May 28, 2025 Citizens' Advisory Committee

THE MIC GOES ON. OKAY.

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[1. Call to Order and Recognition of Quorum]

THAT'S CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION.

[2. Electronic Roll Call]

OKAY. THANK YOU. NEXT, CAN WE HAVE AN APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM

[3. Approval of Minutes - April 23, 2025]

OKAY. WE DO ANY COMMENTS? ADDITIONS, CORRECTIONS.

SEEING NONE, PLEASE VOTE.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. NEXT ITEM.

[4. Approval of Agenda]

I'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT IT BEFORE. SO AGAIN, MAY I HAVE A MOTION A SECOND? WE HAVE THAT. THE COMMENTS.

OKAY. AND PLEASE ENTER YOUR VOTE.

OKAY. THANK YOU. REBECCA, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT REQUESTS FOR TONIGHT. NO, CHAIR, WE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS.

[1. MOTION TO RECOMMEND BROWARD MPO APPROVE the DRAFT FISCAL YEAR (FY) 2026 LIST OF PRIORITY PROJECTS (LOPP)]

THERE WILL NOT BE A PRESENTATION FOR THIS.

AS YOU RECALL, WE WENT THROUGH THIS IN LAST MONTH'S MEETING.

WE COVERED ALL THE TERRITORY, I THINK.

SO UNLESS ANYBODY HAS BURNING COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS.

I'D LIKE TO PROCEED WITH A VOTE IN THE INTEREST OF TIME.

DOCTOR ZHANG, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS YOU WANT TO MAKE ON THAT? NO, I DON'T. OKAY. GOOD ANSWER.

THERE WERE TWO PROCEDURAL CHANGES SINCE THE LAST MONTH'S MEETING.

BUT THEY WERE STRICTLY TO COMPLY WITH FDOT AND COUNTY LANGUAGE AND SO FORTH.

SO THEY HAD NO MATERIAL EFFECT ON ANYTHING.

SO DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY COMMENT AT ALL? OKAY, GOOD. IN THAT CASE MAY I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND? WE HAVE THAT AGAIN. OKAY.

AND PLEASE ENTER YOUR VOTES.

WE GOT HUNG UP HERE. OKAY.

NOW VOTE. SO CARL, EMIL, BROWARD AND STAFF, I JUST WANT TO CALL OUT AN ISSUE WITH THE VDU, THE VIDEO DISPLAY UNIT.

SO THE MOTION THAT'S BEING VOTED ON RIGHT NOW, YOU'LL NOTICE IT'S THE IT'S THE MOTION FROM LAST MONTH.

SO THAT IS NOT THE MOTION YOU'RE VOTING ON RIGHT NOW.

THAT'S ON THE AGENDA. THE MOTION TO THE MOTION IS MOTION TO RECOMMEND BROWARD MPO APPROVE THE DRAFT FISCAL YEAR 2026 LIST OF PRIORITY PROJECTS OR LOPP.

THAT'S THAT IS WHAT'S BEING VOTED ON, NOT WHAT NOT THE MOTION YOU SEE AT THE TOP LEFT THERE. SO THAT'LL THAT'LL BE CORRECTED AFTER.

OKAY, GOOD. AND EVERYBODY'S VOTED.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BOY, IF ALL MEETINGS WENT LIKE THIS, THIS WAS GOOD. THAT TAKES US INTO THE FIRST ACTION ITEM THE ROUTE TO 2050 METROPOLITAN

[1. Route to 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) Mast-Arm Conversion Projects]

AND CHRIS RESTREPO IS GOING TO WALK US THROUGH THAT.

CHRISTOPHER? YES, SIR.

GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS CHRISTOPHER RESTREPO.

I AM THE PROJECT MANAGER FOR ROUTE TO 2050 METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN.

AND BASED ON A REQUEST, I AM HERE TO TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW WE IDENTIFIED MAST ARM CONVERSION PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY AND HOW WE GOT THEM INTO OUR DRAFT OR INTO OUR COST FEASIBLE PLAN FOR OUR MTRP.

SO LET'S GET STARTED. BEFORE I GET INTO HOW WE IDENTIFIED THE PROJECTS, I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT ONE OF OUR FUNDING PROGRAMS IS TITLED THE INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING PROGRAM.

AND WITHIN THAT PROGRAM WE HAVE TWO TYPES OF PROJECTS.

ONE IS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING STUDIES, IN WHICH YOU'LL SEE IN THE MAP TO THE RIGHT HERE AND THE LONG CORRIDORS, THE ROADWAYS, THOSE ARE GOING TO BE OUR INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING STUDIES.

AND THEN THE SECOND PROJECT THAT WE HAVE IS MAST ARM CONVERSION PROJECTS.

SO IF YOU WERE TO BE ABLE TO ZOOM INTO THAT MAP, THOSE LITTLE TINY DOTS, THOSE ARE THE LOCATIONS OF THE MAST ARM PROJECTS. WE HAVE ABOUT 50 PROJECTS IN THAT PROGRAM, AND THERE'S ABOUT $44 MILLION THAT'S GOING TO BE FUNDING THOSE 50 PROJECTS.

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STEP ONE THE IDENTIFICATION OF INTERSECTIONS.

SO THE MPO CONDUCTED A NEEDS ASSESSMENT, DOING A GIS ANALYSIS, DOING A TABLETOP VIEW OF WHERE ALL THE SPAN WIRE SIGNALIZATION INTERSECTIONS ARE CURRENTLY IN BROWARD THAT DO NOT HAVE MAST ARMS LOCATED THERE.

STEP TWO WAS TO REALLY FOCUS IN ON AREAS THAT ARE ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL FOR FOR BROWARD TO HAVE THESE MAST ARM LOCATIONS.

SO WHAT WE DID IS WE FOCUSED IN ON THE REGIONAL NETWORK, AND THAT HELPED CREATE SOME CRITICALITY TO THESE LOCATIONS, TO THESE ROADWAYS, SO THAT WE MADE SURE THAT WE WERE PROPERLY INVESTING IN THE RIGHT AREAS. STEP THREE WAS PARTNER COORDINATION.

SO OVER THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING OUR 2050 METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN, WE COORDINATED QUITE A BIT WITH BROWARD COUNTY AND WITH REGULAR UPDATES.

SO WE MET QUARTERLY TO IDENTIFY WHERE WE ARE IDENTIFYING PROJECTS AND WHERE THEY WERE IDENTIFYING PROJECTS. WHAT WE LEARNED WAS THAT BROWARD COUNTY WAS ALSO DOING A SIMILAR PROCESS, BUT FOCUSING THEIR INVESTMENTS ON COUNTY COUNTY ROADWAYS.

SO TO COMPLEMENT THAT INVESTMENT, WE THOUGHT IT WAS OPTIMAL TO FOCUS ON THE AREAS WHERE THEY WERE NOT INVESTING, WHICH IS THE STATE OWNED ROADWAYS.

SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF THOSE MAST ARM LOCATIONS ON STATE OWNED FACILITIES.

NOW, TO SAVE YOU FROM ALL OF THE PROJECT PRIORITIZATION PROCESS, WE DID ASSIGN SCORES TO EACH ONE OF THE DIFFERENT ROADWAYS THAT WE HAD WITHIN OUR NETWORK. SO WHAT WE DID IS WE CREATED AN INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING NETWORK ASSESSMENT WHERE WE TOOK A LOT OF DIFFERENT STRESSORS, EVALUATION TOOLS TO GIVE SCORES TO THOSE ROADWAYS SO THAT WHEN A MAST ARM FELL ON THAT ROADWAY, WE WERE ABLE TO APPLY A SCORE TO IT BASED OFF OF SOME OF THE CRITERIA YOU SEE HERE ON THIS SLIDE. AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THE ONES THAT HAD THE HIGHER SCORE WERE THE HIGHER PRIORITIES.

SO STEP FIVE IS TO CREATE OUR COST FEASIBLE PLAN BASED ON REVENUE AVAILABILITY THAT WE CAN EXPECT TO HAVE UNTIL THE YEAR 2050 THAT WE USED AS A RESOURCE WAS THE FDOT 2050 REVENUE FORECAST HANDBOOK.

WE JUST WENT DOWN THE LIST UNTIL WE COULDN'T PROGRAM ANY MORE PROJECTS.

AND SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS THEMSELVES, YOU CAN GO TO ROUTE TO 2050.ORG.

THERE'S A REALLY FUN INTERACTIVE MAP WHERE YOU CAN ZOOM IN, CLICK ON THE DIFFERENT INTERSECTIONS.

GET SOME PROJECT DETAILS.

FIND OUT WHAT'S BEING PROGRAMED, WHEN AND WHAT LOCATIONS THERE ARE.

THEY ARE AT. AND I'M HERE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.

WE DO GREGORY. THANK YOU SIR.

HELLO, CHRISTOPHER. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS PRESENTATION.

I REALLY I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS.

SO QUESTIONS. REMIND US AGAIN HOW INTERSECTIONS WERE IDENTIFIED.

SO THE COUNTY WAS LOOKING AT COUNTY COUNTY INTERSECTIONS AND THEN MPO WAS LOOKING AT OTHERS. SO COULD YOU GO BACK TO THAT CRITERIA LIST IN TERMS OF HOW YOU IDENTIFIED INTERSECTIONS? SO THE FIRST THING THAT WE DID IS WE DID A GIS ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFIED WHERE ALL THE CURRENT SPAN WIRE INTERSECTIONS ARE.

SO THE INTERSECTIONS THAT DO NOT CURRENTLY HAVE MASTER ARMS, JUST LIKE THE WIRE THAT'S UP THERE WITH THE SIGNALIZATION.

AND THIS WAS BEFORE WE HAD COORDINATION WITH BROWARD COUNTY.

WE DID THE EXERCISE OF, OF LOOKING AT ALL ROADWAYS.

SO NOT JUST STATE FACILITIES, BUT ALSO COUNTY AND LOCAL FACILITIES.

AND IT'S A BIG NUMBER.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF INTERSECTIONS OUT THERE. THERE'S A LOT OF SPAN WIRE. SO WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW CAN WE NARROW THAT FOCUS DOWN? WHICH LEADS GOES INTO STEP TWO IS WE USE CFX REGIONAL NETWORK TO FIND OUT WHERE THE MOST CRITICAL ROADWAYS ARE.

SO THAT WENT FROM A LARGE CHUNK OF NUMBER TO A MUCH SMALLER NUMBER, BUT STILL PRETTY HEFTY.

AND WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WAYS TO BRING THAT NUMBER DOWN A LITTLE BIT, BECAUSE THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH MONEY THAT WE HAVE TO FUND PROJECTS.

SO THAT'S WHEN PARTNER COORDINATION CAME BACK, CAME INTO PLAY WHERE WE WENT TO BROWARD COUNTY WAS LIKE, WELL, WHAT DO YOU GUYS GOT GOING ON? IS THERE ARE YOU GUYS DOING A SIMILAR ASSESSMENT? AND THEY WERE. AND SO BECAUSE THEY'RE FOCUSING THEIR INVESTMENTS ON THE COUNTY COUNTY FACILITIES. WE SAID, LET'S DO THE STATE.

SO THAT HELPED US, YOU KNOW, FOCUS THAT MONEY, FOCUS THE AREA, FOCUS THE INVESTMENT.

AND THEN THIS PROJECT PRIORITIZATION PART IS WHERE WE TOOK ALL THE DIFFERENT STRESSORS THAT WE IDENTIFIED AS PART OF OUR EMPHASIS AREA FOR INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING AS SOME OF

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SO COASTAL INUNDATION CURRENT AND FUTURE FLOODING, EXTREME HEAT AND GROUNDWATER ELEVATION.

AND THEN WE ALSO APPLIED A DEMOGRAPHIC SCORE TO THAT AS WELL.

AND THAT DEMOGRAPHIC SCORE LOOKS AT POPULATIONS THAT NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE HELP IN TRANSPORTATION. AND SO MERGING ALL OF THOSE SCORES TOGETHER, WE'RE ABLE TO GET A NETWORK WHERE WE CAN APPLY PRIORITIZATION SCORE TO EACH ONE OF THE DIFFERENT PROJECTS. THANK YOU.

SO I GUESS HOW I VIEW THIS IS I LIVED HERE IN 2020, WELL, 2005 DURING KATRINA AND WILMA.

AND SO ONE OF THE ISSUES I THINK EVERYONE EXPERIENCED AT THE TIME WAS MAJOR INTERSECTIONS WHERE THE LIGHTS DIDN'T WORK.

RIGHT. AND SO I GUESS, HOW DO YOU INCORPORATE CRITICAL ROADWAYS, ROADWAYS THAT LEAD TO HOSPITALS, ROADWAYS THAT LEAD TO SHELTERS, ROADWAYS THAT GET YOU ON TO MAJOR HIGHWAYS? HOW ARE THOSE SORT OF CRITERIA PART OF THE PRIORITIZATION LIST? BECAUSE WHEN I LOOK AT WHERE ACTION IS TAKING PLACE AND WHERE I SEE THE MAJOR POPULATION CENTERS ARE IN THE COUNTY, THEY DON'T OVERLAP.

OKAY. YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

SO THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL, THEY'VE GONE THROUGH THAT ASSESSMENT TO FIGURE OUT WHERE ARE THE MOST CRITICAL ROADWAYS THAT BUILD OUR REGIONAL NETWORK.

SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THINGS NOT JUST WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO BROWARD, BUT ALSO TO MIAMI-DADE AND PALM BEACH, WHERE THOSE CONNECTIONS ARE.

SO A LOT OF THESE ROADWAYS THAT FALL ON THIS REGIONAL NETWORK GET PEOPLE FROM BARRIER ISLANDS, FOR EXAMPLE, TO EVACUATION ROUTES, GET PEOPLE TO US ONE I-95 AREAS WHERE THERE ARE NEEDS TO GET TO.

SO THINGS LIKE HOSPITALS, THINGS LIKE URGENT CARE AND URGENT CARES, HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS. SO THAT NETWORK IS BASED OFF OF ALREADY THAT ANALYSIS WHERE THE HIGHEST NEED TO GET PEOPLE FROM A TO B IN IN THE CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.

SO THAT'S WHY WE DECIDED TO USE THAT REGIONAL NETWORK TO FIND THE CRITICALITY OF WHERE THE INVESTMENT NEEDS TO BE.

SO SO I GUESS IS THERE A MAP THAT SHOWS ME WHERE SORT OF THE POTENTIAL LIST IS, IS NOT THE LAST SLIDE? WHERE, WHERE WOULD THAT BE? YEAH. SO YOU CAN HEAD OVER TO ROUTE TO 2050.ORG.

AND ON THERE THERE ARE A COUPLE RESOURCES THAT YOU CAN SEE WHERE THAT LIST IS.

THE FIRST IS THERE'S A THERE'S A SECTION THAT SAYS CLICK HERE, AND THAT TAKES YOU TO OUR 400 PAGE DOCUMENT.

AND YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING PROGRAM AND GET THAT FULL LIST OF PROJECTS THAT FILL THAT PROGRAM.

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GO THROUGH ALL THAT READING, YOU CAN ALSO GO TO THE INTERACTIVE MAP THAT'S JUST BELOW IT, EN ROUTE TO 2020.ORG AND ZOOM IN SCROLL AND MAY INTERRUPT YOU SINCE YOU ACTUALLY HAVE THE ABILITY TO SHARE.

IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND SHOWING THAT TO US.

YEAH. CAN WE? ARE WE ABLE TO PULL UP ROOTS 2050.ORG? I DON'T HAVE A LAPTOP HERE BECAUSE I'M MORE INTERESTED IN THE CRITICAL ROADWAYS THAT INDIVIDUALS NOW USE. SO FOR INSTANCE, IF WE DO HAVE A HURRICANE AND MAJOR PARTS OF BROWARD ARE ACTUALLY MOBILE BECAUSE OF THAT, MY THOUGHT WOULD BE WHETHER IT'S BROWARD BOULEVARD OR COMMERCIAL OR WHEREVER THOSE ARE.

I THINK THE AREAS THAT NEED TO BE ON THAT LIST PRIORITY.

AND I REMEMBER THIS CONVERSATION TOOK PLACE AFTER WILMA, RIGHT. 2005. SO NOW WE ARE 20 YEARS LATER.

AND WE'RE STILL HAVING THE CONVERSATION AND THIS IS NOT DIRECTED AT YOU, OBVIOUSLY, BUT THE FACT THAT WE HAVEN'T HARDENED OUR SYSTEM ENOUGH IN 20 YEARS I THINK REALLY NEEDS TO BE TALKED ABOUT MORE.

YEAH. WE'RE, WE'RE DEFINITELY WORKING TOWARDS IT.

YOU KNOW, OUR INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING PROGRAM IS A NEW PROGRAM THAT WE HAD NOT HAD BEFORE. BRAND NEW EMPHASIS AREA.

AND SOME MIGHT SAY IT'S A LITTLE TOO LATE, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE GETTING STARTED ON IT NOW.

AND WE'RE WE HAVE A LOT OF INVESTMENT FOR PROJECTS THERE.

SO I THINK I MAY HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD YOU ORIGINALLY.

I THOUGHT YOU HAD ASKED THE LIST OF THE PROJECTS THEMSELVES, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE ASKING FOR A LIST OF THE.

ROADWAYS IN THE REGIONAL NETWORK.

IS THAT. IS THAT CORRECT? ACTUALLY, IT'S BOTH BECAUSE I'M MORE INTERESTED IN THE AND FORGIVE MY TERMINOLOGY, THE IS IT WIRED SPAN WIRE MINE WIRED FOR THOSE CRITICAL INTERSECTIONS, ESPECIALLY THE ONES WE KNOW NEED TO BE USABLE AFTER A STORM.

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OKAY. AGAIN, YOU'VE IDENTIFIED WHETHER IT'S TO THE PORTS, TO THE AIRPORTS, TO HOSPITALS, TO LARGE POPULATION CENTERS.

SO I WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHERE YOU CAN FIND THE LIST OF PROJECTS.

SO IF YOU HEAD TO ROUTE TO 2050.ORG AND THEN SCROLL DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT TO, TO THIS SECTION THAT SAYS CHECK OUT OUR PLAN.

YOU CAN GO TO RIGHT HERE WHERE IT SAYS ROUTE TO 2050 MTP REPORT AND WHERE IT SAYS CLICK HERE. YOU WILL CLICK ON THAT BUTTON, AND IT'LL TAKE YOU TO A NEW TAB THAT WILL BRING YOU UP TO THE PDF OF OUR METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN.

OKAY. IT'S 300 PAGES. I THOUGHT IT WAS 400, SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT LESS READING THAN I THOUGHT. YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN TO OUR TABLE OF CONTENTS SO THAT YOU CAN FIND EXACTLY WHICH CHAPTER YOU NEED TO GET TO.

IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR OUR COST FEASIBLE PLAN, THAT WOULD BE IN CHAPTER SEVEN WHERE IT SAYS FUNDING.

YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN TO WHERE IT'LL SAY INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING PLAN.

THAT IS PAGE TWO FOR ONE.

SO WE'LL PUT THAT IN RIGHT HERE.

AND THEN THIS WILL BRING UP THE DASHBOARD OF THE PROGRAM THAT WAS IN ONE OF MY EARLIER SLIDES. YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN HERE AND YOU WILL GET A FULL LIST OF PROJECTS THAT FEED THE INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING PROGRAM.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT THEY'RE MIXED IN WITH INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING STUDIES AS WELL. AND THAT'S BECAUSE THEY ARE, THERE, ALL PRIORITIZED AGAINST EACH OTHER.

SO FOR THE MASS MASS TERM PROJECTS, WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO TO IDENTIFY THOSE IS YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK UNDER A PROJECT, AND I'M GOING TO TRY TO PULL IT UP RIGHT NOW.

YES. RIGHT HERE. YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK UNDER THAT PROJECT INFORMATION, THAT SECTION AND WHERE IT SAYS TYPE OF WORK, IT SAYS MAST ARM.

THOSE ARE GOING TO BE YOUR MAST ARM CONVERSION PROJECTS.

ALSO WE'VE IDENTIFIED THAT IN THE PROJECT TITLE.

SO YOU SEE MAST ARM CONVERSION ATLANTIC BOULEVARD AND THEN WITHIN THERE IN THE PROJECT DESCRIPTION UNDERNEATH TYPE OF WORK, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THE INDIVIDUAL INTERSECTIONS ALONG THE CORRIDOR THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED TO BE A PART OF THAT PROJECT.

SO THAT'S ONE WAY TO GET THE LIST OF WHAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED.

AND YOU CAN SCROLL THROUGH.

AND IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, I JUST WANT TO SAY, ARE WE MOVING EAST TO WEST? IS THAT HOW WE'RE IDENTIFYING IT HERE OR IS IT AGAIN, BASED ON A DIFFERENT SET OF CRITERIA? SO IF I WERE TO GO THROUGH THIS LIST, WILL IT BASICALLY, IF I WERE PUTTING DOTS ON THE COUNTY MAP, AM I LOOKING AT THINGS THAT ARE JUST PRIMARILY IN THE EAST? SO THE ACTUAL SO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE DESCRIPTION HERE? LIKE IN THIS SECTION? THE LIST.

YEAH, THE LIST. SO I'M SEEING ATLANTIC AT CYPRESS CREEK.

I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHERE IT'S AT THAT LINE TO GET NORTH WEST SIXTH.

ARE THESE PRIMARILY EAST AS OPPOSED TO ELSE YOU KNOW, OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTY.

SO TO GET THE EXACT LOCATIONS, YOU CAN GO BACK OVER TO ROUTE TO 2050.ORG, SCROLL UNDER AND PLAY WITH OUR INTERACTIVE MAP HERE THAT WE HAVE.

AND YOU CAN ZOOM IN AND THE MAST ARM CONVERSION PROJECTS ARE GOING TO BE HIGHLIGHTED IN THE PROGRAM COLOR SO PURPLE.

AND THEN YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THE DIFFERENT LITTLE DOTS WHERE YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE MAST ARMS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE.

SO IF WE CLICK ON ONE HERE, IT'LL BRING UP PROJECT INFORMATION.

THIS PROJECT IS IN THE CITY OF POMPANO BEACH.

IT IS PART OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING PROGRAM.

IT'S A MAST ARM CONVERSION PROJECT.

AND IT SAYS TO CONVERT TRAFFIC SIGNAL WIRES TO MAST ARMS AT THESE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS.

AND IF YOU NOTICE, WHEN I CLICKED ON THAT PROJECT, IT'S ALL HIGHLIGHTING IN THE KIND OF LIKE BRIGHT CYAN BLUE.

SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE ALL THOSE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS ARE WITHIN THAT PROJECT.

THANK YOU AGAIN. I'M GOING TO LOOK AT THIS.

MY HOPE IS THAT AGAIN, IT'S NOT JUST ON THE EAST PART OF THE COUNTY THAT IT'S WHERE THE POPULATION AREAS ARE AND THE CRITICAL NEEDS ARE THAT THAT'S JUST MY HOPE. THAT WE JUST AREN'T CONCENTRATING IT IN ONE PART OF THE COUNTY.

UNDERSTOOD. YEAH. IT LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF THEM ARE CONCENTRATED TO WHERE THE HIGHEST NEED FOR THOSE ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS ARE.

AND A LOT OF THEM ARE IMPACTED BY SEA LEVEL RISE AND FLOODING.

AND THESE ARE SOME LOWER LAND AREAS HERE.

PERFECT. THANK YOU. OKAY.

NEXT. PHIL BUSEY. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR SHOWING US IN DETAIL.

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I GOOGLED MASTER, AND IT SHOWED A BUNCH OF LIGHT POLES, BUT THIS IS STRICTLY TRAFFIC LIGHTS.

NOT. NOT ILLUMINATION.

CORRECT. IT WOULD BE FOR TRAFFIC SIGNALS, INTERSECTIONS.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER KINDS OF SIGNALS THAN THAN THE RED, YELLOW AND GREEN SIGNALS THAT ARE BEING FLAGGED HERE.

IT WOULD BE THE TRADITIONAL SIGNALS THAT YOU SEE AT THE INTERSECTION.

SO YOU HAVE THE RED, YELLOW, GREEN.

SOME SIGNALS HAVE ARROWS, SOME DON'T.

SO THAT BASICALLY ANY TWO WAY INTERSECTION COULD COULD HAVE A SPAN WIRE.

AND AS FAR AS ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS, YOU NEVER MENTIONED WIND.

ISN'T WIND AN IMPORTANT FACTOR HERE? YES. SO EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS IS ONE OF THE STRESSORS.

OKAY. WHICH COULD BE REGIONAL, BUT IT MIGHT BE WORSE AT THE FURTHER EAST YOU GO, WHICH WOULD BE ALSO AREAS INUNDATED.

AND YOU HAD PRICE VALUES SEPARATE FOR PEROW AND CST.

WHAT ARE THOSE THREE LETTERS? P E STANDS FOR PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING, BUT WE ALSO CALL THAT DESIGN.

YES, ROW IS STANDS FOR RIGHT OF WAY.

SO PURCHASING LAND FOR THAT.

AND THEN THE LAST ONE I BELIEVE YOU SAID CST.

THAT STANDS FOR CONSTRUCTION. OKAY.

AND SO SOME OF THESE REQUIRE SOME RIGHT, RIGHT OF WAY BECAUSE THEY REQUIRE AN EXTENSION THAT GOES OUT.

NOW ARE THE MAST ARMS VULNERABLE TO WIND.

THEY SHOULD NOT BE, THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND A CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE IF WE'VE DONE THEM CORRECTLY. BUT YEAH, THEY SHOULD BE GOOD.

AND I THINK YOU PICKED ONE INTERSECTION AND THERE WERE SEVERAL ITEMS, RIGHT? IT'S NOT JUST ONE MAST ARM, BUT THERE MIGHT BE SEVERAL IN INTERSECTION.

YEAH. THE, THE LIST OF PROJECTS THAT YOU'LL SEE GOING DOWN THE COST FEASIBLE LIST.

WE GROUPED THE MAST ARM PROJECTS BY CORRIDOR AND THEN IDENTIFIED INTERSECTIONS ALONG THAT CORRIDOR WHERE WE CAN DO MAST ARM CONVERSIONS.

ARE THERE SOME WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE CONVERSIONS, BUT YOU CAN'T FOR SOME OTHER REASON.

WELL, IF I HAD ALL THE MONEY, I WOULD CONVERT THEM ALL.

SO THAT'S OUR LIMITATION IS THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT WE HAVE FOR EACH PROGRAM.

WELL, I MEAN, OFTEN IN AN EMERGENCY, WHEN TRAFFIC SIGNALS GO OUT, PEOPLE KIND OF ADAPT THEMSELVES TO TAKING TURNS, BUT IT SLOWS THINGS DOWN.

AND I SUPPOSE THERE'S PROBABLY OTHER ALTERNATIVES BESIDES MAST ARM CONVERSIONS.

I MEAN, ARE THERE WAYS OF REROUTING TRAFFIC TO, TO, YOU KNOW, CONCENTRATE AN AREA WHERE THERE'S GOOD SIGNALING? SO THAT, THAT SOUNDS LIKE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, YOU KNOW, CREATING DETOURS WHEN THINGS AREN'T REALLY WORKING.

THAT'S A, THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OUTSIDE OF THE SCOPE OF WHAT THE PROJECT IS.

BUT YOU KNOW, IF THE STATE DOES HAVE AN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DEPOT SECTION OFFICE.

YEAH. WHERE THEY WORK ON ALL OF THOSE STRATEGIES.

NOW, WHAT WAS THE TOTAL ESTIMATED COST OF OF THIS ITEM OF THE THE PROGRAM ITSELF THAT WE HAVE FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING PROGRAM? WE HAVE $44 MILLION ALLOCATED FOR PROGRAMING PROJECTS UNTIL THE YEAR 2050.

AND THAT COMPRISES OF INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING STUDIES AND ALSO MASTER ARM CONVERSIONS. AND IF I WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY MAST ARMS, THAT WOULD BE A PART OF THAT COMPARED WITH THE NUMBER THAT REALLY COULD OR SHOULD BE REPLACED. I MEAN, ARE THERE SOME SITUATIONS WHERE WE CAN LIVE WITH A SPAN WIRE? REALIZE THAT IT'S MAYBE NOT WORTH THE INVESTMENT AT THIS TIME OR HOW DO YOU.

YEAH, THERE IS AN EVALUATION OF COST BENEFIT EVALUATION THAT GETS DONE BEFORE A PROJECT GETS BUILT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE INVESTMENT IS WORTH THE, THE PROJECT THAT HAPPENS.

REPEAT THE SECOND PART OF THAT QUESTION. I'M SORRY. WELL, I GUESS WE CAN LIVE WITH IT IF A FEW SPAN WIRES GO DOWN UNTIL AFTER THE STORM IS OVER WITH AND THEN DEAL WITH.

SO FOCUSING INVESTMENT ON THE REGIONAL NETWORK IS OUR WAY TO FIND OUT WHICH ONES ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THAT WE GET DONE.

AND, YOU KNOW, REPLACING SPAN WIRE OR CONVERTING PROJECTS TO MAST ARMS IS AN ITERATIVE PROCESS. YOU KNOW, AS MORE FUNDS BECOME AVAILABLE, WE'LL CONTINUE TO MAKE THE INVESTMENT TO, TO HARDEN OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK.

SO ALSO SOME MAST ARM PROJECTS CAN BE INCORPORATED AS PART OF OTHER PROJECTS THAT

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IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A SPECIFIC THIS IS A MAST ARM PROJECT.

SOMETIMES WE DO CORRIDOR PROJECTS AND WE LOOK AT ALL OF THE NEEDS OF THAT CORRIDOR, AND WE'RE ABLE TO ADD SCOPE TO THAT PROJECT.

AND MAST ARMS COULD BE SOMETHING THAT COULD GET ADDED.

AND THIS IS KIND OF RELATED OR INTEGRAL.

WHAT'S THE GENERAL WORD FOR LAYING DOWN COMMUNICATION WIRES IN ROADWAYS FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT. WHAT, WHAT'S THE GENERAL WORD? I BELIEVE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FIBER OPTICS, WHICH COULD BE CALLED T O PROJECTS TRANSPORTATION. TSMO PROJECTS.

SO TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION.

SO THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT THAT COULD IDEALLY BE INTEGRATED.

I MEAN AS, AS ROADWAYS IMPROVE IN THEIR OPTIC, YOU KNOW, FIBER OPTIC YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE NEW MAST ARMS WOULD HAVE TO BE INTERCONNECTED WITH THAT PRESUMABLY THAT WOULD REQUIRE NEW TECHNOLOGY THERE AS WELL.

SO I'M NOT A FULL PROFESSIONAL ON THE INS AND OUTS OF TSMNO, BUT I DO KNOW THAT FDOT HAS PRODUCED A LOT OF PROJECTS THAT WOULD BE INSTALLING THAT FIBER OPTIC WITHIN OUR 2050 MTP.

SO YOU'LL FIND THAT WITHIN OUR TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM, AND THEY ARE CONTINUING TO MAKE THAT INVESTMENT SO THAT WE HAVE A CONNECTED SYSTEM. SO PRESUMABLY THE MAST ARM CONVERSION WOULD BE SOMEWHAT COORDINATED WITH OTHER TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS.

YEAH FOR SURE. NOW IS THERE DATA ON, ON THE LIKELIHOOD OF, OF LOSS OF SPAN WIRES AND YOU KNOW, BASED UPON PAST STORM EVENTS THAT WOULD GUIDE WHERE TO WHERE TO FOCUS IS THERE.

I'M SORRY. IS THERE DATA THAT WOULD PAST HURRICANES.

YOU KNOW, THERE THERE'S IS THERE A RECORD KEPT OF OF THE NUMBER OF SPAN WIRES THAT HAVE COME DOWN THAT I MEAN AGAIN TO PRIORITIZE TO TO THE GREATEST RISK.

I HAVE NO IDEA MAYBE DOT BROWARD COUNTY I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE IN THE CROWD.

DO Y'ALL KNOW? OKAY, SO MY NAME IS CARMELO CARACCIOLO.

I'M WITH BROWARD COUNTY TRAFFIC ENGINEERING. TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, YES AND NO. WE DO PRIORITIZE OUR MAST ARM CONVERSIONS BASED ON STRUCTURAL DEFICIENCIES.

SO THOSE COULD BE A RESULT OF PAST STORMS. SO WE DO WE DO CREATE A PRIORITY.

BUT AND IT COULD BE STRUCTURALLY BUT WE DON'T QUANTIFY IT TOWARDS WHICH STORM OR WHAT EVENT IT MAY HAVE BEEN. DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? OKAY, SO THERE'S DATA.

BUT BUT AGAIN, IT'S NOT IT'S WE WE EVALUATE OUR STRUCTURES, THE SPAN WIRES. WE, WE KNOW, WE KNOW WHAT'S DEFICIENT THERE, BUT IT'S NOT BASED ON WHAT STORM OCCURRED.

IT'S BASED ON WHAT'S STRUCTURALLY THERE ALREADY.

OKAY. SO IF A POLE, ONE OF THOSE CONCRETE STREAM POLES.

SO IF YOU CAN THINK OF A POLE, A SIGNAL THAT IS SPAN WIRE, THERE'S A CONCRETE POLE THAT POLE COULD BE LEANING, OR IT COULD BE AN OLD STRUCTURE.

AND WE WE CATEGORIZE, WE CREATE A PRIORITY OFF OF THAT.

OKAY. BUT IT MIGHT NOT NECESSARILY BE BASED ON A STORM.

IF SOMETHING GETS IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S IF THE SIGNAL IS DAMAGED DURING A STORM OR WE, WE MOVE IT UP IN PRIORITY.

SO I WON'T IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S FROM 20 YEARS OLD.

SO IT WILL GET MOVED UP INTO A PROJECT THAT'S INCORPORATED AS A BIGGER PROJECT OR AN INDIVIDUAL PROJECT FOR THAT, THAT INTERSECTION ALONE.

OKAY. WELL, I MEAN, IS THERE A PRESUMPTION THAT A SPAN WIRE IS GOING TO GET BLOWN DOWN IN A WIND? OKAY. IT REALLY DEPENDS ON LIKE YOU WERE SPEAKING BEFORE.

IT DEPENDS ON THE TYPE OF EVENT AND WHERE IT HIT, WHERE IT ACTUALLY HITS.

SO IN WHERE LIKE IF IT HITS A NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE COUNTY, THE SOUTHEAST OR SOUTHWEST.

IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE TYPE OF STORM.

SO WE CAN'T ASSUME EVERY ONE OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE BLOWN AWAY.

BUT WE DO HAVE A PRIORITY.

WE WORK THROUGH IT. WE'RE WE'RE WORKING OUR, OUR, OUR WAY DOWN THAT LIST.

OKAY. NOW, AND I GUESS MAYBE THIS IS FOR BOTH OF YOU, THE ENVIRONMENTAL, WHAT WAS THE WORD ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY OR STRESSOR? STRESSOR. I MEAN, THAT COULD BE WIND OR COMBINATION OF SUBSIDENCE.

AND YOU MENTIONED INUNDATION.

THAT'S NOT GOING TO TAKE A, YOU KNOW, SPAN WIRE DOWN PER SE.

IT WOULD BE THE WIND, RIGHT.

SO WE HAVE EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS AS PART OF OUR STRESSORS IN THE FORM OF STORM.

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IT WOULD BE WIND. IT'S JUST NOT CALLED OUT SPECIFICALLY AS WIND.

BUT IT'S ONE OF THE STRESSORS THAT WE USE TO EVALUATE OUR SUSCEPTIBILITY NETWORK.

OKAY. AND YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB.

I'VE GOT ONE OTHER QUESTION.

WE'RE TALKING NOW ABOUT HARDENING.

THIS IS KIND OF LIKE A POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ON THE LANGUAGE THAT USED TO BE CALLED WHAT WHAT RESILIENCE WAS. WAS THAT THE THE OLD WHAT WAS YOU SAID IT, NOT ME. OKAY. BUT ANYWAY, WE'RE USING THE WORD HARDENING FOR THINGS WE MIGHT HAVE CALLED SOMETHING ELSE. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? OKAY. NEXT. MAX. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. REALLY QUICKLY.

SO THE COUNTY IS WORKING ON COUNTY COUNTY FACILITIES, AND WE ARE FOCUSING ON STATE FACILITIES FOR THE MOST PART.

ARE WE GETTING MATCHING DOLLARS FROM FDOT? SO OUR OUR INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING PROGRAM USES FDOT REVENUE FORECAST UNTIL THE YEAR 2050, AND THERE ARE PERCENTAGES OF THAT REVENUE FORECAST, BOTH FEDERAL AND STATE DOLLARS, THAT ARE PUT INTO THAT PROGRAM SO THAT WE CAN MAKE THAT PROGRAM WHOLE.

IT'S NOT A ONE FOR ONE MATCH.

ACTUALLY, THERE'S PROBABLY MORE STATE FUNDS IN THAT PROGRAM THAN THERE ARE FEDERAL DOLLARS. OKAY. AND THEN WHO'S THE ACTUAL PROJECT MANAGER FOR THESE THINGS? BECAUSE I ASSUME IT'S NOT THE MPO GOING OUT AND HIRING CONTRACTORS TO INSTALL IT. SO THAT IS SO YOU GUYS JUST APPROVED OUR LIST OF PRIORITY PROJECTS JUST NOW.

