With Government Center First, thank you.

We wanted to just uh this is a presentation to follow up the March um uh twenty twenty-six workshop meeting.

Um at the end of that presentation and workshop, several board members requested that staff um consider restoring the child care accommodations back into uh the facility.

And so um on April, uh believe April twentieth or twenty first.

Um you'd received a a memo uh from Isimi uh Ayala Goyaso uh explaining all of the provisions and all of the the details on that analysis.

And this is just simply to bring it back to the board to get final direction on how to proceed with that portion.

Let's try it over.

The demolition permitting is in process with the city and commencement of demolition activities of the Gore building is still expected to occur in summer of 2026.

Environmental work and monitoring continues at the site.

So going then to the memo that we shared with the board and the question of child care facilities to be included or not as part of the new government center.

We uh find it timely to be able to share with you some key data.

The memo was very detailed today during the presentation.

We are just going to address key points, nothing else, but obviously this board can take us into details as it deems uh appropriate.

We made a few um assumptions in working through the data, right?

And we shows just for sake of the analysis the possibility of considering an in total enrollment in that share cut child care facility of 120 children.

So if you use that number, and that number can be adjusted any way the board wishes, but we needed to make an assumption to be able to build an analysis.

If you take into consideration 120 children as the base enrollment, that will require an additional 14,000 square feet of space inside the government facility.

If you take that into account, that then equals about $50 million of additional building costs to be put towards the new government center.

If you add that to the $663 million that we had shared with you before for the reduced recommended program, that brings your new total to $178 million.

Can we go uh questions by uh issue?

Um what where is 120 kids come from?

I mean, right now, do we have a do we there's no child center here?

So correct.

Where is this 120 kids coming from?

No, I think that's the same.

What employees?

So we were using an uh making an assumption based on some other similar um uh child care facilities uh downtown in the area.

Um we looked at we looked at uh Miami Dade County and other areas that might do similar things.

We were just using an assumption.

I mean child care facilities are great, but uh the building here, I mean, do you have you have any idea of the you have 700 employees, how many of those have kids that would utilize this?

Yeah, so so we do have analysis on and and in that memo that that was it was detailed out for the age of the workforce, the um uh the where the distribution of the workforce lives, where the distribution of our workforce works, all of that is is outlined there.

We're trying to summarize it here, but it was in much greater detail um in the the memo that was provided.

So uh first of all, I think I would like to know did you survey the employees?

Survey the employees themselves.

No, we did not.

To ask that if we had a child care center here, would they use it versus something else?

Yeah.

No, so there was no survey done of the employees if they would want it or utilize it.

But what we did do is we we utilized data that kind of uh uh looked at since the inception of our parental leave, um, that I believe actually you uh might have sponsored that um back uh in 2018, I believe it was, um, how many employees we have that have utilized the parental leave portion.

And so um, and I think we've got that data and is me can I can speak to that now.

Um and then we extrapolated that out.

And it was really just to get a sense of, you know, the the number of employees that we have that have taken advantage of that parental leave.

Even that we would assume, you know, if all of them took advantage of of that.

Now, mind you, we have people spread out all over the county where they work.

Um, so but even if you did that, it still would fall short of of that number, but we wanted to just give a sense of because we did that, we had we had done the assumption before we had gotten all that information back.

Um again, we got that data.

Um and you know it it depends on if the the objective of the board, if you guys wanted to pursue this, the the concept, the if the objective of the board is to kind of cater to the individuals and the employees that work in that building, or for all of county government, and and assuming you have to, you know, take into consideration that people are likely not going to come drive here to drop their kids off at a daycare if they work out at GC West or somewhere else.

So there's a lot of assumptions that you have to kind of make and what and we needed to understand better from the board what you guys, if you wanted to pursue this, what you know what would be the objective I asked if you you uh asked.

And you know, some people may not even work here because we don't have a child care center.

You don't you don't know that because that the data shows, and I looked up lots of stuff because I've worked on this for years and years and years.

And uh, my organization did the first definitive study of child care in America back in 1972.

That's how long this has been going on.

And there's tremendous advantages it shows to having a child care center where people can bring their children.

They they go down at lunchtime, they you know, just all different kinds of connections that you don't get when you drop your child off someplace else.

So that's why I just wanted to ask that.

And the other thing that I wanted to jokingly, I was asking Commissioner Udean if he knows if there's a child center at Spirit.

And yes, there happens to be a child care center at Spirit because a lot of corporations and a lot of companies are doing this today because they know that it enhances the work experience for their employees.

So that's one.

The other thing, I I'm not gonna get too much into this, but I looked up a lot of the numbers, and we these numbers are high in terms of monthly cost of um of uh child care as compared to you know uh many other places and um uh and for instance in wait lists are incredibly long for infants.

So if we have people that are that are, you know, have infants.