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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-07-11 | 2 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. from our May 9th meetings. Does anyone have any changes or corrections they'd like to see in the minutes from our May 9th meeting? I move that we accept the minutes as is. Arnold Brillinger: Second. Chair Beth Kenny: All in favor? All: Aye. Chair Beth Kenny: Any opposed? 3. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Chair Beth Kenny: Let's move on to agenda item three, oral communication, non-agenda public comment. Do we have any public comment for today on non-agenda items? 4. NEW BUSINESS 4-A Parking Strategy for Dockless Bikeshare Chair Beth Kenny: Then we'll get right into new business. We have Rochelle Wheeler here to talk to us about parking strategies for the Dockless Bike Share. Thank you Rochelle. Rochelle Wheeler: Thank you Madam Chair, and thank you to all you commissioners for having me here. I see some familiar faces and I'm excited to hear your input tonight on this bike parking strategy for the Dockless Bike Share provider. I am Rochelle Wheeler, I work in the transportation planning unit, and I'm a senior transportation coordinator for the City of Alameda. So you have a staff report and a couple of attachments in your packet, and I'm just going to start off. I don't have a PowerPoint, but I'm just going to walk through the staff report, but again, what we're looking for tonight from the commissioners is input on this bike parking strategy that we have. So I'll start off kind of high level. Dockless Bike Share, what is it? Probably you are all are familiar with what it is now, but it is basically bikes that can be taken from point to point, picked up anywhere where there's a bike, using an app, and then you can ride it to and leave it. Rochelle Wheeler: You don't have to leave it at a dock, but you do have to leave it properly parked, which means not in the sidewalk right of way. And there are parameters and instructions for how to do that. So it's another mobility option for Alameda which we're always looking for new ways to get people around, not in single occupant vehicles; through transit, paratransit. Gig was started recently, point to point car share, biking, walking, all sorts of options, rolling, all of those things. Well, in last October, well about a year ago actually, we were approached by Dockless Bike Share providers which were starting to come into the US. And we saw this as a great new technology that was available; new emerging technology, and so we started a six month pilot program with LimeBike. I would assume you're all probably familiar with these Lime Bikes which have been in the City since they launched in October of 2017. 09/12/18 Page 2 of 29 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf |