOPHER KNOWS WHICH DIRECTION TO GO IN.

CORRECT. THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.

THANK YOU. I THINK WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH A 15%.

THAT'S MY COMMENT, SIR.

I HEARD 15 RIGHT OR 50 1515 OKAY.

GOOD. THANK YOU. 15 OKAY.

EXCELLENT. MAQSOOD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION ALREADY.

SOME OF MY QUESTIONS ALREADY DISCUSSED, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO GET MORE INFORMATION.

PRIORITY, CORRIDORS.

WHAT IS THE LOWEST SCORE FOR SELECTING THE CORRIDOR? DO YOU HAVE ANY SET? LOWEST SCORE THAT BELOW THAT SCORE, YOU WILL NOT CONSIDER THAT AS A PRIORITY CORRIDOR.

SO EVERY CORRIDOR THAT SO ESSENTIALLY FOR THESE TWO MAPS THAT YOU SEE HERE, WHICHEVER ROUTE THAT WE GO WITH, ALL OF THESE CORRIDORS WILL MAKE UP OUR RESILIENCY PROGRAM, WHETHER THEY'RE HIGH VULNERABILITY OR LOW.

THAT'S GOING TO BE THE WHOLE RESILIENCY PROGRAM.

IT JUST DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH MONEY WE HAVE TO GET DOWN THAT LIST.

WITH OUR PROJECTIONS FOR THE NEXT 25 YEARS, HOW FAR CAN WE GO DOWN THERE TO IDENTIFY THESE AS PROJECTS THAT WE NEED TO, DO PROJECTS FOR? SO BASICALLY, YOU ARE NOT GOING BY ANY SCORE THAT, BASED ON THE SCORE NUMBER ONE, TWO, THREE, LIKE, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DO ANY RANKING OF THE CORRIDORS.

OKAY? SO THEY ARE IN TEARS RIGHT NOW THROUGH THE VULNERABILITY SCORE.

SO FROM LOWEST TO HIGHEST VULNERABILITY, IF WE CHOOSE TO INCORPORATE EQUITY THAT WOULD CHANGE THE SCORES A LITTLE BIT.

BUT IT'LL FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE ROADWAYS IT'LL STAY IN THE SAME TIERS.

AND THAT WILL DETERMINE WHICH PROJECTS ARE AHEAD OF THE OTHERS.

OKAY. AND THE SECOND THING I SEE, YOU PUT, SEA LEVEL RISE AND GROUND WATER, LEVEL FLUCTUATION.

I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE GROUNDWATER IMPACT, WHAT IS THE FUTURE TIMELINE YOU ARE CONSIDERING OVER THE COURSE OF TIME, THIS WILL BE GOING UP AND UP.

BUT WHAT IS YOUR THRESHOLD LIMIT AND WHAT IS THE BASIS ON THAT? LIKE FOR HOW MANY YEARS IN FUTURE YOU ARE CONSIDERING THAT? OKAY, 50 YEARS FROM TODAY, THE WATER LEVEL WILL BE RISING, SAY BY TWO INCHES, 3IN OR 6IN.

WHAT IS THE THRESHOLD LIMIT THAT YOU ARE CONSIDERING WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT GROUND WATER IMPACT? SO WE HAVE THOSE NUMBERS IN OUR DRAFT ASSESSMENT.

BUT I'M GOING TO LIKE LEAN OVER HERE REAL QUICK MISS [INAUDIBLE].

YEAH. WE LEVERAGE THE DATA BROWARD COUNTY PRODUCE, THE FUTURE GROUNDWATER PROJECTION DATA AND THE TIME FRAME THAT THE DATA SET WAS PROVIDED.

IT'S, 2070.

SO, WE USE THAT AS THE INDICATOR.

AND THAT'S THE BEST DATA THAT WE HAVE.

AND IT'S, I THINK IT'S TO SERVE THE PURPOSE FOR THE 2050 TIME FRAME OF PLANNING.

SO. OKAY.

2070. OKAY.

THANK YOU. VIVIANA.

THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.

PIGGYBACKING ON THE QUESTIONS FROM CHRIS.

SO UNDERSTANDING A-1-A IS NOT PART OF THE MAP.

AND THAT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF.

THE ROADS THAT WE WERE PETITIONING AND, THE PROCESS FOR THE ROUTE TO 2050.

IS THERE A PETITION? IS THERE A PROCESS WE NEED TO FOLLOW TO ASK FOR A-1-A TO BE CONSIDERED? YOU CAN ASK ME RIGHT NOW, AND THEN WE CAN LOOK AT INCORPORATING THAT INTO THE MAP.

PLEASE DO. OKAY.

THANK YOU.

BRITTANY? SO IS A-1-A.

IT'S NOT INCLUDED BECAUSE IT DIDN'T FALL IN THE REGIONAL MAP.

OR IT'S NOT INCLUDED BECAUSE IT'S NOT CONSIDERED.

SO SOCIALLY VULNERABLE.

GREAT QUESTION.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT OUR VULNERABILITY WEIGHTING JUST AS THE RAW DATA ITSELF, YOU'LL SEE THE A-1-A HAS A LOT OF THOSE DARK PURPLE AREAS THERE.

SO IT IS A VERY VULNERABLE ROADWAY.

THE ONLY REASON IT'S NOT IN OUR PRIOR OUR POTENTIAL PRIORITIZED CORRIDORS IS BECAUSE THAT SECTION OF THE ROADWAY WAS NOT AGREED THAT IT'S PART OF THE REGIONAL NETWORK.

GOT IT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR CHRISTOPHER? I DO ECHO WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT.

I THINK THERE'S SOME MAJOR CORRIDORS THAT NEED TO BE RETHOUGHT, THAT ARE VERY VULNERABLE AND HAVE IMPACTS REGIONALLY TO PEOPLE EVACUATING OR OTHER THINGS THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT.

IF YOU'RE ABLE, THAT'D BE GREAT.

YES. ABSOLUTELY. EXCELLENT.

THANK YOU. CHRISTOPHER. THANK YOU ALL.

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AND, HOPEFULLY WE'LL ALL COME TOGETHER ON A GOOD, RESILIENCY NETWORK.

THANK YOU. OUR NEXT ITEM IS A REPORT FOR PARTNER AGENCIES.

[3. Report from Partner Agency - Broward County Transit - Transit Development Plan]

AND MISS THORNTON.

NOT QUITE THAT TALL.

HI EVERYONE, MY NAME IS SOPHIA THORNTON.

I AM A SENIOR PLANNER AT BENCH DEPUTY PROJECT MANAGER ON BEHALF OF BCT FOR THE TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT WAS RECENTLY COMPLETED, I'M GOING TO TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME HIGHLIGHTS.

WHAT WHAT WE DID AND WHERE WE STAND NOW.

SO JUST A QUICK REFRESHER ON TDP'S OR TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT PLANS.

THEY'RE REQUIRED BY STATE STATUTE TO RECEIVE STATE FUNDING.

THIS ONE THAT WE JUST COMPLETED WAS A MAJOR UPDATE WITH A TEN YEAR PLANNING HORIZON.

SO 2024 TO 2033, WE LOOK AT RECOMMENDATIONS RELATED TO SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGY PLANS AND POLICIES.

WE HAD AN ADVISORY REVIEW COMMITTEE THAT WAS COMPRISED OF SOME KEY STAKEHOLDERS IN THE REGION.

THE MPO DID SIT ON THAT COMMITTEE, AND WE'RE HAPPY TO REPORT THAT THE BROWARD COUNTY COMMISSION DID APPROVE ADOPTION OF THE TDP IN DECEMBER. SO CATCHING YOU ALL UP TO SPEED ON RIDERSHIP TRENDS.

AS WE'RE ALL WELL AWARE, WE HAD A HUGE FALL IN RIDERSHIP IN THE COVID 19 ERA, AND WE'RE STILL RECOVERING FROM THAT.

BUT THINGS ARE ON THE UPSWING.

FIXED ROUTE RIDERSHIP IS UP 85% SINCE 2019.

TOPS PARATRANSIT RIDERSHIP HAS ACTUALLY RECOVERED TO PRE-PANDEMIC LEVELS AND COMMUNITY SHUTTLES NOT BOUNCING BACK QUITE AS QUICKLY AS THE OTHER MODES.

BUT IT IS ON THE UPSWING, SO WE'RE HAPPY TO SEE THAT AS PART OF THE TDP, WE CONDUCTED VARIOUS PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT EXERCISES ADVISORY REVIEW COMMITTEE, DISCUSSION GROUPS, PUBLIC WORKSHOPS.

ONE OF THE REALLY INTERESTING THINGS THAT WE FOUND WAS IN THE ONBOARD SURVEY, WHERE WE RECEIVED ABOUT 4000 RESPONSES.

THERE WAS SOME PRETTY HIGH CUSTOMER SATISFACTION WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER TRANSIT AGENCIES.

SO WE HAD A NET PROMOTER SCORE OF 29, WHICH COMPARED TO TRANSIT, IS FIRMLY IN THE GOOD CATEGORY.

SO WE'LL TAKE THAT AND BE HAPPY ABOUT IT.

SOME OTHER FEEDBACK WE GOT WAS, PEOPLE WANTED TO SEE HIGHER FREQUENCY, PEOPLE WANTED TO SEE EXPANDED SERVICE HOURS.

AND ANECDOTALLY IN THE DISCUSSION GROUPS, A LOT OF INPUT ABOUT FARE INTEROPERABILITY.

SO BASED ON SOME OF THIS PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND OTHER RELATED PLANS AND POLICIES, WE DEVELOPED A SET OF FIVE GOALS.

THESE GOALS INCLUDED IMPROVING SAFETY, IMPROVING MOBILITY FOR ALL, STRIVING TO BE AN EMPLOYER OF CHOICE, ENSURING RESILIENCY, AND SUPPORTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

SO WE TAKE THESE GOALS AND THESE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD WITH FOLKS AND WITH THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND ALSO STRONGLY LOOKED INTO CORRESPONDING RELATED PLANS TO PUT TOGETHER IMPLEMENTATION AND FINANCE PLANS.

AND SO WHEN I MENTIONED WE LOOKED STRONGLY INTO OTHER PLANS, THERE WAS A VERY HEFTY EFFORT TO PUT TOGETHER THIS PREMIUM MOBILITY PLAN.

I'M SURE YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH, WE DID NOT WANT TO REINVENT THE WHEEL.

THERE WAS A LOT OF EFFORT PUT INTO THIS PRIMO PLAN.

SO, THE FOUNDATION OF OUR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN REALLY PLUGGED INTO WHAT PRIMO HAS DONE.

SO I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT PRIMO GOES BEYOND 2033, BUT FOR THE TDP, WE JUST HAVE A TEN YEAR HORIZON.

SO, WE'VE SORT OF CUT, WHAT WE LOOKED AT.

SO WE'RE ONLY LOOKING AT IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE SLATED TO COME ONLINE PRIOR TO THE END OF 2033.

AND OF COURSE, THAT INCLUDES A LOT OF HIGH FREQUENCY BUS, BUS, RAPID TRANSIT, LIGHT RAIL, COMMUTER RAIL, AND SO FORTH.

SO SIMULTANEOUSLY, WE HAVE A DIFFERENT CONSULTANT THAT IS WORKING ON A COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS OR COA AND SERVICE OPTIMIZATION.

SO THIS EFFORT, IF YOU THINK OF THE TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT PLAN AS MORE OF A VISIONING, BROAD, PLAN, THE COA IS REALLY DELVING INTO MORE OF CORRIDOR SPECIFIC, ROUTE SPECIFIC MODE SPECIFIC CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE NETWORK AND ADDRESSING THOSE PANDEMIC SHIFTS AND TRAVEL PATTERNS, AND REALLY FACILITATING THIS INTEGRATION WITH THE PRIMO PLAN.

SO ALL OF THAT INFORMATION DOES GET PLUGGED INTO THE FINANCE PLAN THAT BROWARD COUNTY TRANSIT, CONDUCTED.

[00:50:09]

I CAN TELL YOU THAT THOSE ARE, SLATED TO BE BUS RAPID.

BID TRANSIT AND LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS.

SO THOSE SPIKES ARE EXPLAINED BY THAT.

ALSO LOVE TO EXPLAIN A GOOD ASTERISK.

SO IT'S 8.2 BILLION OVER TEN YEARS, BUT $2.4 BILLION OF THAT IS A TRANSFER OF TRANSIT OPERATING FUNDS.

SO THIS TRANSIT OPERATING FUND COUNTS AS BOTH A COST AND A REVENUE.

IT'S KIND OF A BALANCING THE SPREADSHEET SORT OF THING.

IT'S REALLY CLOSER TO 5.8 BILLION OVER THE TEN YEARS.

SO WE'VE COVERED THAT.

AND WITH THE OPERATING FINANCES, IT'S LOOKING LIKE 4 BILLION OVER TEN YEARS.

AND THIS OPERATING PLAN DOES INCLUDE NEW SERVICES SUCH SUCH AS THE LATE SHIFT CONNECT, WHICH IS A NEW SERVICE THAT CONNECTS WORKERS TO THEIR PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE OF REGULAR BCT OPERATING HOURS.

SO THAT'S A REALLY KIND OF EXCITING NEW PROGRAM THAT'S GOING ON THERE.

