Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP PW16-058 and award a contract to CycleHop, LLC, of Santa Monica, CA, for the operation of the Bike Share Program, at no cost to the City for period of five years, from March 9, 2016 to March 8, 2021, with the option to renew for two additional five-year periods; and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the agreement, including any necessary amendments thereto regarding the terms of the agreement and scope of services.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Members, cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. Item 19 Report from Public Works and Financial Management Recommendation to award a contract to Cycle Hub for the operation of the Bikeshare program at no cost to the city for a period of five years citywide. Is there a staff report? Yes, there is a staff report. This is a very, very, very exciting night for our community. You might recall we've worked with a couple bike vendors over the past three or four years to to reach where we're at tonight, remember, Bike Nation and then next bike. And now we're working with Cycle Hop. So I can't say enough about our mobility team and moving this forward to get what they're going to present tonight. So. Nate Baird, our mobility coordinator, is going to make the presentation along with our interim public works director, Craig Beck. And I see our traffic engineer Eric Wickstrom in the audience as well, who was very instrumental in this as well. Nate. Good evening, Mayor. Members of city council. I'm going to start this off. This is a fun one that we get to bring to you tonight. I hope you can look behind you. You can see an example of one of the bikeshare bikes that will be deployed here out in our community. You want to bring it in the middle? Yeah, that would that would be. Good and be good. Yeah. So we're real excited to be able to bring this item forward to you this evening. It's it's almost a rite of passage for a community to be able to implement a bike share program. And I think working together with Cycle Hop, who's currently doing this in many cities and in close to us, Santa monica, that we're going to do a rollout and a celebration on Thursday. And we're hoping people can join the mayor and members of the council to announce bike share officially on Thursday. We will start with an original deployment of roughly ten kiosks and then we will roll the program out throughout the city. So I'd like Nate to spend a moment to go through some of the contract elements and the bike share program as a whole. By the way, as Nate comes down, I don't know what that says, that Nate felt he had to lock the bike here in the city council. The red light is on just in case. When it's unlike, you know, when it's unlocked, the lights are running. Good evening, Mayor and city council. As has been said, it's been a little bit of a long road. For us with bike share, but we're very excited to work with Cycle Hop now. We really believe they are the right partner and the timing is right now to really move forward. We've got the right operating model, the model that we wanted all along, no cost to the city. Um, we purchased the equipment with social bicycles, a really great equipment manufacturer. Um, cycle hop has a lot of experience. With this equipment. They're deployed at beach cities across Southern California. They're working more and more with a number of cities regionally. So they're just a really good fit for us. They also have experience with this no cost. Model in Ottawa and Phenix. So we think they'll be very successful with that model here that we've been looking for. Um, we're very happy with the rates that they're proposing. It's affordable for both tourists and locals, and we're excited to see them start. Installing very soon. Vice presidents like to point out. I see Al Crawford in the audience. So Al was our previous mobility bike coordinator, so he spent a portion of his life on this program as well. So I think one more thing that I would like to add just as information, we will be having valet stations for our bikeshare program at Beach Streets, which is coming up here on the 19th. So we hope that councilmembers will be available for that and maybe actually ride one of the bike share programs and then share with your community what a great experience it was. Thank you. Thank you both Mr. Beck and Mr. Baird. This is exciting. I. I look at Allen Crawford. This is a long time coming and I think we finally landed in a place that's great. We are working with a reputable vendor, so I want to thank staff for your tenacity in making sure that our city has a program that we can be proud of and anesthetics alone. I do have to say it's a beautiful bike. Alan I have seen many bikes across the world for bike share other than maybe the red ones in France. They're not very attractive. They look clunky. They they're meant to be clunky because you're not supposed to drive off right off in them and then never come back. But this is very attractive and it's blue, so it's keeping with our coastal feel. So if you had anything to do with the esthetics. Mr. BACK Which I'm sure you did. Thank you. As you know, we don't do ugly in the city of Long Beach. We don't. Thank you. And Alan personally thank you for getting us started and keeping us on track