Special Bd. of Aldermen — 06-25-2019 Page 10
Alderman Jette
Well just to follow up. So should, before we launch this program, shouldn’t we ask would it be appropriate to ask
them to provide us with some legal opinion regarding you know what laws and ordinances pertain to these
things and whether or not allowing them to operate in the City is permitted under current law. Or whether some
laws need to be changed or written to do that?
Attorney Bolton
You could certainly request such an opinion.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja
To follow up on that and Alderman Laws’ comments, | guess | have concerns that look at both ends of this. |
would hate to have someone think that if they come out of a bar and they know they’ve had too much to drink
they are going to leave their car wherever it is parked and hop on one of these. And then find out they also
have a ticket and maybe do something to themselves or someone else. And then as Attorney Bolton just
stated, | would also not want to see someone who has had their license suspended, think that this is OK too and
do the same thing to get around town. And it is concerning to me that could happen from either side of that. |
have not had overwhelming support expressed to me in favor of this program. | think we need more information
because | think we owe it to citizens. If we are putting these out there and someone takes one because they
think they’ve had too much to drive their car home and then they end up in a similar situation or worse, they
don’t have a helmet on and they drive one of these home knowing they’ve had too many drinks. | think that’s a
problem. So | think that we need to fully understand and maybe reaching out to the Police Department is
another venue that your company should be looking into so we can be very clear with the citizens as to what this
involves and what their responsibility and obligations are and what could possibly happen as a result of an
accident with this vehicle. Thank you.
Alderman O’Brien
Well now I'll put on my other hat as Vice Chair of the Transportation Committee for the State of New Hampshire.
It is my opinion initially this may already come under the OHRV rules within the State. We probably need to
take a look at that, which kind of follows the motor vehicle rules but yet it is kind of relaxed of OHRV as far as
the age of people who are using it. In the case that people do, we are a State that relies on tourism and there
are people up in Bartlett that get on their four wheelers and have at it and go out and have a good fun at the age
of 16. However, they have to be supervised by somebody who is 25 if it gets passed, depending upon the
Governor. But anyways we will see what happens.
But my question is we could sit all day and peel this banana sort to speak. So my question is, have you entered
into the other cities in an agreement, like how long is this going to be? In other words, instead of putting a
sunset clause on it or something like that, could we get into a trial period, evaluate the situation and then see if
some of our worse fears do come? Would be able to immediately terminate if we determine that it really isn’t
working out? And | think that’s more of what | would like to hear because | could sit all day and say, oh this
could happen, that could happen, but you know when it does happen | think we need to have a venue to be able
to address it immediately. Could you speak on that please?
Mr. Briggs Yes in the other cities that we operate our scooters in it is one of two ways, it is either under a pilot
program, similar to what you are talking about where the scooters are invited in from multiple companies or a
