The Miami-Dade County Transportation Committee voted to send the board's recommendation to the Citizens' Independent Transportation Trust (CITT) to reinstate 11 projects that staff say were rejected from the CITT five-year plan for two consecutive years.

Committee members and department staff noted that attorneys have opined the projects meet the requirements for spending proceeds from the People's Transportation Plan (PTP). Chairwoman Higgins said the department had "for two years in a row, 11 important projects rejected from the CITT 5-year plan" and urged the committee to recommend the projects be added back into the plan.

The committee highlighted safety-related needs among the projects. Chairwoman Higgins said one example was that "fire alarm panels at 3 Metromover stations do not have working fire alarm panels, which means we are staffing those Metromover sites 24 hours a day in just in case, God forbid, anything happens." The transcript records that these deficiencies have caused operational staffing burdens; it does not include cost estimates or a project-by-project funding breakdown.

The committee moved to send the board's advice to the CITT that these projects be included in the five-year plan; the motion was included in the set of regular items taken together and was approved. The transcript does not show a separate roll call for this specific instruction, but the chair took a collective vote on items as moved and recorded approval.

Votes at a glance: Item 3C ' Motion: send board recommendation to CITT to include the 11 previously rejected projects in the CITT five-year plan (mover not specified; second not specified). Vote: approved as part of the collective vote on regular items.

The committee did not record project-level budgets, timelines, or dependencies in the transcript. The committee asked that the CITT reconsider the projects and indicated attorneys believe the projects meet PTP spending standards.