THAT'S ALL FOR MY UPDATE.

I GLADLY AWAIT YOUR COMMENTS, QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS.

THANK YOU SOPHIA. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TDP? [INAUDIBLE]. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PRESENTATION.

SO I SEE THAT, AS PART OF THE ON BOARD SURVEYS, THERE WERE ABOUT 3800 AND CHANGE, COLLECTED.

I JUST WANTED TO ASK IF, AS PART OF THE PROCESS, THERE WERE ANY VIRTUAL SURVEYS.

GIVEN THAT THAT'S THE ONLY WAY THAT WE WOULD GET AN INSIGHT FROM THOSE WHO ARE NOT CURRENTLY USERS AND HOW OR WHAT DESIRABLE IMPROVEMENTS WE COULD MAKE TO TRANSIT SERVICE TO MAKE THOSE WHO ARE CHOICE WRITERS USE THE TRANSIT SERVICE IN THE FUTURE? YES. SO WE DID ATTEMPT.

SO THERE WAS A VIRTUAL VERSION OF THE SURVEY, AND THERE WAS A LINE OF QUESTIONING CATERED TO NON WRITERS.

FOR WHATEVER REASON, WE DID NOT GET A LOT OF TRACTION ON THAT SURVEY.

I YEAH, IT WAS NOT A HIGH RESPONSE RATE FOR THE NON WRITERS.

BUT WE DID HAVE THE DISCUSSION GROUPS IN THE PUBLIC WORKSHOPS AND WE RECEIVED FEEDBACK ON, THINGS THAT NON WRITERS WOULD LIKE TO SEE TO CONVINCE THEM TO RIDE.

SO WE DID, WE REACHED OUT TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITIES TO THE NON WRITERS.

BUT YES.

I HOPE THAT. DOES THAT COVER IT? YOU KHALILA.

GO AHEAD. HI. I JUST WANTED TO ADD ON TO THAT.

SO, AS PART OF THE PRIMO PLAN, THOSE QUESTIONS WERE ASKED OF EVERYONE, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING A VIRTUAL SURVEY AS WELL AS PART OF THE COA, AS SHE MENTIONED.

SO IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN FULLY CAPTURED IN THE CDP BECAUSE OF OUR SHORT WINDOW, BUT WE DID GET FEEDBACK ON WHAT PEOPLE WHO DON'T CURRENTLY TAKE TRANSIT DO.

AND WE PLAN TO DO THAT AGAIN AS PART OF THE COA.

EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS REGARDING.

SEEING NONE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

YOU'RE WELCOME. LET ME GET YOU BACK.

THERE YOU GO. EXCELLENT.

THANK YOU. OUR NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS A REPORT FROM PARTNER AGENCY THE MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE.

[4. Report from Partner Agency - Museum Of Discovery and Science - Think Like a Planner]

MY NAME IS JO COX.

I'M THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE.

SO THANK YOU.

EXCITED TO DO AN UPDATE ABOUT A REALLY FASCINATING AND IMPACTFUL PROJECT THAT WE'RE LAUNCHING WITH THE BROWARD MPO CALLED THINK LIKE A PLANNER. AND AS I'VE BEEN SAT HERE LISTENING.

SO MUCH OF WHAT WAS DISCUSSED TODAY ARE THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE INCORPORATING INTO THIS PROGRAM.

SO REALLY EXCITED TO SHARE WITH YOU.

I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE I THERE WE GO.

GOOD. SO HOPEFULLY EVERYONE KNOWS WHO THE MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE IS, BUT WE ARE FORT LAUDERDALE'S SCIENCE MUSEUM AND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM.

OUR MISSION IS CONNECTING PEOPLE TO INSPIRING SCIENCE, AND WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT SINCE 1976 AND IN OUR LOCATION DOWNTOWN SINCE 1992. AT THE MUSEUM, WE FOCUS ON FOUR MAIN AREAS EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, WHICH IS WHERE THIS PROGRAM WILL FALL, HEALTH AND WELLNESS, AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE.

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ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE MUSEUM IS THIS IS A MUSEUM FOR EVERYONE.

AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE THINK LIKE A PLANNER OUTREACH PROGRAM, WE DELIVER THAT THROUGH OUR STEM MOBILES, OUR MOBILE OUTREACH VANS.

LAST YEAR, WE SAW ALMOST 50/60,000 PEOPLE IN OUR OUTREACH PROGRAMS, AND 83% OF THOSE ARE PROVIDED AT NO COST TO OUR PARTNERS, BECAUSE WE WANT ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS TO BE EQUITABLE AND MAKE SURE THAT WE REALLY ARE REACHING OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY.

SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE PARTNERS THAT WE HAVE HERE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S YMCA, KIDS CLUB, BOYS AND GIRLS PROGRAMS, WE'RE GOING OUT AND DELIVERING PROGRAMS TO THEM AT NO COST, AS WELL AS TO TITLE ONE SCHOOLS.

SO LAST YEAR, WE SAW 422,000 VISITORS AT THE MUSEUM.

THIS FISCAL YEAR, WE'RE TRENDING ABOUT 17% AHEAD OF THAT NUMBER.

THAT'S LARGELY DUE TO A NEW EARLY CHILDHOOD EXHIBIT THAT WE OPENED IN AUGUST.

AND SOME OF THE ACCOLADES I WANTED TO SHARE.

AND THE REASON I'M SHARING THESE IS WE'RE DEVELOPING A CURRICULUM FOR THE BROWARD MPO.

WE'VE DEVELOPED CURRICULA FOR IMAX DOCUMENTARY MOVIES.

WE'RE DEVELOPING A NATIONAL LEARNING FRAMEWORK RIGHT NOW FOR CLIMATE EDUCATION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.

WE'RE ONE OF ONLY 17 MUSEUMS IN THE US WHO ARE AN OFFICIAL LEGO PARTNER MUSEUM.

SO WE'RE DOING SOME REALLY GREAT WORK AROUND THE COUNTRY.

AND HERE IN BROWARD THAT WAS RECOGNIZED THIS PAST SUMMER BY A VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE.

WE GOT TO GO TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND PICKED UP THE NATIONAL MEDAL FOR MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICE, IN PART DUE TO TWO THINGS THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING IN OUR ACCESS PROGRAMS AND THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY.

AND SO THIS WILL BE PART OF THAT PROGRAM.

SO NOW, IN PREPARATION FOR TODAY, I WANTED TO JUST GIVE YOU A BIT OF AN UPDATE.

SO WE CREATED AT THE MUSEUM OUR HUB FOR RESILIENCE EDUCATION.

AND SO THE HUB IS PROGRAMMATIC AND ALSO EXHIBIT FOCUSED.

