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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-07-11 | 3 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Rochelle Wheeler: And in six months, 50,000 trips were taken on the bikes. We have an average of about 300 bikes in the City at any one time that are operable. What we did, we did this as a pilot, and the reason we did that is we wanted to see how it worked in Alameda before we made it a concrete ongoing program here. And so, at the end of six months, we took the time to evaluate the program, we did that in a bunch of different ways. We talked to a lot of the stakeholders, both internally within the City, all the different staff that are interacting or interfacing with the program, public works, police, community development. We talked to stakeholders outside the City such as the East Bay Park District, AC transit, others, and then we also did a community survey. Some of you may have filled that out. We had 1500 responses within about 10 days, so a huge amount of input on the program. Rochelle Wheeler: And what we found overall was very, very high level of support for the program. People generally thought it was a great program, definitely worth continuing; but addressing two major issues. And the two major issues that were addressed, the top one was bike parking. And 51% of respondents said that the top problem with the bikes, is the bikes being mis- parked. The second top issue was helmet use, and particularly concerns around youth helmet usage. So we heard those issues, we heard the support for the program and we brought all of that to the City Council in May. And with the recommendation that we continue having a dock-less bike share program in the City but making refinements to the program to address those top issues, and definitely the bike parking issue. And we ask Council to approve going out with a request for proposals to bring in a vendor who we would contract with for two years with the option to extend for another two years. And so the Council approved that recommendation to release that RFP and to move forward with having a dock-less bike share program after the pilot program. Rochelle Wheeler: I'll back up for a minute. The council also did direct us to come to the Commission on Disability, which is why I'm here tonight. And to bring the bike parking strategy, which is one of the requirements of the contract that we'll have with the new provider, is having this bike parking strategy. And so, the Council wanted us to get input from this commission. So we did that RFP process in May and June, was our time frame for doing that. We received two proposals from two different vendors. We did a very thorough evaluation of those proposals. We had a team of, I think it was, about eight people reviewing those and scoring those proposals. And then we had an even larger team who we did interviews with those two providers. And your Chair, Beth, was on that interview panel. And through all of that evaluation process the top ranked provider was LimeBike, or as they're called now Lime. They go by Lime because they also provide electric scooters. So I think that's why they changed their name, I'm assuming, so they're called Lime now. Rochelle Wheeler: This RFP, just to be clear, was only for bikes, not for scooters. This is not to permit electric scooters and in fact we have a referral from our City Council to ban electric scooters on City sidewalks and to kind of make sure that is into perpetuity. So that's something staff are working on and will be bringing, I think, in November, back to the Council. So, right now the stage that we're at, is that we are still evaluating, contracting with Lime and our acting City Manager has to approve this and that has not been done yet, so I want to be clear, we have not contracted yet with Lime, we are still in negotiations. Rochelle Wheeler: But during that process of evaluating and making that final decision we wanted 09/12/18 Page 3 of 29 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf |