officers in the juvenile probation department, and one social worker in the public defenders office, existing position. as well as some travel time consultant services and some other services. it also, however, would create one new social worker position in the juvenile probation department. this would have a retroactive hire date to january of 2013. it amends the annual salary ordinance to create a 0.4fte in the existing year. we make a recommendation to amend the ordinance to specify the disposition is a grant funded position, that it terminates when the grant funds terminate. one of the things that is important when we discuss with the juvenile probation department is they do want this to be an ongoing position. they will ask for it to be a general fund position if the grant funds are no longer available. that is something that is subject to board of supervisors

appropriation, so. questions? >> are there any questions from colleagues for the department or the budget analyst? okay. if not, then are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the item? [speaker not understood]. first thing is good morning, supervisors. i would like to speak in behalf

of item number 1 and i have some serious concerns about today's hearing on item number 1. from my experience, according to my interpretation of audit and oversight, seems like this item does not properly belong here. so, i'd like to say for the record i'm questioning the validity of this item being heard in this committee. according to my interpretation, it seems it's a better fit in budget and finance, especially when supervisor breed is a member of that committee. so, i would like a discussion of that to follow whether i am misinterpreting that or there is some other reason why it's being heard here. in relation to this item number 1, also like to voice my concern that the last gao meeting was canceled and when i was told the official reason, in my interpretation and

opinion, i thought it was very inadequate reason why it was canceled. looking at the agenda, i see item 1 and 2, and i tell myself, ha this committee become a lap dog rather than a watchdog agency. there are plenty of items to discuss in addition to item number 1. i only see one other item, and i also have to consult whether it belongs here or not. so, let's put it this way. either this committee is going to be active and a watchdog or it will continue to be a lap dog and will do a great disservice to law abiding citizens in san francisco. and for the record, so there will be no arguing later on, i find it a very interesting

phenomenon that when committee hearings are under observation, that there are so many cancellations all of a sudden and that all of a sudden the number of items have dropped off. so, the only thing i can conclude is what's going on? thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. so, the budget analyst has suggested an amendment to this resolution and i wanted to see if there is a motion to include this recommendation. >> so moved. >> all right. supervisor campos. and, so, is there a motion to approve item 1 as amended? >> so moved. >> all right. all right, without objection. and i apologize that i forgot our first order of business actually to excuse supervisor malia cohen. so, is there a motion to excuse supervisor cohen from gao today? >> so movedrdv >> thank you. madam clerk, can you please call aye tell number 2? >> item number 2 is an ordinance amending the administrative code, sections

22d.2 and 22d.3, relating to san francisco's open data policies and procedures and establishing the position and duties of chief data officer and departmental data coordinators. ~ >> all right. welcome, supervisor david chiu to gao on this item. i'd like to see if you have any opening remarks on item number 2. >> thank you, chair, thank you, colleagues. i want to thank the members of the public and city staff who are here to talk about this legislation i have proposed along with mayor lee about open data. i'm very excited about today's discussion. we all know that openness and transparency are fundamental to a successful government and in the internet age the release of government data and an improved partnership between government and our citizens, including many folks here in our room today, has led to numerous suck is hees in improving our government and local governments, international government around the country. and this comes about oftentimes we harness the talent and ideas of the public as government

data is analyzed to help lead to innovations in both the government and in our local communities. in 2010 three years ago i was happy to work with mayor newsome to pass our city's first open data ordinance. and from my perspective at that time we were ahead on the open data movement. we were a real national leader in that. but unfortunately i think we've fallen a little behind and that is what this legislation is trying to address. at this time my understanding is we have about 500 city maintained data sets, but there are literally thousands of data sets that we could put out to the public. more over, the data sets that our city departments currently put out often show our city departments in their best light. from my perspective the value of open data is to give the public and the smartest minds in the city data sets that help us improve on imperfect situations, to have data sets that show where we can improve, take risks and be innovative. to do that this legislation that we're considering today does a number of things, but three things in particular i'll point out. first, it creates a chief data

