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• • • • • • O Teresita C. Garcia • Partner, Public Involvement Director • • } Professional Experience Tere Garcia has more than 25 years experience in the fields of planning, public participation, • - • t ),—). governmental and media relations. Eighteen of those years have been spent specifically in the • ,; - �""1 public involvement field concentrating on transportation and infrastructure projects. B&A has • • - no* 11 1 provided public involvement services to governmental agencies such as the Miami-Dade Expressway • . -V/ Authority (MDX), the Florida Department of Transportation.Miami-Dade Transit Agency and Miami- ® Dade Water and Sewer Department.Ms.Garcia oversees all public outreach activities for planning and design projects for MDX including educational and informational efforts dealing with the • implementation of Open Rood Tolling in the MDX System. She has been an integral part of the • visioning process used to perform the two updates to the MDX Long Range Master Transportation • Plan and has delivered a successful program of public outreach for planning and design projects. Ms. Garcia has established the guidelines for public involvement followed by MDX designed after • State requirements but tailored to the rapid pace and fast delivery of projects by MDX. She was • Principal-in-Charge of FDOT District Six, Districtwide Public Involvement Contract which includes public involvement services for over 100 planning or design projects since the onset of the contract • EDUCATION in 2006.Ms.Garcia is also the Principal-in-Charge of public involvement services for the Miami-Dade ® Master in Urban Planning, University of Puerto Rico, 1979 Transit MIC Eariington Heights Connector and the Reconstruction of SR 9 for FDOT District 4. Ms. • Garcia directs all community and public outreach programs for public as well as private clients. • Master in Architecture, She also acts as a liaison between B&A and Miami-Dade County and its municipalities in regulatory. • Tulane University. 1974 permitting and public affairs matters. • Bachelor of Architecture. • Tulane University. 1974 PROJECT EXPERIENCE • Miami-Dade Expressway Authority, Miami-Dade County, Florida - Public Involvement Director for COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT General Engineering Consultant. Responsible for developing strategies and overseeing all public • Board of Governors Greater involvement and community awareness programs throughout the master planning and final • Miami Chamber of Commerce design phases of MDX's projects. This has included strategic and extensive community awareness ® campaigns to reach the impacted communities using workshops,presentations to elected officials Greater Miami Chamber and Community Councils, open house, community meetings, speaker's bureaus. fact sheets, • of Commerce Executive newsletters,website.PowerPoint presentations and public hearings. • Transportation Committee • Carrfour Supportive Housing. Highlights of current and past efforts include: • Board immediate past Chair, 2009 Open Road Tolling-MDX is seeking the implementation of all electronic Open Road Tolling for its five • expressway systems within Miami-Dade County.This is the first time that any toll agency is retrofitting • Leadership Florida.Council of an existing toll collection system into an all electronic collection system and simultaneously providing Advisors.Past Regional Chair for a more fair system of collecting tolls based on the distance the customer drives. Public outreach • and Board of Regents activities are based and built on research. surveys, focus groups, input from elected officials, • Trust for Public Lands Policy coordination with other local,national and international agencies and feedback from the general • Advisory Council public. A multi-phase, multi-year Community Outreach Plan has been prepared and built upon in • order to address a very challenging implementation from a public perspective. The preparatory St.Thomas the Apostle Building phases hove included Key Opinion Leaders Surveys.one-on-one briefings with elected officials and • Committee Chair presentations to governmental,civic and grassroots groups. Open Road Tolling will be implemented • TEAMFL (Toll Expressway on a corridor-by-corridor basis.Each corridor receives unique attention and a strategic plan to fit the • Authorities Members of Florida), needs and the community profile of the customers using the MDX system. • Member MDX Long Range Master Transportation Plan(2025 and 2035 Update) -Every five years MDX updates • their Long Range Transportation Plan and identifies new projects through a visioning process with • its Board of Directors, transportation partners and the public. This update included the use of a • new innovative preference survey technology (Turning Point) with the Board Members to gather • and present live results of priorities for all presented projects. Initial tasks included working with the technical planning team on a needs assessment of transportation needs in Miami-Dade County • and the identification on potential projects where MDX could be a catalyst in providing mobility to • OC� D www.bermelloajamil.com 54 •