THESE PROJECTS ARE LISTED IN THAT LIST OF PRIORITY PROJECTS.

AND THIS IS AN ONGOING NEGOTIATION THAT WE HAVE WITH FDOT TO SEE WHO IS THE ENTITY THAT WILL BE CONSTRUCTING THEM.

PRESUMABLY THEY'RE ON STATE FACILITIES.

THOSE ARE FDOT ROADWAYS.

THEY'RE MORE THAN HAPPY TO CREATE THOSE PROJECTS FOR US.

SO, SO THEN MY OTHER, MY LAST QUESTION IS THESE MASS STORMS ARE, ARE THEY STANDARDIZED? ARE THEY MASS PRODUCED OR ARE WE GETTING UNIQUE ONES EVERY TIME? OH, LORD, I HAVE NO IDEA.

NO. DOT. DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THAT? YOU WANT TO GO WITH ME? I'M NOT A SIGNAL MASTER.

THEY'RE NOT MASS PRODUCED.

SO EVERY PROJECT YOU HAVE TO PRE YOU'RE PRE ORDERING AS YOU GO INTO DESIGN.

SO YOU'RE DESIGNING YOU GO TO CONSTRUCTION.

THAT'S WHEN YOU PRETTY MUCH ORDER ALL THE MATERIALS. SO YOU CAN'T ORDER.

WE HAVE 50 LOCATIONS, 44, 50, 50.

YOU HAVE 50 LOCATIONS.

YOU CAN'T ORDER ALL 50 AT ONCE BECAUSE BY THE TIME YOU GET THOSE IN, THE STANDARDS WILL COMPLETELY CHANGE.

AND WE CAN'T HAVE SOME SORT OF OPEN CONTRACT WHERE WE ORDER AS WE GO.

KNOW YOU'RE WORKING WITH THE CONTRACTORS, ORDERING ALL THE MATERIALS.

SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A DIFFERENT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE A DIFFERENT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A DIFFERENT CONTRACT ALMOST WITH EVERY OTHER PROJECT.

SO THAT CONTRACTORS, YOU'RE PUTTING IT ALL ON THE CONTRACTOR TO ORDER EVERYTHING.

WE'RE NOT ORDERING. WE'RE AS PROJECT MANAGERS, WE'RE JUST MANAGING THE CONTRACT.

THAT'S IT. WE'RE DESIGNING AND THEN MANAGING THE CONTRACT. WE'RE NOT ORDERING MATERIALS BECAUSE WE HAVE NOWHERE TO PUT IT. SO THE CONTRACTORS HANDLING ALL THAT MATERIAL, THEY'RE INSTALLING IT. THEY'RE TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF IT. OKAY.

SO SO WE'VE GOT LIKE 50 ISH PROJECTS UNTIL THE YEAR 2050 ON THAT.

THE MPO IS FUNDING TO GO ON STATE FACILITIES.

THE COUNTY, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY YOU'RE GOING TO BE INSTALLING ON COUNTY OWNED FACILITIES, BUT I'M ASSUMING THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET TO LIKE 100 PLUS OF THESE MASS DORMS BY THE YEAR 2050. AND FOR EACH ONE TO BE, YOU KNOW, A UNIQUE ORDERING PROCESS, A UNIQUE MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR SOMETHING, I MEAN, MOST OF OUR ROADWAYS ARE, YOU KNOW, ROUGHLY THE SAME DIMENSIONS.

OUR INTERSECTIONS ARE ONLY SO BIG.

THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE ALL THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT. THEY ALL VARY. SO THE MAST ARM LENGTH IS GOING TO BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FOR EVERYONE. SO IN THE LIKE, AGAIN, WE MENTIONED YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WINDSTORMS. THE STANDARDS ARE THEY CHANGE HOW OFTEN EVERY TWO YEARS.

YEAH. SO STANDARDS FOR HURRICANES CHANGE.

I MEAN WHEN I STARTED, I WAS DEALING WITH 130 MILE WIND LOADS.

NOW THEY'RE 171 70. SO.

AND THAT WAS 20 YEARS AGO.

IT CONSTANTLY CHANGES THE SIZE OF THE POLE, THE SIZE.

IT COMPLETELY CHANGES THE BOLT PATTERN THAT'S ON THE CONCRETE COMPLETELY CHANGES.

OKAY. SO IT'S NOT NEVER THE SAME.

SO IF YOU TRY TO PRE ORDER EVERYTHING, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE HUNDREDS OF MAST ARMS SITTING IN THE YARD, WHICH SOUNDS KIND OF COINCIDENCE BECAUSE THAT HAPPENED TO US.

AND THEN WE COULDN'T REUSE THEM.

WE COULDN'T REUSE ALL OF THEM.

OKAY. I MEAN, IT'S A SHAME BECAUSE IT FEELS LIKE IT'S A VERY EXPENSIVE WAY TO GET THIS PROJECT DONE. WELL, IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT ALSO, JUST TO GET MAST ARMS, WHAT'S THE LEAD TIME? SIX MONTHS, SIX MONTHS LEAD TIME IS SIX MONTHS FOR ONE INTERSECTION TO ORDER.

SO IF YOU HAVE TO DO 50, YOUR ORDER IS NOT COMING BACK.

IT'S NOT GOING TO COME FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

AND BY THAT TIME, YOUR STANDARDS ARE GOING TO COMPLETELY CHANGE AND YOUR DESIGN PLANS ARE GOING TO CHANGE COMPLETELY. SO YOU'RE STARTING FROM THE BEGINNING TO END AGAIN. AND IT'S THE CONTRACTOR THAT YOU GUYS HIRE THAT IS ACTUALLY THE ONE PLACING THE ORDER WITH

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SO WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR PROCESS AND WE'RE JUST MANAGING THEM.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

MY LAST QUESTION, IT'S ARE WE FUTURE PROOFING THIS FOR FUTURE PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE GOING THROUGH THOSE INTERSECTIONS? BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT THE MAP AND I SEE LIKE THREE OF THEM, I THINK ON OAKLAND PARK BOULEVARD, THAT'S GOING TO BE OUR FIRST BRT PROJECT.

YOU KNOW, FINGERS CROSSED. HOPEFULLY IT HAPPENS. I DON'T WANT IT TO BE THE CASE WHERE WE INSTALL THESE. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, TWO YEARS LATER, BCT HAS TO COME IN AND KNOCK THOSE DOWN TO THEN PUT THEM BACK UP.

SO ARE WE COORDINATING THAT WITH THOSE? OKAY. THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY.

OKAY. NEXT. JOHN MICHAEL PRICE.

YEAH. GOOD MORNING. VERY INTERESTING. BEFORE I GET TO MY QUESTION, I WANTED TO MAKE A COMMENT ON THE PREVIOUS WHEN WE DECIDE TO PUT A MASK ON HIM UP.

I HOPE THAT WE'RE USING THE BEST MPTO WHATEVER THE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND THE WAY THAT. BECAUSE IT WOULD BE RIDICULOUS TO PUT A NICE MASK ON THAT AND THE SENSORS AREN'T GOOD, THE LIGHTS ARE OUT AND THEN WE DON'T EVEN HAVE LIGHTS THERE.

SO I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU DO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AND MAKING SURE YOU UPGRADE THE, THE, THE, THE, THE FIBER OPTICS AND THE COMMUNICATIONS.

NOW MY QUESTION, WHICH IS HARDENING AND MAYBE NOT.

I NOTICE YOU DON'T TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION ANY DANGER AND, AND ACCIDENT THAT IT'S NOT ON THE LIST OF ACCIDENTS.

THERE ARE YOU KNOW, IT WOULD IT WOULD BEHOOVE TO KNOW WHERE THE ACCIDENTS ARE BECAUSE A LOT OF THOSE LOCATIONS THEN WILL BE DOWN BECAUSE OF THE ACCIDENTS.

AND ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE'S SOME INTERSECTIONS WHICH ARE NOT SQUARED. YOU COME IN AT DIFFERENT ANGLES AND THEY MAY BE CAUSING ACCIDENTS.

AND SO IT'S, IT'S A GOOD TIME EITHER TO PUT UP A MAST ARM OR TO MODIFY THE EXISTING ORIENTATION OF THE. OF THE OF THE WIRES.

BECAUSE THERE ARE ACCIDENTS AT INTERSECTIONS, BECAUSE THE LIGHTS ARE VERY CONFUSING.

AND DO YOU TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION AT ALL THE ACCIDENTS AND THE DANGER AT THE INTERSECTIONS? SO FOR THE PLACEMENT OF WHERE WE HAVE IDENTIFIED MAST ARM CONVERSION PROJECTS, CRASHES WAS NOT AN EVALUATION CRITERIA THAT WE USED.

HOWEVER, AND THAT THAT WAS FOR THAT WAS ON PURPOSE BECAUSE WHEN WE WERE ESTABLISHING THE SIX DIFFERENT FUNDING PROGRAMS THAT WE HAD, WE SAID THAT INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING IS GOING TO BE LOOKED AT DIFFERENTLY.

WE REALLY NEED THAT TO FOCUS ON WHAT THESE ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS ARE.

THE CRASH DATA IS USED IN FOUR, ACTUALLY FIVE OF OUR OTHER FUNDING PROGRAMS. SO OUR ROADS FOR FAMILIES TECHNOLOGY, OUR SAFETY PROGRAM, OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, AND WHO IS THE FIFTH ONE? OH. FREIGHTS AND HIGHWAY.

HIGHWAYS AND FREIGHT PROGRAM. ABSOLUTELY.

AND THAT SCORE IS VERY HEAVILY WEIGHTED ON CRASHES BECAUSE OUR GOAL IS TO GO TO ZERO, VISION ZERO. SO IN THOSE PROJECTS, YOU MIGHT GET MASKED ARMS PUT UP THAT ARE NOT BEING COUNTED HERE AND THERE, AND THEY'RE ALSO HARDENING, BUT THEY'RE BEING PUT UP BECAUSE OF THE DANGER.

SO THAT COULD BE OTHER MASKED ARMS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE GETTING THAT ARE NOT GOING TO SHOW UP IN THIS. ALSO, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT, IF YOU DO GO TO OUR COST FEASIBLE PLAN, WE DO HAVE THESE INDICATORS THAT ARE CALLED ROUTE MARKERS, ROUTE TO 2050 ROUTE MARKERS.

AND WHEN YOU GO TO THE PROJECT INFORMATION PAGES, YOU'LL SEE THOSE ROUTE MARKERS IDENTIFIED AS THESE FIVE ICONS IN THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER OF EACH PROJECT PAGE.

AND SO THIS ICON HERE THAT SHOWS TWO VEHICLES COLLIDING.

THAT IS OUR HIGH INJURY NETWORK.

AND WE DID THIS ON PURPOSE ON EACH ONE OF OUR PROJECTS, SO THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY WHERE THOSE HIGH CRASH LOCATIONS ARE IN RELATION TO THE PROJECT THAT WE'RE PROPOSING.

SO IF THERE IS A RED EXCLAMATION MARK ON RIGHT NEXT TO THAT ICON RIGHT THERE, THAT MEANS IT'S A HIGH CRASH LOCATION AND SOMETHING OF AN INTERVENTION SHOULD BE LOOKED AT WHEN DEVELOPING THE SCOPE FOR THIS PROJECT.

VERY GOOD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. HEY, ROSANNA CORDOVA.

HI. THANK YOU. COULD YOU BRING BACK THE SLIDE FOR THE PRESENTATION? NUMBER FOUR, PROJECT PRIORITIZATION.

CAN SOMEBODY BRING THAT UP REAL QUICK? ASK MIGUEL IF YOU COULD SWITCH OR CAN I DO THAT HERE OR.

OKAY. THERE YOU GO. YES.

SO I, I, I CAN DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND PRIORITIZING THESE THINGS BASED ON STRUCTURAL DEFICIENCIES. I HAVE NO PROBLEM UNDERSTANDING THAT.

BUT COULD YOU EXPLAIN HOW LIKE COASTAL INUNDATION, EXTREME HEAT. HOW IS IT THAT ONE INTERSECTION HAS THIS MORE THAN ANOTHER?

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SO COASTAL INUNDATION IS ONE OF OUR CHANGED VOCABULARY PHRASES FORMERLY KNOWN AS SEA LEVEL RISE AND SEA LEVEL RISE.

WE HAVE PROJECTION MAPS THAT WE USE THAT SHOW WHERE ONE FOOT SEA LEVEL RISE IS EXPECTED BY THE YEAR 2070, EVEN THOUGH OUR PLANS ONLY TO THE YEAR 2050.

BUT THE OUTLOOK GOES PAST THAT TWO FOOT SEA LEVEL RISE AND THEN ALSO A THREE FOOT SEA LEVEL RISE. SO USING THAT INFORMATION, AGGREGATING THAT KIND OF INDEX, WE'RE ABLE TO ASSIGN SCORES TO EACH ONE OF THE DIFFERENT ROADWAYS THAT FALL WITHIN SOME OF THOSE POLYGONS THAT WE HAD ON OUR MAPS.

SO THAT'S THAT'S FOR COASTAL INUNDATION.

AND NOT EVERY PARCEL OF LAND WITHIN BROWARD IS AFFECTED BY COASTAL INUNDATION, AS SOME OF THE MORE VULNERABLE AREAS THAT ARE CLOSER TO THE COAST OR CLOSER TO THE EVERGLADES. FOR EXTREME HEAT, IT'S A SIMILAR PROCESS.

WE LOOKED AT AREAS THAT SUFFER FROM MORE HEAT THAN OTHERS.

UNFORTUNATELY, BROWARD COUNTY IS VERY BUILT OUT.

WE HAVE A LOT OF DENSITY.

SO A LOT OF THE VARIATION ISN'T EXTREME.

SO BASICALLY THE WHOLE COUNTY IS HOT, FYI.

BUT THERE ARE SOME AREAS LIKE MAJOR DOWNTOWN CENTERS THAT EXPERIENCE A LITTLE BIT MORE HEAT THAN, THAN OTHERS THAN THE NON DOWNTOWN CENTERS.

SO WE WERE ABLE TO ASSIGN A SCORE TO THE AREAS THAT HAVE MORE HEAT.

AND THEN AGGREGATING THAT WITH COASTAL INUNDATION WITH CURRENT AND FUTURE FLOODING AND ALSO GROUNDWATER ELEVATION, WE'RE ABLE TO COME UP WITH WHAT WE CALL A SUSCEPTIBILITY SCORE. FORMERLY KNOWN AS VULNERABILITY.

CAN'T USE VULNERABILITY ANYMORE EITHER. AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO GIVE THAT SCORE TO CREATE THIS PRIORITIZATION PROCESS.

SO HOW IS IT THE FOUNDATION OR THE FOOTERS THAT ARE GOING TO HAVE MORE ISSUES VERSUS OTHER ONES AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, I GUESS GROUNDWATER ELEVATION.

HOW DOES THAT AFFECT? I, I, I'M HAVING A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING, YOU KNOW, STRUCTURALLY HOW THESE THINGS ARE AFFECTING.

YEAH. SO GROUNDWATER ELEVATION, WHAT'S MEANT THERE IS THE AMOUNT OF STORAGE OF WATER WE'RE ABLE TO HOST WITHIN THE GROUND.

IF THERE IS A MAJOR FLOODING EVENT, YOU KNOW, HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE FOR THAT WATER TO PERCOLATE DOWN AND SO THAT THE FLOOD CAN RESOLVE? SO IS IT THAT THE ONES THAT YOU CHOSE, THEY MAYBE AREN'T DEEP ENOUGH? SO IS THAT HOW YOU. OH, YES.

OKAY. OKAY. I'M TRYING TO DO STRUCTURAL WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

SO. OKAY. ALL RIGHT, I THINK I UNDERSTAND.

ALL RIGHT. THANKS. AND MICHAEL SMITH.

GOOD EVENING. JUST A DETAIL.

SINCE COASTAL INUNDATION WAS MENTIONED NOT NECESSARILY AT THE COAST, BUT JUST GENERALLY FLOODING FROM NOT EVEN HURRICANES, BUT JUST HEAVY RAINS. AND I HAVE IN MY MIND'S EYE, I HAVE SEVERAL INTERSECTIONS WHERE THIS COMMONLY OCCURS.

SOME OF THEM AT TRAFFIC INSTALLATIONS, OTHERS NOT.

AND IS THERE A STANDARD MAYBE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE TRAFFIC PEOPLE KNOW HAS THE STATE CHANGED THE ELEVATION STANDARDS FOR THE MACHINERY THAT CONTROLS THE TRAFFIC, THE CABINETS? BECAUSE I KNOW THAT DURING HEAVY RAINS, SOME CABINETS TEND TO FLOOD.

AND THE EXISTING SYSTEMS, WHETHER THEY'RE SPAN WIRES OR NOT OR, OR, OR EVEN MAST ARMS. SO I'M JUST WONDERING, HAVE THE STANDARDS BEEN REVISED RECENTLY AT ALL? I'M GOING TO ASK JUST A YES OR NO.

YEAH. IF SHE KNOWS THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.

OH, OKAY. I DON'T THINK THE THE THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN INCREASED IS THE WE CAN'T HEAR WITHOUT A MICROPHONE.

I THINK ONLY IS THERE THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CONTROLLER.

THE CONTROLLER CABINET. CABINET WAS RAISED.

IT'S. IT'S ALREADY. BUT WE.

BUT HAVE WE INCREASED IT BASED ON THE RECENT STORMS? NO. SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, THE ONLY THING THAT'S RAISED IS THE CONTROLLER CABINET AND IT HASN'T.

THE STANDARDS HAVE STANDARDS FOR THAT FOUNDATION HAS NOT BEEN INCREASED.

WELL, MAYBE. MAYBE THE FOUNDATION.

HAS THE FOUNDATION STANDARDS BEEN ELEVATED OR INCREASED OR REVISED FOR THE STRUCTURE FOR THE CONTROL OR CABINETS? NO THEY HAVEN'T. IT'S ALREADY RAISED THAT CONTROLLER CABINETS ALREADY RAISED THE STANDARDS FOR IT HASN'T CHANGED. THE MAST ARM IS IS TYPICALLY FLUSH WITH THE CURRENT

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WELL, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE CABINETS.

YES. THANKS. TOM. SO WE STILL MAY HAVE.

HELLO. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY.

REAL QUICK I, I WAS FLABBERGASTED WHEN I HEARD THAT YOU GUYS AREN'T ALLOWED TO REALLY USE THE WORD RESILIENCE.

YEAH. SAME. YEAH. NO THAT'S THAT THAT IS THAT'S NOT A JOKE.

IT IS REAL. YEAH. WE CAN'T USE THAT.

WHAT WORD DO WE USE INSTEAD? WE'RE CALLING INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING. THAT'S KIND OF LIKE THE SAME THING.

OKAY. I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT I TAUGHT MY STUDENTS EVERYTHING WRONG ABOUT CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT AND HOW IT WORKS.

