OAKLAND — Oakland’s love-hate relationship with e-scooters was blatant at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting where the city approved a set of fines and fees for companies to pay.

The fee schedule is part of the overall effort by the city to bring electric scooters out of the legal gray area they’ve been operating in since they touched down in Oakland in March. Three companies — Limebike, Bird Rides and Skip — have dumped thousands of e-scooters on streets and sidewalks despite the city not having regulations in place for them. Like other California cities, Oakland is scrambling to get rules on the books to keep riders safe and reduce the scooters’ financial burden on the city.

Several public speakers expressed their aggravation over the scooters, which are commonly left unattended blocking driveways, wheelchair ramps and sidewalks. Other saw the scooters as having a positive impact on the city by reducing the need for cars for short trips.

Under the fee schedule passed Tuesday, e-scooter companies must pay a $2,500 fee to apply for a permit, and if approved, a $30,000 annual fee to operate, according to a report from the city administrator’s office. The scooter companies also must pay a $64 per-vehicle annual fee.

That money should cover the city’s cost to oversee the scooter programs, said Department of Transportation director Ryan Russo. The estimated cost for city employees to manage and work with the scooter companies to implement the program, crack down on improper parking and purchase the software to track scooter distribution is about $287,500 for the first year, according to the report. With three companies operating 1,000 scooters each, the fees would generate an estimated $289,500 the first year, the report said.

The companies also will have to pay a 10-cent-per-ride fee for parking in congested areas of the city, the report said. It’s up to the companies whether to pass that fee on to riders.

If a scooter is parked improperly — scooter companies will indicate “proper parking areas” in their permit applications — the firms will be fined $50. In cases where the city would have to confiscate the scooter for safety reasons, the companies would have to pay $140 per hour until the scooter is recovered. The company’s permit could be revoked if confiscated scooters becomes a problem, the report said.

City Council President Larry Reid, who harshly criticized the scooter companies last month when the council approved an ordinance allowing city officials to draft the regulations, kept quiet while other council members discussed the fee schedule at Tuesday’s meeting. But when it came time to vote, Reid ripped into the Department of Transportation for apparently trying to “score brownie points” with someone — he didn’t specify who — by giving the companies so much leeway. At the September meeting, Reid — to no avail — pressured the city to outright ban e-scooters until regulations are in place.

“Mark my words, you guys should have taken your time, thought this out much clearer and come back to us instead of allowing these people to operate illegally and then come back and try to make them legal,” Reid said.

City staff, within weeks, will present regulations for the council to vote on. Those regulations will include a speed limit, a requirement that companies put half their fleet in areas with transportation needs, requirements for safety precautions and a cap on how many scooters a company can have in the city.

Limebike East Bay operations manager Tariq Fleming, who spoke at the meeting, said the company is committed to addressing the concerns of residents.

“We as a company are committed to the safety of not only our riders, but the city of Oakland,” Fleming said.