This request is for Council to conduct the second and final reading for Ordinance No. 2016-2086 relating to preventing the removal of shopping carts and the and retrieval of abandoned shopping carts throughout the City.

Widespread theft of shopping carts is occurring throughout the City. The carts are subsequently abandoned along City streets, in alleyways and on vacant properties creating a public nuisance. This ordinance will reduce the frequency of the theft of carts and ensure businesses have cart retrieval processes in place.

This ordinance requires businesses utilizing carts to ensure their carts are identifiable to their respective business, post warning notices about the theft of carts on their buildings and parking lots; and to develop and implement retrieval plans approved by the City for carts that are stolen and abandoned.

This ordinance was presented to you for first reading at your meeting on July 19, 2016 and is before you this evening for its second and final reading.