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MINUTES OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE December 9, 2019 East Conference Room Present: Councilmembers O'Malley, Litten, & Bullock Also Present: Councilmember Anderson, Councilmembers-elect Jason Shachner & Tess Neff, Director Sylvester, Assistant Law Director Swallow, City Planner David Baas, several Saint Ignatius high school students, and Deputy Clerk Lascu taking minutes Call to Order: 5:14 p.m. Approve minutes from the November 11, 2019 Public Safety Committee meeting. Chairman Bullock made a motion, seconded by Councilmember O'Malley to approve the minutes from the committee's November 111h meeting. 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) City Planner David Baas gave an overview of the Cuyahoga County Bicycle &Scooter Share Program and the process leading up to the meeting's discussion to bring Councilmembers-elect Shachner and Neff up to speed. Some items of note include: - Nearly all of the east side inner suburbs have banded together to complete a survey of their communities' views on scooters and micro-mobility. - Cleveland is serving as the pilot city for the program and its first review of it will be taking place in February - All vendors participating in the county program must follow county regulations, municipal code, and the MOU that is created with a municipality through the county's facilitation - Establishing an MOU would enable Lakewood to gain access to all county data,which includes ride origination and determination Councilmember-elect Shachner discussed how the city could incentivize parking in designated areas to avoid littering sidewalks with scooters.The scooter business model does not provide significant economic incentives for vendors to require all scooters to be returned to a designated parking area. In order to penalize someone for leaving a scooter in the public right of way, an officer would have to see it take place and ticket, which would be a rare instance. Councilmember-elect Neff inquired as to whether a survey was completed to gauge community interest. The Planning & Development department conducted a 2-3 week survey, which required residents to rank and rate the 3 primary uses of systems nationwide and asked questions how individuals would use a micro-mobility system. Every street in Lakewood was represented in the study and a majority of respondents have lived here from more than five years. 823 responses were received and 65%of them