MY QUESTION IS THIS THAT I HAVE YOU'VE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB.

AND I'M NOT TRYING TO BE DIVERSE IN THE QUESTION THAT I'M ASKING OR BRINGING UP DIVERSE ISSUES AND DIVERSITY.

BUT MY QUESTION IS THIS.

I WAS DRIVING ON UNIVERSITY DRIVE NORTH UNIVERSITY, AND I SAW THE MOST UNUSUAL TRAFFIC ARM AT AN INTERSECTION THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN SOUTH FLORIDA, WHERE IT WENT FROM ONE CORNER TO THE OTHER CORNER.

WHEN DOES THAT TYPE OF THING GO IN AND WHY IS IT, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE A PICTURE TO SHOW, BUT IT'S JUST NOT A TRAFFIC ARM THAT GOES A FLAG ONE.

IT ACTUALLY GOES FROM ONE CORNER ALL THE WAY TO THE OTHER CORNER AND IT'S ABLE TO.

ARE THOSE CHEAPER? WHAT'S THE REASON WHY THEY WOULD PUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN? SO A LOT OF REASONS WHY YOU'LL SEE SOMETHING DEVIATE OR IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU'RE NORMALLY USED TO SEEING IS BECAUSE OF THE GEOMETRY OF THE INTERSECTION ITSELF. AND THAT LOCATION, I THINK I HEARD SUNRISE.

THAT'S THE LOCATION, RIGHT? YEAH. TALKING ABOUT THAT'S A VERY LARGE INTERSECTION.

SO THERE, AND THERE ARE A LOT OF LANES OF TRAFFIC THAT ARE GOING THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION. SO YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE A SIGNAL, LIKE A TRAFFIC SIGNAL FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE LANES THAT ARE GOING THROUGH, I BELIEVE IT MIGHT BE A TWO LEFT TURN LANE, MAYBE.

YES. OKAY. SO YOU NEED TO HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT TRAFFIC SIGNAL, LIKE LITTLE BOXES UP THERE SO THAT YOU CAN HOST ALL OF THAT TO GIVE TRAFFIC DIRECTION.

AND SO I GUESS THE DETERMINATION AFTER LOOKING AT THE GEOMETRY WAS THAT IT MERITED HAVING ONE VERY LARGE, ALMOST KIND OF LIKE CAGE IN THE SKY LOOKING STRUCTURE THERE. BUT WHAT WOULDN'T? BUT WOULDN'T A SYSTEM LIKE THAT THAT GOES FROM CORNER TO CORNER IN MANY OF OUR INTERSECTIONS BE CHEAPER THAN PUTTING UP FOUR MASTHEAD FLAG TYPE INTERSECTION POLES? I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF. YEAH, IT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

THERE'S A LOT OF YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF THOUGHT THAT GOES INTO HOW TO APPROACH THE INTERSECTION.

A LOT OF TIMES IT COST IS ONE ANOTHER.

WHAT KIND OF VEHICLES ARE USING THAT INTERSECTION? SO, YOU KNOW, TRUCKS NEED A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CLEARANCE.

MAYBE THAT CAGE TYPE STRUCTURE, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT PRETTY.

OKAY. OKAY. YEAH. WELL, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THE GOOD THING IS THERE'S ONLY ONE THAT I'VE SEEN IN BROWARD.

SO MAYBE WE LEARNED THAT LESSON.

IT'S NOT THAT PRETTY. SO WE'RE DOING THE OTHER ONES.

I COULDN'T SPEAK SPECIFICALLY WHY THAT ONE WAS THERE.

I'D HAVE TO LOOK BACK AT LIKE PAST REPORTS.

I WAS JUST AND THEN NEXT QUESTION CONCERNING THE STORM SURGE, THE PROBABILITY OF STORM SURGE.

WHEN I'M LOOKING AT THIS MAP, IT SEEMS LIKE SOME OF THOSE AREAS WOULD DEAL MORE WITH STORM SURGE BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO THEY MAY BE A LITTLE INLAND, BUT THEY'RE ALSO NEAR A LOT OF FINGER STYLE CANALS.

OKAY. IS THAT PART OF THE REASON? YES. CORRECT. YES. OKAY.

DO YOU GUYS DO A GREAT JOB? THANK YOU, THANK YOU. OKAY.

NEXT. VINCENT. HOW YOU DOING, BUDDY? ALL ALL I KNOW IS I'D RATHER BE ON THIS SIDE OF THE MICROPHONE THAN ON YOURS.

OH YOU GUYS DO DO A GOOD JOB, AND WE APPRECIATE IT.

I'M SURE. A COUPLE OF SHORT QUESTIONS.

WHERE ARE THOSE MAST ARMS ACTUALLY BUILT? WHO'S WHO'S WHO'S THE BUILDER FOR THOSE THAT SUPPLIES THEM? SO THERE ARE A COUPLE OF I DON'T KNOW WHO SPECIFICALLY IS SUPPLYING THEM.

THEY COME OUT OF STATE OR LOCAL OUT OF STATE.

I MEAN, I THINK. THEY'RE LIKE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, BUT SOME, YOU KNOW, HAVE GONE BANKRUPT SINCE THEY SO THEY KEEP CHANGING.

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SO YOU, YOU ORDER FROM THEM.

I CAN'T RECALL THE EXACT NAMES, BUT THEY'RE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.

SOME HAVE GONE BANKRUPT.

THEY GOT BACK. BUT THAT WAS AFTER THE PANDEMIC BECAUSE THE STEEL PRICE WENT UP VERY HIGH. SO IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.

OKAY. SO THEY COME OUT FROM PRETTY MUCH FROM ALL OVER.

DEPENDING ON WHERE THE BID COMES OUT OF AND YEAH, AND WHERE THE CONTRACTOR MAY GET THE CHEAPER, YOU KNOW, PRICE. OKAY.

THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND I WAS JUST WONDERING AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS PROJECT GOING ON FOR LIKE MANY YEARS AND THE $44 MILLION THAT'S ANTICIPATED IS THERE, THE COST INCREASES OVER TIME WITHOUT COST OVERRUNS AND EVALUATED INTO THAT.

YES. SO WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR MORE MONEY.

IT'S OKAY. YOU KNOW WHAT? THIS WENT UP TOO MUCH OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS.

NOW WE NEED MORE MONEY.

IS THAT FIGURED IN? SO WE USED FDOT REVENUE FORECAST BOOK THAT HAS SET INFLATION FACTORS THAT WE USE FOR EACH ONE OF THE TIME BANDS WHERE THE PROJECT IS TO BE PROGRAMED.

SO THAT'S THE GUIDANCE WE'VE GOTTEN FROM OUR STATE PARTNERS.

SO THAT'S WHAT WE USED IN THERE.

AND YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY THERE'S NOT ANOTHER BIG EVENT THAT MAKES THOSE COSTS VERY EXPENSIVE. BUT YOU KNOW, I CAN'T SAY THAT IT WON'T HAPPEN.

YOU CAN'T. RIGHT. BUT WE'VE DONE THINGS TO TO HOPEFULLY PREPARE FOR THE INFLATION THAT CAN THAT WILL OCCUR IN THE FUTURE.

THE MASK NORMS HAVE BEEN GOING IN OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS AND VERSUS HANGING THEM, HANGING THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS FROM THE WIRES GOING ACROSS.

YOU GOT THE STORMS COMING IN THERE, DROPPING THEM DOWN THERE, HANGING IN THE TRAFFIC CAUSE OF DRIVING INTO THEM.

SO IT MITIGATES NOT HAVING A, A TRAFFIC HAZARD DURING THAT.

AND THE GENTLEMAN ANSWERED THAT WE'RE UP TO 170 MILE AN HOUR WINDS ON THAT FOR THAT.

SO HE ANSWERED THAT QUESTION AS FAR AS THAT WOULD GO, WHAT THESE THINGS WOULD STAND UP REAL QUICK ON THE WHERE THE, THE POLE IS. AND THEN YOU GOT THE MAST ARM WHERE IT'S ANCHORED INTO THE, TO THE GROUND ON, ON THERE.

I WAS WONDERING WHAT WHAT WOULD BE THE FEASIBILITY TO PUT MAYBE A COUPLE OF HARDENED POLES AROUND THAT STRUCTURE TO PROTECT IT.

PEOPLE IN FLORIDA, FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, JUST LOVE TO DRIVE INTO A FIXED OBJECT.

AND I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT THEY, YOU KNOW, JUST JUST A, JUST A SUGGESTION. IT MAY BE VERY, MAYBE COST EFFECTIVE TO PROTECT THE INVESTMENT ON THAT AND TO REAL.

TWO QUICK ONES ON HERE.

AS FAR AS THE HIGH WATER TABLE AND THE FLOODING GOES, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T WANT WATER GETTING INTO THESE STRUCTURES AND WHICH ISN'T, WHICH DEFINITELY ISN'T GOOD.

AND ESPECIALLY YOU DON'T WANT SALTWATER INCURSION WHERE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT COASTAL INUNDATION. BUT WE SEE TIME AND TIME AGAIN, JUST ON RAIN, NOT EVEN A STORM. YOU GOT SOMETHING THAT CAME THROUGH HERE THE OTHER DAY.

THE SAME AREAS ARE FLOODED OVER AND OVER AGAIN BEFORE YOU PUT THESE PROJECTS IN, ARE THEY GOING TO BE SOMETHING FOR SEWAGE TO REDUCE THIS FLOODING TO GET RID OF? I MEAN, WE'RE ABOUT A COUNTY OF ABOUT 2 MILLION PEOPLE NOW.

AND LOOK AT THE BUILDING WE'RE BUILDING.

THERE'S NO NATURAL DRAINAGE HERE, AND I DON'T SEE ANYTHING.

AGAIN, I'M NOT A STRUCTURAL ENGINEER.

I'M NOT A CIVIL ENGINEER.

BUT COMMON SENSE SEES THE SAME THING HAPPENING YEAR AFTER YEAR WHERE THE WATER ISN'T DRAINING. SO WHAT? WHAT IS BEING BUILT TO HELP THIS WATER DRAIN THE NATURAL FLOW? YES. SO ALL VERY, VERY GOOD POINTS.

THAT A LOT OF THAT SCOPE THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED IS OUTSIDE OF WHAT WOULD BE THESE MAST ARM PROJECTS. HOWEVER, HALF OF THIS PROGRAM ESSENTIALLY ARE INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING PROGRAM IS TO DO INFRASTRUCTURE HARDENING STUDIES ON LONGER LENGTHS OF CORRIDOR. AND AS PART OF THAT, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT EXACTLY WHAT YOU JUST MENTIONED TO NOT ONLY MAKE THE ROAD MORE USABLE, BUT ALSO THE DRAINAGE.

WHERE DOES THE WATER GO? IT'S NOT STOPPING. IT KEEPS COMING.

SO WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH THAT SO THAT MANAGEMENT WILL BE PART OF THAT EVALUATION OF THOSE STUDIES.

OKAY. THANK THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY.

THANK YOU. CHRISTOPHER, YOU'VE RUN OUT OF QUESTIONS HERE SO YOU CAN TAKE A BREATH. OKAY. WELL, GREAT.

THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. LET US MOVE ON.

[2. Report From Partner Agency - Greater Fort Lauderdale Transportation Management Association - Commute Broward]

CAMI BROWARD AND ROBIN CHIARELLI IS GOING TO WALK US THROUGH THAT.

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SHE LIKES TO SAY. AND AMANDA.

GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY.

HI, PHIL. GOOD. GOOD TO SEE YOU AS ALWAYS.

I USED TO WORK WITH PHIL MANY, MANY YEARS AGO.

THAT'S WHY HE GETS A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT.

RIGHT, PHIL? SO GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ME TO PRESENT TODAY.

I'M PLEASED TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON COMMUTE BROWARD'S RECENT ACTIVITIES, KEY OUTCOMES, AND AN UPDATE ON THE INITIATIVES THAT ARE PLANNED FOR TASK WORK ORDER FIVE. OUR WORK CONTINUES TO FOCUS ON IMPROVING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT COMMUTING OPTIONS ACROSS GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE.

THESE EFFORTS ALIGN WITH THE MPO'S MISSION TO ENHANCE MOBILITY, SUPPORT ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND CREATE A MORE CONNECTED REGION.

YEAH. YOU WANT TO TAKE THIS COMPUTER? GO FOR IT.

APOLOGIES. NOW YOU HAVE MORE SPACE.

I KNEW MY FENG SHUI WAS OFF.

TODAY'S UPDATE WILL. PROGRAM WILL HIGHLIGHT PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

WE'LL SHARE KEY LESSONS LEARNED THAT ARE GUIDING OUR FUTURE STRATEGY AND PROVIDE A PREVIEW OF OUR UPCOMING TASK.

RECORDER FIVE PLAY PLAYBOOK, WHICH INCLUDES A PLAN TO DELIVER FULL SERVICE COMMUTER BENEFITS MODEL FOR A LARGE EMPLOYER.

COMMUTE BROWARD HAS MADE STRONG PROGRESS IN SEVERAL CORE AREAS.

WE'VE EXPANDED OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE AND PROFESSIONAL OUTREACH.

WE'VE PARTICIPATED IN COMMUNITY AND INDUSTRY EVENTS, HOSTED WEBINARS FOR HUMAN RESOURCES PROFESSIONALS, AS WELL AS PURSUED MAJOR FEDERAL FUNDING, AND FINALLY SUPPORTED KEY MPO INITIATIVES.

OVER THE LAST YEAR. SOME HIGHLIGHTS WE PRIORITIZED REACHING HUMAN RESOURCES PROFESSIONALS THROUGH LINKEDIN, WE GO WHERE THE HUMAN RESOURCES PROFESSIONALS LIVE, WHICH IS ON LINKEDIN, GROWING OUR NETWORK FROM A MERE 80 FOLLOWERS TO OVER 2200 CONNECTIONS AND GARNERING MORE THAN 37,000 POST IMPRESSIONS.

ADDITIONALLY, THROUGH COMMUNITY EVENTS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DIRECTLY REACH OVER 4000 COMMUTERS, HELPING TO ELEVATE THE CONVERSATION ABOUT TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO THEM.

WE HOSTED A SERIES OF WEBINARS WITH AN AUDIENCE OF HUMAN RESOURCES DECISION MAKERS FEATURING TRANSPORTATION PARTNERS INCLUDING BROWARD COUNTY TRANSIT, TRI-RAIL, SOUTH FLORIDA COMMUTER SERVICES, COMMUTE WITH ENTERPRISE BEST WORKPLACES FOR COMMUTERS, AS WELL AS, OF COURSE, THE MPO AND THE MOST RECENT WEBINAR ATTRACTED 21 ATTENDEES.

THESE ARE HUMAN RESOURCES PROFESSIONALS THAT WERE ON THERE TO LEARN ABOUT ALL OF THE TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO THEIR WORKFORCE, AND THE HUMAN RESOURCES.

WEBINARS HAVE GENERATED MEANINGFUL FOLLOW UP ENGAGEMENTS WITH EMPLOYERS LIKE THE CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HILTON HOTELS, AMONGST OTHERS.

SO IT'S A REAL FEATHER IN OUR CAP.

ALSO, THIS LAST YEAR, WE LED A SUBMITTAL OF A $20 MILLION PROPOSAL FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY COMMUNITY CHANGE GRANTS, ALONG WITH 15 MULTIDISCIPLINARY PARTNERS.

THE FOCUS WAS ON EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION FOCUSED ON ELECTRIC MICRO TRANSIT EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THAT MICRO TRANSIT, AIR QUALITY MONITORING, AND FINALLY, A WORKFORCE TRAINING COMPONENT IN DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT BROWARD.

AND ALTHOUGH THE GRANT FUNDS HAVE BEEN PULLED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION, THIS INITIATIVE ALLOWED US TO FORM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AS WELL AS LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR POTENTIAL FUTURE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES.

SO LET'S TALK ABOUT SOME LESSONS LEARNED IN DOING THE WORK SO FAR.

A NUMBER OF CLEAR LESSONS HAVE EMERGED.

FIRST, WHEN HUMAN RESOURCES ARE INVOLVED, RESULTS FOLLOW HUMAN RESOURCES PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE DECISION MAKERS IN THEIR COMPANIES.

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A SECOND, PARTNERSHIPS WITH ALL OF OUR TRANSPORTATION SERVICE PROVIDERS, THE BCTS OF THE WORLD, TRI-RAIL, ETC.

HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY, POSITIVELY IMPACTED OUR ABILITY TO DELIVER INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS.

YOU KNOW, BETTER TO GET IT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH.

SO BRINGING OUR PARTNERS TO THE TABLE HAS ALLOWED US TO INCREASE OUR CAPACITY TO DELIVER THE INFORMATION TO OUR AUDIENCE.

AND THEN FINALLY, WORKING FROM HOME IS NO LONGER AN ACCEPTABLE ALTERNATIVE FOR EMPLOYEES. THERE'S A BIG RETURN TO OFFICE TRANSITION, AND THAT'S REIGNITED EMPLOYERS INTEREST IN COMMUTER PROGRAMS. SO TOGETHER, THESE LESSONS HAVE HELPED US REFINE OUR STRATEGIES FOR TASK WORK.

ORDER FIVE TO POSITION COMMUTE BROWARD SO THAT WE CAN BE SCALABLE AND SUCCESSFUL INTO THIS COMING YEAR. SO LET'S TALK ABOUT TASK WORK ORDER FIVE.

THE SCOPE FOCUSES ON THREE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES.

FIRST IS CONTINUING TO BUILD BRAND AWARENESS, AND WE WILL CONTINUE THAT THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENTS, COMMUNITY EVENTS, PARTICIPATION, AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW LEAVE BEHIND FOR EMPLOYERS. THE SECOND STRATEGY IS DIRECT EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT, WHERE OUR PRIORITY WILL BE IDENTIFYING AND ONBOARDING ONE LARGE EMPLOYER SO THAT THEY COULD FULFILL THE FULL SUITE OF COMMUTER BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO THEM.

AND THAT WILL BE A MODEL I'LL DETAIL IN THE NEXT SLIDE TO GIVE YOU SOME MORE INFORMATION ON THAT. AND THEN FINALLY, CONTINUED SUPPORT OF BROWARD MPO EVENTS SUCH AS THE ANNUAL STATE OF THE REGION AWARDS, AS WELL AS LET'S GO BIKING AND OTHER EVENTS.

LOOKING AHEAD, WE WILL LAUNCH A FULL SERVICE COMMUTER BENEFITS PROGRAM WITH ONE MAJOR EMPLOYER, WHICH I MENTIONED IN THE LAST SLIDE.

SO HERE'S SOME MORE DETAILS ON THAT.

SO THIS WILL INCLUDE COMMUTER BENEFITS TRAINING FOR THEIR HUMAN RESOURCES TEAM.