WE'VE PUT TOGETHER AN INCREDIBLE COHORT OF OVER 30 DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING THE MPO, BROWARD COUNTY, BROWARD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FAU, FIU, WHO ARE ALL WORKING ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES HERE IN BROWARD.

SO WE'RE SERVING AS THE CONVENER FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND WE'RE DOING THAT BECAUSE WE RECOGNIZE AS YOU DO, THAT ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS ARE HUGE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF BROWARD COUNTY, SEA LEVEL RISE, YOU KNOW, EXTREME HEAT, THOSE ARE ALL IMPACTS THAT ARE GOING TO HAVE A HUGE, EFFECT ON OUR COMMUNITY.

BUT WHAT'S EXCITING, AND WE'RE APPROACHING THIS FROM A LENS OF HOPE AND OPTIMISM, BECAUSE WE WANT TO CREATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENGINEERS, THE NEXT GENERATION OF CIVIL PLANNERS WHO ARE GOING TO MAKE SOUTH FLORIDA THE MOST RESILIENT COMMUNITY POSSIBLE.

SO HOW ARE WE DOING THAT? AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE OUR STEM MOBILE.

SO WE HAVE FIVE OF THESE STEM MOBILES THAT ARE OUT AND ABOUT IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND EQUITABLE ACCESS TO PROGRAMS IS HUGE.

SO ALL OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DELIVERING WITH THIS NEW THINK LIKE A PLANET INITIATIVE ARE GOING TO BE PROVIDED TO TITLE ONE SCHOOLS, TO FESTIVALS, TO COMMUNITY CENTERS.

WE WILL LITERALLY SHOW UP AND DELIVER THE PROGRAM AT NO COST.

SO WE'RE SERVICING THE TRI COUNTY AREA.

LAST YEAR, I THINK WE SAW 60,000 WERE ON OUR WAY TO 75,000 PEOPLE THAT WILL SERVE IN THESE OUTREACH.

YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT EQUITY AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE IN THE RIGHT AREAS, WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH BROWARD COLLEGES BROWARD UP INITIATIVE TO IDENTIFY, AND THEY'VE IDENTIFIED THE 11 ZIP CODES THAT HAVE THE LOWEST EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TARGET THOSE ZIP CODES.

SO WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING OUT TO THEM AND REALLY LOOKING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE SEES THIS PROGRAM.

SO WHETHER WE'RE TRANSFORMING STUDENTS INTO PLANNERS, ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL ABOUT GETTING THEM TO THINK DIFFERENTLY.

CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS ARE HUGE.

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SO WHEN WE LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE DOING, SO THINK LIKE A PLANNER IS GOING TO BE A WHOLE SERIES OF PROGRAMS. SO WE'VE GOT A WHOLE SERIES OF PROGRAMS, A THICK 40 PAGE CURRICULUM THAT WE'VE DEVELOPED THAT ALIGNS WITH STANDARDS AND IS REALLY FUN AND EXCITING. SO IN HERE.

WE'VE GOT AWESOME AQUIFER WHERE WE LITERALLY TAKE AN AQUIFER MODEL OUT AND SET IT UP.

IT'S A PHYSICAL MODEL.

YOU CAN FLOOD AREAS, DRAIN AREAS.

IT WAS FASCINATING AND A LITTLE BIT SCARY.

WE TOOK IT TODAY.

IS STEM MOBILE IN STEM MOBILE SORRY STEM DAY IN TALLAHASSEE.

SO ONE OF OUR STEM MOBILES IS AT THE CAPITOL RIGHT NOW TEACHING THE LEGISLATURE ABOUT AQUIFERS AND HOW THEY WORK.

THE NUMBER OF QUESTIONS WE GOT WAS A LITTLE TERRIFYING, BUT VERY EXCITING AND INFORMATIVE.

AND SO THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT WORKS FOR CHILDREN ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO ADULTS.

SO OUR AQUIFER PROGRAM REALLY EXPLAINS THE IMPORTANCE OF AQUIFERS AND WHY, YOU KNOW, THIS CRITICAL SYSTEM IS SO IMPORTANT.

BUILD A BETTER BUS STOP.

THIS IS AMAZING.

WE ARE SO EXCITED BY THIS PROGRAM.

WE HAVE A GROUP OF INTERNS WHO WORK WITH US AT THE MUSEUM, AND WE CHALLENGE THEM WITH A QUESTION.

WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH LEGO, AND LEGO HAS THIS NATIONAL GLOBAL PROGRAM CALLED BUILD THE CHANGE, WHERE THEY ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO USE LEGO BRICKS TO BUILD A HABITAT FOR A SEAHORSE.

DO SOMETHING FUN.

AND WE SAID, WE WANT TO GO A BIT FURTHER.

HOW DO WE TIE THIS INTO AN EQUITABLE DISCUSSION ABOUT TRANSPORTATION? AND SO WE CAME UP WITH BUS STOPS.

SO THIS IS A 45 MINUTE PROGRAM WHERE WE ASK CHILDREN TO BUILD A BUS STOP THAT IS A COMMUNITY CENTER THAT HAS, YOU KNOW, SHELTER THAT IS, YOU KNOW, ATTRACTIVE, THAT SERVES ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT PURPOSES AND THEN BUILD IT.

AND THEN, MOST EXCITINGLY FOR A SEVEN YEAR OLD FUTURE CITY PLANNER, POST IT TO THE ACTUAL LEGO WEBSITE AND SHARE THEIR WORK WITH THE WORLD COMMUNITY BUILDERS, WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT ZONING AND ACTUALLY FIGURING OUT HOW YOU ACTUALLY PLAN AND ZONE FOR AN ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. COMPLETE STREETS, EXPLAINING WHAT COMPLETE STREETS IS, AND GETTING PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THESE WEIRD PARTS OF THE STREET THAT ARE POPPING UP AND WHY ARE THEY SO IMPORTANT, AND HOW DOES THIS MAKE MY LIFE BETTER? AND THEN LASTLY, WEATHER THE STORM WHERE WE'RE GOING THROUGH DESIGNING MORE FLOOD RESILIENT HOMES AND COMMUNITIES.

SO REALLY EXCITED ABOUT BRINGING THIS TO LIFE.

INCREDIBLY APPRECIATIVE TO THE PARTNERSHIP WITH BROWARD MPO AND HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.

EXCELLENT. VERY EXCITING JOE.

ANY QUESTIONS? NO QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE. I KNOW I'D SEEN THE BUDGET ITEM IN THE AGENDA, AND IT'S SUPER EXCITING TO SEE WHERE THIS HAS GONE AND WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE.

EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. BILL HAS A COMMENT TO ADD.

