About to start our regular meeting of the transportation committee.

A little past four, but it's okay.

At this time, we'll have a roll call.

Alderman Savage.

At present.

Alderman Sandomater Meyer Meyer.

And I am the chairperson, Janice Alsip Johnson Alderwoman.

At this time, we're gonna change the just the um change in the agenda.

So do I have the approval to make that change?

Um, well, let's have the motion to uh change the agenda, please.

Uh you don't need the you don't need to need motion.

This is a new order of the agenda.

And then after you describe it.

First on our agenda is gonna be ID 1126, followed by ID 752.

Madam Chair, I'd make a motion to approve the agenda.

Appreciate it.

I will second the motion to approve the agenda as amended.

Thank you very much.

So at this time.

Have a vote.

Aye.

Aye.

All in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Thank you.

Thank you, all the minutes for approving.

Transportation department update by director of transportation.

Approved minutes first.

Okay.

Can I make a motion to approve the minutes from March 11th?

I will second.

All in favor.

Thank you, all the persons who made a motion.

Now takes on the agenda.

Is ID 1126 more from the Transportation Department?

Will you please come forward?

Please introduce yourself and state your name and your job title.

This is crazy.

Alderman Shandelmeyer and Savage.

For the record, I am Marcus Moore, Director of Transportation and Parking.

I have a few updates I'd like to share with you today.

Um, and we'll hear from a few of other of our partners in parking and um someone a staffer uh with a dot about some upcoming events I think will interest you.

On Saturday, April 4th, Saturday, April 4th marked the season launch of our free all-electric trolley service.

Uh these trolleys operate on Saturday and Sunday only from 11 a.m.

to 5:30.

They operate on two distinct different um two different routes identified as the Maryland Avenue, State Circle, Calvert Street Loop, connecting the three garages nearby, which is the Calvert Street Garage, Whitmore Garage, and the Gotts Court Garage.

Um they connect those with the local businesses on State Circle, Maryland Avenue, and Lower Main Street.

The other route is a new one, and it's the one that we just started on Saturday, removing the one that was in Eastport.

We'll talk a little bit about that reasoning and rationale.

This new route actually starts at Park Hillman Garage, goes up Main Street around Church Circle, down State Circle, and down through down back towards our main street for market space and all.

What we want to do here is try to connect the businesses on City Dock, you know, with some free service coming along with our magenta shuttle.

So when we looked at making these changes, I provided for you some ridership data of what we had for last year on the shuttles.

The two shuttles, we just named them the West Street Shuttle and the Eastport Shuttle.

And you can see for about uh 14 months or so what it looked like as far as ridership with a graph and all.

And I actually gave you the numbers that showed how many were carried on those particular Saturday or Sundays.

And the line that you see there, the blue line represents uh the the uh West Street and the orange line will represent the Eastport shuttle.

One of the things to keep in mind about these routes, they are pilot services, and we want to move them around to where they can have the best use for what it is we want to do.

And basically that's connecting our residents, our visitors with downtown businesses, and as we may mention with um City Dock, trying to get folks down there because obviously there's not uh much parking uh closer than Hillman and um further out, we're still connecting them with the Magenta Shuttle and these uh weekend trolley services.

Also provided in that packet, you'll find the map, and it kind of describes the route that is being taken.

So I'd like to entertain questions um that you might have what it is we're trying to accomplish as it relates to the e-carts that are going on there.

Some other updates I like to share with you about our transit operation is we're in the midst of um inserting our our EV charging infrastructure at our location on 308 Chickapen Round Road, and this is for our ADOT fleet.

Um it's expected to be finished towards the end of this month, and uh this will just be for internal our buses, our ED vehicles that we actually have, and it's not for the uh the general public, but we'll have more information towards in this month as we'd like to have with your support um ribbon cutting um of that nature.

Um regarding the RFP, the request for proposal for the bids for the automatic vehicle vehicle locator, um, that has actually been approved by the MTA and will go out for bid um shortly, maybe as early as the end of this week or by next week.

Um, with these bids, as we made mention last month, it could be um one that's already there that we weren't able to piggyback on that we discussed in January and February of trying to do a piggyback with with the county and a rumor county that is.

We've been in discussion with our transportation planners, KFH, who did our TDP as well as the county to develop the scope of work to move forward with the FY26 transportation enhancements.

Uh some that the two that you had uh you spearheaded um Alderman Savage.

They're the Bay Ridge Avenue, Bay Ridge Road, Edgewood Road Circulator, and the Force Drive Transit Improvements.

We'll definitely have more of an update and need more conversation with you as we develop very clear um scope of work objectives with KFH.

So we definitely want to um you know bring you back into the fold and look at how this will work and you know, a timeline and all.

So before we get to other presentations, I'd like to back up and talk more or entertain questions that you might have as it relates to uh the e-carts first.

Did you want to dig into the data?

Yes.

Thank you, madam chair.

Uh Director Moore, thank you so much for coming in today, um, going over this with us.

So the e-carts last year um we had the West Street route and the uh Eastport Route.

Eastport that's correct.

Uh we have I'm if I'm understanding cut both of those in favor of these smaller uh I guess I'll call it uh downtown loop and Maryland Avenue and Maryland Avenue.

No, not not quite cut.

The one that was um here with the Maryland Avenue, that's still um in operation, and you can see how strong the ridership uh was there.

Uh that one has worked out really really well, um, and it's been in operation probably uh since we were rebuilding, reimagining Hillman.

The one that has been moved over was just Eastport.

So what you see with the we called it the West Street as far as the ridership data that you have there, let's say it starts right in front of the Gotts Court Garage on Calvert Street, makes that left onto West around church circle, um, down to State Circle, makes a right onto Maryland Avenue, left onto PG Street, um Northwest Street to Maine, I mean excuse not Maine, uh St.

John Street back onto Calvert.

That's been pretty well received, covering or touching three garages and getting folks to downtown.

The one that we just had some loop, some um hiccups with would be the Eastport, and it could have been because of how long it was.

That route was a little longer.

Um, and transversing some routes that we had it on, we probably could have done a little better.

Our thought versus moving the dials in Eastport is bring those resources back downtown to better uh help those eastport uh city dock businesses, those 12 or 13 there.

So in answer to your question, Alderman, um the West Street still remains the same as it has been the last two years.

So the West Street route is what I call the Maryland Avenue route.

Yes, sir.

I just had a misunderstanding on that.

But the Eastport route.

So in that case, I'm looking at some of the average ridership that were that we were getting out of that, and it's our best one was 15 riders a day, but they tend to be less than 10 riders a day when it was operating.

Um I know there were some complaints on why we stopped running that, but when your average ridership is less than 10 riders a day, that does make sense.

That's not a proficient use in resources, but what is do we have another plan to try and um service those areas or is it just we gotta go back to the drawing board and figure out something that'll really good questions and as we move forward to you know resiliency, sustainability, moving away from fossil fuel, we just have these two carts right now.

And I think one of the other questions in the back of your mind, you know, this 11 to 5:30, why couldn't it be from you know eight o'clock in the morning to seven o'clock at night?

It's the bandwidth of the batteries for one and getting them back to our shed to charge them back up.

But one of the things we'd love to be able to do as we grow with this type of um uh service is have another cart or two, maybe next year in FY28, um, so we can re-evaluate the needs of ESport because we were trying to get way down to um like uh second avenue and get them to the shopping center.

And the way to get there, maybe that wasn't the best way, or what we're we were initially thinking uh the best marketing uh way to do that.

Um so to answer your question going forward right now, we feel um strongly about while City Doc is being redone that that is the best use of the resources at this present time and what we have to use to um accommodate the service.

So the main limiting factor then is just because we only have two carts, we have to be very deliberate in what we run, and if there is something that is not getting that ridership, it's just not worth the time.

Yeah, right now, and it's it's good to be able to call it a pilot because um just because it doesn't work that way doesn't mean it can't work another way in that same area.

So coming back to Eastport, um, you know, if it's not the summer of um you know 2027, uh, but clearly after the next year, because I'm thinking once Sydney Dock is reimagined, you got half the um parking that you once had and getting people there, that might be a route that we really want to do.

So instead of moving things around, we may actually try to grow and get another cart.

Like to stress, we don't have half the parking we once had.

We added all those spaces and more to Mills Hillman Garage.

You're right.

Don't say that out loud.

Yeah, I guess I should qualify right on you know the dock.

You're absolutely right.

They've been moved from City Dock to a parking facility.

You're right.

It's downtown, it's not the mall.

That's true.

Um, so what is our eventual target for these e-carts?

Uh, how many do we want to have?

How many routes, how many carts do we want to have, how many routes do we want to have?

What would we call a successful pilot program?

And what would we build that successful pilot program into?

See the the problem with the e-cart, the gem cart that we have right now is that it's no HVAC.

And you're a quick the response is well, I'm only gonna be on there five or six minutes, but maybe ten.

But the driver will be on there for seven hours.

They're a fair weather cart, they don't do well in um slippery weather or when we flood.

So we have our limitations, so maybe we look at something else that transverses the city that is eco-friendly, and it may be something that morphs out of this e-cart.

So right now, I think we're managing what we have.

If we got one more to do something else with, but I'm not seeing that as a big growth.

Um right now, but that could always change.

Gonna do cable cars, that's a good idea.

That's a joke before anyone uses that as a hit piece on me.

Um awesome.

Well, Director Moore, thank you so much for the detailed explanation on that.

I hear you calling for a gondola.

As a joke before again, anyone uses that as a hit piece on me.

Wow.

Anything else, Mr.

No, just see if there um yes.

Uh thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh, thank you, Director.

Yeah, I do have some questions.

Um, this is a free service, right?

There's no charge to go on and off.

Yes.

Uh and do you have and there's one per route?

Yes.

Okay.

Um, like what's the there aren't traditional stations, stops for these, right?

That's how do you hail them?

How do you catch them?

Yeah, that is really a good question.

Unlike the other free shuttle, which we call the magenta shuttle, there are established stops where one would wait.

This one you would hail as you would in the olden days of a cab.

So being visible, remember, we're a little bit lower of a profile, so somebody on the sidewalk is hidden by a higher profile vehicle, just making sure you're visible scene, and you would hail it at the stops where they could uh stop safely.

Um, so many of the places would be good.

The the pinch points or the friction points would be you know, people looking for something else as they're coming around church circles to school street to state circle.

So certain places they may have to pull a little bit further down because you know, being a touristy city, you know, folks moving around, and we're a low-speed vehicle, uh made out of fiberglass.

So, in answer to your question, we you you can hail it anywhere you are along this route, understanding I may have to pull down 50 more feet and to a safe location of you getting on or off.

Okay, and um so there's no traditional headway in that sense, but would you have like an estimate on how long it takes for them each to do their loop?

Like if I was staying in one place, when would the next one come?

That's a really good point.

And when we first started this out a couple years ago, we dubbed it, and I think we even have it on the side of a 10-minute trolley.

Um, so it could be depending on lights, because they still have to follow those signals.

Um, it could be as little as eight or nine minutes or as much as 13.

Uh, you know, because I'm stopping and you know, getting people situated to get back on the road.

And it's just like our magenta shuttle.

Um, we've dubbed that 10 minutes when there's two out there, but also looking at what's going on in the road, catching the lights and all.

When there's two magenta shuttles out there, that longer route from park place all the way down to you know, uh compromise up main street, that is 20 minutes.

So with two of them out there, that's your 10 higher speed.

So we have a lower speed vehicle, um, not quite half the distance, but that's where the 10 minutes has come in.

I believe we've measured it a few times and got, like I said, eight minutes and sometimes up to 13, and did some mock stops of just you know, pausing for like you know, 15 to 20 seconds to see how it will go.

But it'll be interesting to see, especially the new one going into City Dock and all, how that works out with um that loop coming back in with the lights that will hit.

Yeah, yeah, and um, yeah, because my one concern, which I think all Rashann and my are getting into a little bit is just the like how do you see it from a tra as a transportation expert, how do you see the overlap happening?

Does it contradict or do you think it supports the circulator?

Because the one route which focuses on Main Street, that overlaps about half the circulator route, right?

It doesn't really stray from the too much.

The other one does stray because it actually serves Maryland Avenue, and um, but the other one kind of overlaps.

So do you see that as I think it's you more of a um addition to because it's not that many hours out there, and the magenta shuttle will always operate when transit is operating.

But the um EV cart, um, even when it's a very nice day out, you can have the torrential downpours, which we may have to pull over and wait an hour or pull out of service, but a bus should give a go.

So I think you're right with the kind of the redundancy or doubling the hill, but I think there's still a compliment.

Um, if I don't get this this get this one, I'll get the other one.

And we're serving those unmet needs of what we need to do with the businesses down lower main street and city dock.

But your point's well taken.

Well, and what do you see as the benefit of these smaller vehicles over a more traditional shuttle size?

Like, is it are they actually easier to get around?

Um are they just more accessible?

Well, I just don't know.

I'm just like is there a benefit, GC.

I mean, putting the clean aspect aside as far as electric, is there any other is there anything else that gives them an advantage?

If costs were not a factor, is there anything else that would give an advantage?

I I think if you want to say the sexiness of it, it's the more intimate environment environment.

Um it's not a bus, uh it's just closer to the people, just it's it fits the historic nature of the town, I think.

Um, you know, back not that many years ago when we had seasonal um horse and buggy, you know, kind of tours.

So having something different.

I think we even had segues for a while.

But I think it's kind of something different that will work in a low speed town.

Um I think is just it's a good compliment.

And one reason why one reason why I'm asking is because we did get a question from our one of our colleagues about like, hey, I saw this posted, but it seems to overlap, and they were asking about what's the the value to that overlap.

And I think you've you've gotten into that.

And I guess the other argument would be potentially that this is our busy season, so having redundant transportation options is good.

Uh, the the one observation I guess I would throw out is um again, it's is I just thinking out loud on some of this as I listen to you talk.

Um is that I definitely see a lot of value in the shuttle that serves Maryland Avenue, um, because that is an area that we are seeking to get more traffic to.

Um, but in particular, I think the other one would be the city dock area.

I'm wondering if we can make a route that connects that focuses on those two at the same time, Maryland Avenue and City Dock, and then moving the other shuttle back to Eastport or Ward 7, as far as exploring the idea of that connector in the future.

Um then I feel like that increase potentially could increase the marketing opportunity you would have to say, look, this this route, we could have signage and hail it this way, you know, like you would a taxi, um, to get people from you know, visit Maryland Avenue or visit Dock Street um businesses, right?

And then once you get your marketing person, I think you may have a lot more options available to you.

I think those are really good ideas, and it would really work out well for one of the thoughts that you had within the enhancement going to uh Edgewood Bimby Beach Road.

That road is made for something like this, even though Edgewood can be a little higher speed all the way down to um Yachtsman.

I'm afraid of Bay Ridge Road with this vehicle, as I am sometimes Bay Ridge Avenue.

Um, but one of the things you look at when you're developing a route or system is your headways.

And when you're attracting someone, it's like, oh, this is great, but if I have to wait this much longer.

So, you know, your breakoff point, well, ours here typically is anything less than 30 minutes, and most of ours are at that point.

Um, the go time, what our goal is once we make that reservation that we can get to you in 20 minutes.

So, one of the things going back to the shuttle where you where we had the redundancy, you know, you've cut that down, you know, you have two buses coming in within 20 minutes or 30 minutes, so the wait time is even even less.

Um, but I I like your ideas of what you made mention of connecting uh Maryland Avenue with City Dock.

And we have so many other options like that to do, and we look forward um for your support and all what we're looking at with uh KFH and the money to study some of these these corridors, and what type of vehicle makes the most amount of sense?

And I think you have some really good ideas that we thought of too.

And sometimes we got to just try a little with with one.

Um and what is a a fair amount of time when you look at a pilot?

Um that's the other thing, too.

Yeah, and I would so just I know we need to wrap up, so I'm gonna I'll end with just saying, like, yeah, I I hope we do get like a final report or presentation once the pilots finish.

But I I'm also curious if if it was a permanent feature, um, you know, what you think we could do with signage and and again marketing to really promote it, and that's where I could see value as keeping the circulator focused on Main Street, and then have the marketing focus on that, and then you could have separate signs for the e-troll that's highlighting these other parts of town and have a clear distinction and that that's a really good point.

Um, and we're starting to address that in FY27 when you talk about signage and wayfinding and how do I get there from here and that kind of stuff.

So that is got to be a whole package that we definitely would want to um definitely will entertain.

Um in FY27, we're trying to improve on what we have now to the garages and the services that we operate.

But you you've come up with some very good um things to ponder, and we definitely will we look forward to presenting um this fall uh once we conclude um this the season of our e-carts, and it's really hard to say that hard stop date.

If we have you know mild weather all the way to December one, we're gonna run in November.

And you know, but generally speaking, we can get to the first week, but it was you know, some of those years we didn't have bad weather until December.

So starting out now, we probably could have started a week or two sooner.

And if we can get eight months out of the year, you know, nine is really really pushing it.

But the more data we can get on what we're trying to uh achieve is always better, right?

You have a rough estimate on how much it costs per route.

I don't, but I can get that.

I I don't, and that's uh good question.

Um, you know, the passenger mile or pass a cost per passenger per vehicle, we can find that out.

Um yeah, that's all I have, madam chair.

Thank you.

Because uh thank you, madam chair.

Uh Director Moore, have we ever experimented a little bit with like routes and timing?

So we have two carts, uh two routes.

Have we ever not run one of the routes for a weekend and put both carts on a single route to see how that impacts ridership and speed?

Have we ever played around with anything like that?

Or those are really good options that thinking outside the box is what you know you make some really good decisions there.

We've only had them since like January of 2024.

Um, so no, we haven't in the answer to your question.

We try to spread them out versus putting them both on one.

Um what we were doing at the beginning was trying to elongate one route.

So having the two carts, if we were able to start at nine o'clock at the change it out midstream and continue on, that was an initial thought, and then we just said, well, let's look at two different areas.

But we haven't done that yet, putting two on to decrease a headway.

Our thought of putting two on the same route would increase the amount of time that's out there.

Yeah, so my thought process is I would love to get more carts onto single routes, so instead of a 10-minute trolley, it's a five-minute trolley.

Um but to justify that investment, I would need to know if we put multiple carts onto a single route.

Does that make a difference?

Like instead of 50 people riding a route, do we then get 75 to 100 people riding a route because they're seeing these carts go more frequently?

That justifies a wider demand to me.

Uh, if we're seeing no substantial increase, we should put those carts onto different routes and maybe service it that way.

And I think since we're calling this pilot, now is the time to really try and experiment with routes and timelines and frequency.

Yeah.

And that makes a lot of sense.

One of the things that um a bit fearful of um because they're fiberglass and that night, um, you know, the that kind of thing.

So that was one of the reasons because one of the things we want to look at when you look at that ridership, what is 11 to 530 really accomplish?

You know, one of the businesses actually closing 5:30, 6 o'clock, so they're opening up around that nine or 10.

So they're opening up around that nine or 10.

That was the best case, I thought during a daylight hour.

But maybe it's not.

Maybe we shifted you know a little later, but like I said, you know, we've had um a few folks that you know were looking for an address and hit the back of us.

Low speed.

Um no one was injured, we just had a you know, a cart that needed repair.

The vehicle didn't.

So those are the kind of things, and I think these are really good suggestions to explore.

Um, do we have it right with the time of day?

How long we're going, um, putting more than one card out there to decrease that headway, and that's a really big key when you look at the frequency of operation.

Oh, go ahead.

Another question on that, and then just again, thinking out loud.

Um, I you know, I I I'm I am intrigued by this concept, and which is why I uh you know trying to push to have it looked at for um connecting you know Eastport and Word 7, particularly connecting Word 7 with downtown, but looking at these maps, it just has me thinking more about like, well, is it really needed downtown because when you're looking at the routes, they're pretty short, like you can walk from church circle down to city doc, and I don't know, it depends on how fast you walk, five, ten minutes, right?

So it's not like it's but if you're trying to get from city doc all the way out to Westgate Circle, absolutely.

I think because that'd be much longer walk, maybe 15-20 minutes.

But so I'm just curious, like just yeah, thinking like is it really is it worth the money and time if it's serving an area that you can walk just as fast?

Like what's what's the value it's providing for those areas?

I think some of it look you look at a mobility challenged person without having to be in a wheelchair or mobility device, uh moving around.

And some of the times when there's a lot of shopping, I know some of um folks have reached out to us or even wrote a letter.

It's like I saw the car coming by, my hands are full, went to eat, and I shopped.

Oh, that was a need at rest.

Because we were thinking about starting the trip nice and fresh.

We came to Annapolis from ABC City, but we didn't think about five or six hours in after ice cream and lunch and all that stuff.

Now is like, can I just sit down for a minute and keep going?

So it's just the touristy aspect of it too.

So you brought up a good point as far as it's not that far.

Really, park place to downtown is not that far.

Uh, a few employees that work here actually like that nice walk of um a mile and a quarter or so.

So you're absolutely right with that, but I think it's the hop on hop off ability to do that seasonally or you know, weather dependent.

I think that just adds another flavor for what we're looking at as our rich history historic city.

Well, I mean, yeah, that's a very good answer.

And and you know, I think maybe when when marketing is put out, maybe we focused on those who are mobility challenged, and because I can see this being a draw to some of my the seniors in my ward, right?

Who in our ward who who want an easier way to get around.

So, yeah, thank you.

Thank you, um, Alden Ms.

Anything else for anything else.

Um, I'd like to ask uh Mr.

Will Rao, our micro mobility coordinator to give us something here.

There you go.

I think we can do uh one of these say control to bypass that one.

And I got you make okay.

Okay.

Well we do have the printed version.

Oh, there we are.

Okay.

All right.

So I want to first of all thank you all for uh giving me uh audience.

I appreciate that.

Um Thanks for coming out.

Yes.

If you all I I provided each of you all with a printed version of the PowerPoint presentation, as well as uh follow-up to our last uh meeting where I presented um there's a document uh that details goals and objectives and um it outlines uh aspects of framework for the position um as well as some some deliverables.

So uh when you get an opportunity, I also emailed it to you all earlier.

So if you get an opportunity, uh take a look at it.

So this is just me cleaning up some some prior business from the previous meeting.

I also um forwarded uh some information about crash data and about um non-motorist um accidents that you had requested.

Um so when you get an app when all of you all get an opportunity to review some of these things, if you have any questions, please reach out to me and I'd I'd be more than happy to follow up.

Um so today uh with this presentation um centered around the bike pedestrian and micromobility program, of which I'm the program coordinator, and uh my name is William F.

Raoul for the record.

Um we will jump into the presentation.

Oh, Julian needs to all right, there we go.

Um so today what what I'll do is I'll give an update on the bike share and e-scooter um RFP that is in process.

Uh I'll give you an update on the Access Annapolis symposium.

Um and then we'll jump to bike to work week, which within that week, um bike to work day uh is an important piece also that I think you all can take part in and or learn more about.

Um next slide, please.

All right, bike share and e-scooter RFP.

So the purpose of this is uh it's an RFP release to solicit uh qualified micro mobility vendors.

In short, um and in layman's terms, this means essentially that we are re um issuing um uh a uh public uh announcement to reinvigorate our uh bike share program.

Uh previously it was Byrd, as you all know, um, and we had a pilot with Byrd that turned into an extended pilot.

Uh it was always intended to be uh somewhat of a pilot uh to find out the feasibility and also quite honestly the ability uh to generate funding to support some other programmatic pieces.

Um and having done that, we're now seeking uh another uh vendor.

Uh uh the focus is on safety, equity, and system re uh reliability.

Uh the reason why we say each of those things is because we're hoping that um one of the things and uh lessons learned from our previous outing is that uh there were a lot of concerns about the safety of those who were on scooters in particular.

Um and I think we've you know addressed some of that um programmatically myself.

Um I'm gonna focus on providing uh safety classes and uh bringing attention and awareness to not only how motorists operate around people on scooters and bikes, but also how uh the riders and uh renters of that service themselves operate.

The next is integration with existing transportation infrastructure, because um, as you all just uh witnessed from our director, um, you know, the goal is to really connect the entire city and get people from point A to point B.

And so for those for those systems to be as integrated as possible and for there to be uh seamless transportation options for people in the city is probably one of the most smart things we can do.

Um in relation to our existing uh buses that we do have, most of them have uh bike racks in the front.

Um and so uh we uh did a demo uh with some um some of our council persons, including the mayor, um, of those uh operations that we have on the front of the buses, and and the hopes are we can get more people in the city to utilize uh those bike racks um so that we uh reduce the m the amount of of their travel time specifically on either buses and uh and or uh uh bicycles.

Next is an emphasis on data sharing and performance records.

Um uh excuse me, metrics.

Um one really awesome thing about BERD that we discovered that really helped us um fine-tune this system as well as um actively um assess whether some of the uh systems were working properly, was they uh had a dashboard.

And this dashboard, um, though not completely public-facing, um, it provided us with a lot of useful information.

Um, one of which was how many of the scooters and bikes were actually out on the road, how many were rented, um, the amount of uh time that users used per rental um those vehicles, and then also it essentially provided data on where people were most utilizing uh that particular service, and that helped us kind of um frame more outreach and other things around that area.

It also will help inform um what we do in this next phase.

So the update on that RFP is that uh the proposal uh review is pending.

Um we moved the due date to April 24th.

Uh and it was previously April 4th.

Um it was pushed out um to give an opportunity for some other vendors to jump in the pool.

Um we did receive um some feedback and some interest, um, but we wanted to just be sure we weren't um eliminating our options by having a quick turnaround.

The goal with this RFP and the goal with with uh the new ramp up is um was and is to have it available in some of our peak months, because our peak months, as you all know, for scooters and bikes um is the warm weather.

So we're talking spring and summer and fall, um, the beginning of fall.

And so our hope is that we have uh these um bikes and scooters on the road uh by um before summer really kicks in because that's uh when people really utilize those services.

So uh what follows the review is the evaluation committee um scores all of the submissions um depending on the number of submissions that process um I've I've gone through it um quite a few times with some of our other RFPs.

Um it's hard to assess exactly how long that'll take.

Um but it's it's usually you know a pretty dynamic process, so it gets done um you know rather quickly.

And then following that um there's the anticipated vendor selection.

And as you as you see on the slide, late spring 2026 is um is our uh projected um date to begin that process.

Um keep in mind uh to be fair that it may it may be pushed out a little.

Um we're hoping and leaning towards it being um you know late spring 2026.

And then following that, there are there are going to be contract negotiations and an implementation plan uh that follows.

Um and that will be a very important process because again, lessons we learned from the last vendor um in terms of of contractual things that are both uh mutually beneficial, but also um you know provides a good ROI for for the city of Annapolis, which is the entire goal because that investment um in time staffing and other um expenditures needs to be uh rational and needs to make sense for the city and ultimately for taxpayers and those who who reside in the city.

Next slide, please.

Uh the next is our Access Annapolis Mobility for All symposium.

This has been a symposium in the works for some months now.

Um it's there are a lot of uh moving parts with it.

Um so we've had to um change the date uh one time before.

But the vision for this, uh which is what I want you all to latch on to is uh you know it's a must for anyone that's interested in equitable mobility and sustainable urban transportation.

There'll be a focus on walking, cycling trails, and access to schools and green spaces.

And this is a gathering that brings together policymakers.

And the policymaker part of it is huge because of course um we need to further along per our conversation here, further along legislation that wraps around um the current work and the past work that has been done towards resiliency as well as sustainability.

Um and the other is uh city planners, obviously our very own Eric Lashinski, uh, who works you know diligently to ensure that we're connecting trails and you know can uh connecting with engineers and mD and others to be sure that we complete this process.

And the other is uh city planners, obviously our very own Eric Lashinski, uh, who works, you know, diligently to ensure that we're connecting trails and you know can uh connecting with engineers and MDAT and others to be sure that we complete this process.

And I work with them on those things.

Uh residents and also transportation experts to explore how Annapolis can become a more connected, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable city.

So that's the vision for this symposium to bring together all of those people and to discuss various topic areas.

Um so the next slide talks about um the uh the more pertinent information uh about the symposium.

The date is May 1st, 2026.

The location is the Graduate Hotel in Annapolis on West Street.

And the time is in one day all day.

I say all day, but not literally, but it's 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m.

And the reason why is because there's a series of panels and discussions um about some of the subject matter that you'll find at the bottom of the slide.

Uh we're excited because uh we have a keynote speaker, Veronica O.

Davis, who is author of inclusive transportation.

Um I had uh put um the cover of the book on there, um, but this is a version I think that doesn't have it.

So um that's that that's my fault.

But but having the cover on there shows you all um uh the book that she's authored.

Um, and she's on the speaker circuit around the country um on that particular subject.

So some of the panel discussions include policy, planning and sustainability, traffic, bike and pedestrian safety, community level experiences, and what's meant by community level experiences are those who are who are advocates um for safety and for uh you know, bikeways and paths and trails uh that allow cyclists to safely travel from one point to another.

Um the next is trails, paths to the infrastructure, and then the evolution of transportation in Annapolis, uh, which is a talk that will be given by uh Eric Lashinski, uh one of our planners who uh will talk about uh some of the um upcoming ideas and transformations that will result from some of the work being done in the area of transportation through the lens of a city planner.

I'll jump to bike to work week and uh so bike to work week uh in the past has been a collaboration between the city of Annapolis and Ana Rondo County, and our two departments um, meaning transportation departments have worked together to ensure that we're able to pull off an event.

Obviously, uh bike to work week is uh, well, not obviously, um I'll say that Bike to Work Week is a national uh program that happens um all over the country.

So in our region, which is considered uh the Baltimore region in conjunction with the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, um, who kind of convenes and provides the infrastructure for bike to work week, um, we are deemed Anderondo County, and we're Anarondo County because um obviously the city of Annapolis sits within Ana Rondo County, but but it's not broken down by specific cities.

Um so what we've done in the past is we've partnered with Anarondo County, which means that we work with their department of transportation or their transportation department, and we also work with the county executive, uh, the county council and all of their staff to ensure that we're able to um actively uh pull off this week.

So there's a series of activities that will be happening around the county.

Um, but our day in Annapolis will be um May 15th, which is that Friday.

Um next slide, please.

Sorry.

Um this day, um, what we do is we meet up in the past we've met up across the street from the Arundel Center, um, where uh what you know what which we're now viewing as the opening of the actual formal trail that will go from right beside uh People's Park all the way out uh to the hospital center, the mall, um, as well as um Waterworks Park.

Um so we uh what we're doing this year is we're uh we're doing a pit stop, and that's uh formally registered with Bike to Work Week on their website uh with a map, and um you can register and and and sign up to be a part of that ride.

