Welcome to our rules Committee Meeting for thursday november 21, 2013. I am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing this meeting today. Im joined by supervisor cohen to my left and supervisor london breed to my right and joining the committee today is supervisor farrell, and right on time for your item. So, before we do that though, the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv and also who are Jessie Larson and Jonathan Goma who record each of our meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online and im also joined by our clerk today, linda woning. Madam clerk, are there any announcements yes, there chair, please make sure to silence all cell phones, the documents to be submitted to the clerk, items will appear on the december 10th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. At this point, could you please call item number 1. It is an order nones amending the administrative code to modify open data standards and set deadlines for releasing
Government, weve seen open data used in practice already and we can see how it can accomplish all of the positive benefits i mentioned, whether its to help publish Health Scores on their website, helping residents making healthier choice, or make sf rec park to help people make picnic reservations or using your smart phone, all the examples i just mentioned are real examples of how open data can improve the lives of our city resident, further fuel Economic Growth here in San Francisco. Specifically, this ordinance will enumerate open data numerical standards, it creates a sense of accountability and certain for the public and Entrepreneurial Community, it creates city staff and agencies to interact with the public about relevant data set and is the priority of certain data set and is creates for the first time in the nation a strategy for residents of San Francisco to access their own data and furthermore and very importantly ensures we have the tightest privacy measures to protect our
The first item which says [inaudible] chief data officer. Okay, and then the next thing is this 3 month, the City Department shall designate Department Data coordinators, would that remain the same or would that push it down a little bit since we dont know if we have the chief data officer yet. Right, we want to make sure the chief data officer is in place and that is coordinating for all the different department, it really prioritizes the data which was existing in the ordinance before my ledge slaix, this is not only creating timeline that is are responsible to make sure we are acting on this data but also we want to make sure our city staff has the ability to take the time to hire the right chief data officer here in San Francisco and that person can be the one coordinating going forward. Okay. So, i guess theres for the Department Data coordinators, even though they might be identified before the chief data officer comes on board, they have things to do. Got it. And the other quest
Jessie larson and Jonathan Goma who record each of our meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online and im also joined by our clerk today, linda woning. Madam clerk, are there any announcements yes, there chair, please make sure to silence all cell phones, the documents to be submitted to the clerk, items will appear on the december 10th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. At this point, could you please call item number 1. It is an order nones amending the administrative code to modify open data standards and set deadlines for releasing open data. So, supervisor farrell, the author of the legislation, can we have your comments. Thank you very much, chairman yee and to the members of the public, were here today to discuss legislation is that ive authored, all across the nation, were seeing federal government taking steps to make appropriate Government Data available because open data has helped us spark innovative and fuel further Economic Developmen
Forward. Okay. So, i guess theres for the Department Data coordinators, even though they might be identified before the chief data officer comes on board, they have things to do. Got it. And the other question i have is is the expectation that the plan itself or draft of a plan be developed given that year or would it be sooner because im looking at Something Else here that says six months. Right. Just to take a step back and as a concept, e what we want to do is we w e ear creating timelines to make sure were acting on this and were providing this to the public, we gave the chief data officer flexibility because theres certain needs in certain department, we want to make sure were meeting their needs as well, i dont want to have the consequences of pushing timelines on people if it doesnt make sense, were giving the chief data officer flexibility within that. Okay. So, the answer to that is really if it gets done within the year, thats the timeline, okay. Any other questions, colleagu