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Cheyenne council approves amended dockless-vehicle rules, adds timeliness language to RFP requirements
Summary
The Cheyenne City Council on April 14 approved changes to chapter 10.82 allowing dockless scooters and similar vehicles to operate under the city's procurement process, adopting an amendment that requires proposers to describe how they will respond "in a timely manner" to operational and maintenance issues.
The Cheyenne City Council on April 14 approved an ordinance amending chapter 10.82 of the municipal code to authorize dockless vehicle companies to operate in the city through the city's formal procurement (RFP) process. The council adopted an amendment adding the phrase "in a timely manner" to the operations and maintenance plan requirement for proposers.
Why it matters: the ordinance rewrites how the city licenses dockless motorized scooters, electric bicycles and GPS-equipped bikes. It sets procurement and evaluation rules for companies that want to place dockless vehicles in Cheyenne, and drew extensive discussion about how specific the city should be in requiring response times, safety measures, data sharing and community engagement from vendors.
Council discussion focused on two themes: how prescriptive the RFP should be about vendor response and operations, and…
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