This is the City of Reno's last year in a three-year contract with the company.

The City of Reno is revealing the second quarter report for Bird e-scooter use in the area.

Some highlights show that the rideships increased by almost 26,000 in the 2nd quarter which took place in the recent warmer months compared to the first quarter which took place in the colder months earlier this year.

"We're coming off of the colder months and the winter months so now in that next quarter we're starting to see the better weather and the ridership increase," said Suzanne Groneman, sustainability manager, for City of Reno.

However, as the city begins the last year in their three-year deal with Bird, Groneman says they have been seeing overall use of the scooters go down since they first made them available to the public.

"When it's first launched everybody rides them and then those numbers kind of reduce and flatten out," she said.

"I've used them mostly when I'm downtown and they're very convenient to use," said Elizabeth Schwarz, Reno resident.

From April 1st through June 30th the second quarter had 53,263 rideships with 6,926 of those being new users.

Revenue generated for the city is nearly $13,848 which is put into the general fund to help maintain all the services that the city provides.

The use of these scooters avoided 24,154 car trips. 298 warnings have been issued and 87 fines were given out.

Even though the overall use of rideships is decreasing, Groneman says so is the number of citations given out to people.

"We've seen those reduce over time which tells us that riders are just learning more about proper etiquette with a scooter, where to leave a scooter," she said.

Some of the things the city has learned since launching the program is how to maintain abandoned or damaged scooters and locate parking spots.

"I think that's what we've seen the most of is parking that does work or doesn't work," she said. "Maybe it's confusing to riders, maybe it obstructs something, so we've been really flexible on relocating those options."

While the program isn't perfect, people are saying they still hope they stick around.

"As a community we probably just have to treat them a little better because I know that with the Lime bikes, those went away because people were doing stupid stuff with it, but hopefully fingers crossed people will be mature adults about it," said Schwarz.

"Yes, while they're fun, for some people micro-modes of transportation are their only modes of transportation," Groneman adds.

She says the city has yet to discuss if they will renew another contract with Bird once their last year wraps up, but they will start talking about it soon.