WE'LL INCLUDE A CUSTOMIZED SURVEY AND WEB PAGE FOR THE EMPLOYER ON SITE EVENTS WITH OUR TRANSPORTATION PARTNERS, AS WELL AS A COMMUTER LOCATION, HEAT MAP, RIDE MATCHING SERVICES, AND THE GUARANTEED RIDE HOME PROGRAM, AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF OTHER COMMUTER BENEFITS.

AND THIS WILL SERVE AS OUR FLAGSHIP DELIVERY, A MODEL WE INTEND TO SCALE AND REPLICATE WITH OTHER LARGE EMPLOYERS ACROSS THE REGION.

SO WITH THAT, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE OUR PROGRESS.

WE'VE EXPANDED OUR OUTREACH, WE'VE STRENGTHENED HUMAN RESOURCES ENGAGEMENT, AND WE'VE LAID A STRONG FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE FUNDING.

AND AS WE ROLL OUT TASK WORK ORDER FIVE, WE'RE FOCUSED ON CONTINUING TO GROW OUR BRANDS, DEEPEN EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT, AND LAUNCH A FULL SERVICE PROGRAM, OUR MOST COMPREHENSIVE MODEL YET.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SCALING THIS WORK OVER THE NEXT YEAR AND WELCOME ANY FEEDBACK, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT AT THIS TIME.

OKAY. THANK YOU ROBIN.

QUESTION WITH MAX. GO AHEAD.

HEY, ROBIN. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. MY FIRST QUESTION WAS I WAS A LITTLE UNSURE FROM THE PRESENTATION, BUT DID YOU GET YOUR ONE LARGE SCALE EMPLOYER OR NOT YET. WE ARE ENDEAVORING TO GET OUR ONE LARGE SCALE EMPLOYER.

SO ACTUALLY, AS A CALL TO ACTION, IF YOU HAVE AN EMPLOYER IN MIND AND WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN INTRODUCTION, I WOULD WELCOME THAT.

SURE. WELL, I ACTUALLY THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE SHOULD STILL CONTINUE TO TRY TO GET THROUGH THE PRIVATE SECTOR, YOU KNOW, GET SOME LARGE EMPLOYER LIKE A BIG OFFICE IN DOWNTOWN FORT LAUDERDALE.

BUT BROWARD COUNTY ITSELF, THE BROWARD COUNTY GOVERNMENT PROBABLY IS ALSO A VERY GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO TRY SOME OF THESE STRATEGIES TO SEE HOW SUCCESSFUL THEY ARE. SO LIKE, IF WE GIVE EMPLOYEES TRANSIT PASSES, HOW MANY OF THEM FOR FREE FROM BROWARD COUNTY, HOW MANY OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY WILLING TO TAKE THAT OFFER OF FREE TRANSPORTATION AND NOT HAVING TO PARK IN DOWNTOWN FORT LAUDERDALE? I THINK THAT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY. IT'S PROBABLY OUTSIDE OF YOUR SCOPE OF WORK FOR THIS, BUT I THINK THAT THEY WOULD BE GOOD TO AT LEAST STUDY COMPARED TO OTHER PRIVATE EMPLOYERS. DO BCT, I THINK TRI-RAIL DOES AS RTA DOES, BUT DOES BCT OFFER BULK TRANSIT PASS DISCOUNTS FOR LARGE EMPLOYERS?

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AND I AM IN ACTUALLY ONE OF THE ONE OF OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS A COUNTY COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER ROGERS. WELL, WE HAVE TWO WE HAVE COMMISSIONER ROGERS IN MCKINZIE, AND THEY ARE WORKING ON MAKING AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR THERE AT THE COUNTY. FOR ME, THERE WAS SOME TRANSITION IN PERSONNEL THERE, SO THEY ARE GETTING ME IN TOUCH WITH THE RIGHT PERSON. SO COMPLETELY WITHIN OUR SCOPE AND EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ONE OF THE LARGE EMPLOYERS.

AND ALSO I WILL MENTION THAT BROWARD COUNTY, AS AN EMPLOYER, ALREADY HAS SOME EXCELLENT COMMUTER BENEFITS IN PLACE FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES.

AS AN EXAMPLE, THEY HAVE UPFRONT PARKING FOR THOSE WHO CARPOOL OR VANPOOL.

THEY DO HAVE DISCOUNTED BUS PASSES FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES.

AS FAR AS DISCOUNTS FOR BULK PASSES FOR BCT, AT THIS TIME, I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY DISCOUNTS, BUT FOR EMPLOYERS THAT ARE NOT BROWARD COUNTY, BUT THEY DO SELL BULK PASSES TO EMPLOYERS.

SO IF YOU WERE AN EMPLOYER AND YOU HAD, YOU KNOW, LARGE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WHO WANTED TO TAKE BCT, AN EMPLOYER CAN PURCHASE BULK TRANSIT PASSES FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES AND SUBSIDIZE THEM FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES. OKAY.

BECAUSE THE BEST EXAMPLE I THINK THAT WE HAVE HERE OF THAT IS ACTUALLY NOT AN EMPLOYER, BUT IT'S THE DREYFUSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS IN WEST PALM BEACH.

THEY BULK ORDERED THEIR TRAIN PASSES FROM SF TO FOR THEIR STUDENTS, SO THEIR STUDENTS DON'T PAY. AND A LOT OF THEM TAKE TRI-RAIL TO GET TO SCHOOL.

AND IT'S VERY SUCCESSFUL.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S BEEN REPLICATED ANYWHERE ELSE, BUT I THINK IT'S A GOOD MODEL.

AND TRI-RAIL ALSO PROVIDES THE EMPLOYER DISCOUNT PROGRAM, WHICH IS 15% OFF OF YOUR TRANSIT PASS.

AND SO IF YOU ARE WORKING FOR AN EMPLOYER THAT IS PART OF THE EDP, THE EMPLOYER DISCOUNT PROGRAM, YOU CAN GET 15% OFF YOUR TRIAL PASS.

AND SO THAT'S $16.50 PER MONTH.

WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SAVING YOUR ENTIRE BUDGET HERE, BUT IT IS A NEW PAIR OF SHOES FOR, YOU KNOW, YOUR, YOUR HOUSEHOLD FOR, FOR YOUR TWO KIDS, WHICH CAN ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, IT COULD MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN SOMEBODY'S LIFE. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. YEAH.

AND MY LAST THING, IT'S ACTUALLY A COMMENT.

A LOT OF OUR CITIES NOW, YOU KNOW, WITH THE PASSAGE OF COUNTY POLICIES FOR BONUS DENSITY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THAT KIND OF STUFF.

SOME OF OUR CITIES ARE STARTING TO ADOPT THOSE ORDINANCES. AND AS PART OF THAT ORDINANCE, THEY'RE SAYING, WELL, YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE ALL THIS HIGHER DENSITY WITH THE SAME PARKING REQUIREMENTS, THE SAME TRAFFIC DEMAND.

SO THEY'RE REQUIRING THEM TO DO A TDM STRATEGIES WHEN THEY APPLY FOR THEIR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. THE TWO THAT I KNOW OF THAT ARE WORKING THROUGH THE PROCESS RIGHT NOW. PLANTATION I'M ON PLANTATION PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD.

WE JUST RECOMMENDED THE ADOPTION OF AN ORDINANCE TO THAT WOULD REQUIRE TDM THEM PLANS FOR ANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PLANTATION IF THEY DO THIS TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT PACKAGE. AND I KNOW THAT THE CITY OF HOLLYWOOD IS DOING THE SAME THING, BUT WITH UTILIZING COUNTY POLICY.

216 FOR SO BOTH CITIES NOW ARE ABOUT TO ADOPT WHERE, WHEN A NEW DEVELOPMENT PROJECT HAPPENS, THEY HAVE TO GET AN APPROVED TDM PLAN WITH THE CITY PLANNING STAFF.

SO IF YOU WITH BROWARD CAN WORK WITH THE CITY PLANNING STAFF TO EITHER TALK TO THE DEVELOPERS, TALK TO THE EVENTUAL TENANTS OF WHATEVER THEY'RE BUILDING JUST SYNERGIZE WITH THE CITY'S, I GUESS, SLOW CLAP FOR THAT.

YEAH. THAT'S INCREDIBLE.

YEAH, THAT'S IT FOR ME. THANK YOU. THAT MAKES ME VERY PROUD. CITY OF BOCA RATON IS THE ONE THAT I KNOW OF THAT HAS THE MOST ROBUST CITY ORDINANCE AND FOR DECADES HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH SOUTH FLORIDA COMMUTER SERVICES TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR TDM ORDINANCE IS SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED. I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO WORK WITH BOTH CITIES TO HELP SUPPORT THOSE ORDINANCES. LET'S TALK.

OKAY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? OKAY. INTERESTING PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ROBIN.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THE NEXT ITEM IS A REPORT FROM OUR PARTNER AGENCY,

[3. Report From Partner Agency - Broward Country Transit - Transit Development Plan]

AND WE'LL START WITH ROSEMARY JUSTIN FORT.

DO I HAVE THAT RIGHT? YES YOU DO.

OKAY. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.

SO YES, JUST FOR BROWARD COUNTY TRANSIT.

SO WE IN THE SPIRIT OF CONTINUING ROBIN'S GREAT PRESENTATION AND TALKING ABOUT ACCOMPLISHMENTS WE HAVE OUR TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT PLAN, WHICH ANNUALLY WE HAVE TO UPDATE AND MEET WITH OUR COMMITTEES AS WELL AS OUR PARTNER AGENCIES IN THE SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION, TO KIND OF TALK THROUGH SOME OF THE GREAT

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SO I'M LOOKING VERY FORWARD AND EXCITED TO PRESENT SOME OF THOSE ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO YOU.

SO WITH US TODAY, WE HAVE GREGORY FROM HOLT AND MARIAH FROM WSP, TO KIND OF GO THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION AND SHOW YOU WHAT WE'VE BEEN ACCOMPLISHING FOR THAT FISCAL YEAR 24. THANK YOU.

GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. I'M GREG WITH HOLT COMMUNICATIONS.

I WILL BE TAKING YOU THROUGH THAT PLAN.

LET'S GET GOING. BEFORE WE GET INTO THE FULL REPORT DETAILS, I KIND OF WANT TO DO JUST A QUICK REFRESHER.

THE ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORTS, OR APIS ARE AN UPDATE TO THE TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT PLAN. LIKE MARY MENTIONED, THIS PARTICULAR APRIL COVERS FISCAL YEAR 2024. IT IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE TO FDOT STAKEHOLDERS, CUSTOMERS, AND THE PUBLIC ON BCT'S EFFORTS OVER THE PAST YEAR.

AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT, THE REPORT IS IN LINE WITH THE NEW STATE MANDATED CHANGES TO THE TDP RULES, INCLUDING A MORE STREAMLINED PROCESS, STRONGER COLLABORATION WITH MPO PARTNERS, AND A SHARPENED FOCUS ON ALIGNING INVESTMENTS WITH KEY PRIORITIES IN THE CENTER.

YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE ARE. THIS IS THE FIRST OF FOUR ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORTS.

LET'S BEGIN WITH STRATEGIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

PRIMO ORDER PREMIUM MOBILITY PLAN CONTINUED TO BUILD MOMENTUM AND WE LOVE MOMENTUM.

BCT HOSTED SEVERAL EVENTS.

ONE WAS A SUCCESSFUL INDUSTRY DAY WITH OVER 250 PARTICIPANTS FROM ACROSS THE ACROSS THE TRANSIT SECTOR. THE AGENCY SHARED UPDATES, FOSTERED PARTNERSHIPS, AND TOURED FUTURE CORRIDORS, PAVING THE WAY FOR PREMIUM NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION. AND IT REMAINS A VERY POPULAR INITIATIVE FOR BCR SOUTH.

AND A MILESTONE WAS ACHIEVED.

BCT RECEIVED A FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT OR FONZIE FROM THE FTA IN SEPTEMBER 2024. THIS MARKS MAJOR PROGRESS TOWARD REAL COMMUTER RAIL AND BROWARD, AND FOR THE MAP PROGRAM, BCT MADE A POINT TO STAY CLOSELY ENGAGED WITH STAKEHOLDERS. STAFF OFFERED OFFERED UPDATES AT NUMEROUS OVERSIGHT BOARD MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS. TOPICS COVERED EVERYTHING INCLUDING PROGRAM UPDATES, SURTAX, BUDGET REQUESTS, AND BCT'S FIVE YEAR PLAN.

THAT KIND OF COORDINATION ENSURES THAT THE AGENCY VISION ISN'T JUST ASPIRATIONAL, IT'S ACTIONABLE, IT'S FUNDED, IT'S ACCOUNTABLE AND LOOKING TO THE RIGHT.

THIS SIDEBAR HIGHLIGHTS THE OPERATIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS FROM 2024.

SOME STANDOUTS ARE THAT BCT ADDED ITS FIRST TWO ELECTRIC EXPRESS COACHES TO THE FLEET LAUNCHED PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT, A MULTI-AGENCY INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND SUPPORT VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS AT TRANSIT LOCATIONS, AND MOST NOTABLY CELEBRATED THE LARGEST BUS OPERATING GRADUATING CLASS IN BCT HISTORY.

AND THAT'S A TESTAMENT TO THE AGENCY'S WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS.

PUBLIC OUTREACH IS MY FAVORITE BECAUSE PUBLIC OUTREACH IS LIFE.

THE COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS, OR COA, REACHED OVER 7400 COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN THREE LANGUAGES THROUGH SURVEYS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, STAKEHOLDER LISTENING SESSIONS, AND POP UP EVENTS AT TRANSIT CENTERS.

BCT GATHERED VALUABLE FEEDBACK THAT WILL HELP MODERNIZE THE SYSTEM, IMPROVE EFFICIENCY, BOOST RIDERSHIP, AND THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE STILL BEING EVALUATED INTERNALLY. AND OUTREACH WILL BEGIN AGAIN THIS FALL.

AND THE NEXT FEW SLIDES IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES, WE'RE GOING TO GO OVER THE 2024 GOALS. THESE ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED PER THE RULE CHANGES.

BUT BCT BELIEVES THAT CONTINUING TO MONITOR AND TRACK THESE ALLOWS THE AGENCY TO IMPROVE.

STARTING IN THE LEFT COLUMN, WE SEE SIGNIFICANT STEPS WERE TAKEN IN 2024 TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND SECURITY.

BCT'S GOAL TO DECREASE SAFETY EVENTS MADE SIGNIFICANT STRIDES, BUT IT IS STILL ONGOING.

ONE HUGE STEP WAS THE PROCURING OF A PEDESTRIAN COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM.

THIS IS A SAFETY FEATURE THAT'S INSTALLED ON BUSSES.

IT USES SENSORS AND CAMERAS AND AI TO DETECT PEDESTRIANS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY ALERT BUS DRIVERS TO POTENTIAL COLLISIONS.

IT ALSO ALIGNS WITH THE NATIONAL VISION ZERO PRINCIPLES FOR TRANSIT SAFETY.

THE AGENCY ALSO ENHANCED SECURITY PRESENCE AT TERMINALS CONDUCTED FOR SAFETY CAMPAIGNS, AND OFFERED REFRESHER AND DE-ESCALATION TRAINING TO OPERATORS IN THE CENTER AND RIGHT, YOU'LL SEE BCT'S MISSION TO REDUCE ASSAULTS ON TRANSIT WORKERS IS STILL IN PROGRESS. THE AGENCY INCREASED ITS EFFORTS TO DISCUSS, DEFINE AND TRACK WORKER ASSAULTS, AND WHILE THIS ALLOWED TRACKING AND AWARENESS TO IMPROVE THE NUMBER OF ASSAULTS ALSO WENT UP.

AND BASICALLY IT GAVE BCT A MORE ACCURATE PICTURE OF THE SITUATION.

AND THESE NUMBERS ARE STILL BEING EVALUATED.

AND WHILE THEY ARE, BCT CONTINUES TO TRACK THEM AND REMAIN ENGAGED WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.

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THE FIRST TWO TARGETS IN THE LEFT COLUMN BOTH SHOW INVESTMENTS AND PROJECTS THAT IMPROVE SERVICE AND INFRASTRUCTURE.

BCT MET THE NEPA REQUIREMENTS BY RECEIVING FONZIE FOR BCR SOUTH, AS MENTIONED, AND THEY RELOCATED AND INSTALLED 15 SHELTERS, INSTALLED OVER 1000 NEW SIGNS AND 310 SOLAR LIGHTS.

IN THE CENTER COLUMN, WE SEE THEY MET THEIR GOALS TO GROW, TRANSIT AND IMPROVE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE.

CUSTOMER SERVICE OUTREACH EFFORTS TRIPLED THE MINIMUM TARGET, WITH 46 EVENTS HELD AND RIDERSHIP INCREASED ALMOST 9% SYSTEM WIDE ACROSS ALL SERVICES, INCLUDING PARATRANSIT OR TOPS, WHICH HIT A HISTORIC HIGH AT 15%.

THESE NUMBERS REFLECT NOT JUST OPERATIONAL SUCCESS, BUT REAL COMMUNITY IMPACT.

OUR THIRD GOAL ILLUSTRATES COMMITMENT TO STAFF AND FUTURE GROWTH.

THE AGENCY MET ANOTHER GOAL WHEN IT HOSTED 13 CAREER EVENTS, WELL BEYOND THE TARGET FOR OUTREACH EVENTS.

BUT THE ANNUAL EMPLOYEE SURVEY WAS POSTPONED LAST YEAR.

IT WAS PUT ON HOLD UNTIL BCT 2.0 IS IMPLEMENTED.

AND THAT'S THE AGENCY WIDE REORGANIZATION EFFORT TO MODERNIZE EXISTING STRUCTURE FOR PRIMO. SO INSTEAD OF CONTINUING WITH THE SURVEY, WHICH COULD SKEW THE RESULTS, THEY DECIDED TO WAIT UNTIL EVERYTHING WAS IN PLACE TO GET FEEDBACK ON ACTUAL WORKING CONDITIONS AND NOT GROWING PAINS FROM THE RESTRUCTURING. OUR NEXT GOALS.

WE ARE PROUD TO SAY THE AGENCY CAN REPORT IT MET ITS GOAL TO ENSURE RESILIENCY AND MAINTAIN A STATE OF GOOD REPAIR.

THE LOW AND NO EMISSION FLEET GREW BY 8%, WITH 33 ELECTRIC AND 43 HYBRID BUSSES NOW IN OPERATION. AND AFTER MEETING THE GOAL, BCT PAUSED EV FLEET EXPANSION DUE TO VEHICLE RELIABILITY ISSUES IN THE RIGHT COLUMN.

EFFORTS TO SUPPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ARE STILL ONGOING, AND THIS IS AGAIN PART OF THE COA.

THE DATA FOR THOSE ALTERNATIVES ARE STILL BEING EVALUATED.