But this year we're meeting at Poplar Trail at Taylor Avenue, right next to the police department.

The reason why we wanted to do that is because um I've always worked with the police department and their um bike unit to um you know for our events and some of our walks to ensure that they're um being seen and they're visible out there, but also you know, to provide uh a visual as to how we can actually get around this city um on bicycles.

Um that's an 8 30 meetup.

Um this morning in a meeting, we reviewed some of the times, and I and there's a possibility we may need to move that time earlier.

So um I'll repost a lot of things and um and just be sure that we're able to to get uh the exact time that we needed because they moved uh this year they've moved um the bike to work day program, which is going to be at the Donner lot.

Are you all familiar with the Donner lot?

Um that's right off of Compromise Street by the circle.

Uh we had to move it there because of construction at City Dock.

So it's gonna be in that parking lot.

It will be, as always, there'll be speakers, coffee, giveaways, uh Department of Transportation will have a tent, um, uh Bike Triple A will have a tent, Anna Rondo County will have a tent, and there'll be others as well, some of the other partners uh like bike doctor.

And um, you know, we're looking forward hopefully to some good weather this year.

Uh sometimes it's a mixed bag this time of the year because of spring, because they because you know what they say, April showers bring Mayflowers.

So, you know, we do have to account for rain.

Um, and that's bike to work day.

Um there are uh I just also um received uh I had requested some materials from Baltimore Metropolitan Council, and I'm I'm pleased to say I got 150 bicycle helmets beginning and you know broken down into size.

So I have children help children's helmets, I have adult helmets of all different sizes.

So what I'll be doing with that, and what we'll be doing with that is distributing them at events and actually framing some um outreach events around uh the opportunity to provide helmets and to provide equipment uh because uh again, uh just like last year, the plan is to provide um both educational opportunities as well as you know, uh safety trainings for riders uh in this city.

So thank you all very much.

Are there any questions?

They both will be responding.

So uh Ralph, thank you so much for this wonderful presentation.

Um how many proposals do we have on the bike share and e-scooter?

Uh have uh how many have we received?

Yes.

Uh we don't that information we haven't the last I saw it was three.

Um, but I think it's actively open, so I'm not sure if uh I'd have to check with Mike Rassio.

Are you at liberty to say the companies that have come forward?

No, I was told that we that we can't uh publicly share that because it gives them undue and undue edge for those who haven't submitted.

Uh and you mentioned there was an evaluation committee that scores this.

Yes.

Uh so I have a couple of questions regarding that.

So who's part of our evaluation committee?

So for each of these RFPs, what they do is they um they it's essentially created.

Usually it's a team of three, but um depending on uh where the RFP, like who, which focus area or department, um usually they collectively decide um who's going to be on that selection committee or evaluation.

We call it you know, sometimes call uh selection committee as well.

So it would depend in this case.

Um I've asked uh Eric Leshinski and um Casey Ortiz to assist with this, and mostly because they did a lot of the legwork when we first did our pilot with BERD.

So they have some institutional knowledge around that area.

And what goes into the scoring of each of these proposals and submissions, what are some of the factors?

So we we normally develop a scoring tool, and in that tool, it will it will glean from previous experiences with um a similar uh you know program.

Um in this case, what we've done is we did our contract with bird and what happened with birds, so lessons learned, things that didn't work.

And so, you know, we uh pull from that and determine those things that we definitely want to see in a program and you know, in its next iteration.

For I'll you know, I'll give a concrete example.

One of the things we experienced and can um you know, hopefully forecast changing is the fact that there were scooters that were on sidewalks and on the side of the street, and you know, we got complaints about people leaving scooters everywhere.

So what we did is we actively figured out well, how can we uh prevent this from being a deterrent or an issue again?

And so in the scoring piece, uh we look at the services that the vendor can provide to the city, um, and which can provide the most uh assurance that it you know that we'll deal with things like docking, for example.

With Bird, we didn't have a um an articulated docking program.

Um if you all know what I mean by docking, um there are designated areas where people return after they're finished and their time is up instead of just leaving them wherever.

Um and of and of course, again, um it's not uh guaranteed that you wouldn't have a similar type of program with a different vendor, but in the scoring, if there's an opportunity to score that um and and move one to a higher level, um uh because they offer that service that's something we'd use.

So that's an example.

Um the other is is you know, obviously looking at how um how much of the proposal um was satisfied by any particular um uh person who is looking to get that contract.

So you know, we would score it along those lines, and then also um we would one very important thing is um because of you know, we're a town of uh 40,000 residents and seven square miles.

Um we're not a major municipality, and so one of the things we're looking at is whether that vendor um has a knowledge of some of the variables that exist in a city like Annapolis, for instance, our narrow streets, um, the size um and the fact that you know this may not be the most lucrative market.

So we need to have a vendor who understands all of that and is not driven just by the profit margin, but is driven by providing quality service.

Absolutely.

Uh Marcus Moore, director of transportation and parking.

Like to add in a little bit to what uh Mr.

Rao is saying, what we also will do with this process is follow the lead of the procurement officer, because he's gonna put out a lot of RFQs, RPs, IBEs to look at each idea of what we want to bring on, whether it's a mobile lift, whether it's uh a service like this, IT curves to do our microtransit.

So with that, the he'll convene the selection committee and say what's most important and weight them, you know, for price experience and a lot of the factors Will just made mention of, and they'll come together, and that's not known, you know, maybe they will ask them other questionnaires, but when they get these questions, the weight, how do they answer this?

Is this fitting in with what we're actually looking for?

So each commodity or process that we have a request for proposal out there, the questions might be a little bit different, but price is usually there, but not every question is gonna be weighted the same based on the needs of the person requesting thank you.

Uh did that answer your question?

Yes.

Okay.

Okay, Savage.

Um, excuse me for one second.

Um Alderman Chanelmeyer, um, because of the of where we are in the process, if there are things that that you would like to, you know, to be considered in some of that, uh, there is time to, you know, you can share some of those questions with me.

Um, and I'll be sure to to see if we can get them included in the process.

Um, because any of those questions that help us kind of discern or troubleshoot um, you know, would be helpful.

It wouldn't, you know, it wouldn't be um it wouldn't slow the process up any.

So thank you for your interest in that.

Okay, thank you at this time, but um Aldman Shah do you want to ask you some questions?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um so on the on the e-scooter program, one thing I guess I would ask for um to keep in mind during the pro review process would be, and you mentioned a bit the docking areas.

Um personally, I would like to see like a map of the areas because I would love to see this encompass the entire city as well as into the county, but in particular, what I want to get over this comment is just um where and how we and they are going to be incorporating and placing these docking areas.

And I think the message to Alden Chandelmeyer's point earlier, I think we need to get the message out there that we have an excess, we have too much parking.

And so I think we would be some of us anyway, would be very amenable to setting aside converting on street parking to uh parking for e-scooters to make them into a dock area and include the signage and that kind of thing.

So I just want to encourage you to think broadly and not be constrained by oh no, we can't get rid of parking.

Like, no, you guys could totally be happy, I think, to some of us to enable that if we need to, but we already have some provisions to convert parking into other uses.

I'm not sure if our existing code will enable that, but we certainly need to know that if you think that's a direction they may propose to go.

If you think that'd be helpful to the program.

Yeah.

It it actually um it would actually help increase the visibility um so that people know that they're available, you know, for them to um to rent.

Um which has always been an issue because they're spread all the way out.

And it if you are a visitor to the city, um, similar to when you go to Manhattan or or or DC and you see a row of bikes, right?

You're like, oh, let me let me, you know, even if you don't know how to ride a bike, some people are probably like, it would be really cool to ride a bike.

So I agree with that.

And um, you know, thank you for uh bringing that up.

Yeah, maybe I'll ask the law office about about that at some point.

Um so but I did touch on this as far as partnering with the county.

Have you had any luck any conversations with them as far as getting them to partner with us on this so we can get them to because I think the the more we expand the the geographical area, it probably makes it more appealing to the bidders, I would assume.

Yeah, I I spoke with uh Tanya Esmann as early as today or uh this morning, this afternoon, um about and and she let me know that she wanted to know where we are in the process and kind of what's coming up, because I think what they want to do is model a little bit of our process.

So the hope is we we had received word before that they wanted to pass on actually partnering with the the the uh the process because they were keeping their eyes out for some other things.

One of the variables for them or or one of the challenges for them was the scope of Ana Rondo County compared to Annapolis.

So right, so for them, it would when the vendors that we choose um may not serve the entire county, they may not have the capacity to achieve it.

Right.

But if you think about it, um it it would if the process were reversed, it it might work a little differently, but it isn't because we're further along than they are uh in the process.

But but Tanya did say that she does want to be kept abreast of where we are and and to specifically know what our scope is for it, because they do want to uh connect.

So to answer your question, they do want to be sure that there's alignment.

Um obviously the most opportune thing is for it to be a seamless connection, so that when you cross the city line, you don't have to rent with an entirely different vendor.

Um so that is noted.

Yeah, I I think that's personally, I think that's a necessity.

Like it it doesn't make sense, and I hear this complaint all the time with with and I don't mean offense by this, with with the bus system as far as like they hit a line.

Our bus system does travel across, though, to its point.

I guess that's maybe that I should change that because that's the way I think we should go is that these systems should cross jurisdictional boundaries to have a functioning mobility system, they have to.

And so I guess the question then may turn into um I think we should absolutely work that in if we if it's not too late, they should go out to the greater Annapolis boundary as far as I don't think they need to go further than this, but as far as the mall and Riva Road, I think those are essential.

And if if that means I don't know what the ongoing costs are to this program, but if there are ongoing costs, then let's talk to the county about chipping in money because it's benefit to them as well, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So uh part of the model for um for what we did was with BERD was to limit our costs at all.

And so uh a big part of the model um is to ensure that um the city is not taking on additional costs that we're actually receiving some some revenue from it.

So the goal, um, and you'll see this in some of the deliverables and um and goals and objectives um is that the goal is to is to um I'm incentivized um to create a greater ridership.

And so the goal is to, and and that incentive is you know, more revenue that we can measure and say we're growing, we're growing the program.

So the you know the hope is that the city is giving minimal to none.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, what's is there anything stopping us from just saying, hey, for our purposes, because I don't think it's gonna hurt the program, let's expand it to the greater Annapolis area.

Yeah, I mean, the only thing I can think of that would be uh is um like do we have the jurisdiction of like of of whether a contract that we do extends beyond the county line in terms of liability and what's the right thing.

We do with the buses, yeah, right?

Yeah.

So I mean it's uh it's similar.

Um I don't know what the legal answer is to that, but I I think we would be able to do that.

Um we would definitely just talk to our procurement officer and office of law, but you brought up a good point as far as you know, um route to Salomon's Island Road, kind of is that dividing line from the city proper, and you get into the county.

Um our buses do it when we had um another contractor doing um microtransit for us, they were looking at doing that as well.

I don't think there will be any problem because you know you're looking at insurance.

So that's the only other thing that would be, you know, we're we're self-insured, you know, how the buses are insured or whatever.

Uh but we can explore that and we can you know make that call tomorrow and just find out what are we missing?

I guess that's the question one for law office, but two for the for the the bidders to say would this be would this make it more appealing, or would it be a hindrance to what you're trying to do and with your goals as far as trying to keep a cost neutral, if not cost positive, right?

Um and I think it I think it boils down to to uh the director's point.

I think it just boils down to their ability, which we have to uh with geofencing for them to essentially just kind of move the border.

But but I didn't know legally, you know, whether that would be the case.

Okay.

Uh and so let's see, the um as far as bike biking, love the plans.

Um, and just to give some clarity on the bike to work day.

So the meetup is the meetup gonna be at the Donner lot and then head over to Poplar.

No, it's the uh the other way around.

And and meaning uh starting on Poplar, and and the reason why is because we want to utilize um the trail part that we that we've been working on um along that route.

And then so it will it will come out across the street from the Arondo Center where the county executive and Chris Trombauer and some others, um probably in the past it's been Lisa Rodvion will join in as well.

What we're also working on is getting the mayor and your name specifically came up earlier today, um, as well as um hopefully Brooks.

Um and uh, you know, it's it's early, but um, you know, it's for a good cause and it increases visibility.

And and um the director sitting next to me, he's committed to riding the three-wheel electric uh excellent.

Uh all right, so um, in all seriousness, we will be meeting up that that meetup on the trail.

I one of my goals is and has been, but specifically for this is to get not just those of us that work in the city, you know, staff and those who work specifically on those programs, but what I want to do is get residents who live along Poplar Trail and residents from the surrounding areas to join in on that so that they can ride down with us, and then we'll meet up with um the county executive and others and then proceed.

Um well we stands for West East Express.

Um so it's W E E.

Um and it's uh you know it's a triple entendre.

I mean, it means a bunch of different things.

It can be the we, the we trail, but it can also be the we trail, meaning us look at us, or it can be the we.

And so um that's uh Friday, May 15th.

So mark that on all of you all's calendars.

Um if you do not have a bicycle, um, and if you give us enough time, we'll be able to find one.

Those who may not know the we trail goes from um West Street all the way down to the uh waterworks, well, not quite water to the mall.

Yeah, right.

Yeah.

Um just one last question on and comment on um the bike.

So for next next month, I think he said um Mr.

Leshinski's gonna come talk about the mobility plan.

Is he andor you gonna go into talk about um their overall thinking as far as how to handle and andor move forward with the bike master plan from 2009?

Yes, yes.

That's um that's I'm excited about that because that's actually in um the work plan for um the consultants that we're hiring on.

Okay, yes, that that they will be updating that bike plan.

And um, I'm probably not yeah, I'll I'll err on this side of caution, and I won't mention why I'm doubly excited about it, but let's just say it it provides uh another iteration, right?

Of of that of that bike plan, modernizes it and connects it to what's currently happening and future plans for the trail.

They will also be providing within that work plan um uh an updated trail map um that will be interactive and and you know and will encompass all of the different um trail parts that we have right now.

Excellent.

Because they're again you know one of the things that was really drilled in our heads on the Netherlands trip was infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure, and how you can do all the promotion outreach safety stuff you want, but unless people feel like they have a safe place to ride, they're not going to.

And so that's why I'm really excited to see what the new recommendations will be on.

Like so we can actually put together a map plan for infrastructure, low-hanging fruit, what's next on the list so we can really start to push this stuff in the budget.

So um, yeah, I think that'll be good timing.

Thank you.

That's all I have.

Um Mr.

New Chair.

Acting chair.

Um, just just to uh to re to reinforce the change time.

Um we're probably looking at um hold your breath.

Um 7 45 a.m.

Uh for for the meetup at the first at the first place, 7 45.

I know, I know.

You want me to go to an event at 7 45?

It'll be a nice it'll be and and and and no less ride your bike there.

Um but uh you know, again, if you need assistance or you need to be picked up and we just need to do a photo op of you standing beside a bike looking like you're going to work, then hey, I'm willing to do that.

As long as you got coffee.

Yeah, there'll be coffee and donuts and a bunch of other stuff.

So I might get up for that.

All right.

I appreciate you all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um, if I may, acting chair.

Yes, sir.

Uh we have Mr.

Jason Parola, market president of premium parking.

He's got a presentation um he'd like to share with you.

Uh we do also have Mr.

Uh John Kemp, senior operations manager with Metropolis.

If you have any questions there, but uh uh Jason, if you like to come up, we can um transition into that segment of our our talk.

Yeah, he's ready.