officer position to maintain the focus on moving forward our open data movement in san francisco city government. secondly, it requires that each city department designates a data coordinator who works with the chief data officer so we can ensure that the public knows who within every department they can work with on data requests. thirdly, this legislation requires the development and consistent standards in how data is presented. now, for our colleagues and for the public, let me just mention a couple of data projects that i have proposed in the past to give some examples of what we're talking about, in part these have been my hack a thon challenges to the public. first i have been talking for a couple years about a towing [speaker not understood]. all too often residents in neighborhoods around the city wake up and find that their car has been towed due to sunday streets or some other special event they may not have known about before they went to sleep. ~ in 2011 i publicly challenged city agencies to provide data

for towing times so that the city or its citizens could create an application to allow residents to input a cell phone number to receive a simple alert if their car is in danger of being towed. the mayor has indicated his support for this, but a year and a half later the towing times has not been released. a second topic around open budget, all too often san franciscans want more transparency in their budgets to be able to drill down exactly where and how every dollar in city government is spent on salaries, contractors, programs, goods and services. i want to take a moment and thank our city controller for working -- for work that he and his office are already engaged in to move this forward and i do hope that we'll be able to roll out this data soon for our public to really be able to analyze this and better understand how we as a city government spend our money. third example comes out of the category of our department of recreation and park. and this is really a success that i'm proud of and i know

there are probably an individual here or two that can talk about that. four years ago in my first meeting with phil beginsberg when he became the director of the department, i asked him if he could create an online application to reserve picnic tables and barbecue pits. last year they were able to put out data on a local company, appaliscious that answered the call. i'm excited finally there is a rec and park application that can help find picnic tables and understand that hopefully soon this data can be used for seamless online transactions to do this. these are only three of literally hundreds of reasons why i'm excited about this open data legislation and hope that it will soon continue to bring us into the 21st century. with that i'd like to ask [speaker not understood] who has been doing a lot of work with my staff on this legislation and in this area in general, to come and present from his perspective and from the city department's perspective. mr. naff. >> good morning, supervisor

tang, supervisor campos, and supervisor chiu. my name is jay napp. [speaker not understood]. before i start i want to talk about the basic concepts around open data, what it is and why it's important. open data in its simplest form is machine developed raw data sets available to the public without any restrictions. so, what does that really mean? what that means is it's our excel spreadsheets, our access databases, it's all the other databases that we manage and store data really we're stewards of this data for the public. and it's our responsibility to share that information back with the public. obviously making sure that we're complying with privacy and security policies that we have in place. so, why is this important? it improves transparency and accountability, no doubt. but what's interesting is it also drives economic development. it's created new industries like gps. it's created weather information, multi-billion dollar industries.

locally companies like appaliscious, mom apps and many others have been fueled by open data. they wouldn't exist without this information. but i think what's really interesting is that it's created a new form of civic engagement. and it's created this partnership with the public, people -- the best and brightest are working with city staff on solving problems and challenges that we face. and data is that fuel. so, i want to talk a little about our open data efforts and when it started. it started in 2009. we were literally one of the first cities to start an open data initiative. we were actually number two. as such it was really an experiment. it was an experiment to understand what the demand was in our community as well as what the impact could be. what we saw was beyond our expectations. it was tremendous response from our community t. created dozens and dozens of applications. we don't know how many applications they created. things like crime maps, 3 in 1

applications you can submit potholes for graffiti issues. it's allowing people to find parking, et cetera, et cetera. there are numerous, numerous examples of people creating applications at no cost to taxpayers. these are people creating applications that are benefiting our citizens, tourists and residents. so, with that, we established open data legislation in 2010 and that was really, again, one of the first cities to do so. and it was fairly basic and rudimentary in form at that point. it established an open data portal and encouraged city staff to share data. since then we've seen a tremendous adoption of open data both international and nationally and locally. hundreds of cities have adopted open data. some of our peers like new york city and chicago have advanced the movement establishing fairly sophisticated legislation and practices. so, this open data revision is

