There are a few more days to go before voters go to the polls in scotland to decide if they want to be an independent country and leave the United Kingdom. 4 Million People are eligible to vote and an increasing number are saying yes. It would mean a centuriesold dream fulfilled at last. The id of scotland becoming an independent country was a nightmare. It is not a surprise that an opinion is particularly divided along the border between england and scotland. Scotland welcomes you, reads the scott reads the sign. There is little to show visitors have left and went. The border runs along the river. Here in the town of coldstream Malcolm Campbell applies his trade. He takes tourists on fly fishing trips. Most of the visitors are english and yet he is in favor of scottish independence. I am very much a yes of voter. There is no antienglish sentiment at all. It is not westminster. Westminster is a huge dinosaur that is not fit for our populace. It takes too long, nothing happens, it is a
We also recognize the work of jay nash and the work at the it highering group led by the department of Human Resources and they are looking at how we recruit and train and higher it professionals in the city. And most recently the communitys cio, we have a plan for the city. Through a series of strategic it sessions koit has recognized two major opportunities for the city and these are a shared strategies for the city and as well as the Public Strategies for the city and thinking about all the ways that the city engages with the public. Major components through the plan and through the annual process koit makes recommendations annually to the next 2 fiscal years. All projects are evaluated based on their impact and supportive it plans strategical that are out lined here and goal one was established as the highest priority for us to be focused on which is support, maintain and secure critical infrastructure. Followed by increased sufficiency and effectiveness and improved access and tra
Makes recommendations annually to the next 2 fiscal years. All projects are evaluated based on their impact and supportive it plans strategical that are out lined here and goal one was established as the highest priority for us to be focused on which is support, maintain and secure critical infrastructure. Followed by increased sufficiency and effectiveness and improved access and transparency. Through the budgeting process koits provides funding for a number of sources. The annual allocation to address all of general fund needs. One of the biggest highlights is the i guess of major project funding for several major legacy systems. So the addition of this allocation has increased the general fund sources the in this plan by 91 million and approximately 200 increase from what we have identified 2 years ago in the plan. And the last two categories, the sponsoring department of the department is fund to use on the Technology Project and to some rate of allocation for general fund and Nong
Places whether, where are we, are we behind others . Thank you for the questions. In the it plan we do the evaluation of citywide ict spending in the city. I cant remember the exact number but what we have found in working with taking a look at some of our peers we are kind of right within the range that we would anticipate however many folks have notes that the cost of implementing projects in San Francisco might be higher, the wages and salaries that we pay to our it professionals might be slightly higher than other places. It is something that we consider and we have to discuss that koit as a benchmark. So again, what we have found is we are right within the range that we have seen within our peers. Thank you. Supervisor wiener . Supervisor scott weiner thank you for that presentation. I have a few questions, first the wifi program, do we have a way of monitoring the Quality Control for that. I say that before, i still thinking the Market Street wifi is often unusable and in fact it
We would anticipate however many folks have notes that the cost of implementing projects in San Francisco might be higher, the wages and salaries that we pay to our it professionals might be slightly higher than other places. It is something that we consider and we have to discuss that koit as a benchmark. So again, what we have found is we are right within the range that we have seen within our peers. Thank you. Supervisor wiener . Supervisor scott weiner thank you for that presentation. I have a few questions, first the wifi program, do we have a way of monitoring the Quality Control for that. I say that before, i still thinking the Market Street wifi is often unusable and in fact its worth the nonexistent and others have experienced it as well that your phone links as wifi and you have to turn off your wifi in order to use the data on the phone. Do we have a way to monitor that because its frustrating when we are rolling out to the public that we have this program and it doesnt work