Oh thank you.

So we can use this because it'll flicker um got it.

Okay.

Yeah, just automated.

Got it.

Hi, thank you for having me, Jason Prola, Market President for Premium Parking.

Uh, we just have a short slide here.

And if I'm missing anything from the last session, I lost my notes.

So I apologize.

Please let me know and I'll send it out after.

This is a graded test.

Yeah.

Uh next slide.

I think we have everything, but uh to be seen, I guess.

I can't see okay.

Elevator and EV charger status.

So a nice update here.

Uh not fulsome with completion, but as of two hours ago or so, the final part, the part that we found out needed replaced after the long wait for the first one, should be installed tomorrow.

Uh, so we're excited about that.

Right now, there are no elevator issues at all in the garage.

Uh, we did just replace all of the buttons, the braille buttons inside the elevators and have a little bit of an inventory uh for future replacements as we see those disappear on the weekends.

Um, and then you may or may not have seen them, depending on what time you got in uh washing the garage today.

That is to be finished today.

It's the last day.

They were focused on the stairwells and landings uh today to wrap that up.

They should be done by five.

So uh before we leave here, we should see that finished.

Next slide.

All right.

No updates here on the MVA D M V integration and mobile LPR.

Uh there's sort of one outstanding piece that leads into all of this falling into place.

We had a call today where we talked about that uh subject.

Uh and so this is just sort of on the table, uh ready to go, and we'll get this implemented once we cross uh what that next step would be.

Do you mind if we test questions as we go along?

Or just wait till the end of the year.

Um yes, so this so just remind us in the audience the importance of this is this helps to enable the just drive-in, drive out.

It will, yes.

Uh there's a decision processing group before that gets there.

Uh they're waiting on something.

Once they get that, they'll do their analysis um and and take that to sort of final consideration.

And and um you've probably seen well, perhaps we've seen, but this has come up a lot recently uh from the public.

Um this is still very top of mind as far as their expectations on us.

We have been getting still getting hammered on this.

Um so what is the timeline so we can set expectations with the public.

Yeah, I think Marcus is best to answer.

I have you know, just operator.

Um it belongs with a different group.

Yeah, Alderman uh Savage, yeah.

We had an operations meeting with the players, the concession, which is Medco, uh the manager, which is Boyd Waterson, and the operator, which is premium parking in the city, um, high-level staffers this morning at 11.

And we still owe um the um the manager uh information, which we promised to get some data points that were missing by the end of the week, Monday at the latest, they'll take a few uh weeks in this month uh to massage that and get back to us.

But that was um a topic of today's conversation this morning um with the mayor, chief of staff, uh acting city manager, um act assistant city attorney, myself, and many other staffers as well as uh premium parking.

We do realize and understand that that it's been a while, and um we had to get some uh NDAs uh put in place from law, which we got accomplished late last month.

Um, but we we we got a few more steps to go.

To answer that question, we should have an answer to how we proceed by the end of the month.

So clearly before the next meeting, uh ATC, we should have some answers there.

So answers as far as as far as how to proceed, is that like uh financially?

Is it pertaining to contract changes?

Is it pertaining to uh time the contractor needs to software?

Yeah, those are good questions because what the data will show will be uh that will help assist in driving the costs change for the change.

The change in technology will require a more um or different type of um engineering of it or um programming.

So the information they have they will come back to the city with uh proposals.

Um and there could be a cost there.

So with that, you know, we'll look at what we need to do and can make that consultation.

So coming back to do this, um, you know, the drive-in drive out is what we're talking about, technology change.

Uh so that was a specific question that was asked by the mayor uh today.

Was there a cost to the city when um metropolis made that change?

We paid for equipment.

Um it was pretty costly, six figures uh to do the three garages.

Um so along with that, um, Mr.

Kemp can probably give us a better idea of it, but that came with the um the subscription that goes with the metropolis platform.

But yes, there was a cost to go from gated to gate list.

Well, I'll save that question for Mr.

Kemp.

All right.

Thank you.

And so it's ready.

We can turn it on when it's time.

Uh I don't believe that there's any meaningful cost at all to do so.

Something you've asked about in the past, we're fairly close to the sort of algorithmic account driven compliance versus um just the rigid, of course.

I think that goes into the fee schedule and some some code changes, but uh it's all sort of ready to go.

We're waiting for the other parties too.

Can I just say, and this is not personally, you've been very good with us and and uh open, but I I I'm kind of finding it ironic in that government always gets blasted for bureaucratic delays.

Yeah, this is a private company that has all these bureaucratic delays more than the government almost, it seems like kind of a bit frustrating, but sure.

But I I have to remind you this is the partners in the concession, has nothing to do with Marcus's role or premium whatsoever.

Um part of our multi-government partnership, yes.

And multi-government agency, the ultimate bureaucratic conglomerate.

Yeah, we we could have done this in 30 days last October.

Um I think the the iteration today with the sort of algorithmic account compliance is better today than that would have been.

But yeah.

Um next slide.

Uh this is our April mystery shop.

Uh another good shop.

The risk management was I think a meter was out of receipt paper.

I would have to double check that, but I'm pretty sure that was this one.

Uh sort of par for the course, it's actually one of our worst scores over the last 12 months or so.

Um, maybe even second worst, but not too much to take away from this one.

None of the stuff that we saw was really uh like uh uh something actionable that we could use to improve something that we were doing.

Uh next slide.

This is the fun one.

So the Golden Pass, uh, we did the the pilot program for 30 days.

Uh it is now over.

We had about a hundred households that uh expressed interest and and sort of started this process of signing up to access it.

We had 20 fully register.

Um there were some takeaways from that.

If we can go to the next slide.

Uh so our oldest registered participant was born in 1933.

Uh users were spread out as far as Ellicate City and Baltimore, which was cool to see that.

There was uh a lot of them in between there in Saverna Park and Severn and uh Edgewater, different places throughout the sort of Anorino County, Baltimore County area.

Resident feedback uh was more advanced notice.

That's understandable.

It was a short 30-day period.

Uh, you know, I think PR went out three to five days ahead of it uh as we got sort of approvals in place to do it and wanted to make sure we got it started and done before we got into the April and May event seasons.

Uh so we understand that and know that if there's a second iteration of this, we will adjust the timing on communication and make sure we have a few stages uh with Mitchell.

The program serves a non tech literate demographic, obviously, it's for 62 and older.

That is up for debate.

If we adjust the that age range, uh it was a topic on today's call.

We haven't made a decision, but uh it's sort of something everyone's open to, and I believe uh the mayor is pondering uh if we want to adjust their age range or not.

Um from that sort of demographic and the feedback we got as we worked with everybody.

Uh if we do do a version two of this, an extended pilot possibly, we'll have uh about a week or two where we have three-hour sessions, three days a week where we're in the office and advertise that people can come in and get help.

Um, because the challenge is really uh uploading a document like a driver's license or something like that.

Uh and just other, you know, I think there was a good amount.

Megan could speak better on this, but um quite a few just saw technology and said, no, I'm done and didn't get there.

So we want to work on setting up a way for them to get this done uh if we do do a version two of this in a simpler way, uh and probably a lot of hand holding to do it, which is planned if we move forward.

Um next slide.

Um I got a quick question on the sign up portion and the more advanced notice.

Is it still possible to sign up for the golden pass or is that window?

That was a 30-day period that's over now.

Okay, yes.

Do we have an idea of when we're going to reopen those signups or so?

That was a pilot, and that's it at this point.

If we do a V2, it's most likely going to run May, June, and July.

Uh and I if we do that, we want to have it in place in the summertime when we have the highest demand and the most events and holidays.

Uh because we want to hear the feedback on when parking is hard on the street, which is what this sort of the genesis of this was to get people uh the ability to park in front of where they're going uh with the garage as a fallback on Maryland Avenue, Main Street, and the garage, of course.

