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Director Foley delivered a presentation on Cuyahoga County's new license and permitting process forscooters and e-bikes. Municipalities within the County that hostscooters will sign an MOU with the County to obtain the benefit of earning 15 cents per ride, if we were to go forward with this. Captain Wilkins and Officer McNeeley expressed concerns and asked questions about the potential for accidents and congestion. They shared that some residents have expressed frustration about abandoned scooters on their properties, some with alarms going off. Representatives of Lime & Spin were very responsive to questions and expressed enthusiasm for trouble shooting issues and working to train the City and users on scooters and e-bikes. The Committee will continue our deliberations in order to ultimately evaluate the fit of a scooter and/or eObike system for our City beneath the umbrella of the County program. The Law & Planning Departments are currently developing draft legislation to update our traffic code to allow us to regulate and enforce traffic laws for our e-bikes and scooters on our roads regardless of whether or not we initiate a program in our community. In addition, we learned that the numbers for controls for operation, numbers, locations etc. — the place where we would determine those things would exist in the MOU with the companies if we were to go forward with that. There is a lot of ability for cities to specify the details that would fit for our city if we were to take that step. We are still in the fact-finding stage and we will have more meetings on this in the future. Motion by Councilman Bullock, seconded by President O'Leary to receive and file the report. All members voting yea. Motion passed. 3. Rules & Ordinances Committee meeting regarding meeting held October 21, 2019. (to be provided) Rules & Ordinances Committee Chair George delivered the following oral report: The Rules & Ordinances Committee met this evening. We approved the minutes of the prior meeting on October 7`"and discussed two items—one of which was dog registration requirements. When an owner goes to pick up their dog from the shelter to have a partial fee to get that dog registered with the County. We are awaiting additional information from the administration on that one. Also we discussed Ord. 16-19, which was the majority of the conversation. This is in regard to public records access. Most of the conversation was about whether to continue this as an ordinance or to have this as a policy with Council approval. We are still reviewing that and will probably have one more committee meeting on both of these topics before making a recommendation to Council. Motion by Councilmember George, seconded by President O'Leary to receive and file the report. All members voting yea. Motion passed. 3