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The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners held a full-day meeting on October 6, 2026, beginning at approximately 8:30 AM with special presentations and concluding with votes on transit fare increases, airport hotel negotiations, and a controversial video game marketing agreement. The board addressed over 80 agenda items, including consent items, ordinances, public hearings, and reports.
Meeting adjourned at approximately 3:30 PM.
Good morning. So we are going to begin this morning with the Veloma Awards presentation. So for those of you who aren't aware, the Veloma Award recognizes parents and families who have experienced the unimaginable loss of a child and inspired by their child's memory have turned that loss into action that positively impacts our community. Interestingly, there's another organization here today who we play for, which shares the mission by providing heart screenings for young people, expanding access to AEDs, and advocating for greater awareness and prevention of sudden cardiac arrest. Today's recognition is presented jointly to Eli's Lasting Impact Foundation, whose partnership is helping expand heart screenings, increase awareness of sudden cardiac arrest, and protect young people from preventable sudden cardiac death. Together, we are honoring Eli's memory in the most meaningful way. Alongside these amazing foundations, Eli's Lasting Impact Foundation, and who we play for, work together to ensure that other families do not have the experience, and unfortunately, the same unimaginable loss. Also, recently, this amazing organization and this family also held a free screening for about 300 youth, and I'm confident that they saved even more lives that day. So would you please come up and accept this award and say a few words? And I know the mayor may want to say a few words as well. Thank you so much. Come on, come up. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Hello. Very well. Thank you. Okay. You guys can go ahead and take off your stickers. So I was here when this award was created. And I think we all at the time I was a commissioner, we're so grateful to our former Commissioner Martinez who initiated this award because we know a loss of a child especially is unthinkable. And that you would have the courage and the determination to turn it into something that could be of lasting benefit, in which case you definitely have done because you've saved more lives. So we just owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude, and this is a small token because you are role models for us and for the community, and we're so grateful for the role that you're playing in educating and preventing future loss. Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. Good morning. I'm going to be extremely brief. Our family is very grateful for who we play for, who has partnered with us in our mission. I wanted the community to know that our efforts are growing. That's being led by Dr. Jeff Goldberger, who will help us in research and tabulating different preventative methods to have a reduction and tabulation of these untimely deaths. So please watch for us, follow us on social media, embrace us and help us save lives together. And it's part of our mission to help ensure that our son's life shines on. Thank you for allowing us to be here. It's okay. I'll be very brief. What we've been doing lately, we can't do without the help of Who We Play for. Yeah, I'd like to take this opportunity. I promise I'll be brief, uh, but just to say thank you to the Silverman family. This is an honor.