YEAH, MY ONLY COMMENT HERE IS THAT, MODS IS GOING TO BE HOSTING THE MTP 2050 ROLLOUT IN SEPTEMBER, WHERE WE'LL BE TAKING OUR BOARD DOWN THERE TO THAT FACILITY AND HOSTING THAT EVENT THERE.

SO LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE IN SEPTEMBER.

OKAY. THANK YOU. LOOK FOR THE STEM BILLS OUT ON THE STREET.

THANK YOU. AND THERE'S FLIERS AT YOUR DESK.

THANK YOU CHRISTOPHER.

YES. FOR THE SEPTEMBER ACTIVITY OKAY.

NEXT WE'RE MOVING ON TO OUR LAST BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST PRESENTATION REGARDING THE LOW STRESS MULTIMODAL NETWORK MASTER PLAN.

[5. Report from Partner Agency - Broward County - Low Stress Multimodal Mobility Network Master Plan]

ALL RIGHT. GOOD AFTERNOON.

I'M JOSETTE SEVERIN. I'M THE CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR WITH BROWARD COUNTY FOR THE LOW STRESS MULTIMODAL MOBILITY NETWORK MASTER PLAN.

BEFORE I INTRODUCE OUR CONSULTANT TEAM, I WANT TO MAKE MENTION THAT THIS PROJECT SERVES AS MATCH FOR THE SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL ACTION PLAN GRANT.

THAT IS A JOINT GRANT ACCEPTED BY THE BROWARD MPO AND, BROWARD COUNTY.

SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I PRESENT TO YOU CHRISTINA FUHRMAN AND JEFF WEIDNER.

HELLO. HELLO. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY.

I HOPE Y'ALL ARE STILL AWAKE.

SO MY NAME IS CHRISTINA FURMAN.

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AND I'M THE PROJECT MANAGER OVERSEEING THIS THIS PLAN.

I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR TEAM OF SUB CONSULTANTS [INAUDIBLE] PIERCE, MICHAEL BAKER CURTIS AND ROGER SEACOAST ARENA, SNUBS AND VALORANT GROUP.

OH, I GOTTA PRESS THIS THING, DON'T I? ALL RIGHT, SO THE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN FOR SHORT, STARTED OFF IN DECEMBER OF 2022, WHERE WE KICKED OFF THE PROJECT.

AND WE ANTICIPATE COMPLETION OF THIS PROJECT BY APPROXIMATELY MAY.

THE BROWARD MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN IS A COUNTY WIDE MASTER PLANNING EFFORT WITH A VISION OF CREATING AN INCLUSIVE, LOW STRESS, MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION NETWORK FOR ALL AGES AND ABILITIES HERE IN BROWARD COUNTY.

WE'RE BUILDING THIS PLAN ON THE FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF SAFETY, COMFORT, CONVENIENCE, AND INCLUSIVENESS.

AND OUR PROJECT IS BEING DEVELOPED THROUGH THESE SEVEN TASK SCOPED ITEMS THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN.

SO THE GOAL AND PURPOSE OF THIS MASTER PLAN IS TO ENHANCE ACCESSIBILITY AND MOBILITY FOR ALL PEOPLE OF ALL AGES IN THE COUNTY. THE GRAPHIC THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN DEPICTS YOUR STANDARD ONE MILE BLOCK HERE IN BROWARD COUNTY, WHICH IS TYPICALLY SURROUNDED BY YOUR MAIN PRINCIPAL ARTERIALS WITH HIGH SPEEDS AND HIGH TRAFFIC VOLUMES.

THINK UNIVERSITY DRIVE, OAKLAND PARK, 441.

AND THEN WE'RE FOCUSING IN ON THE COLLECTOR STREETS, THE ROADWAY NETWORKS, THE SLOWER STREETS, RIGHT, OF PLACING THIS LOW STRESS NETWORK.

SO ONE OF THE CHALLENGES OUR TEAM FACES IS CREATING POLICIES, STRATEGIES AND DESIGN INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS CROSSING THESE MAIN ARTERIALS, CROSSING CANALS, CROSSING HIGHWAYS, RAILROADS AND OTHER TYPES OF BARRIERS.

SO I MENTIONED LOW STRESS NETWORK.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE UNAWARE, A LOW STRESS NETWORK PROVIDES THE PERCEPTION AND REALITY OF SAFE TRAVEL.

IT CONNECTS COMMUNITIES, DESTINATIONS AND JOBS.

THEY CAN BE USED BY PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND ABILITIES.

THINK 8 TO 88.

THEY CAN BE LOCATED ON SLOW SPEED STREETS OR SEPARATED FROM TRAFFIC ON HIGHER TRAFFIC ROADWAYS.

BUT THE IDEA IS THAT THE NETWORK IS SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE TO ALL PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND ABILITIES.

SO HOW DO WE DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF STRESS THAT A FACILITY OR A NETWORK HAS? WE UTILIZE AN EVALUATION METHOD CALLED THE LEVEL OF TRAFFIC STRESS.

AND THIS IS HOW THIS MEASURES THE LEVEL OF STRESS A PERSON MAY EXPERIENCE WHILE USING THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND ITS AVAILABLE FACILITIES.

SO THIS METHODOLOGY WAS TAKEN FROM THE FDOT GUIDEBOOK.

AND THEY HAVE LEVEL OF TRAFFIC STRESS 12341 BEING THE MOST ACCESSIBLE, COMFORTABLE AND CONVENIENT TO USE PEOPLE, CHILDREN AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES CAN UTILIZE.

AND THEN A LEVEL OF TRAFFIC STRESS FOUR IS THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE FACILITY TO USE AND MAY NOT BE ACCESSIBLE FOR A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY.

SO THIS PLAN WE STRIVE TO CREATE A LEVEL OF TRAFFIC STRESS 1 OR 2 AND AT MINIMUM THREE IF WE CAN ACHIEVE THE 1 OR 2.

SO NOW THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS AND WHAT WE'RE DOING, SOME KEY FINDINGS THROUGH OUR EXISTING CONDITIONS ANALYSIS.

SO TODAY THE POPULATION, THE POPULATION HERE IN BROWARD COUNTY TRAVELED TO WORK BY WALKING, BIKING OR TRANSIT.

IT'S ABOUT 5%.

ABOUT 30% OF COUNTY RESIDENTS ARE NOT PHYSICALLY ACTIVE.

66% OF RESIDENTS ARE COST BURDEN.

THEY'RE SPENDING THEIR INCOME ON MOSTLY HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION.

AND THIS NUMBER IS INCREASING.

A RECENT REPORT CAME OUT THAT 95 OR OVER 95 OF BROWARD COUNTY RESIDENTS CANNOT AFFORD TO PURCHASE A HOME IN BROWARD COUNTY.

WE ALSO FOUND THAT THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK WASN'T NECESSARILY DESIGNED TO ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE WALKING AND BIKING.

