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MINUTES OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE September 23, 2019 East Conference Room Present: Councilmembers Bullock, O'Malley, & Litten Also Present: Assistant Law Director Swallow, Katelyn Milius and David Baas of the Planning Department Call to Order: 6:38 p.m. AGENDA Approve minutes from the September 9, 2019 Public Safety Committee meeting. Councilman Litten made a motion to approve the minutes from the September 91h meeting of the Public Safety Committee, which was seconded by Councilman O'Malley. All members voted in favor. Motion passed. Communication from Director Sylvester regarding Cuyahoga County Bicycle& Scooter Share Program (Referred to Public Safety Committee 9/3/19) Chairman Bullock shared a handout that mapped out his vision for the discussion regarding the bicycle and scooter share program over 2 committee meetings. In the first meeting, the chairman expressed a desire to review the traffic code for potential updates and big picture issues and in the second he sought to have a detailed discussion on what rules an e-scooter vendor can operate by and would like to invite vendors to the meeting. Members expressed their concerns regarding the safety of e-scooters and how they would interact with Lakewood's built environment and traffic. Members raised the need for a moratorium on e-scooters in Lakewood and discussed the logistics of establishing one with Assistant Law Director Swallow. Some members recalled Council President O'Leary requesting a motion for one at the last regular meeting of Council. Chairman Bullock focused discussion on the use cases and 3 failure items listed on the handout he provided, some including scooter-pedestrian conflicts on sidewalks, motor vehicle conflicts, and parking clutter. Councilman O'Malley expressed interest in examining Columbus data on scooters as they have been put into use there for the past year or two. There were questions over the frequency of accidents, any strategies to mitigate accidents, and whether insurance covers an accident. Councilman Litten urged all parties to get in touch with Ohio City Inc., who could provide local input on how scooters have been implemented in Cleveland. David Baas gave a presentation on e-bikes and scooters. The presentation included information on shared micro-mobility, gave national trends along with data from Portland, Austin, and a UCLA study. Scooters are in over 100 cities in the nation. There is a two-pronged approach in managing scooters: 1) devices need to be regulated whether there is a transportation system in place or not and the traffic code can be used to do that 2) system controls can be utilized through a vendor and its use of technology. Members questioned if people are acquiring these vehicles for private use and what their cost is. It was indicated that they are being acquired and the cost is only a couple hundred dollars. The scooter sharing industry started taking off in 2010 and they