The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee met on April 15, 2026, at 1:30 PM in the City & County Building, chaired by Shontel Lewis (District 8). The committee voted unanimously to approve a three-year license agreement with Veo for Denver's Shared Bike and Scooter Program and to approve a package of 37 amendments to vertical facility on-call contracts for professional and construction services. The meeting lasted approximately two hours.
Veo Shared Bike and Scooter License Agreement (26-0326) Alaina McWhorter (DOTI Legislative Affairs), Justin Begley (DOTI Planning Supervisor), and Alex Keating (Veo VP of Policy & Partnerships) presented the three-year citywide license. Key points included:
Vertical Facility On-Call Contract Amendments (26-0254 through 26-0291) Cara Sequino and Gabrielle Schuler (DOTI Interagency Division) presented amendments to 37 existing contracts for vertical professional and construction services. These contracts support citywide deferred maintenance and capital improvements for libraries, fire stations, rec centers, etc. Key details:
No public comment was offered during the meeting.
Join us for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee starting now. All right, we're on air, folks. I think we're going to say good afternoon. It's good to see everyone. Welcome to the Transportation Infrastructure Committee. My name is Chantel Lewis. I chair this committee and I am in District 8. We'll start with a round of introductions. Councilman Flynn, would you like to start? Thank you. Chris Hines, Denver's perfect 10. Rod Vibras Lucky District 7. Uh Paul Cashman, South Denver District 6. Daryl Watson, fine, district 9. I'm Amanda Sandoval, Northwest Denver District 1. Thank you. And we might have folks joining us virtually, and once they do, I will acknowledge those council members. So we do have two action items. It's the scooter bike share contract with Bio. And so we you all can give a round of introductions and jump in. Thank you, Council Chair Lewis. My name is Elena McWarter. I am Dottie's legislative affairs manager, and I'll let my team introduce themselves before we dive right in. Madam Chair Nick Williams, Deputy Manager Dottie. Hello, uh Justin Begley, Planning Supervisor with Dottie. Alex Keating, Vice President of Policy and Partnership to the VO. All right. This may be the quickest presentation of this committee, and I hope you prefer it that way, but certainly want to dive straight into questions that you may still have. Before we do, we're just going to provide a quick update on some slides you've already seen. So reminder, we're actively doing pre-enrollment into the access program as of this morning. Over 13 and 1,350 individuals are enrolled for a pre-access. They can get pre-enrolled today at Voride.com backslash Denver, and they can screenshot if their current access program enrollees with Lyme or Bird, they can screenshot their enrollment and use that to get started with their enrollment with VO in their access program. If on day one you walk out and VO is in the streets and you've not enrolled yet, we have what we're calling instant access, where you can self-certify that you are eligible for our access program and you can start riding free of charge on day one. We're also in the process of building out an access program coalition group, and we've got a letter of signatories that I'll let Alex discuss. And then just real quick job hiring. We are actively hiring and continue to hire the W 2 labor force that's going to support this program. So right now there are over a hundred individuals already hired, many of them already working out of Vio's warehouse. They had over 200 interviews also scheduled last week that they are actively making offers on so that they are ready to deploy on day one when this contract is signed. Also, just a quick reminder in the last presentation, we gave you an entire calendar of the next few months of community events from big events to small events, district uh specific events, citywide events, any opportunity where we can get in front of your constituents and program users to let them know of this pro new program and how to get enrolled and uh start riding. Last slide is just a quick transition slide that with your approval today that puts us on track for full council approval on April 27th. The deployment was planned for May 1st, so again, upon signature of this contract, we'll be getting out in the field as quickly as possible. And then our current operator licenses expire on May 16th. So we still want to be able to maximize that two-week transition overlap between vendors. Just one thing. If we could go back to the instant access one, one thing I want to um really accentuate that I think folks have told us we maybe haven't been explaining as clearly as we could have. Every single person that walks out and scans, whether it's me, whether it's a previous access writer, I've made the joke, whether it's Elon Musk, will be asked, are you an access writer? I will say no. I can't speak for Elon Musk, but even if Elon Musk did say yes, I'm an access writer, he would receive that access. And that really is so every single person to try to absolutely minimize uh the chance of anyone slipping through the cracks. So anyone who walks out there will be asked, and if they say yes, they instantly have their access benefits.