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City Council Meeting Minutes August 20, 2019 own time, we need to look to the future. She asked Council to stay focused and take care of our planet. Anthony Cross, affiliated with MoveSM and he is here to comment on Item #5. He commended the City on working with the University to bring a dockless bike share to San Marcos. This is a great transportation alternative. He stated that the overall service he has received from VeoRide has been great. He believes the ridership is pretty robust. He stated that he watched the last meeting and understands some of the concerns that were brought up regarding VeoRide. He said cancelling the contract will be like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. These issues can be fixed. He stated that moving to a docked bike service would cost more and would cause more problems to the users. He stated that VeoRide program has done good, and the concerns are legitimate, but fixable. He strongly encouraged the Council to approve the contract. John David Carson, stated he was disheartened that the Council postponed the VeoRide item at the last meeting. He provided that more people use VeoRide than the Bus. He provided a great deal of study information. There are some issues to be addressed but please keep in mind the visual clutter and poor user behavior and environmental damage made by cars are too numerous for most people to notice anymore. This service provides low cost transportation and is easy on the environment. He stated that the dockless biking system allows more diverse ridership and it this is cost effective for a city to roll out. He stated that VeoRide rolled out E -bikes just a few months ago. He encourages the City to take on more of a partnership with VeoRide. He stated that there were some negative comments made at the last meeting about VeoRide, but he shared a positive story that he was able to get a VeoRide from downtown after bus services were no longer running that evening. He stated that there are thousands of other stories where VeoRide has helped citizens get around town and he encourages Council to continue the partnership. Mike Scheiern stated that he attended the Workforce Housing Taskforce and he was sad to see that Texas State was not part of the working group. He stated that the Chancellors office needs to be involved. He stated that if a university is trying to aspire to be a National university that they should have a good student housing program. He quoted someone that stated "gentlemen we are all out of money, so we must now think." You can use the entire City budget on housing, but do you really create the opportunity to get people out of housing? He spoke about how a lot of the Council is in education and this demonstrates your beliefs that individuals are best served by improving their City of San Marcos Page 3