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Recommendation to Authorize the Interim City Manager to Execute an Agreement with Bike East Bay for Bicycle Safety Education Classes and Workshops and Bike to Wherever Day Coordination for a Total Amount Not-to-Exceed $39,000. (Planning, Building and Transportation 24462742)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Adam W. Politzer, Interim City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Since 2017, the City of Alameda (City) has contracted with Bike East Bay, a local non-profit, to offer bike safety education classes and workshops to people of all ages and abilities in Alameda. Since 2023, City staff have supported Bike East Bay's coordination and promotion of Bike to Wherever Day. Both the classes and events have been well attended and well received by the community. These activities are defined programs in the City's adopted Active Transportation Plan and help fulfill City safety and climate goals.
City staff recommends entering into a new three-year agreement with Bike East Bay to continue to offer these safety classes and workshops, and to coordinate this regional promotional event, in an amount not to exceed $39,000.
BACKGROUND
Bike East Bay is a local non-profit and advocacy group that, among other activities, provides a variety of free bicycle safety education classes and workshops throughout the East Bay, most of which are open to the public, via multiple contracts with public agencies. While classes are offered within City limits on occasion with these outside funds, this happens only once or twice per year.
Providing bike safety education is a defined program in the City's Active Transportation Plan and a goal of the General Plan. Such classes and workshops, geared towards people of all ages and abilities, can increase people's confidence in riding and thereby encourage them to ride more often. Indeed, Bike East Bay's survey of class participants generally shows that people plan to ride more often after taking one of their classe...
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