Speaker 1: Motion carries eight zero. Item 22 Report from Public Works and Financial Management. Recommendation to Award a contract to Cycle Hub for the bike share program for a total contract amount not to exceed $2,176,625 and increase appropriations in the Gas Tax Street Improvement Fund in the Public Works Department by $2,262,000 citywide.
Speaker 3: It's been a motion by Councilman Andrews and a second by Councilmember Gonzales. Councilman Andrews, would you be fine? Councilman Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: Just very excited that we're moving forward with this. This is a long time in the making. And I know I had briefly discussed this with our city manager, Pat West. Can you give us the roll out of or perhaps there's a staff report that we can get a little bit more information from?
Speaker 7: Great. We'll go for a quick staff report with our public works director, our mission in and supported by our bike mobility coordinator, Nate Baird.
Speaker 10: Vice Mayor Hamilton, tall and Honorable Council. I'll give you a very short, brief staff report. In 2013, we, the city or Public Works applied for and was granted $2.2 million in.
Speaker 11: CTSI.
Speaker 10: Grants, which is California Transportation Commission, which which is funded through Metro for a bike share program for City of Long Beach as a.
Speaker 2: Phase two, which is to procure bikes and stations, equipment, software.
Speaker 10: And.
Speaker 2: Hardware for these bicycles.
Speaker 10: We're excited that we're at this stage right now. After you graciously approve this contract tonight, we will roll into procuring the bicycles. We already have ten locations that we have selected previously and will will have a rollout plan to all the council members. We will definitely let you know when that is. We're hoping it would be sometimes end of July, beginning of August, to have this in place. We're working with cycle hop at the moment and they have a similar contract with City of Santa monica. We're trying to synchronize their efforts.
Speaker 2: For them to.
Speaker 10: Roll out their program in Southern California at the same time in Santa monica and city of Long Beach. So we will see something in the ground operating in and mid-August. I would say to be ultimately optimistically cautious.
Speaker 3: Cautiously optimistic. Yes.
Speaker 10: And that, too.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Councilmember Kansas. I was like, okay, Councilmember, your anger.
Speaker 10: Thank you. You mentioned that there's a ten pre-selected sites. Are there any in the West Palm Beach area? Currently, they're not. The way that.
Speaker 2: Bikeshare program.
Speaker 10: Works, it's kind of a you start.
Speaker 2: With the core.
Speaker 10: Locations. Where are you going to have kind of an extension of your existing transit systems and locations where you're going to have success? And then we can expand.
Speaker 2: So this this this grant is for 500 bicycles.
Speaker 10: And.
Speaker 11: 50.
Speaker 10: Stations.
Speaker 2: We are pleasantly surprised that the technology is improving constantly. And we physically we.
Speaker 10: Actually don't need to have stations with this new technologies. You can have locations set up with bike share without having the.
Speaker 2: Infrastructure that we were.
Speaker 10: Considering previously as far as having kiosks with technology. The new bicycles are very independent. They have the technology to be locked anywhere in the city. So as we mobilize these ten locations initially, we will have multiple locations in the city. So there will be a growth. So eventually we will grow this program to other parts.
Speaker 2: Of the city. But we want to be successful first with implementing them.
Speaker 10: In locations that they're going to have the highest use. We want to learn how the system works and then we.
Speaker 2: Will grow the system.
Speaker 10: Well, thank you for that, but I don't have any information in terms of where these ten locations are. First of all, secondly, I think that I would guess we have a good bicycle mobility program in the seventh District, not only in West Palm Beach, but also up in the east part of my district. But more importantly, I think it's important that we recognize that West Palm Beach especially is going through a livability plan and a restructuring under the green of a green to rail and freeway, where they're getting rid of restructuring the freeway, getting rid of a lane and making it more bicycle friendly mobility, walking green, all that all that good stuff there. So I would hope that somewhere along the path that where we're going with with this program that we can look at expansion the program and not only in my district. I'm pretty sure that Councilmember Richardson probably has some areas in his in his district that he would like to see some of these structures as well as some of the other districts. And basically, you know, not to disparage those districts that are going to be benefiting from this right off the top, right at the beginning. But I think that we're looking at a citywide program. Let's make it truly citywide. Agreed. We we definitely have.
Speaker 2: The vision to expand this program to be a citywide program. So as I said, we're going to start with.
Speaker 10: Small number of bicycles, small small locations and expand that. The operators also have their feasibility analysis, how they choose sites. Obviously, it has to make sense for them to operate this.
Speaker 2: We will share that.
Speaker 10: Information with the city council and as how the sites are chosen by the operator. Obviously, that's that's one of our biggest concerns and and requirements to make sure.
Speaker 2: That this works. But this is a citywide program and not specific to any district.
Speaker 3: Okay. Councilmember Richardson.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Vice Mayor. I know that this project has been a long time in the making, well before my time on the city council. I'm glad that you guys have all figured it out. And. And so I would say, first of all, bring on the bikes. Second of all, I think the strategy is good to start with. Ten. I do want to hear more now about maybe you can just comment on how long you think it would take to expand it out after you've focused on those ten sites and make sure that those 300 bikes do touch all areas of the city. Could you just briefly on that?
Speaker 2: Our we're anticipating.
Speaker 10: Six months roll out. So definitely within six months after the initial installation in August, we will have a rollout for the entire city.
Speaker 5: That's it with, you know, beach streets happening in in uptown this Saturday. I think this is a very timely council item to to to vote on. Vote on. So so thank you. Congratulations. And we hope to see some bike stations around Jordan High School.
Speaker 3: Councilmember Mongo.
Speaker 6: I just wanted to thank the Public Works Department for their work on this. This is very exciting. So many bicycles whiz by our community in our park and there are occasionally people who say, I wish I could do that, but I don't own a bike. There's actually a lot of talk on next door dot com recently from neighbors who are trading bikes and using bikes. And this will provide an interesting alternative for them. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you. And I wanted to thank staff for bringing this to fruition. I don't know how long ago we brought this forward to do a bike share program. Two years, a year and a half. Two years. So it's well worth the wait. I'm glad we are working with a group that has a local coastal city. I know for a long time we've talked about being able to deposit one's bike, share bike in another city and not worry about it. And hopefully that's something that can happen now that the same firm or company that would be operating the program and I do agree it should become a citywide program and I want to assure councilmembers that that is the staff's intent and certainly our intent. For those of us who are here seeing these projects in the start, it should be a citywide program. But just having visited different cities and in other countries that have very successful bike programs, it didn't start that way. They all started small. And now you, you know, you can't throw a stone without hitting a bike in some of those places. And I think our city will get there, but it will take some time. And it's very smart of this group to identify locations where they know there will be high use, whether it's near transit hubs. I think that's a key transit hub as well as employment centers, and then we can grow from there. So a sincere thank you to staff for having the stamina to see this through. I know it was difficult, so thank you. With that, is there any member of the public that wish to address the Council on this item? Seeing none. Members cast your.
Speaker 0: Vote.
Speaker 1: Vote carries eight zero.
Speaker 3: Item 23 where into ordinance is now, is that correct?
Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. R-7015 for Bike Share Program; award the contract to CycleHop, LLC, of Santa Monica, CA, in the amount of $1,978,750; authorize a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $197,875, for a total contract amount not to exceed $2,176,625; authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments thereto; and

Increase appropriations in the Gas Tax Street Improvement Fund 
(SR 181) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $2,262,000.  (Citywide)