IT WAS DESIGNED MOSTLY TO ACCOMMODATE VEHICULAR PEAK HOUR CONDITIONS.

AND BECAUSE OF THIS, TODAY BROWARD COUNTY RANKS 14TH NATIONALLY AS THE MOST DANGEROUS METROPOLITAN AREA IN THE NATION FOR PEOPLE WALKING AND BIKING.

WE ARE LEADING THE STATE IN SERIOUS INJURIES AND DEATHS, AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WE FOUND IS THAT ON THE ROADWAYS WHERE THESE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN CRASHES ARE HAPPENING, THEY'RE OCCURRING ON ROADWAYS THAT POSTED SPEED LIMITS OF 40 MILES AN HOUR OR MORE.

AND THROUGH RESEARCH AND STUDIES, WE FOUND THAT IF YOU'RE GETTING HIT BY A VEHICLE AT 40 MILES AN HOUR, YOUR CHANCE OF SERIOUS INJURY OR SURVIVAL IS ABOUT 10%. IF YOU'RE GETTING HIT BY A VEHICLE AT 20 MILES AN HOUR, YOUR CHANCE OF SURVIVAL IS ABOUT 90%.

SO THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT DANGEROUS BY DESIGN, WHICH IS A PUBLICATION PUBLISHED BY SMART GROWTH AMERICA, IS THAT LAST YEAR THEY PUBLISHED INFORMATION ON HOW WALKING

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DISPROPORTIONATELY AMONG BLACK, INDIGENOUS AND DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES.

SO THIS MAP HERE, YOU SEE THE TAN LINES ARE THE DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES.

THESE WERE, INTRODUCED IN AND PROVIDED BY USDOT.

AND WHEN WE OVERLOAD OVERLAID THAT TRAFFIC DATA, WE LOOKED AT FIVE YEARS OF TRAFFIC CRASHES AS IT RELATES TO BICYCLES AND PEDESTRIANS FOCUSING ON THE SERIOUS INJURIES AND FATALITIES, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED BY, WALKING AND BIKING CRASHES.

SO NOW THAT YOU HAVE A BASE UNDERSTANDING OF SOME OF THE EXISTING CONDITIONS, I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE LEVEL OF TRAFFIC STRESS ANALYSIS THAT OUR TEAM DID FOR BROWARD COUNTY.

AND THIS IS THE, EXCUSE ME, THIS IS LOOKING AT THE EXISTING SYSTEM.

SO THE BICYCLE LEVEL OF TRAFFIC STRESS ANALYSIS CAME IN FOR MOST OF THE FACILITIES AT AN LTS 3 OR 4, MEANING IT'S NOT SO COMFORTABLE TO BIKE ON THE EXISTING NETWORK. AND WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE PEDESTRIAN LEVEL OF TRAFFIC STRESS, IT CAME IN AT ABOUT AN LTS TWO.

SO RELATIVELY COMFORTABLE TO WALK.

AND THE CRITERIA THAT WAS USED IS OUTLINED ON THE SLIDES THERE.

SO ONCE WE HAD A BASIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXISTING LEVEL OF TRAFFIC STRESS, WE BEGAN THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT.

WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF WRAPPING UP THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, BUT IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY NEEDS, WE HAD TO DO A DESTINATION ACCESSIBILITY ANALYSIS WHERE WE LOOKED AT JOBS, TRANSIT, SCHOOLS, PARKS AND GROCERY STORES.

THOSE ARE THE FIVE PRIORITIZED DESTINATIONS THAT WE LOOKED AT FOR ACCESSIBILITY.

AND WE CAME UP WITH SCORING FOR HIGH ACCESS AND LOW ACCESS, WITH THE GREEN AND THE RED AS HIGH ACCESS, THE GREEN BEING LOW LEVEL OF TRAFFIC STRESS, THE RED BEING HIGH LEVEL OF TRAFFIC STRESS AND THEN LOW ACCESS.

IN TERMS OF THE DESTINATIONS IDENTIFIED, IN THAT DARK BLUE AND ORANGE COLOR.

SO YOU CAN SEE FROM THE MAP, A LOT OF THE HIGH ACCESSIBILITY AREAS ARE KIND OF IN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTY, WITH THE WESTERN AREAS HAVING LOW ACCESS, WHICH, AS YOU CAN GUESS, IS THE OUTCOME OF HAVING THAT TYPICAL SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT PATTERN.

SO THAT ANALYSIS THEN LED US TO A GAPS AND OPPORTUNITIES ANALYSIS.

AND THIS IS THE FRAMEWORK.

THIS IS IN DRAFT FORM OF COURSE, BUT THIS IS THE BASE FRAMEWORK FOR A LOW STRESS NETWORK HERE IN BROWARD COUNTY.

THE PURPLE IS THE EXISTING TRAILS.

THE GREEN ARE RELATIVELY EASY TO IMPLEMENT.

THE ORANGE IS MORE INVOLVING SO MORE MODERATE TO IMPLEMENT.

THE RED WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO IMPLEMENT DUE TO EITHER RIGHT OF WAY RESTRICTIONS, OR IT IS IDENTIFIED AS HIGH INJURY NETWORK.

AND THEN THE BLUE ARE CANAL OPPORTUNITIES.

WE ARE HOPING TO HAVE A PROJECT LIST IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTING TO THE PUBLIC FOR FEEDBACK AND COMMENT.

AND FINALLY, I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE FACT THAT OUR TEAM IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON A DESIGN MANUAL WHICH WILL HIGHLIGHT BEST PRACTICES, BRANDING AND A PLACEMAKING TOOLKIT THAT WILL BE GEARED FOR MUNICIPALITIES.

AND THIS DESIGN MANUAL IS BUILDING OFF OF THE EFFORTS OF THE COMPLETE STREETS DESIGN MANUAL AND OTHER PLANNING RELATED EFFORTS AS IT RELATES TO BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITY DESIGN, AND WE'RE HOPING TO INCORPORATE STRATEGIES, CONTEXT BASED SOLUTIONS, AS WELL AS MULTIMODAL LEVEL OF SERVICE STANDARDS.

SO WE'VE DONE A NUMBER OF OUTREACH EFFORTS.

WE'VE TALKED TO STAKEHOLDERS.

WE'VE BEEN TO COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND BOARD PRESENTATIONS.

AND OUR NEXT PUBLIC MEETING WHICH WILL BE PRESENTING THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT.

SOME. PRELIMINARY DESIGN, MANUAL AND PLACE MAKING TOOLKIT ITEMS TO THE PUBLIC FOR FEEDBACK AND COMMENT WILL BE FEBRUARY 22ND.

IT WILL BE A VIRTUAL MEETING, EXCUSE ME, A HYBRID MEETING.

SO IT WOULD BE VIRTUAL AND IN PERSON AT GOVERNMENT CENTER EAST IN FORT LAUDERDALE AT 6:30.

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.

AND JUST TO HIGHLIGHT ON THE SCREEN, THIS IS OUR PROJECT WEBSITE.

ON BROWARD COUNTY'S WEBSITE, YOU CAN SCAN THE QR CODE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

YOU CAN ALSO ACCESS OUR SURVEY WHICH IS CURRENTLY OPEN.

AND IF YOU NEED TO CONTACT ME OR HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, MY CONTACT INFORMATION IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THAT WEBSITE.

AND I GUESS THAT'S IT.

I'LL TAKE QUESTIONS. THANK YOU.

EXCELLENT. THANK YOU.

ANY QUESTIONS? CHRISTOPHER. THANK YOU.

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MY QUESTION IS, DOES THIS FORM THE BASIS FOR THE HIGH INJURY NETWORK FOR THE SAFE STREETS FOR ALL GRANT.

THUS I WASN'T PART OF THE SAFE STREETS FOR ALL.

GRANT. JOSETTE, DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER TO THAT? JAMES IS COMING UP, MAKING HIS WAY.

YEAH. JAMES CROMER HERE BROWARD MPO.

SO, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

WE CAN TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT DATA SOURCES THEY USED.

WE CAN DISCUSS IT RIGHT NOW, BUT IT'S PROBABLY BETTER TO HAVE A SIDE CONVERSATION AND WE CAN COME BACK ON THAT.

BUT, YEAH, WE WILL BE DEVELOPING THAT HIGH INJURY NETWORK FOR THE SAFE STREETS FOR ALL.

I BELIEVE THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME OVERLAP.

ONE THING I COULD REFER YOU TO NOW IS ON OUR MPO WEBSITE, WHERE WE HAVE OUR PERFORMANCE MEASURES.

THERE IS A HIGH INJURY NETWORK MAP FOR, ALL CRASHES THAT INVOLVE SERIOUS INJURY AND FATALITIES.

AND THEN THERE'S A BIKE PED ONE.

SO I'M THINKING THIS ONE IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE MORE IN LINE WITH JUST THE PED BIKE.

CORRECT? YEAH. OKAY.

I HOPE THAT ANSWERS THE QUESTION.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES. DOES THE DATA THAT YOU ALL LOOKED AT FOR THIS MAP INCLUDE BIKE AND RAIL CRASHES? SO THIS DATA WAS PULLED FROM SIGNAL FOR ANALYTICS AND INCLUDES ALL BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN RELATED CRASHES.

RIGHT. I DON'T THINK RAIL IS INCLUDED IN THAT SIGNAL FOR.

THANK YOU. USUALLY IT'S NOT.

FOR YOUR DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS LIKE POST INPUT AND EVERYTHING.

HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED USING ELEVATION CHANGES BETWEEN MODES OF TRAFFIC FOR, SEPARATION? AND THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS.

THERE HAS BEEN SOME DISCUSSIONS, LIKE BRIDGES, FOR INSTANCE, OR LIKE A SEPARATED, ELEVATED FACILITY.

YES, WE HAVE HAD SOME DISCUSSIONS ON THAT, AND OUR CONCEPTUAL DESIGN INCLUDED SOMETHING SIMILAR AS WELL WHEN WE WERE GOING AFTER THIS PROJECT INITIALLY. AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, NOT THE TYPICAL GRADE SEPARATION WHERE YOU'RE LOOKING AT BRIDGES OR UNDERPASSES.

ONE OF THE THOUGHTS WE HAD, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY OVERPASSES ARE DIFFICULT TO GET PEDESTRIANS TO USE, BUT PERHAPS THROUGH THE PLACEMAKING TOOLKIT, CREATING A PUBLIC SPACE INSTEAD OF JUST A WALKWAY AND MAKE IT AN EXCITING ENVIRONMENT THAT PEOPLE WOULD WANT TO BE AT.

IN ADDITION, THE COPENHAGEN STYLE BIKE LANES.

ALRIGHT. THE LITTLE ELEVATION.

[INAUDIBLE] YES.

DEFINITELY. YES.

BUT, ANDREW.

THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU AND YOUR TEAM IDENTIFIED A HOUSING, AS PART OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE SOLUTION HERE.

AND MENTIONED THAT IN THE PRESENTATION.

JUST BECAUSE I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHAT A LOT OF WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS BRIDGING, YOU KNOW, TRANSPORTATION GAPS AND HOW DO YOU DO THAT? AND ONE OF THOSE THINGS IS BY, YOU KNOW, INCREASING DENSITY.

SO I'M SO GLAD THAT WAS, PART OF THE PRESENTATION.

AND THEN, I ALONG WITH, CHRIS, I THINK, DO THINK WE NEED TO GET MORE CREATIVE WITH OUR, YOU KNOW, BIKE LANES IN TERMS OF BUFFERING. THANK YOU.

SARAH. SHE'S VIRTUAL.

OKAY. SORRY.

IT TAKES A LITTLE WHILE TO GET TO THE UNMUTE BUTTON.

SO I'M THE BROWARD COUNTY BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, COORDINATOR, AND I JUST WANTED TO STRESS HOW IMPORTANT THIS PROJECT IS.

AND BEGINNING WITH, YOU KNOW, WE ARE FIRST AND FOREMOST PEDESTRIANS, AND WE JUST USE VEHICLES TO GET AROUND.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE CREATED THIS NETWORK OF VEHICLES FOR VEHICLES, BUT NOT NECESSARILY A, YOU KNOW, A GOOD NETWORK FOR PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS.

A REMINDER THAT VULNERABLE POPULATIONS ARE OFTEN UNABLE TO DRIVE.

SO THEY USE TRANSIT, BUT THEY HAVE TO WALK TO GET TO TRANSIT.

AND WE ARE PROMOTING GETTING MORE CARS OFF THE ROAD BECAUSE WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY TO CONTINUE ADDING MORE AND MORE VEHICLES ON OUR ROADWAYS.

SO WE REALLY NEED TO PROVIDE A SAFE AND COMFORTABLE NETWORK, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO USE, THAT WANT TO USE AND THAT IS COMFORTABLE TO

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THAT'S MY SOAPBOX.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SARAH.

ALEXANDER. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I'VE BEEN PUSHING THIS FOR MANY YEARS.

WHEN YOU SHOWED THE CHART ABOUT, THE LIGHTS, THE BIKE LANES THAT ARE BEING DESIGNED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY ARE HITTING ALL THE POPULATION.

IT'S JUST A SELECT FEW IN A CERTAIN AGE RANGE.

BUT I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THE DESIGN MENU.

