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CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
BICYCLE / PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Meeting Minutes, Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Zoom Teleconference
South San Francisco
6:00 pm
Amir Thagavis
Chair
Frank McAuley
Vice-Chair
Reno Bowen
Committee
Member
Tommy Chheng
Committee
Member
Natalie Gore
Committee
Member
Arian Guzman
Committee
Member
Vacant
Committee
Member
Christopher
Espiritu
Secretary
Michele Clary
Clerk
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Present: Amir Thagavis, Chair
Frank McAuley, Vice Chair
Tommy Chheng
Natalie Gore
Arian Guzman
Absent: Reno Bowen
STAFF PRESENT:
Planning: Christopher Espiritu, Secretary to BPAC
Michele Clary, Clerk to BPAC
PROCEEDINGS:
Call to Order: 6:04 PM by Chair Amir Thagavis
Chair Comments: None
Agenda Review: Chris Espiritu mentioned that the minutes for review were
for June 2, 2021, not for March 3, 2021
Public Participation: None
Public Comments: None
Approval of Minutes: Approved 5-0-0 (June 2, 2021)
1. ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS
1) Study Session - Free Bikes for Kids Program
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Study session for the free bikes for kids program. The Study session was presented by the interns from the City Manager’s
office, Noelle Toy and Marianne Lopez. The City Manager gave a presentation last month on the program, and Staff will
support the Committee with this project. Noelle and Marianne have begun researching and will give a presentation on the
topic. The following comments and suggestions came from the presentation:
1.There is nowhere for kids to ride bikes.
2.Build a bike park that is easily accessible to the youth.
3.A bike park that has more features such as wavy roads and tunnels.
4.Centennial Trail is near BART, and may be a good place to start with a straight bike path.
5.A six-week reward program for kids that do well in class, or finish an assignment.
6.Partner with a free bikes for kids program that provide refurbished bikes.
7.Drop in community service program where the Community, whether they're young or adults could come over
and help refurbish the bikes, to give back to the Community.
8.Community bike events where it allows people to come back the Community to come together as a whole, and
they could bike around the city and people in the Community may donate the money or any old bikes that they
may not use anymore.
9.Safety classes and bike riding lessons
10.Bike rodeos for young students to practice their safety bike skills.
11.Programs have been implemented in other states and often led by non-profit programs (Bikes for Kids
Foundation, Free Bikes 4 Kidz, Bike Works’ Bikes-for-All)
Chris Espiritu stated that the Bike and Pedestrian Master Plan will address many of those questions, such as more bike
lanes, and safer places for bikes and pedestrians to navigate. The Committee will focus on spearheading the developing of
a program where we can distribute bikes to kids. A pilot program where we pick a school, or a few schools and figure out
what works and what doesn’t. Next steps are to conduct outreach and report back to the BPAC and determine further
outreach. Per City Manager, costs are not a priority and BPAC/Staff should develop the program first, then funding from
C/CAG, private sponsors, others would be undertaken by City Manager and other City Staff.
COMMITTEE COMMENTS
•Committee members stated that when they talked to their children about why their friends didn't ride a bike it
was mostly because they didn't have anywhere to store the bike. They live in an apartment and there was
nowhere to keep it, nowhere to fix it. How do we help those kids if we give them a bike?
•Loaning out the bikes while they are at the bike parks.
•PD or Board of Education can do a monthly meeting on bike education and safety for teachers and students.
•Decide on what age group this would have the biggest impact on, once further outreach is done.
ACTION: None taken, none required
2)Emails from the public
No emails have been received from the public.
COMMITTEE COMMENTS
•Committee member Guzman introduced herself and explained why she chose to join the Committee.
ACTION: None taken
STAFF COMMENTS
•Staff is in touch with our consultant for the Active South City Bike and Ped masterplan came back from paternity
leave. Staff is providing a work plan to complete the bike and ped master plan and then circulate to our internal
City departments and divisions, for their comment. Updates in next Meeting.
MEETING ADJOURNED: 6:44 PM
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Christopher Espiritu
BPAC Secretary
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Frank McAuley
BPAC Vice Chairperson
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