REQUEST FOR ACTION ON IMPOUNDING
REQUEST FOR ACTION ON IMPOUNDING
In 2021 60 scooters were impounded. The City pays $90,000 per quarter to the impounding contractor. Those impounded scooters generated just over $5,000 for the City in fees. Thus the net cost of impounding the 60 scooters in Q4 was $85,000, or ~$1,400 each.
In Q4 3,058 Get-It-Done reports of scooter parking violations were submitted. Each report on average shows 3.6 scooters in violation*. Thus in Q4 there were over 11,000 scooter parking violations reported, and only 60 scooters impounded over that three month period.
Please write to the the Mayor, Council members and the Director of the Sustainability dept, Alyssa Muto, and bring this to their attention. The relevant email addresses can be found via the ACTION page of the website.
* The average was calculated by visually examining the pics of a random sample of twenty reports submitted in Q4.
