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The Citizens’ Independent Transportation Trust is proud to announce that Executive Director Javier A. Betancourt has been named to the Board of Directors of Goodwill Industries of South Florida, alongside two other new members.
“I am honored and excited to join Goodwill Industries of South Florida’s dedicated Board of Directors,” Betancourt said. “As its name implies, this incredible organization is a force for good.”
Betancourt added, “In my career in public service and economic development, I have seen the contributions that Goodwill has made to members of our South Florida community with disabilities and other barriers to work.”
Goodwill provides opportunities for people with physical and intellectual challenges and helps them gain greater independence through job training, employment and job placement. It serves 6,800 people each year through the collection and sale of donated goods and running multiple nonprofit entrepreneurial businesses.
The Citizens’ Independent Transportation Trust is a 15-member fiduciary body created to oversee the People’s Transportation Plan funded with the half-penny sales surtax, which has collected approximately $4 billion since it was established in 2002.
Surtax dollars have funded a large number of transit and transportation projects, including the Metrorail expansion to Miami International Airport; the purchase of new Metrorail, Metromover and Metrobus vehicles; upgrading Miami-Dade County’s traffic light management system; and more. Surtax dollars are also helping to fund the construction of rapid transit corridors in the Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Program.
For more information on the CITT and its funded projects, visit www.miamidade.gov/citt. For more information about Goodwill Industries of South Florida, visit: https://goodwillsouthflorida.org.