Uh so we want to see how people value this when quite often in the summer, if they come down on a Friday evening or Thursday evening or a Saturday morning, there will not be inventory available.

Uh so we want to sort of understand how that's going to be accepted and how the buying public, if you will, will uh perceive the the value of it in those scenarios.

It's a lot simpler in March, February than it is in June.

Yes.

Yeah, this is a big uh discussion point um at our meeting this morning, and we asked ourselves a lot of questions of what we could have done differently, um, how we reach out to those that signed up but didn't use those that used signed up and used.

Um we looked at um you know where those pinch points, friction points went.

Inventory is really um compressed, and that would be during commissioning week.

So, you know, other disclaimers um based on availability, uh, do we want to open it up to uh the neighborhoods, hybrid neighborhoods that have uh paid parking?

The answer is probably not, but we may want to look at you know the uh the donner lot.

And to give you a perspective what it is again, if you're facing Chop Tank, it's to the left.

That's considered 23 spaces there.

So things like that, how do we um get the word out?

So we had a really productive call on a few topics that we just talked about, but this one in particular, um, if we you know, one of the things people said, I think that Megan Murphy, Murray, and uh Jason Parola made mention.

If I don't sign up on day one, two, or three, I've lost.

But if they really looked at $20 and what it costs for an hour to park, $3.25, two hours, $650.

Um, if I signed up with the one week left, I've made out.

You know, we all want to maximize the whole amount, but where does it become um net zero?

And you're probably down to your last four days.

But what we did was like a Thursday, Friday before we started on a Monday.

We like to get seven or ten days prior.

So people have time to get signed up, even though you can't use it until let's just use May 1 as a uh a starting point.

But we as this slide indicates, uh, we're looking at doing a little bit longer of a pilot.

Um so to answer your question, we're gonna reimagine, re-energize and may not call it golden.

Uh, we're looking at what state of Maryland says is a senior, but we may look at what AARP says is a senior, or we may look at what you know, driving is in the state of Maryland license 18.

So a few things for us to ponder behind the scenes in a relatively short period of time.

If we do all summer, May, June, and July, we can report back out um in September um with what we found in the summer.

Yep, and I I think I had it on my talking points, not for our group this morning, but for uh Marcus, I wanted to pull them aside and mention it, and somebody else did right in front of me uh when we got here earlier.

We also have to be mindful of the fee schedule and at what point is it not a pilot and it's an extended pro.

So we're gonna work through the the attorney's office and make sure that we are um you know good to go before we push this too far and start to talk about it on a public forum.

Um next slide.

Uh and this was unfortunately uh our our third member is not here.

Uh both of you have spent a good amount of time with us, but this was just a simple slide to kind of throw on for the the new committee.

Um so the concession agreement and the role of supremium.

Uh we operate the concession area, which is called the parking system uh within all of our agreements that exist.

The uh that means that we handle enforcement technology and operations um and the city sets policy rates, uh fines and rules, which kind of goes back to what we were talking about with that meeting earlier and uh the change in the garage.

Um next slide.

February occupancy.

Uh again, this is a holdover.

We saw this one last month.

I just like to keep a trailing month so we can compare them.

We had those storms in February uh where we extended that um free parking for the residents for quite some time as we worked through all of the ice and uh all the other precipitation types that we got in at the end of January and beginning of February.

Uh so not much to talk about here that we haven't addressed.

Go ahead.

Yes.

Uh so yeah, just a question on it'd be helpful to note on these so we can look back and as far as what you think the hundred the the hundred percent capacity days are from.

Um you know, because we had an instance I think last month where it was like uh um I used some of the garages and making no that it was due to to jury duty and stuff like that.

Uh and I think we've had other times in like in August where it was just because it was popular that time of month, that time of day.

But in this case, are these 100% you think from people parking in here due to snow?

This was from the snow.

Yeah, we we extended that.

I I want to say you can correct me, I believe almost two weeks, if not just over two weeks um from that storm.

Because it's it just because building off of my my last my point previously, where I think we have access parking.

I think it's somebody could see this and make a mistaken assumption without any notes that oh my gosh.

We already run out of spaces, and and I think it's important to know that's because that was good context.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, we could do that.

Um I we have we've like bad attempt at it at the bottom there.

Um, but that context helps we'll make that happen.

Uh next slide.

And then this is our March occupancy.

Uh back to normal, business as usual.

Uh weekday during the day, very busy.

Saturday and Sunday, if the weather was nice, we had nice pushes.

Um, I think it's still been pretty cold uh in the evening, so it tapers off a little bit earlier.

You see that 6 p.m.

Uh in March, we saw it fall off.

Typical March weather though, recently.

So uh we'll see nothing but upticks from this point forward for the summer.

And next slide.

And this is our March residential promo code usage.

Uh the other two have been minimal, if if any at all.

So I've pulled those off for this one.

Uh it was about $6,800 in parking that was validated or comped to the uh residents for their two-hour parking.

You can see this uh as um usage throughout the month by day of the weekend through three hour time blocks.

Um so pretty par for the course on that usage too, no upticks or down ticks over time that we're seeing.

Um interesting to see.

I mean, the peaks are lunch hour and presumably dinner hour, and I think yeah, uh a day off.

You go grab lunch or a coffee, and then on the weekends you kind of do the same.

So it's good.

It means we're making downtown accessible to the rest of the residents if they want to come down here.

Uh they certainly don't do it when we're busiest, though.

And that's it.

You have any further questions?

Okay, thank you for having me.

Well, thank you for joining us.

Yes.

At and cheer, would you like to hear from Mr.

John Kemp?

Metropolis.

Please.

Mr.

Kemp, thank you for joining us.

Yes.

Hi, and good afternoon.

Thanks for having us.

Please uh say your full name and who you're representing uh for Ms.

Jackson to put in the record.

I am John Kemp with uh Metropolis.

SP plus Annapolis parking is known and known in town here.

Um yeah, we didn't bring uh we didn't bring materials here today only because uh you know at the director's uh direction, uh we were not really on the agenda.

But we'll be sure to bring statistics updates and stats.

I thought you just had uh questions you want to talk about um regarding thought he had materials or something to present.

Uh no, do you have any questions for SP?

I'm fine with waiting.

I don't have anything burning for this month.

I I would if if I may take a liberty, I would uh just um say on the equipment that went in the when the older gated equipment at Gots Court Garage, Knight and Garage got replaced um with gateless camera enabled uh drive-in drive out.

There wasn't there was no hardware cost associated with that to the city.

The city did pay for some signage uh and sign installation, but no software or camera uh hardware cost or any of that, including the installation of those.

So yeah.

I'll bring that total next time.

But it was uh it was under $50,000.

Thank you for joining us and uh uh keep up the good work.

Yep.

Thank you.

All right, Director Moore, do you have anything else on your uh transportation department updates?

Uh that's all we have for you today.

And we um hope we were able to answer as best of our ability the questions that you did have.

Um I know we've taken back some things that we just got researched.

I have them here.

Um, but feel free if you know to email us if there's something else that comes up between now and then.

All right.

Director Moore, thank you for joining us today.

Thanks for having us.

All right.

Uh so the next item on the agenda was ID 7526, uh blue mobility manager discussion.

Uh Miss Anna Ward, however, uh there was a misunderstanding.

Ms.

Ward was not able to join us today, so we are going to postpone action on that until our May meeting.

And last but certainly not least, ID 1226 transportation board update.

Well, aren't you part of the transportation board?

Do you have anything to present?

I do hear.

All right.

We have uh representative of the board who's said that there are no updates from the transportation board, and I am going to say no news is good news on that front.

Uh so do we have anything else for the good of the order?

No, sir.

All right, I have nothing on my end.

All in favor of uh do you have a motion to adjourn?

So moved.

Uh well, second.

All in favor?

Hi.

Thank you for joining us, everyone.