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O O O O S 0 0 0 Teresita C. Garcia . Partner, Public Involvement Director O O - _ Professional Experience Tere Garcia has more than 25 years experience in the fields of planning, public participation, • r�yy-' governmental and media relations. Eighteen of those years have been spent specifically in the ® ,. - "tri` i public involvement field concentrating on transportation and infrastructure projects. B&A has O - ' provided public involvement services to governmental agencies such as the Miami-Dade Expressway O .4 io I Authority(MDX). the Florida Department of Transportation,Miami-Dade Transit Agency and Miami- 'Ara I - r I Dade water and Sewer Deportment.Ms.Garcia oversees all public outreach activities for planning o "-+-- and design projects for MDX including educational and informational efforts dealing with the o implementation of Open Road Tolling in the MDX System. She has been an integral part of the O 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. o Ms. Garcia has established the guidelines for public involvement followed by MDX designed after o 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 WO planning or design projects since the onset of the contract o EDUCATION in 2006.Ms.Garcia is also the Principal-in-Charge of public involvement services for the Miami-Dade o Master in Urban Planning. Transit MIC Earlington Heights Connector and the Reconstruction of SR 9 for FDOT District 4. Ms. University of Puerto Rico. 1979 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, O 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 O Board of Governors Greater involvement and community awareness programs throughout the master planning and final o 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, O of Commerce Executive newsletters,website,PowerPoint presentations and public hearings. O Transportation Committee O 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 0 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.notional 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 Rood Tolling will be implemented S 7EAMFL(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 O and the identification on potential projects where MDX could be a catalyst in providing mobility to 0 Cba > www.bermelloajamil.com • . 44