10-28-19 Health and Public Safety

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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Councilmember Jo M. Broden stated, With regard to the Section 21.34, the positive find moneys. In that section two (2), in terms of reporting,perhaps consider adding like the number of citations. But then also, in addition to the City Clerk, I would actually encourage circling in the Council President and or the Health and Public Safety Chair and Vice Chair. That way we have a sense of advocacy on this over time. Committeemember Gavin Ferlic stated,For sure.And,just a comment that I had is monthly maybe a little bit excessive on that. Quarterly I think would be fine. I don't know how the rest of the Council feels,but I feel like a quarterly update would be good. Committee Chair Jo M. Broden replied, And then my last thing is, do we know, or is there data relative to the difference between talking or sort of the hands free element of this that we're trying to get at versus just the general distraction of the other non-hands free? Committeemember Gavin Ferlic replied, Yeah, it's a really good question. So distracted driving, there is a lot of data out there that shows distracted driving leads to an increase in crashes. Whether or not there is, I shouldn't say collecting data,but there's no consensus data on when the ordinance is passed, it restricts using your hands with a cell phone that then results in a decrease in crashes. However, there's no control group. We're not stopping technology and capping the number of cell phones at the same time. So, I would argue that even crashes remain the exact same. You still introduced say over the past five (5) years, probably two (2) to three (3) times the number of cell phones or devices that people are using. Committee Chair Jo M.Broden stated,We will move to the committee for questions or comments. Seeing none, we will move to the public for anyone wishing to speak either in favor or opposition to substitute Bill No. 24-19. Seeing none, we will move back to the Committee for a vote. Committeemember John Voorde made a motion to send substitute Bill No. 24-19 to the full Council with a favorable recommendation. The motion was seconded by Committeemember Karen White and carried with a voice vote of four(4) ayes. Bill No. 49-19-Amending Ordinance Shared Mobility Device Operator Chris Dressel, Senior Planner for the Department of Community Investment with offices on the 14th floor of the County-City building stated, I'd like to offer a brief presentation regarding the ordinance request, some context on how we got here, I'll talk about the shared mobility, some of the highlights of the ordinance, some non-ordinance items and then I'll talk about what's next. It's been a brief history in terms of shared mobility in South Bend.A couple of years ago we introduced dock less bike share. Starting last year, was the introduction of Electronic Scooter or E-Scooters and those tended to come in a non-regulated way to U.S. Cities. It took some time for Cities to sort of cope with that disorder through the formation of shared mobility ordinances, including the City of Indianapolis and that's the one that South Bend is sort of using as a model for this request. South Bend has gone through a couple of pilots for our E-Scooter program. So, shared mobility I think defined quickly,is just talking about sort of a wide variety of vehicles that are used on an as needed basis to provide the broadest possible transportation options. In the case of the South Bend ordinance, we're talking about E-Scooters and E-Bikes. E-Scooters are somewhat familiar. An E- Bike is just a bike that's powered by sort of a pedal assist electric motor. So, talking about the contents of the ordinance. We're wanting to really first (1St) and foremost sort of provide some EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 2