Below are some of the FYIs in this week’s edition. The entire content of this week’s FYIs and Insider sections is available by subscription only. To subscribe click here. LOW BID TOO LOW: A county committee is being asked to replace the low bidder on a contract to repair and replace the automated people mover bridge in Concourse E Satellite at Miami International Airport with a far higher bid, declaring low bidder Southern Road & Bridge non-responsible. Southern bid $6.6 million, 60% below the aviation department’s base estimate of what the work should cost. The department said Southern’s “schedule of values may be insufficient to complete the project.” The mayor’s office instead recommended awarding the contract to Mangum Construction Management for $13.3 million. The Airport and Economic Development Committee, which was to hear the contact request last week, did not meet, pushing the issue ahead to the Oct. 9 meeting.   TWO MORE YEARS: The county’s Transportation, Mobility and Planning Committee last week agreed to a $660,000 contract to keep using software from Remix Technology Ltd. For two more years while the county buys, tests and plugs in new software for finetuning transit scheduling based on complex technological specifications. The county is even now reviewing the offerings of replacement software. HUMAN RESOURCES GAP: As an Atlanta-based executive search firm recruits candidates, Miami-Dade County’s Human Resources Department remains under an interim director to start a second year. The county on Aug. 30, 2023, named former deputy director Melanie McLean as interim director of the department until Mayor Daniella Levine Cava could hire a permanent director. In a memo to county commissioners, the mayor said the county had made a formal offer for the job but “the selected candidate unfortunately withdrew at the last moment.” Now the mayor has renewed Ms. McLean’s temporary appointment to head the 150-person department dealing with 30,000 county employees but pledges that the interim status “shall not exceed an additional six months.”  LOCAL MICROMOBILITY CONTROL: An agreement between the Village of Key Biscayne and Miami-Dade County for the village to regulate electric bicycles, motorized scooters and micromobility devices “on county roads within the village” won approval without comment from the county’s Transportation, Mobility and Planning Committee last week. The agreement now goes to the full county commission for final action. The only county road within village limits is Crandon Boulevard, where concerns for safety of pedestrians from micromobility devices has been high. Related Posts:FYI Miami: March 23, 2023FYI Miami: February 22, 2024FYI Miami: June 20, 2024FYI Miami: June 22, 2023FYI Miami: July 20, 2023The post FYI Miami: September 19, 2024 appeared first on Miami Today.