AND AS MENTIONED, WE'LL BEGIN AGAIN IN THE FALL.

HERE WE CAN SEE THE FINANCIALS OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS.

AS A REMINDER, THE TEN YEAR OPERATING AND CAPITAL PROGRAM PROVIDES AN UPDATE TO ANY CHANGES ON THE PRIOR YEAR'S IMPLEMENTATION PLAN AND FINANCIAL PLANS.

THE UPDATE ADDS ONE MORE YEAR TO THE PLAN, SO NOW COVERS FISCAL YEAR 2025 THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 2034, AND IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE A REPRESENTATION OF THE BUDGET.

AS YOU KNOW, THAT GETS APPROVED BY THE BROWARD COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS COMMISSIONERS. EVERY YEAR IT DOES SHOW BCTS LONG TERM VISION AND FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. SO IF YOU LOOK IN THE BLUE BOX, THE PROJECTED OPERATING EXPENSES TOTAL APPROXIMATELY 3.43 BILLION OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS TO MAINTAIN AND ENHANCE SERVICES.

SO THAT'S NEW HIGH FREQUENCY BUS, NEW LIGHT RAIL, NEW BRT COMMUTER RAIL.

AND IN THE ORANGE, THE CAPITAL PROGRAM, A TOTAL OF 5.19 BILLION HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED IN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS TO SUPPORT SERVICE EXPANSION.

SO THAT'S 2.5 BILLION ALLOCATED FOR TRANSIT WAYS, OVER 700 MILLION FOR NEW VEHICLES.

AND IN 2026, YOU CAN SEE THE BRT AND LRT SEE SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS IN PREPARATION FOR SERVICE TO BEGIN. THESE INVESTMENTS ARE SUPPORTED BY TRANSPORTATION SURVEY, TAX REVENUE, SURTAX REVENUE, FEDERAL GRANTS, LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS AND THEY ENSURE SUSTAINABLE FUNDING APPROACH.

FINALLY, HERE IS A LIST OF PROJECTS AND THEIR ANTICIPATED START DATES BY 2034.

BCT EXPECTS NEW SERVICES ACROSS SAMPLE ROAD, HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, OAKLAND PARK BOULEVARD AND MORE.

A 28% FLEET EXPANSION FROM 415 VEHICLES TO OVER 500 VEHICLES, AND CONTINUED PROGRESS ON LIGHT RAIL AND COMMUTER RAIL SEGMENTS.

JUST REFLECT THIS REFLECTS DATA DRIVEN PRIORITIZATION BASED ON NEED AND CAPACITY.

AND THAT'S OUR PRESENTATION.

IN CLOSING, IT WAS A YEAR OF TANGIBLE PROGRESS AND RENEWED COMMUNITY CONNECTION.

AND WE WELCOME ANY QUESTIONS.

OKAY. THANK YOU GREGORY.

WE DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS.

TOM LANDER QUESTION ABOUT VERBAL ABOUT PHYSICAL AND VERBAL ASSAULTS.

THE QUESTION, DO YOU KEEP NUMBERS THAT SHOW HOW MUCH THEY ARE UP VERBAL? YES. SO PHYSICAL, VERBAL AND PHYSICAL ASSAULTS.

YES, THEY DO KEEP NUMBERS.

THE FULL REPORT WILL HAVE THOSE NUMBERS IN DETAIL.

I DON'T KNOW THEM EXACTLY.

I'M NOT SURE IF YOU'RE AWARE OF THE ACTUAL NUMBERS THAT WENT UP.

YOU DO SEPARATE THE TWO OUT.

YES. THEY ARE SEPARATED IN THE REPORT.

YES. THE SECOND QUESTION VERBAL ASSAULTS ARE TERRIBLE.

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LIKE, IN OTHER WORDS, CERTAIN THINGS USED TO NEVER BE REPORTED.

YEAH. HOW YOU THEN THEN WHEN YOU ADD SOMETHING ON IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR OR TWO, THERE'S A GREAT INCREASE.

SO HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN KEEPING REPORTS OF BOTH VERBAL AND PHYSICAL.

AND ARE. ARE WE DOING A BETTER JOB OF LETTING EMPLOYEES KNOW HOW TO REPORT THESE THINGS? YES. SO THEY CAN REPORT THAT THIS NEW METHOD DEFINES ASSAULTS IN A WAY THAT PEOPLE FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE REPORTING. NUMBERS ARE UP BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DEFINITION AND METRICS OF WHAT VERBAL AND PHYSICAL ASSAULTS ARE.

SO YOU CAN THE, THE REPORTING GOES HAND IN HAND WITH WIDER NUMBERS WENT UP.

IT'S THIS NOW QUALIFIES AS AN ASSAULT.

OKAY. AND FOLLOWING UP, IF THERE IS A VERBAL AND OR PHYSICAL ASSAULT, ARE THERE REPERCUSSIONS THAT THE PERSON IS TICKETED OR RECEIVES A CITATION OR IS ARRESTED? OR ARE SOME OF THESE REPORTS THERE'S NO CONSEQUENCES TO THE PERPETRATOR.

SO LAW ENFORCEMENT IS ENGAGED IN OUR SECURITY AT TRANSIT LOCATIONS.

SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT WHEN AN INCIDENT HAPPENS, THEY CALL THE POLICE AND THAT IS HANDLED THE WAY ANY OTHER ASSAULT WOULD TAKE PLACE. OKAY, SO IF THEY DID A VERBAL ASSAULT, IT WILL GO TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

IT'S JUST NOT. THAT'S SOMEBODY.

IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU'RE IF THEY'RE AN EMPLOYEE IS GOING TO REPORT A VERBAL ASSAULT, THEN LAW ENFORCEMENT MUST BE INVOLVED.

CORRECT. IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS, LIKE IN REAL TIME.

YEAH, YEAH. IF IF IT'S AFTER THE FACT, THAT'S GOING TO BE A DIFFERENT PROCESS. BUT IF YOU KNOW, SOMEONE CALLS THE POLICE ON SOMEONE VERBALLY OR PHYSICALLY ASSAULTING A BUS DRIVER, THEN YES, THAT'S HANDLED BY THE POLICE IN THAT MOMENT.

OKAY. AND THEN THEN BECAUSE WE HAVE.

ON ALL OUR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, WE DO HAVE VIDEOS TO SHOW WHAT HAPPENED ALSO.

I ASSUME THAT THIS IS TRUE.

YEAH. SO VIDEOS ARE ACROSS ALL THE SYSTEMS. OKAY. I JUST WANT ALL WORKERS TO BE SAFE.

BUT I JUST WANTED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE GROWTH IS.

IS PART OF THE GROWTH ATTRIBUTED.

AND UNDOUBTEDLY IT IS.

PART OF IT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE FEELING MORE CONFIDENT IN MAKING A REPORT.

YES, YOU CAN COMFORTABLY COME AND SAY, HEY, THIS HAPPENED TO ME WITHOUT ANY FEAR OF REPERCUSSIONS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTIONS. OKAY, VINCENT, WE'RE GOING TO TURN YOUR MIC ON FOR YOU.

OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME JUMP THE LINE SINCE I KEEP PLAYING WITH THE MIC BUTTON. APPRECIATE IT.

OKAY. I'M I'M GOING TO START THIS WITH I'M A FAN OF PUBLIC TRANSIT.

BEFORE I CAME DOWN HERE, I DROVE A BUS FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS AND WAS IN, THEY STARTED ME UP IN MANHATTAN AND CAME DOWN HERE WITH EASTERN AIRLINES.

AND THAT'S, THAT'S ANOTHER STORY ON THE PICKET LINE AND RETIRED OUT OF BSO.

BUT I AM A FAN OF THIS.

AND WITH THE OH, I ALSO I HAVE I HAVE AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE.

OKAY. SO I'M GOOD WITH ELECTRIC BUSSES AND I DO HAVE A CO2 POLLUTING AIR POLLUTING VEHICLE ALSO. ALRIGHT. THESE, THESE ARE ACTUALLY GOOD.

THE IF THEY WERE GOING TO PUT IN, I THINK I MISSED ROBIN WITH THE EV INFRASTRUCTURE'S BECAUSE I WASN'T MY MIC WASN'T WORKING, I GUESS PROPERLY ANYWAY, WITH YOUR DOUBLE BUSSES, WHEN YOU HAVE THE DOUBLE BUS LOADS, THEY DON'T EVER SEEM TO BE FULL TO CAPACITY.

AND NO, NO TRANSIT SYSTEM IS PAYING FOR ITSELF.

IT'S JUST NOT HAPPENING.

YOU KNOW, NEW YORK, IT DOESN'T HAPPEN.

YOU GOT, WHAT, A MILLION RIDERS A DAY UP THERE AND THEY'RE STILL IN A HOLE FOR MONEY.

SO HOW ARE WE MAKING THIS BUDGET DEFICIT UP? AND PEOPLE THAT REALLY WOULD LIKE TO DO THIS, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO STAND OUT IN THESE ELEMENTS.

NUMBER ONE, WITH THESE ELEMENTS, IT'S VERY HARD, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE YOU GOT A YOU GOT BUSSES IN NEW YORK RUNNING EVERY SO MANY MINUTES, NOT 20 MINUTES, A HALF HOUR.

AND THEN IF THEY MISS IT, THEY'RE STANDING OUT IN THE ELEMENTS AGAIN.

AND NOW YOU GOT SOME PLACES WITH BUS SHELTERS AND OTHER PLACES THAT ARE NOT.

NOW YOU HAVE OTHER PEOPLE THAT WOULD BUS SHELTERS.

AND WE HAVE LET'S SAY I'M GOING TO CALL IT WHAT IT IS.

YOU HAVE VAGRANTS, HOMELESS, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT UTILIZING THE SHELTERS AS THEIR HOMES.

IT'S NOT CLEANLINESS. PEOPLE THAT WANT TO JUST NORMAL COMMUTE TO WORK AND BACK HOME.

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YOU CAN'T, YOU KNOW, COME IN LIKE FROM A LAW ENFORCEMENT BACKGROUND.

I LOOK AT THINGS A LOT DIFFERENTLY.

I SAYS, IT'S NOT CONDUCIVE FOR THAT.

IF YOU MAKE THESE BENCHES WHERE THEY CAN'T SIT ON THEM OR SLEEP ON THEM, YOU KNOW, THAT MIGHT HELP ALSO WITH THAT.

BUT YOU GOT TO DO SOMETHING WITH THAT AND YOU GOT TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF NEIGHBORHOODS, SOMETHING, A SMALL VEHICLE TO RUN AROUND THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOODS.

GET THEM TO THE MAIN STRUCTURE.

YOU CAN'T EXPECT PEOPLE TO TRY AND GET UP ANOTHER HALF HOUR, AN HOUR EARLY TO START WALKING TEN BLOCKS OR 12 BLOCKS.

EVEN THOUGH WE DID IN NEW YORK, THAT'S WHAT WE DID.

BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT WHAT THE PLAN IS FOR, FOR THAT TO TRY AND MAKE THIS A FEASIBLE, A FEASIBLE PROCESS. LIKE I SAID, I'M ALL FOR IT.

AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANOTHER TYPE OF I KNOW WE'RE LIMITED ON SUBWAY TRACKS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, BUT WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO AS FAR AS MAKING IT ALMOST LIKE, LIKE A SUBWAY SYSTEM, BUT ABOVE GROUND? OKAY. SO A COUPLE OF THINGS TO ADDRESS IN THERE.

ONE OF THEM IS RIDERSHIP IS STEADILY CLIMBING SINCE COVID.

STEADILY INCREASING. AND YOU SAW IT'S UP ALMOST 9%.

INITIATIVES LIKE THE COA GOES OUT AND ASKS THE COMMUNITY QUESTIONS LIKE YOU JUST ASKED, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE US TO SEE ADDRESSING THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL STOPS? HOW WOULD YOU LIKE SHELTERS TO LOOK IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? DO YOU NEED A STOP CLOSER TO YOUR JOB OR CLOSER TO YOUR HOME? WHAT'S YOUR COMMUTE TIMES LIKE? WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE ON THE BUS? LIKE THE COA WENT TO TRANSIT LOCATIONS.

WE WENT TO EVENTS. WE HELD MEETINGS WITH EMPLOYERS AND ASKED TONS OF QUESTIONS JUST ABOUT HOW TO INCREASE RIDERSHIP, BUT ALSO INCREASE YOUR EXPERIENCE WHILE RIDING THE BUS AS FAR AS RAIL, YOU KNOW, BCR SOUTH, BCR NORTH ARE BOTH IN MOTION.

THOSE ARE INITIATIVES THAT ARE COMING DOWN THE PIPE BUT WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE 2024 FISCAL REPORT. I HOPE THAT ANSWERED YOUR QUESTIONS PRETTY MUCH.

BUT JUST ONE MORE COMMENT.

AND I WAS JUST WONDERING FOR IT WAS IN THE MILITARY 24 YEARS ALSO.

AND I WAS JUST WONDERING FOR DISABLED VETERANS, IS THERE ANY TYPE OF A PROGRAM I KNOW TOPS IS GOOD, I LOVE THE I LOVE TOPS.

I'VE USED IT. I THINK IT'S A VERY GOOD PROGRAM.

AGAIN, IT'S SOMETHING THAT I DON'T SEE HOW IT PAYS FOR ITSELF AGAIN, BUT IT'S A GOOD PROGRAM.

I THINK IT'S NECESSARY, YOU KNOW, TO GET THE VETERANS BACK AND FORTH.

AND PLUS ALL THE HANDICAPPED PEOPLE THAT ARE ON THERE THAT'S ACCESSIBLE, WHICH IS GREAT. I WAS JUST WONDERING IF THE VETERANS ON THE REGULAR TRANSIT SYSTEMS HAVE ANY IF THEY PROVIDE LIKE 100% DISABILITY RATING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT THEY WOULDN'T PAY OR THEY HAVE A VERY MINIMAL PAYMENT, A FAIR DISCOUNT FOR VETERANS.

I DO HAVE DISCOUNTS. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE OUR TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED PROGRAM AS WELL THAT IS ACCESSIBLE FOR PEOPLE THAT MEET THOSE QUALIFICATIONS.

BUT I CAN LOOK MORE INTO THAT SPECIFICALLY.

YEAH. WE CAN. YEAH. WOULD YOU LIKE US TO GET BACK TO YOU ON FARES FOR VETERANS? I'M SORRY. WOULD YOU LIKE US TO GET BACK TO YOU ON THE FARES FOR VETERANS? WE CAN DO THAT. YEAH, I THINK I WOULD I THINK THAT WOULD BE BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS. FLORIDA HAS A VERY GOOD PROGRAMS FOR VETERANS.

OVERALL, I BELIEVE. YEAH, WE CAN DO THAT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. HEY, PHIL BUSSEY, THANK YOU.

I APPRECIATE YOUR, YOUR BEING HERE AND YOUR COMMENTS.

I'VE GOT KIND OF FOLLOW UP ON A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT VINCENT HAD ASKED.

AND THE FIRST HAS TO DO WITH THE REVENUE.

HOW MUCH OF THE REVENUE IS PAID FARES BY, BY USERS AND HOW MUCH WOULD BE OTHER SOURCES? WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE REVENUE IS USED FOR THE IT COMES FROM FARES PAID BY USERS.

I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT BREAKDOWN RIGHT NOW, BUT I CAN PROVIDE THAT BREAKDOWN NOW.

A COUPLE OF THINGS AS IT RELATES TO PART OF THAT PREVIOUS QUESTION, WHICH WAS HOW DO WE ALLOCATE AND TRY TO KIND OF CUT INTO THAT DEFICIT? WE GENERALLY TRY TO RIGHT SIZE THE SYSTEM BASED ON THE RIGHT.

I HAVE TO INTERRUPT YOU A SECOND.

I SAW A GRAPH THAT DIDN'T REALLY SHOW ANY DEFICIT.

IT LOOKED LIKE REVENUE AND EXPENSES WERE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME.

SO THAT'S NOT REALLY BASICALLY WHERE THAT'S NOT A BUDGET, THAT'S OUR OPERATIONAL PLAN, BUT ALSO BASED ON THE WAY THAT WE OPERATE, WE TEND TO MATCH OUR SERVICES BASED ON OUR EXPECTED DEFICIT, NOT DEFICITS, BUT OUR EXPECTED EXPENDITURES AS WELL.

SO THAT'S WHY IT'S GENERALLY WE'LL SEE THAT AS BALANCED AS WELL.

AND IT'S GENERALLY HOW WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BUDGET OUT FOR OUR PROCESSES.

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BUT THAT'S GENERALLY WHY THAT'S SHOWN THAT WAY. SO THAT WOULD BE A REQUEST TO KNOW WHAT WHAT PERCENT OF THE REVENUE IS FARES.

YEAH. OKAY. AND WE CAN PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION.

AND THE OTHER NUMBER THAT LOOKED GOOD WAS RIDERSHIP GOING UP.

BUT HOW HOW IS THAT FIGURED? IS IT IN TERMS OF THE TOTAL CAPACITY THAT'S, THAT'S FILLED OR OR WHAT? SO THAT'S BASED ON TOTAL BOARDINGS.

FROM A ANNUAL PERSPECTIVE FOR THAT FISCAL YEAR.

I MISSED A WORD. I'M SORRY. CAN YOU SAY IT'S TOTAL BOARDINGS FOR THE ANNUAL PERSPECTIVE FOR THAT FISCAL YEAR. SO HOW MANY MORE RIDERS WE'VE GOTTEN OVERALL ACROSS OUR ENTIRE SYSTEM? THAT INCLUDES OUR FIXED ROUTE COMMUNITY SHUTTLE AND OUR TOPS AS THAT WAS BASICALLY INDICATED. SO ALL THOSE HAVE SHOWN POSITIVE UPWARD TRENDS IN TERMS OF RIDERSHIP.

SO MORE PEOPLE ARE USING OUR SYSTEM YEAR TO YEAR.

AND WE'RE TRYING TO GET BACK TO THOSE PRE-COVID LEVELS.

OKAY. SO IF YOU CAN IMAGINE CAPACITY BEING THE NUMBER OF BUSSES AND THE NUMBER OF MILES DRIVEN IS THAT ALSO GOING UP WITH THE RIDERSHIP, OR IS THE RIDERSHIP RELATIVE TO THE TOTAL CAPACITY? SO IT'S IT ALSO IS GOING UP.

BUT AGAIN, IT GOES BACK TO THE SITUATION OF THE WAY THAT WE PLAN FOR OUR ROUTES IS TO RIGHTSIZE THE SYSTEM AND THE VEHICLE TYPES BASED ON THE RIDERSHIP EXPECTED, BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO EXCEED THOSE GENERAL LOAD FACTORS AND HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE STANDING FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME.

SO WE'LL TRY TO MATCH THAT UP A LITTLE BIT.

