A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at 6:46 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Brian S. McCarthy presided; City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia D. Piecuch; Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly led in the Pledge
to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with 14 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Ken Gidge arrived at 6:56
p.m.
Mayor James W. Donchess and Corporation Counsel Steven A. Bolton were also in attendance.
COMMUNICATIONS
From: Brian S. McCarthy
Re: Special Board of Aldermen Meeting
There being no objection, President McCarthy accepted the communication and placed it on file.
PRESENTATION
Candice Xie, Owner and Vice President of Business Development of VeoRide
President McCarthy
We have a presentation from Candice Xie owner of VeoRide. Mayor Donchess, did you want to introduce
that?
Mayor Donchess
Well thank you very much Mr. President and Members of the Board for holding this special meeting. We are
going to present a very fun project to you tonight and that is the bike that you see before you, the VeoRide
bike. You are going to hear from Sarah Marchant, Julie Chizmas who has been working on this project, whose
sweater she color coordinated with the VeoRide bike, so we are really happy about that, as well as Candice
Xie from the VeoRide Company, one of the founders.
This is a project that we began working on last fall. | went up to the Innovative Mayor’s Conference in
Burlington, Vermont and saw that there were these dock less, public sharing bike riding companies. As our
staff and everybody began to talk with the various companies and investigate this project, it seemed like
something that would work really well for Nashua. Now you have seen in many of the big cities, the prior
model for this was the Dock Bike where the bikes are at one location, you have to ride them to another specific
location in order to use them. In that model you pay by the distance or by the hour, but you are tied to fixed
locations.
With the dockless bike and this is the VeoBike here and Candice will show you all the details, what happens is
it is activated on your phone by an app, you unlock the bike, you just take the bike down off the kickstand, you
ride it wherever you want and then you leave it. And the new person can pick up the bike by using their app
and to see where all of the bikes are. Now| think Candice is going to tell you that they are going to introduce
about 30 bikes they think at the beginning. It is very tricky to make sure you get the right number of bikes, not
too many, not too few, if there are too few no one can find them, if there are too many then the company
doesn’t do well with it. It costs a dollar or .50 cents to ride it for a very short period of time. This particular
company has a very nice feature that you can continue to rent the bike if you go to a bakery or you want to
