Afternoon, everybody.

Thank you for those who may be afforded to join us here.

Welcome to the municipal workshop.

MAP administration here.

And thank you also those who are joining us virtually through Zoom.

And we wanted to talk to you today about some of the processes that we have implemented recently.

And a little bit of what's ahead.

We will welcome all your questions at the end.

And the first thing we want to do is like in those team and bring out a map administrator in Jonathan Hawkins.

And that's cool.

Hey, thanks, Alex.

So good afternoon.

My name's Jonathan Hopkins.

I'm the new Gretchen.

I think everybody here knows Gretchen, yes.

And so I've been here, this is about my sixth week, I think, starting now.

Come to the county with prior experience at Brightline, Uber, Lyme, and some other public-private organizations in the Pacific Northwest, and I'm an Army veteran.

Super quick background.

This obviously is the agenda for today.

So in this role, uh, we all recognize how important this program is to the county, to our cities, and to people across the county.

Um I really think of maps like overall mission and responsibility is to support all of you and the county and delivering better connections, you know, covering the map with better connections for all of our citizens.

Um when I think about the my priorities with respect to our cities that we collaborate with, who are like we're all a team of teams trying to deliver better things for our citizens.

Um the number one thing that I think about is just project delivery.

And really, you know, for the most part, it's not map delivering on projects except for a few small exceptions.

But you know, continued seamless work by our team helps you guys deliver, right?

So we never we want to be um be able to set, you know, everybody have clear expectations as those always be met, and that we're never impediments to getting projects that are appropriate and accountable, done, right?

And so I think you know the team generally has always been doing that, but that's that's just to me a number one goal.

Like back in the day, you know, Ford would say quality is job one.

I would say for map project delivery is job one, right?

As long as it's a affordable, sorry, appropriate and accountable.

Um with that, you know, being a new director in this role and not one who's historically lived.

I I've lived down in Miami Dade County.

Uh so I haven't been even to every city in the county yet, right?

So something that we are uh embarking on starting in July, like our communications team uh goes out to all the different cities and works to tell the story of different investments that our cities have made uh to make a difference for people in the county to make roads safer, to improve capacity, to you know, give people a better experience as they travel.

Um the number one one of the number one things I can do is better understand that and needs of each of our communities because again, we are a supporting effort to facilitate our city's success when it comes to the municipal capital projects, right?

And so something that we're gonna start doing in July is I'll start joining our um communications team as we visit the different cities, and a goal should be to visit every city, all or almost all by the end of the year, right?

And our goal when we do that is um there's some direct and obvious goals, but then there's some underlying goals that are very, very important as well.

You know, first is just to see you know some of these tremendous projects that are planned under construction or completed that are really important to your cities.

Like I really want to come and see what you care about and how it fits in with your mission and your the hopes and dreams of each city, right?

Like the overall long-term goals of the city because it helps us support you better.

It helps me understand, like in many ways, cities are our customer in this concept.

So we have to understand, I have to understand the customer.

Uh, second, as we do that, our communications team, I think they do some great work and have the ability to do some really, really great work.

So to me, a goal, like not all cities have big communications teams, and in a few cases might not have one.

Like they don't have big communications teams.

So as much as we can, making sure our communications team is producing products that are really helpful to the cities that cities can reuse.

Um, and thirdly, it's an opportunity to meet like none of this happens without all of us working together, right?

And so it gives us me an opportunity to meet key players, whoever in your city, so you consider those key players to be.

If you just want to have the Spock, if you want to have the Spock meet me and we walk around a project that's really great, then we should do that.

If you want to bring out a project manager that's working on that project, please do.

If a city administrator or deputy administrator or somebody else from the city wants to come out and join, welcome.

Um, it's an opportunity to for us to hear what matters and just for there to be like really, really good mutual understanding.

So it'll just make me feel a lot better about knowing how we support our cities as customers.

Um are there any questions on any of that that have what I just shared?

Okay.

Well, I'm excited to meet all of you guys in person, not just in one large room, but one on one and understand like what's going well, what can be improved, and really see how all of this effort, you know, and a ballot measure that was passed in 2018, how it's gone to work to make a difference in our cities.

So thank you guys all for coming out today.

Um, I look forward to our team helping give you guys some new information and answering questions, and I'll turn it over to them.

Thank you, Jonathan.

Good afternoon, everyone.