IS IT GOING TO BE ADOPTED BY THE COUNTY FOR COUNTY STREETS AND CITY STREETS, OR IS IT SORT OF LIKE A DESIGN GUIDELINE TO HELP? DEVELOP NEW SYSTEM OF BIKE LANES AND PEDESTRIANS.

YES. I MEAN THAT'S THE GOAL IS TO REALLY GET IT ADOPTED BY THE COUNTY.

AND THAT WAY THE COUNTY CAN PUSH IT OUT TO THE MUNICIPALITIES, AND THE MUNICIPALITIES CAN UTILIZE IT TO CONNECT INTO THAT PRIMARY NETWORK.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I DID HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. IF YOU GO BACK TO THE MAP.

ARE YOU LOOKING AT SOME OF THE EXISTING CANAL TRAILS? I DON'T KNOW IF THEY WOULD BE.

I KNOW DAVEY HAS SOME GREAT CONNECTIONS THROUGH CANAL TRAILS, AND I DIDN'T SEE THEM ON HERE.

I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE WORTH IF YOU HAVEN'T LOOKED AT THEM.

THEY KIND OF FLAMINGO TO KNOB HILL.

THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY GREAT TRAILS AND CONNECTIONS THROUGH THERE ALREADY.

BUT YEAH, SO UNFORTUNATELY, WE'RE LIMITED TO THE DATA THAT'S AVAILABLE.

RIGHT. SO THE COUNTY PROVIDED US DATA AND THEN WE SUPPLEMENTED SOME OF THE DATA WITH FDOT DATA.

SO UNLESS IT'S SHOWING UP ON ONE OF THOSE DATA SETS, I KNOW, THE TOWN DAVEY HAS SOME GREAT MAPS AND TRAILS, MAPS THAT THEY HAVE AVAILABLE.

I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL, BUT THERE'S SOME REALLY, AND I'VE TOLD JOSETTE THIS BEFORE, TOO.

I RIDE MY BIKE OUT THERE.

IT'S EXCELLENT. BUT THERE'S SOME REALLY IMPORTANT MISSING CROSSINGS, LIKE NO SIGNALS BETWEEN, LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, LIKE WHOLE BLOCKS, MILES, THAT THERE'S NO CROSSINGS AND THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE RIDING THEIR BIKES AND JUST GOING FOR IT ACROSS TRAFFIC THAT'S DOING 60.

SO YEAH, I THINK THERE'S SOME IMPORTANT CONNECTIONS THAT ARE MISSING OUT THERE.

AND IF YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THOSE, AND THOSE ARE DEFINITELY THE LOW STRESS NETWORKS OF TO GETTING BETWEEN AND NOT BEING ON THE MAJOR ROADS.

YEAH. SO OUR, DESIGN MANUAL WILL DEFINITELY ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE ISSUES.

YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT CROSSING AND CROSSING SOME OF THESE MAJOR ARTERIALS IS A BIG BARRIER.

SO WE'RE DEFINITELY FOCUSED IN AND WE'LL BE PROVIDING SOME DESIGN GUIDANCE IN TERMS OF CROSSINGS.

ONE THING I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT JUST REMINDED ME OF IS THAT WE'RE GETTING READY TO RELEASE OUR CROWDSOURCE MAP, WHICH WILL BE SHOWING TO AT THE PUBLIC MEETING. AND SO OUR CROWDSOURCED MAP WILL ADDITIONALLY, ESSENTIALLY HAVE YOU IDENTIFY AREAS THAT, YOU THINK ARE REALLY GOOD FOR CROSSING, ARE UNSAFE, SAFE FOR CROSSING, RIDING A BIKE, WALKING, AND THEN PATHWAYS.

AND WE'RE ALSO HOPING TO UPLOAD OUR, PROPOSED NETWORK AND INTO THAT MAP SO THAT FOLKS CAN PROVIDE COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK, ON THE PROPOSED NETWORK, LOW STRESS NETWORK, THAT IS.

EXCELLENT. THANK YOU, IF THERE'S ANY WAY, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE AN AUDIENCE OF ALL THE CITIES HERE AND IF YOU CAN SHARE WITH US MAYBE BLURBS OF THE PROJECT AND THE LINKS AND THINGS SO THAT WE CAN SHARE WITH OUR RESIDENTS TO HELP WITH THAT.

THAT WOULD BE EXCELLENT. YES, DEFINITELY.

WORKING WITH JOSETTE AND REACHING OUT TO ALL THE PIO CITY PIOS AND PUSHING OUT THE INFORMATION, THE FLIER.

AND THEN ALSO TRYING TO GET A CONTINUE TO GET A PUSH ON OUR PUBLIC SURVEY.

OKAY. EXCELLENT.

ANY FINAL QUESTIONS? THANK YOU. EXCITING STUFF TODAY.

THE REMAINING ITEMS ON OUR AGENDA ARE JUST ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS.

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THE UNIFIED PLANNING WORK PROGRAM.

THERE IS A CALL FOR PROJECTS, OR IF YOU HAVE ANY, FEDERALLY FUNDED PLANNING PROJECTS TO INCLUDE IN THERE.

YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF THE EQUIVALENT OF THE TIP, BUT FOR PLANNING STUFF, MAKE SURE YOU RESPOND TO THOSE.

I THINK THE DEADLINE IS IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS.

SO GETTING THOSE IN THERE'S SOME TRAININGS THAT HAVE COME OUT THROUGH THE EMAILS, THE REMINDER SAFE STREET SUMMITS COMING UP THE END OF FEBRUARY IN MIAMI DADE THIS YEAR. AND DON'T FORGET, IN MARCH, THE STATE OF THE REGION IS COMING UP AS WELL.

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THEY ARE BACK IN PERSON.

AND IT'S EXCELLENT TO SEE EVERYONE.

AND IT'S RIGHT BEFORE OUR MEETING.

SO SUPER CONVENIENT. JUST COME AN EXTRA HOUR EARLY, AND YOU'RE RIGHT THERE.

THEY HAVE A LOT OF GREAT STUFF THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT AS WELL, SO IT MAKES IT EASIER FOR ALL OF US.

AND I THINK THAT WAS IT. BILL.

ANYTHING ELSE I MISSED TO HIGHLIGHT? WELL, MAYBE JUST THE LET'S GO BIKING.

OKAY. BRINGING THAT SHOW BACK AGAIN I KNOW THAT WAS ALSO SOMETHING IMPACTED.

SO THAT'S ALSO MARCH.

SO LOT GOING ON IN MARCH.

YES. BUSY TIME AGAIN.

EXCELLENT. THANK YOU EVERYONE.

OUR NEXT MEETING IS FEBRUARY 28TH.

SEE YOU NEXT MONTH. HAVE A GREAT DAY.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.