The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners convened on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. in the Commission Chambers for its regular meeting. The board addressed a wide-ranging agenda that included special presentations, citizen comments, consent items, first-reading ordinances, public hearings, and several contested resolutions. Major actions included approval of the MIA Runway 5K donation, adoption of multiple zoning and bond measures, a split vote to hire McKinsey for efficiency consulting, and rejection of a compliance report concerning two community organizations.
Oh, there it is. There it is. All right, all right, all right. All right, Ralph, join me. Join me. This is your show. I'm gonna hand this over to you. It's my pleasure as the chair to be here, but in reality, this is all director QT's uh show here. Um my constituent Ralph Cutie. Yes. Yeah. Uh breast cancer awareness. Why are we doing this out of cycle? Just because now's when we got the funds ready and everything. All right, all right. All right, it's breast cancer awareness month every month. It's not just on that said month. Um listen, it's it's a pleasure as your chairman as for Ammy Day County, joined by my colleague Jesse Bermudez, the rest of my colleagues. Uh apparently it's still cold outside and they're in their sheets. Uh, so they're gonna be running late today. But uh, listen, it's a pleasure to be just a part of this. I know that uh the airport and oh wow, Jimmy, you're here. All right, on behalf of the mayor, where's the mayor? She's gonna be here this morning. All right, she's on our way, she's on her way. But I I know that no, and also I know the airport is is one of our largest fundraisers in the entire county, and and that merits, you know, some real recognition. So before we do what we're actually here to do, I want to say thank you to the director for for putting that on, obviously, with your five K team, which I saw some of them, Frankie's Frankie, Frankie back there. Um, but but not just you, Director, even though I love you and you're my constituent, and you went to Columbus as my sons do, but your entire team, because it it takes a team effort to put all of this together. So uh a round of applause for our director, but the entire aviation team and five K teams. Without further ado, Director, take it over. Sure. Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. So I promise I'll be brief. First of all, I want to thank our mayor, Chief Morales, our chairman, and our board for all of your support for making strides against breast cancer over the last four years. We started this thing out just about four years ago with about a thousand runners at MIA. And since then, we've grown the event to all three of our airports, Opalog Executive, Miami Executive, and MIA. And we finished up this year with about fifty-five hundred participants total for the year twenty twenty-four. And we raised 130,000 total over the last four years for making strides against breast cancer. So that is a huge, huge number, and obviously, you know, we take a lot of pride in participating in that and in being a big part of the fight against breast cancer. So that's one second. Maria Nardian, she may not be here, but our parks and recreation department, they provide the stage and the bleachers for our events. And obviously, Frankie Reese, who's here from We Run Miami, they put to they put together a first class event every single year. All three events that we do now at our three airports, they do a great job. And then obviously are making strides a bit against breast cancer partners, uh Brittany Perez, she's represented today here by my Morgan. So it's not we don't do it alone in a vacuum, and last but not least, obviously our like you mentioned, Mr. Chair, our MIA team. You know, they do a tremendous job working collaboratively with everybody. So it's a team effort. We really take a lot of pride in doing it.