with our bicycle mobility plan and all things bicycle mobility related. We are ticking off our our deliverables one at a time. And this is a really big one. So thank you for that. Councilmember Gonzalez. I can't believe the day has come. This is really wonderful. I know we've been talking about this for a long, long time. You know, since I've been here. And it's it's really wonderful that now we have a wonderful event that will be coming to downtown and we get to showcase these bikes. And I know that so many residents and tourists in downtown will be taking advantage of these opportunities. And I want to thank Public Works and Bike Long Beach and Allen for being here and just all of the hard work. I remember as a field deputy writing this by the bikes that we used to have, it were not very esthetically pleasing to the eye, but they got me around and I got to meet constituents and it was a really cool way to just get around town and showcase what we do here at the city. But doing this in this fashion is so much better and I look forward to what this will bring for for our downtown. Thank you. Councilman Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I'm really excited about this this program as well. I was able to so me and my wife on a trip to another city got a chance to try them out. We otherwise would not have been riding bikes that day. It wasn't in our plan. But when we saw that thing, we use that as a means to transit, you know, to move around instead of catching a cab or an Uber. And literally, we rode on those bikes all day. A very, very convenient program. So the first question is, are we going to have an app? Yes. Yes. Good. And then. And then my next question is probably going to be a really obvious question, because I've asked every time this has come to council, so do I. Do I have to ask Tom? I'll leave this to Nate. But we the first ten stations will be in the downtown. There are the same ten stations that we've reviewed for the past three years. But cycle hop is committed to us that they want to get up and operating with all 50 kiosks as soon as possible to get in all 52 square miles of the city. So we're anxiously awaiting that. So, like within a year? Easily within a year. Okay. Sounds good. Thanks. Councilmember Richardson. I'm older, so I have to get hours in the downtown first. I'm going to I'm going to cite my age. Speed it up. Councilwoman Price. Thank you. I'm very excited about this and I can't wait until we have locations in the third, so I encourage you to move the process along. I will be using one of these bikes at beach streets because my bike got stolen on Second Street a couple of weeks ago and so I have not purchased a new bike yet, so I'm glad that these will be available, hopefully on the eastern side of Broadway so that I don't have to walk too far to get one. But my entire family is excited about the event and we think I use this program in D.C. when I was there recently and found it to be a completely wonderful asset to have as a visitor. And I think I think this is going to be tremendous, tremendous opportunity for our city. So I thank my council colleagues who have been working on this for years. And I think staff and I have to say, Nate is such a pleasure to work with. He's such just a positive face when it comes to mobility. And I'm very glad that he's in our city. I'm excited about this project. Thank you. And your great to Craig. Thank you. Councilman Austin. I'd just also like to welcome my support. This is a great day that we are now finally awarding a contract and moving forward with this great resource for our residents and tourists here in the city. I too am looking forward to having stations in my district as we are currently as a city investing in and bike infrastructure throughout the city. Um, you know, we've, we've certainly done and done a lot of great work in the eight district to connect the city through to our bike infrastructure. It would be very important to make sure that we, these, these, these resources are are spread throughout the city. And so I'd like to lend my support, but I also echo Councilmember Richardson's sentiment and comments that, you know, we didn't need to make sure we speed them up and make sure that, you know, the downtown is a is a wonderful place to explore. But, you know, we want to make sure that everybody has makes their way uptown as well. So thank you. Vice Mayor. I do want to highlight another gentleman that's been involved not only with Charlie Gandy, with Alan. With Nate, it's Tony Cruise or Bike Ambassador. So Tony's here as well. I'm just going to a couple comments. Just I mean, I see Alan and Tony, of course, Nate Craig. I think about folks like Mark who also believe in this program. I've actually ridden this this actual bike at the last beach streets. Matthew and I took advantage and tested the bikes out. And they're fantastic bikes. They park easy. People are going to love this experience, using this experience all across the city. I just want to also add that staff is very aware of of my interest and I think of everyone's interest to include our university and colleges as part of this network. And I think one of the one of the first connections beyond downtown is going to be the connection to Cal State, Long Beach, and the connection to Long Beach City College. It's