Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. ITB PW18-089 and award a contract to Social Bicycles, Inc., of Brooklyn, NY, for the purchase of bicycles and associated equipment for the expansion of the Long Beach Bikeshare Program, in the amount of $345,000, authorize a 25 percent contingency in the amount of $86,250 for a total contract amount not to exceed $431,250; and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into a contract, including any necessary amendments, for a period of two years, with the option to renew for three additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager.  (Citywide)
We did that one. That's right. We did. I think the next one is 22. Is that right? Report from Public Works Recommendation to award a contract to social buy schools for the purchase of bicycles and associated equipment for the expansion of the Long Beach Bike Share program for a total on contract amount not to exceed 431,250 citywide. Thank you. A short update from public works on this. Craig back mayor council members, if you recall, we were before you about a month ago requesting approval to expand our bike share system and council. Did grant that. Approval. We are in the process of ordering those bikes. What you have before you this evening is a further request to order another 100 bikes and why we had pulled these requests apart. This one before you this evening is from a grant source and we have a short timeline to secure those grant dollars. But those grant dollars would allow us to buy an additional hundred bikes and some equipment. And we're requesting approval to add that to the other 500 bikes that we plan to. Expand. So now we're just correct if I'm wrong, but we had we think we purchased 4 to 500 last time. Is that right, Mr.. Beck? So this is an additional hundred on top of that, right? Yeah. So the original bike share rollout was 500 bikes with cycle hop as a vendor cycle hop only delivered 400 of those initial 500 bikes. This 100 before you this evening is finishing up that initial 500. Not to be confusing, but then we came back and council did approve a second 500. So when this is all said and done, we'll have 1000 bike share bikes out. In our community. And just to be clear, we have 400 out now, so we have an additional 600 coming. That is correct. Okay, great. And let me go through Councilman Andrew Smith. Yes. Yes. You know, I support the recommendation to stand in. It's great to see people riding along the bike path and around town. But since the bike program is now several years along, I'd like to see a progress and a performance report that includes frequent or frequency of the rental locations of the bikes and the renewal and the cost figure. You know, I think a council I think as a council person, we would appreciate to know how the progress the program is doing and if there's any way we can improve it for possible. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Councilwoman Gonzalez. Councilmember Pearce here. Councilmember pearce. Just make making sure she. Didn't want to speak. Councilmember. Okay. I just wanted to take this moment to say, of course, I approve and also congratulate public works on a great effort with the Amgen race this past week. I know that the love of bikes has grown in the city due to the bike share program. So thank you. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. I agree with Councilmember Andrews. I would be interested in some statistics related to utilization. I know that as they expand across the city. One of the things that I'm very interested in is most bike share programs that I've seen as I've traveled are sponsored, whether it's Kaiser or Memorial, Barnes and Noble. I mean, everywhere I go, there's Sunkist. It's the wheels of the bike, our advertising, the company that pays for the entire program and then really donates back into the health of the community. And so and I know we have a sponsorship program that this council approved that is really partnered through Partners of Parks. And I'd really like to see that either that board or US partner in some way to bring that kind of funding to the city to be able to ensure that this program has sustainability through an outside source. I appreciate you getting grant dollars and I look forward to the expansion to Eldorado Park. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you. Quick question, because I'm unclear, are these the North Long Beach bikes? I think Councilmember, we've had had a you and I have had a discussion that our next expansion will go up through Bixby and in the north Long Beach. It's a combination of both these bikes and the previous approved 500. So these are going. These bikes are going in North Palm Beach. These are the previous ones. So these are not. I'm just want a yes or no. Okay. Yes. These are very. Confusing. All right. These are the North Lambie's bikes where they come in. We need to order them through the company. They have roughly a 4 to 6 month delivery time. Okay. Six months from now, we'll have bikes and they're fine. He's got it. Thank you. Councilman Ringa. Actually, that was my question when it got to the seventh. But I can understand the major corridors, but I think that we still need some buy through for our districts in all in whole city. So I think we need to look at expanding the program into some of the other districts. They do not have any. Thank you. Just a quick question, Mr. Beck. How many stations now are at the Olympic? Now you're really testing my memory. I believe we have four different stations. We have them now on campus. Ray, do you have them on campus? Correct. And going to Councilmember Andrews earlier request, we're happy to provide information to you. We have some wonderful heatmap data that really shows the extent of the ridership of our Bikeshare program. So I'll be happy to pull together, report and share. That with you. Okay, great. And I know that we have the the, the, the system out in front of the pyramid outside of the university. But there are also the ones that we wanted inside the campus are inside the campus, correct? Correct. I'm looking at a map right now. It looks like there's actually five stations on CSU above campus. Perfect. And I just want to make sure I know we've said this separately, but just publicly, that I think it's really important that we connect and do the same thing at Long Beach City and that we connect Lombard City to Cal State, Long Beach by bicycle, and that there is a, you know, that clear route and that connection from the university to the college as well as PCC and that campus. I just think those hubs at the colleges, universities are really important. So thank you very much. Any public comment scene and please cast your votes and great job on this on this program.