The Independent Transportation Surtax Oversight Board (ITSAB) held its budget meeting on August 14, 2026, reviewing the FY2027 recommended budget and the proposed five-year plan (2027-2031) for the Mobility Advancement Program (MAP). The meeting included presentations from the Office of Economic and Small Business Development, the Municipal Surtax Program, Broward County Public Works & Environmental Services Department, and the Broward County Transportation Department. After public comment (none received) and discussion, the Board approved the FY2027 budget and the five-year plans with one dissenting vote (Ray McGovern, voting by email, on statutory eligibility of projects).
And um we'll start here with a roll call. So good morning, everybody. Tracy Kaplan. Here Thank you. Debbie Madden. Here. Douglas Coleman. Here. Thank you. Or dog dominance. Here. Phil Allen. Thank you. Ronald Frison. And Ray McGover will join us online and the appendix. Thank you, Roy. Do we have any members of the public signed up to speak? We don't have anybody here this morning. No speakers this morning. Okay. And as a reminder to all the board members here and online, um, please speak directly into the microphone so your uh comments can be recorded and um push the little red button um to speak. And also wanted to ask if there's any elected officials in attendance today. I see none. So we will move on, and I'm gonna turn it over to our new uh transportation surtex administrator and oversight board coordinator, Jonathan Hopkins. Welcome, Jonathan. We're very happy to have you here. So um I'll let you speak. Thanks. Yeah, well, good morning, everybody. It's a pleasure. Um and an honor to be able to take over from Gretchen uh in this role and join you guys in a very audacious and important task of supporting the implementation of one of the largest transportation support voter approved transportation measures in the country. Um as I ride the train every morning in Route 22 of Broward County Transit to get to work every day. We get to see a lot of promise of what's ahead, but also opportunity. And so I just like look forward to being able to work with you in support of what um our voters and our county commissioners made possible in 2018. Uh and there's there's a lot to do on that. Um with that, uh I I do want to start out all of our meetings every time on what like our basically what is the foundation of what we're here to do and center ourselves on that. So the first thing to bring up is is what I call our birth certificate, which is really the ballot measure in 2018 and what it called, what the voters said we were here to do, which was to reduce traffic congestion, improve roads and bridges, enhance traffic signal signalization, develop safe sidewalks and bicycle pathways, expand and operate bus and special needs transportation, implement rail and improved corridors, and implement emerging technologies. It's a long and important list that is necessary and essential as we help people live in an affordable place that they can enjoy. Um so as most of us are all aware of of the process and and how all of this works, there's some different steps to it. Um ultimately ours are to there's really three bullets on the oversight board role. Um reviewing projects for statutory eligibility and evaluate five year plans prior to commission budget adoption. Those two we're basically doing in this meeting today. And then the third bullet we do in all of the other meetings. Report on the performance of the ongoing projects and provide recommendations to the county administrator and the county commission. Um back in 2018 or shortly thereafter, the county commission approved. What are our foundational elements, transparency account, and resiliency, and what are our five goals? And you can see them there. They're broadly aligned and generalized versions of what we put in front of voters. Um with that, um, we did an annual report. Um, and so for 2025.