incredibly important that our students have access and really create these incredible corridors to and from our connecting point. And so I know that Cal State Long Beach is already in conversations with the city. It's very exciting and a lot of Beach City College, both campuses as well, are interested and they're just natural places for these connections. And so it's a very exciting program. I remember it seems like years ago, C.J., when you and I jumped on one of these to kick off this program, we rode around City Hall together and it's been a long time. And so I'm really glad that I think I bug pad about this monthly at least weekly. Okay so I'm glad it's I'm glad it's here. So with that members, please can you guys really do public comment? You did. Did you do public comment yet? Nope. Please come forward. Ellen Crawford, bikeable communities. This is a huge step forward for the city. It really is. But we talk. About how long it's taken. I give the city staff, I give Pat and. I really give Dr. Lowenthal huge credit. For getting us where we. Are today. We would not. Be here without that vision. We have a sign out here on city hall that says the most bike. Friendly city in America. And we look at that every day. We're going, no, we're not. But this takes us an enormous. Step toward getting toward that. Every world class. Bike city around the world has bike share. And now we will, too. And what I'm really, really proud of is what Nate has done with bringing cycle hop. What a contrast to our. Earlier conversation around recycling. Nate has selected the best vendor. For us in the U.S.. Because you'll have to talk to Nate and he can explain why this is different from the New York model. It's different from the Seattle. From the D.C. model. It allows you to take bikes, leave them, get them. It's awesome. So again, Nate, thank you very much. Pat in particular, Suja. Thank you guys very, very much for everything you've. Done for the. City. Thank you. Any other public comment? Mr. Good you can forward. Very good who Kirk has addressed. I do think it's a great program. A couple of cautionary notes. I can't imagine that many people wanting to put it on one of our busses, the bike racks, and go a distance and so forth. But if so, I'd check the size of that to make sure that it doesn't encumber the bike rack because a lot of people put a bike. On the bus, on the bike rack that has a basket on it that precludes somebody going next to it and so forth. I suggest maybe it. Working with hotels in addition to the places you listed as places that would be a good place to have a business, bike station and so forth. Obviously, the hotels downtown can hit our bikes, you know, the transit area or I'm sure they're going to be set up down there. The one overriding concern that I had, and that's particularly with people in Long Beach, is riding the bike should not be a fashion statement. You're not going off to Nottingham Hill to do, you know, for a fashion statement. It's a transportation bill. The purpose of it is to get you from point A to point B and as responsibly as you would in a car. So you're not waving around, hey, look, I'm riding a bike. I'm socially conscious. You know, you get from point A to point B as fast as you can and be mindful of the traffic behind you in terms of automobiles and busses and so forth. And I see that as becoming a problem. So we've got to get inside of that and put the foot on the neck of that as soon as possible start. So if it's becomes the first time we see that, I don't see this much of a problem because I can't see any people other than tourists or maybe some kids of university people wanting to ride that bike. They're more they're faster bikes and easier to use, I think, in this one. But for the purpose for which it's, you know, to cater to tourist, fine. Okay. Is there any other public comment, Mr. Cruz? Even the mayor council. I know it's taken a long time for all of us to finally see this day. But I really feel that the time has benefited all of us because we have a it's a beautiful bike, as council Mary Alonzo was saying, and it's a very sturdy bike as well. And, you know, bike share has probably been going on, I would say, a total of ten years. And there's been many iterations of the bike in the program and I think it's so refined now that we are actually getting the cream of the crop in terms of the actual product and then the service here as well. And I want to thank all of you guys for hanging in there, supporting, you know, the vision. I think it's really a vision that, you know, that was brought to this community. And we have all kind of gotten behind and started to adopt and have completely adopted. And, you know, I think it's going to really benefit our community moving forward as well. And as a bike ambassador for the city, you know, I do get asked quite a bit. I have friends that live in Santa monica. They've got bike share, you know, plenty of friends around the nation. And they keep asking me, when is Long Beach going to get bike share? You know, you guys want to be the most bike friendly city. So now I get the opportunity to tell them that it's here. And, you know, I'm really looking forward to that. So thank you all very much. Thank you. See no other public comment. Members, please go and cast your votes. Motion carries.