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The Government Efficiency & Transparency Ad Hoc Committee met on October 16, 2026, with Chairman Juan Carlos Bermudez presiding. Due to a lack of quorum, no formal actions were taken; however, the committee proceeded with a scheduled presentation and discussion on improvements to the county's Fats, Oils, and Grease (FOG) control program. The meeting highlighted a multi-departmental effort to provide regulatory relief to small businesses while maintaining compliance with a 2013 consent decree and environmental standards.
Higgins will be absent from today's meeting. Commissioner Gilbert, Commissioner Regalado, Vice Chair Woman Milian Orbis, Chairmember Mutez. Okay, I'm here. One member Pris, and we don't have a quorum. There was a song even before I was born. The song was Mr. Lonely. But I'm not lonely because I got all you here. So that's not the song we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about the fact that the power of one is great in the power of many when the one is committed and caring for this county. Remember that. So and yes, I hope you can all see it. All right. So let's start with an invitation. And I guess I'll do it. And then we'll do the pledge of leads. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for Witch Hands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Um I'm gonna open it up in a in uh in a second um to the reasonable opportunity for the public to be heard. And we do have someone who's well, Andrew Platt. If he can come on up. It as I spoke to you briefly and candidly, walking into the chambers, I said every marriage begins with a hello, right? Like you every relationship, and then it turns into a first date. Clearly, this is the beginning of a budding relationship, and hopefully an impactful marriage. A marriage between a county and a commission that not only listens to the voices and the concerns, but acts on it. So I say to you, thank you. Thank you to Durham to RER, to the county mayor, to uh deputy uh mayor coholey, to my dear friend Manny Sid for advocating for this. And on behalf of the over 8,000 GDO permit holders in Miami Dade County, we say thank you. Thank you, Mr. Platt. Thank you for the kind words, and thank you for being part of that community that wants to make a difference here in Miami Dade County. Is there anybody else that would like to speak at this time? Come on up, give us your name and address for the record. And going. Like a home run during the years of uh Barry Bonds and Mark Maguire and gone. So all right. Well, and then what we'll do now, uh the attorneys, uh essentially, we just have a discussion items, but do we need set the agenda? Uh it doesn't, would we not have quorum? So there's no quorum, there's no action, but you could have the presentation and the discussion items.