SO THAT'S WHY YOU MAY NOT SEE A BUS THAT IS PACKED TO THE BRIM AND EVERYBODY'S FALLING OUT, BUT THAT ROUTE IS STILL PRODUCTIVE.

SO I DIDN'T SEE ANY NUMBERS SHOWING RIDERSHIP AS A BASIS OF, OF THE THE CAPACITY. IN OTHER WORDS, IF I SEE AN EMPTY BUS THAT THAT TO ME WOULD WOULD BE ZERO RIDERSHIP.

YEAH. SO WHAT WE ALSO HAVE, WE ALSO HAVE OUR MONTHLY RIDERSHIP REPORTS THAT IS POSTED ON ONLINE.

SO AND THAT'S RIDERSHIP REPORT.

YOU'LL SEE A SECTION THAT CALLS TO THE PASSENGER PER HOUR, WHICH WE USE TO KIND OF INDICATE HOW MANY GENERAL PEOPLE ARE ON THOSE BUSSES PER THOSE VEHICLE LOAD TYPES. THAT WAY WE CAN ASSESS, HEY, WHAT'S THE MORE CAPACITY OF THAT BUS THAT IS BEING UTILIZED PER THOSE TRIPS? SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT THOSE AND WE HAVE SOME OF THAT INFORMATION IN OUR MONTHLY RIDERSHIP REPORTS. OKAY.

AND I MIGHT HAVE MORE QUESTIONS AT A FUTURE DATE ONCE I SEE THOSE THOSE NUMBERS.

BUT CAN I FIND THEM ON, ON YOUR WEBSITE? YES, THEY ARE ON OUR WEBSITE.

IF YOU GO TO OUR RIDERSHIP SECTION, YOU'LL FIND THOSE.

I BELIEVE THE LAST ONE WAS UP TILL MONTH OF MARCH, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. OKAY.

SO GO TO THE WEBSITE AND LOOK FOR RIDERSHIP.

WILL IT TELL ME IN TERMS. AGAIN, I'D LIKE TO KNOW THE CAPACITY.

I'D LIKE TO KNOW THE NUMBER OF BUSSES AND THE NUMBER OF SEATS AVAILABLE.

HOW MANY OF THOSE ARE FILLED AND HOW MANY ARE NOT FILLED? SURE, DEFINITELY. AND I CAN ALSO LOOK INTO THAT INFORMATION FOR YOU AS WELL.

WE CAN I CAN GET YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION AND I CAN SEND YOU PER ROUTE.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF OUR RP FOR THOSE SPECIFIC CORRIDORS.

AND THEN I HAVE A KIND OF UNRELATED QUESTION, BUT I LIVE OUT IN WEST DAVIE, AND I THINK WE'RE IN A BUS DESERT BASICALLY.

I MEAN, BECAUSE THERE ARE ALL THESE TWO ACRE, LOTS OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.

MAYBE I NEED TO LOOK AT THE MAP AND FIND IF THERE'S A BETTER WAY TO GET AROUND.

BUT YOU DO HAVE CAPACITY TO PUT A BICYCLE ON A BUS, RIGHT? SO YES, IF I COULD BICYCLE A BUS STOP, I COULD. THAT'S CORRECT.

YES. OKAY. YEAH. AND AS GREG MENTIONED, WE'RE ARE CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH OUR COA.

SO WE'RE EVALUATING THOSE POTENTIAL MARKETS THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY EXPAND UPON BASED ON WHAT THE DATA AND THE PUBLIC OUTREACH TELLS US, OKAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.

OKAY, MAX. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.

I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT ARE PROBABLY GOING TO BE ANSWERED BY THE COA, SO YOU CAN JUST BE VERY HONEST WITH ME AND SAY, HEY, COA QUESTION.

THE FIRST QUESTION IS ACTUALLY WHEN WILL THE COA BE OUT? BECAUSE THE WEBSITE BCT'S WEBSITE STILL SAYS IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC IN DECEMBER OF 2024. YES.

YOU MEAN WHEN WILL THE FINAL KIND OF RECOMMENDATIONS BE OUT AND IMPLEMENTED? THAT'S GOING TO. SO THE NEXT STAGE IS GO BACK FOR PUBLIC OUTREACH.

WE TAKE THE RECOMMENDATIONS BACK TO THE PUBLIC AND WE SAY, HEY, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THESE. WE DO MORE PRESENTATIONS, MORE PUBLIC MEETINGS,

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AND THEN THAT GETS EVALUATED AGAIN.

SO IT WOULDN'T BE THIS YEAR.

IT WOULD LIKELY BE. YEAH.

SO AFTER THE PHASE OF PUBLIC OUTRAGE WOULD BE AFTER THAT.

CORRECT? CORRECT. SO WE'LL ONCE WE GET THOSE FEEDBACKS, THEN WE'LL MAKE ANY NECESSARY ADJUSTMENTS TO THOSE.

AND AS IT RELATES TO THE DOCUMENTS WE'RE WORKING RIGHT NOW TO MAKE SURE SOME OF THOSE PRELIMINARY DOCUMENTS ARE ACCESSIBLE AND AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AS WELL.

SO AS SOON AS THOSE ARE READY, WE'LL PUBLISH THEM ON OUR WEBSITES ALSO DO WE KNOW WHEN THAT WILL BE. SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE STILL GOING THROUGH AN ADA PROCESS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE ALL ACCESSIBLE. I DON'T HAVE A, LIKE AN EXACT DATE FOR YOU RIGHT NOW, BUT I CAN FIND OUT AND TRY TO LET YOU KNOW.

BUT THOSE WON'T REALLY SPEAK TO ANY RECOMMENDATIONS YET, BECAUSE THAT STILL HAS TO BE DONE WITH FIRST, THE CITY FOR THOSE PUBLIC OUTREACH AND AS WELL AS TO THE PUBLIC BEFORE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE AVAILABLE, LIKE TO BE POSTED ONLINE AS WELL.

SO THIS IS GOING TO BE MORE THAN A YEAR DELAYED NOT NOT PERSISTENTLY DELAYED.

SO WHAT'S HAPPENING IS THE, WE HAVE THE RECOMMENDATIONS.

WE'RE REVIEWING THOSE INTERNALLY.

SO AGAIN, IT'S JUST A MATTER OF HOW MUCH OF A BACK AND FORTH IS IT WITH THE CITIES AND THE PUBLIC. IF THE PUBLIC LOVES IT, THEN WE HAVE A SMOOTHER TIMELINE, BUT WE HAVE TO BE DEPENDENT ON THAT NECESSARY FEEDBACK SO WE DON'T HAVE AN EXACT TIMELINE.

I DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU, OH, IT'S GOING TO BE IN ONE YEAR, IT'S GOING TO BE IN THREE MONTHS.

IT'S GOING TO DEPEND ON WHAT WE GET BACK FROM THAT PUBLIC OUTREACH.

OKAY. BUT YOU WILL SEE THE INITIAL RESULTS THIS FALL WHEN WE START THE OUTREACH AGAIN THIS FALL. YOU CAN SEE, HEY, WHEN PUBLIC OUTREACH STARTS UP AGAIN FOR THE COA, YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THE SURVEY RESULTS WERE.

OKAY, WHEN YOU GUYS DO MAKE THAT AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, COULD YOU SEND IT TO US THROUGH MPO STAFF, PLEASE? ABSOLUTELY. MY NEXT QUESTION IS ACTUALLY ABOUT PART OF THE TIMELINE.

SO I'M NOT GOING TO ASK YOU ABOUT LIKE WHEN THE LIGHT RAIL IS GOING TO BE GOING OR ANY OF THAT STUFF, BUT THE HIGH FREQUENCY BUSSES THAT IS, YOU KNOW, NORMAL OPERATIONS, IT'S JUST INCREASING THE BUS FREQUENCY ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, FOR EXAMPLE, EVERY 15 MINUTES OR BETTER. DO WE HAVE ENOUGH BUSSES NOW TO DO THOSE SERVICES? OH, BUS PROCUREMENT IS A YEAH.

AS WELL, AS MANY OF YOU ARE AWARE, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUE THAT WE'RE STILL WORKING THROUGH. SO OUR MAINTENANCE TEAM IS ACTUALLY WORKING ON THEIR BUS REPLACEMENT PLAN. SO THEY'LL BE MORE EQUIPPED TO KIND OF ANSWER TO WHAT OUR EXISTING FLEET CAPABILITIES ARE.

SO RIGHT NOW FROM THAT SIDE, WE'RE STILL WORKING TOWARDS IMPLEMENTING AT LEAST HOLLYWOOD AND SAMPLE AND THE EXPECTED TIMELINE OF 2026.

AND THEN BASED ON WHAT THE REPLACEMENT PLAN IS, THEN WE'LL ASSESS THE OTHER CORRIDORS AND BE ABLE TO BETTER ANSWER THAT QUESTION FOR YOU.

WHEN WILL THE FACILITY BE DONE? I WILL HAVE TO TALK TO THE PROJECT MANAGER ON THAT ONE.

I DO NOT HAVE THAT ANSWER TO BE PROVIDED TO YOU RIGHT NOW.

OKAY. BECAUSE FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, WE NEED TO FINISH THE COPAN'S PROJECT TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF BUSSES WE CAN EVEN STORE AT BCT, AND THAT FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD, FROM WHAT I'VE.

MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THAT'S KIND OF A PREREQUISITE FOR US EVEN PROCURING MORE BUSSES TO BE ABLE TO RUN ALL THIS SERVICE.

SO I'M WONDERING IF THIS 2026 START DATE FOR AT LEAST THE SAMPLE ROAD AND THE HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD HIGH FREQUENCY BUS, IF THAT'S A REALISTIC TIMELINE OR NOT, BECAUSE I THINK THAT WE HAVE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BUY LIKE 20 OR 30 MORE BUSSES JUST FOR THOSE TWO ROUTES.

YEAH. AND THOSE TIMELINE AS PRESENTED WERE BASED ON RECENT CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD WITH THOSE PROJECT MANAGERS FOR THOSE SPECIFIC CORRIDORS.

SO AS THEY ARE PRESENTED, WE FEEL THAT 2026 IS A REALISTIC TIMELINE FOR THOSE CORRIDORS. NOW AGAIN, WE'LL CONTINUOUSLY REEVALUATE.

AND IF THERE'S ANY CHANGES, WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU AND LET YOU GUYS KNOW, HEY, THIS IS WHAT CHANGE AND THIS IS AS TO WHY.

OKAY, THE THE ELECTRIC BUSSES, I KNOW THAT THERE HAVE BEEN RELIABILITY ISSUES WITH THAT, ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT WE PREVIOUSLY GOT FROM PROTERRA. I THINK THAT THEY'RE COMPLETELY OUT OF SERVICE. THE HYBRID BUSSES, ARE THOSE GOOD ON RELIABILITY? ARE THEY ABOUT EVEN WITH THE PREVIOUS DIESEL OR PROPANE BUSSES? UNFORTUNATELY, THAT THAT'S NOT MY AREA OF EXPERTISE, SO I WOULD HAVE TO CHECK ON THAT ONE.

BUT I KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH A RIGOROUS PROCUREMENT PROCESS FOR ANY FUTURE BUS THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH. SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT RELIABILITY FACTOR WILL BE THERE TO FOR CONTINUOUS SERVICE.

SO I CAN GET BACK IN TOUCH AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY SPEC DIFFERENCES OR A MATTER OF THOSE.

SO MORE TECHNICAL QUESTIONS AS IT RELATES TO THAT. I CAN GET BACK TO YOU AND KIND OF ANSWER THOSE IF YOU HAVE THEM.

OKAY. I'VE GOT TWO COMMENTS.

THEY'RE PROBABLY MORE RELEVANT TO THE COA BECAUSE THEY'RE MORE ABOUT LIKE INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES.

THE FIRST ONE I'M GOING TO SAY IS ABOUT THE BIKE RACKS AT THE BUS SHELTERS.

SO THE BUS SHELTERS, I THINK THEY'RE CALLED THE KALEIDOSCOPE SHELTERS. THEY HAVE BIKE RACKS BUILT INTO THEM.

THE WAY THAT THEY'RE BUILT MAKES IT BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO BE ON THE SIDEWALK ITSELF.

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AND THEN YOU CAN ONLY GET 1 OR 2 BIKES PARKED ON THE BUS SHELTER, WHEREAS WE MIGHT WANT CAPACITY FOR, YOU KNOW, THREE, FOUR, FIVE. BECAUSE PERSONALLY, I DON'T LIVE NECESSARILY WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF LIKE EASY WALKING DISTANCE OF A BUS STOP.

SO I ALWAYS TRY TO BIKE TO THE BUS.

I ACTUALLY LIKE TRY HARD TO USE THE BUS WHEN I CAN.

AND THEN THERE'S NO BIKE RACK AT THE BUS STOPS CLOSEST TO ME.

THERE'S NO SHELTERS AT THEM EITHER.

BUT THEN I TRY TO GET MY BIKE ONTO THE BUS ITSELF, WHICH HAS A RACK IN THE FRONT WITH THE CAPACITY FOR, I THINK, THREE BIKES. AND IT'S THE ROUTE 22 BROWARD BOULEVARD.

IT'S ALWAYS FULL, ALWAYS FULL.

SO AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BUS OPERATOR SEES ME WITH MY BIKE? AND THEY KNOW THAT THE BIKE RACK IN THE FRONT IS FULL, THEY JUST LEAVE ME. SO I'VE HAD MANY TIMES WHERE I'VE TRIED TO TAKE THE BUS.

I BIKED, YOU KNOW, A MILE AND A HALF FROM MY HOME TO GET TO THE ROUTE 22.

AND THE NEXT BUS COMES IN AN HOUR.

SORRY. SO WHEN WE DO INSTALL THESE SHELTERS, CAN WE PLEASE INSTALL BIKE RACKS TO THE SIDE SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY FIT MORE BIKES THERE? I WOULD I WOULD PREFER TO LOCK MY BIKE UP AT THE BUS STOP.

OH YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT COMMENT AND I'LL DEFINITELY PASS THAT ALONG TO OUR CAPITAL GROUP. SO WHENEVER WE HAVE NEW SHELTER INSTALLATION THAT IS AT THE FOREFRONT FOR ANY FUTURE ONES. OKAY. THANK YOU.

AND MY SECOND COMMENT ALSO ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE, IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT A LEVEL BOARDING.

SO UNFORTUNATELY A LOT OF THE ONE OF WHENEVER I DO END UP BEING ABLE TO RIDE THE BUS, ONE OF THE BIGGEST DELAYS COMES FROM PEOPLE, DISABLED PEOPLE, PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS, PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIFFICULTY WALKING.

IT'S VERY HARD TO GET ONTO THE BUS.

SO WHAT THE BUS HAS TO DO IS HAS TO FLIP THE RAMP UP AND THEN LOWER DOWN.

AND THEN AND THAT PROCESS TAKES A VERY LONG TIME.

SO I DON'T HAVE AN EXACT TIMING, BUT IT FEELS LIKE EVERY TIME SOMEONE WITH A WHEELCHAIR WANTS TO GET ON THE BUS, IT DELAYS THE BUS BY ABOUT A MINUTE. SO IF WE CAN GET AS MANY STOPS AS WE CAN TO BE ELEVATED, YOU KNOW, EIGHT, NINE INCHES OFF THE GROUND SO THAT YOU JUST HAVE TO FLIP THE RAMP WITHOUT HAVING TO MOTORIZE IT UP AND DOWN SO THAT SOMEONE CAN JUST, YOU KNOW, WHEEL THEMSELVES INTO THE BUS.

I THINK THAT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS TO ELEVATE THE SHELTER ITSELF.

BUT I FEEL LIKE IF YOU DO THAT ENOUGH, AND EVERY TIME YOU'RE SAVING A MINUTE AT EVERY STOP, YOU KNOW, IT SPEEDS UP THE BUSSES A LOT.

OH, YEAH. THAT IS DEFINITELY A GREAT POINT. AND WE'RE ACTIVELY LOOKING AT SOME OF THOSE EFFORTS. OKAY. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU MAX. OKAY. MICHAEL SMITH.

OKAY. GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR THE EXTENSIVE REPORT.

BUT I JUST HAD A QUESTION ABOUT TICKETING.

I HOLD A THIS IS FROM MIAMI-DADE, BUT IT'S A SMART CARD THAT GETS ME ON AND OFF TRI-RAIL. AND THAT'S JUST ONE OPTION.

BY THE WAY, I WAS TOLD THAT WASHINGTON METRO TRANSIT SYSTEM, INITIATED ITS SMART CARD PROGRAM IN 1999.

SO YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT TECHNOLOGY IS.

I'VE ALSO BEEN TOLD THAT SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES LIKE GERMANY AND I THINK AUSTRIA HAVE A NATIONAL TRANSIT PROGRAM WHERE YOU CAN GO ANY, ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY ON ONE TRANSIT TICKET THAT IS GENERATED FROM AN APP BUY AND USE IT. AND IT'S PAID BY THROUGH THE PHONE SYSTEM, YOUR, YOUR PORTABLE PHONE, MOBILE PHONE.

I'M WONDERING IS THERE ANY STUDY OR ONGOING PROGRAM TO MODERNIZE OR ENHANCE OR MODIFY, ANY OF THE TRANSIT TICKETING PROCESSES.

WELL. BROWARD COUNTY. YES, I KNOW YOU.

THEY USE THE PAPER SYSTEM.

THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. BROWARD COUNTY TRANSIT DOES HAVE AN APP. TICKETING WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS INCLUDED ON THE COA SURVEY.

SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS CAN BE IMPROVED UPON.

CURRENTLY YOU CAN BUY TICKETS ONLINE AND ON THE APP, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE'D HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON TO SAY, WHAT ARE THE FURTHER STEPS THAT WE CAN TAKE AFTER WE GET THAT DATA BACK? PART OF THAT QUESTION WOULD HAVE BEEN, IS THERE A COOPERATION WITH OTHER TRANSIT AGENCIES IN SOUTH FLORIDA TO GIVE YOU A ONE TICKET OR, YOU KNOW, ONE PURCHASE RIDE? LET'S SAY I WANT TO GO TO WEST PALM ON A BUS INSTEAD OF TRI-RAIL.

HI, I'M AMANDA KRISTEN WITH THE BROWARD MPO TRANSIT MANAGER.

WE ARE WORKING RIGHT NOW WITH SFRA AND ARE AT THE END STAGES OF THE REGIONAL MOBILE APP.

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IT IS A ONE STOP SHOP APP FOR FOLKS TO PURCHASE THEIR FARES FOR ANY OF THE FOUR PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEMS WE HAVE HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA, AND THAT IS CALLED SOFLO GO, AND IT WILL BE LAUNCHING IN ABOUT A MONTH.

AND IT WILL HAVE ROUTE PLANNING AND WILL REFLECT ALL THE POSSIBLE SENIOR AND GROUP AND ABILITY DISCOUNTS THAT MAY BE AVAILABLE THROUGH ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT SERVICE PROVIDERS. AND THAT'S COMING PRETTY SOON.

SO THAT IS WITH ALL OF US, AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR 16 YEARS, AND I'M GOING TO BRING IT HOME.

SO STAY TUNED. THANK YOU AMANDA.

MAYBE WITHIN NOT WITHIN MY LIFETIME, BUT WITHIN YOURS.

POSSIBLY THAT THAT'LL BE EXPANDED STATEWIDE.

THANK YOU. MICHAEL. OKAY.

TOM LANDER. IT WAS AN ACCIDENT, BUT I'LL STILL ASK A QUESTION, BECAUSE WHY SHOULDN'T I DO SO? I'M LOOKING AT THIS ANTICIPATED SERVICE AND I'M, LIKE, PERPLEXED. OKAY.

SO NEXT YEAR WE HAVE TWO SERVICES COMING ON AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO THREE YEARS, THREE FULL YEARS TO IMPROVE THINGS ON JUST ONE MORE ROUTE.

AND THEN FEDERAL HIGHWAY.

IS THAT BECAUSE SOME OF THESE ALREADY HAVE FREQUENT.

BETTER FREQUENCY THAN HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD AND SAMPLE ROAD.

WELL, I JUST CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THE UP RAMP THINGS.

TAKES THAT LONG TO BRING.

I WOULD EXPECT LIKE BRING TWO OF THEM ON EVERY YEAR AND BE DONE BY 2030.

THAT WOULD BE NICE. YES. IF WE HAD A KIND OF SILVER BULLET.

DIFFERENT ROUTES REQUIRE DIFFERENT THINGS, LEVELS OF FUNDING, YOU KNOW, FOR SOMETHING THAT REQUIRES, FOR EXAMPLE, A, P, D AND E PROCESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS, THAT TAKES YEARS. BUT IF HPHB MEANS HIGH FREQUENCY BUS, CORRECT? YES, YES, THE BUSSES ALREADY GO ON THOSE ROADS, THE CARS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

TRUCKS ARE ON THOSE ROADS.

AND WE NEED TO DO AN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY OF ADDING BUSSES THAT WOULD ACTUALLY IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES.

BUT NOT ALL PROJECTS REQUIRE A P.D.A.

YOU KNOW, SOME THINGS ARE BEING UPDATED TO LOOK AT THINGS LIKE BCR SOUTH.

THAT IS A JUST FINISHED THEIR PD.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE HOW WHEN SOMETHING IS IN THE PLANNING PHASE, IF YOU IMPLEMENT THIS, WHAT IMPACT WILL IT HAVE ON THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT? I CAN SEE DOWNTOWN CONNECTION.

YOU'RE PUTTING IN A LOT OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THAT.

SAME THING WITH THE AIRPORT, SEAPORT CONVENTION CENTER LRT, AND THAT TAKES A LOT OF MONEY ON THE PLANNING END.

THAT'S INCREDIBLE. BUT HIGH FREQUENCY BUS.

IT'S JUST HAVING THE BUSSES GO MORE FREQUENTLY.

YEAH. AND THAT GOES A LITTLE BIT TO THE PREVIOUS CONVERSATION QUESTION THAT WE HAD FROM MAX. IT'S A ONE MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO HOUSE THOSE VEHICLES AS WELL AS TO PROCURE THOSE VEHICLES AS WELL.

RIGHT. AND IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE GOING THREE YEARS WITHOUT MAKING ANY IMPROVEMENTS AT ALL.

REMEMBER, WE'RE STILL MAKING GRADUAL IMPROVEMENTS ON A QUARTERLY ANNUAL BASIS FOR OUR ENTIRE SYSTEM BASED ON WHAT WE SEE OUT THERE.

SO WHETHER IT'S ON TIME PERFORMANCE OR ADDITIONAL FREQUENCIES NECESSARY BASED ON THE LEVEL OF RIDERSHIP. SO THOSE ARE JUST SPECIFICALLY THROUGH THOSE PRIMO PROJECTS, BUT THEY'RE STILL IMPROVEMENTS GOING ON IN THE LOCAL AS WELL.

BASED ON WHAT WE SEE THE NEEDS ARE.

OKAY. NEXT, THE NEXT PART OF THAT, THAT'S FOLLOW UP.

YOU JUST RAISED ANOTHER QUESTION.

SO YOU NEED MORE SPACE IN ORDER TO STORE THE BUSSES AND SO FORTH.

RIGHT. AND I KNOW TRI RAIL'S PROPERTY IS DIFFERENT THAN BCT AND SO FORTH.

BUT YOU GO DOWN THE SHERIDAN STREET AND THERE IS A TRI RAIL PARKING LOT THERE THAT IS HUGE THAT MOST OF IT FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS THAT I'VE LIVED HERE IS DEVOID OF ANY CARS AT

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YOU GO BY THERE AND THERE'S 6 OR 7 CARS.

CAN'T WE HAVE BETTER AGENCY COOPERATION TO USE FACILITIES THAT ARE JUST STANDING EMPTY? COMPLETELY EMPTY.

AND THEN I GO INTO DADE COUNTY AND I LOOK AT THE GOLDEN GLADES INTERCHANGE, AND THEY HAVE SOME REALLY GREAT INFRASTRUCTURE GOING ON THERE.

WE PUT IN FLYOVER RAMPS FROM I-95 INTO THE PARKING LOT AT BROWARD BOULEVARD THAT ARE ALMOST NEVER USED UNLESS TRAFFIC GETS BACKED UP AND WE HAVE PARKING LOTS THERE. AND TO ME, THE COUNTY AND TRI-RAIL SHOULD BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH SOME LEASING OPTION OR SOMETHING. THAT MAKES SENSE.

I MEAN, LET'S, LET'S USE OUR TAXPAYERS MONEY BETTER.

I'M JUST THROWING OUT THAT AS AN IDEA.

MAYBE YOU GUYS CAN RESEARCH THAT.

AND I'M NOT BEING CRITICAL.

I'M JUST LOOKING AT IT FROM A 70 YEAR OLD MAN THAT I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL MAKE IT TO 20, 34. OKAY. AND I'D LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THESE THINGS COME IN QUICKER SO I COULD SEE IT BEFORE, YOU KNOW, I GO INTO MY HEAVENLY REWARD AND A MANSION OVER THE HILLTOP.

HOPEFULLY THAT'S NOT ANYTIME SOON. BUT WE ARE ACTIVELY LIKE, YOU KNOW, WORKING ON SOME OF THOSE OPTIONS AND LOOKING AT SOME LOCATIONS, I'M NOT THE PERSON THAT'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THAT IN DETAIL. SO I UNDERSTAND ALWAYS, I WANT YOU TO JUST PUT IT OR LET IT PERCOLATE UP.

OH, DEFINITELY. I CAN DEFINITELY HAVE THAT HAPPEN.

AND AS IT RELATES TO SHERIDAN, WE DID START ONE OF OUR SERVICES DOWN THERE.

SO THAT LOT IS STARTING TO GET SOME TRACTION AND ACTIVITY AS WELL FROM BCT PURPOSES AS WELL. YEAH. OH, OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DO.

YOU GUYS ARE GREAT PUBLIC SERVANTS.

THANK YOU. I MEAN THAT.

OKAY. WALLACE PETERSON, YOU.

HI. THANKS FOR THE PRESENTATION.

A COUPLE PEOPLE HAVE MENTIONED SHELTERS, AND THIS IS SOMETHING I'VE KIND OF WATCHED IN IN MY AREA, TOO. I SEE IT SAYS YOU INSTALLED OR RELOCATED 15 SHELTERS.

IN THE SLIDE HERE. HOW HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHICH STOPS GET THOSE SHELTERS? AND I KNOW LIKE IN MY CITY, SOME OF THEM ARE COUNTY SHELTERS, SOME OF THEM ARE PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH OUR CITY.

AND IT DOESN'T SEEM TO MATTER IF IT'S A STATE ROAD OR COUNTY ROAD OR A LOCAL ROADWAY.

SO HOW IS THAT DETERMINED? AND I KNOW YOU, THERE ARE SOME PLACES WHERE YOU PHYSICALLY CAN'T PUT A SHELTER WHERE A ROAD HAS BEEN WIDENED, BUT THERE, THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF SHELTERS ALL OVER THE COUNTY. THERE'S ONE RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME, AND I'M SURE IN PLANTATION AND EVERYWHERE ELSE WHERE THERE'S A PAD EVEN AND PLENTY OF SPACE FOR SHELTER THAT USED TO BE THERE THAT'S NOT THERE ANYMORE. AND HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE DECIDE WHEN WE'RE GOING TO PUT THOSE IN AND WHO, WHO FUNDS THEM? IS IT THE CITY? IS IT SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, HOW DOES HOW IS THAT FUNDING DETERMINED? AND THOSE LOCATIONS DETERMINED WHERE THOSE SHELTERS GO? AND DO WE HAVE A GOAL OF ACTUALLY HAVING SHELTERS AT EVERY STOP THAT THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE ONE? SO I CAN'T ANSWER.

THE KOA DID ASK THE QUESTION ABOUT SHELTERS.

DO YOU NEED MORE SHELTERS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? THINGS LIKE LIGHTING, THINGS LIKE PROTECTION FROM THE ELEMENTS, THAT KIND OF STUFF. ALL WENT INTO THE SURVEY TO SEE WHERE ADDITIONAL SHELTERS COULD BE PLACED, OR IF ROUTES ARE GETTING STREAMLINED, WHERE SHELTERS COULD BE MOVED.

IN TERMS OF HOW THEY GET PRIORITIZED, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY DAMAGE SHELTERS, YOU KNOW, THAT NEED TO BE REPAIRED, GET REPAIRED. NEW SHELTERS AND HOW THEY ARE FUNDED WOULD COME OUT OF THE THE THERE'S A LINE ITEM, I BELIEVE IN THE BUDGET, BUT NO, DEFINITELY.

AND PARTIALLY SOME OF THE SOME ONE OF THE DETERMINING FACTORS ALSO IS THE LEVEL OF UTILIZATION AT THOSE STOPS.

SO WE CAPITAL WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THE RIDERSHIP OF THOSE LOCATIONS AND SEE IF THERE IS A NEED TO BASICALLY HAVE THAT SHELTER PLACED THERE.

AND ALSO, AS YOU MENTIONED, THERE ARE SOMETIMES PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH ON THOSE RIGHT OF WAY, OR IF THERE'S SOME ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO MITIGATE.

SO THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT PRESENT AT EVERY LOCATION.

AND ALSO SOME OF THOSE, AGAIN, ARE FEDERALLY FUNDED OR LOCAL FUNDS AS WELL, AND IT DEPENDS ON IF THE CITY WOULD REQUEST ONE AS WELL.

THERE'S CONVERSATIONS THAT CAN BE HAD IN THOSE INSTANCES.

IS THERE? IS THERE A WAY WE DETERMINE WHETHER THE COUNTY FUNDS THOSE SHELTERS OR A MUNICIPALITY DOES? AND I'M THINKING OF ONE SPECIFICALLY NEAR ME THAT WAS TAKEN OUT AS PART OF A ROADWAY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT FIVE YEARS AGO.

AND THEN THE SHELTER WAS NEVER REPLACED.

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SO AND, AND AGAIN, IS, IS IT A GOAL TO IF THERE, IF A SPACE CAN ACCOMMODATE A SHELTER, IF THERE'S A PAD BIG ENOUGH AND THE SETBACKS ARE RIGHT AND WHATEVER. DO WE HAVE A GOAL TO HAVE SHELTERS AT EVERY STOP REGARDLESS OF RIDERSHIP? I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S A BARRIER TO RIDERSHIP FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE.

I KNOW, YOU KNOW, STANDING OUT IN THE RAIN AND THE SUN IS MAYBE A REASON I DON'T TAKE THAT BUS VERY OFTEN BECAUSE I, IT'S REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE TO BE THERE AT THAT STOP NOW THAT THERE IS NO LONGER A SHELTER.

WE DID ASK THAT AS PART OF THE COA, DOES THE PRESENCE OF A SHELTER INCREASE YOUR CHANCES TO RIDING THE BUS? RIGHT? OR WOULD IT DOES IT NOT MATTER TO YOU? SO THAT'S PART OF THE DATA WE'RE JUST WAITING ON FEEDBACK FROM.

YEAH. IS THAT. YEAH. AND I'M JUST I'M ALSO I'M STILL WONDERING HOW DO YOU DETERMINE THE FUND? LIKE WHO PAYS FOR THAT SHELTER? IS IT THE CITY OR THE COUNTY? IS THERE A CRITERIA FOR THAT? HOW DOES THAT GET DECIDED? I WOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW UP EXACTLY ON THAT PROCESS.

YEAH. LET ME JUST TOUCH BACK ON THAT ONE FIRST.

OKAY. BECAUSE THAT'S A CAPITAL QUESTION. I CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THAT ANSWERED FOR YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY.

IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE OUT OF QUESTIONS HERE AGAIN TONIGHT.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, GENTLEMEN.

VERY INTERESTING. AND LOOK FORWARD TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS HERE.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. GO FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE.

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ANYBODY? I DO HAVE A QUESTION.

OKAY. I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING US OR PRESENTING ON THE MASKED ARMS, BECAUSE THAT WAS A QUESTION I'VE, I'VE ALWAYS ASKED.

AND SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THAT.

AS YOU SAW, I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS GOING TO GENERATE AN HOUR OF CONVERSATION.

SO IT WAS DEFINITELY AN INTEREST IN THAT.

MY HOPE IS THAT THE INDIVIDUALS CAN COME BACK IN THE FUTURE AND GIVE US AN UPDATE.

AGAIN, AS I SAID BEFORE I LIVED THROUGH KATRINA AND WILMA AND IT TO ME, IT'S VERY INTERESTING THAT IN A POPULATION OF 20 OR 2 MILLION, THAT SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WE DEALT WITH THEN HAVEN'T BEEN ADDRESSED.

AND SO MY FEAR IS, AGAIN, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER STORM AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO MANEUVER THIS COUNT, YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY BECAUSE INDIVIDUALS CAN'T GET THROUGH INTERSECTIONS.

SO AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING US TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION.

YEAH, WE'RE HAPPY TO DO THAT.

IT WOULD BECOME COMPLACENT WITH THE LACK OF HURRICANES.

AND WE'LL DEFINITELY YEAH.

BECAUSE OF THAT. SO CARL, THIS MORNING BILL WAS MENTIONING THAT YOU WERE HAVING A CONVERSATION YOU MIGHT WANT TO SHARE WITH US TONIGHT.

YES. THANK YOU. SO ONCE AGAIN, KALIMA BROWARD MPO STAFF.

I'M FILLING IN FOR BILL.

HE HAD AN EMERGENCY TODAY, SO HE HAD TO TO GET ON A PLANE, BUT JUST TWO QUICK THINGS.

I KNOW IT'S ALREADY EIGHT, AND WE WANT TO WE WANT TO GO HOME, BUT YEAH, THE FIRST ONE, I JUST WANT TO SAY WELCOME TO VINCENT.

I KNOW IT'S YOUR VERY FIRST MEETING HERE WITH US AT THE CAC, AND EVERYBODY HERE NOW CAN HAVE A COUSIN.

YEAH, AND I ACTUALLY WAS TALKING TO VINCENT BEFORE THE MEETING AND I SAID, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY TIMELY THAT YOU'VE JOINED US BECAUSE NEXT MONTH.

AND GREG, I KNOW YOU'RE HAPPY WITH THIS.

WE HAVE AS WE TALKED ABOUT, WE'RE SETTING UP THAT CAC TRAINING WORKSHOP.

AND SO WE'RE GOING TO DO AS YOU, AS YOU MIGHT REMEMBER, WE'RE GOING TO, WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO GET OFF THE DAIS.

WE'RE KEEPING THAT AGENDA VERY SHORT ON PURPOSE.

SO WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO COMPLETE OUR BUSINESS VERY RELATIVELY QUICKLY AND THEN HEAD RIGHT INTO THE WORKSHOP AND WE'LL TAKE YOU OFF THE DAIS.

UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE ROOMS IN THERE ARE RESERVED.

WE HAVE AN EVENT THE NEXT DAY, BUT WE CAN SET UP THE AUDIENCE AREA HERE AND CONVERT IT INTO A SPACE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE MORE INFORMAL, A LITTLE MORE FRIENDLY.

SO WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHERE WE, WE SHOOK THE COUCH CUSHIONS OUT AND FOUND SOME CHANGE.

SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME REFRESHMENTS AND YOU KNOW, TRY TO, WE HAVE OUR, OUR RESIDENT PARTY PLANNER KIND OF HELPING US WITH COMING UP WITH SOME SORT OF YOU KNOW, ICEBREAKER ACTIVITY, SOMETHING TO JUST GET, LET YOU ALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET EACH OTHER AND GET TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR, YOUR FELLOW CAC MEMBERS.

AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO THE EDUCATION PIECE, WHICH IS GOING TO, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY COVER, YOU KNOW, THE MPO PLANNING PROCESS THE CAC, THE MPO ROLE, THE CAC ROLE AND SO ON.

SO THAT'S GOING TO BE YEAH, NEXT MONTH.

I HOPE YOU ALL CAN STILL MAKE THAT.

ONE THING WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE IS THE, THE ZOOM OPTION IS YOU KNOW,

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SO, YOU KNOW, WE'LL WRAP UP THEIR BUSINESS AND THEN CONCLUDE THE ZOOM MEETING AND THE CAC MEETING AND THEN MOVE ON OVER HERE IN PERSON.

SO IT'S PROBABLY NOT VERY HELPFUL ANYWAY TO, TO TRY TO DO THAT VIRTUALLY.

IT'S, IT'S MORE OF LIKE THE SPIRIT OF THE EVENT IS KIND OF IN PERSON ANYWAY.

SO THAT'S ABOUT IT THOUGH.

THAT'LL, THAT'LL AGAIN BE NEXT MONTH.

WE'RE WORKING ON IT NOW. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS IN THE MEANTIME, LET US KNOW. SO THAT'S IT FOR ME CHAIR.

I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE MPO SIDE.

OKAY. THANK YOU. ALSO, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE ANOTHER NEW MEMBER.

THIS IS YOUR FIRST PHYSICAL MEETING HERE, ROSANNA CORDOVA.

SO WELCOME ABOARD. FIRST PHYSICAL.

THAT'S FUNNY. ALL RIGHT.

I THINK WE NEED A MOTION TO ADJOURN.

I'M NOT CAREFUL. MOVE TO ADJOURN.

YES. DO WE HAVE FURTHER? OKAY. OKAY, WE HAVE IT.

SLOW DOWN. ON THE WAY HOME NOW.

I SAW YOU THE LAST TIME YOU ZOOMED BY ME.

WE ARE OUT OF HERE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EVERYBODY.

THERE ARE DONUTS OVER HERE.

OH!

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.