really a response to that, but not really for bragging rights. it's really to establish a new change in our operating system, to change the mind-set of our staff, to have them recognize that openness is fundamental to our government, and that we need to really embrace that and change the way that we do business. so, just really quickly, the legislation itself has president chiu mentioned establishes chief data officer which will work with the public as well as city agencies on establishing best practices, policies, procedures, technical architecture, work closely with the data coordinator which will be an existing position within each agency. and, so, you're recruiting this organizational structure and network within our city family to really accelerate the release of data to the public. and one of the main things that the open data coordinator will be working on is establishing a catalog of data that they

manage as an agency. and the reason we did that was when we talk to our community and ask them, hey, what data would you like to see, their response was, well, what data do you have? our response would be, well, we don't know. obviously not a fruitful productive exchange. that tried to resolve that issue and create a great feedback so we can prioritize thousands if not tens of thousands of data sets we manage on behalf of the public. the other components of the open data legislation are really making structural systematic change so that our default position is one of openness. the first is that we are ensuring that new technology that we purchase has the ability to share data inherently, that it has a public api or equivalent. we don't want to invest in technology that locks our data. second, we don't want to be held hostage by our vendors who state that this is their data. we've had that issue in the past.

with next bus and going into litigation is not smart. so, we want to make sure our boilerplate contracts have stipulations that this belongs to our city and, therefore, the public. and last, we want to make sure that we establish open data standards. licensing standards like creative common zero, these are technical standards but they're very important for the consumption of the data, for liberation, and utilization of this data so that people can create new companies and new uses. with that, i want to thank president chiu and his office for their leadership. i'd like to thank 311 for their leadership in operationally managing open data as well as department of technology. i want to thank our open data working group that helped put this legislation together which i think reestablishes our national leadership in open data which belongs to code for america was part of that group, spur, and many others. i also want to recognize two summer interns who were

spectacular, christina red grave and cat law from harvard who did the heavy lifting and put it together. these women are to thank for the effort. most importantly i want to thank the community, the people behind me here today, and the hundreds if not thousands of people in our city and across the country who are working on creating new solutions on behalf of our government and collaborating with us. with that, like to see if there's any questions you may have on the presentation or about the legislation, supervisor tang or campos. >> i do have a question. so, i notice that we are creating a new chief data officer and there's no accompanying aso amendment. i just wanted to see if you can address how this position is coming to fruition, you know, from a budgetary standpoint. >> yeah, i think our ethos has been one about being scrappy, recognizing this is one we should be doing. what we're looking to do is my understanding is find a position within our city family that's vacant today. >> okay. and also you did mention that

this chief data officer would be working with city agencies and existing positions within those departments. can you just talk us through a little about your conversations with some of the departments and whether this is something that they feel they will be capable, you know, of working with a chief data officer. >> that's a great question, supervisor tang. we've had a lot of discussions through coyth with other organizations. so, we've been doing this a few years now. what we've seen is there isn't a heavy lift in creating openness. this is something that might actually reduce work in agencies in terms of responding to sunshine requests. instead of being responsive, we should be proactive and put that information out there and reduce the number of inquiries so that people can actually go to our open data website and get that information without ever interacting with staff. it has the ability to reduce our costs. the number of calls coming in to 311 has diminished

tremendously because of real time transit information. people no longer have to call asking where is the next bus. they can actually get it on the mobile devices and in other mechanisms like 51 1. so, that is a result of this information. ~ so, i think it's really kind of an incremental effort on agencies and this is really i think net -- i think it's a savings for agency in terms of labor and hopefully cost as well. >> okay, thank you. and last question, in term of timing, then, when do we see the plans for bringing on board this chief data officer? >> so, i think everything kind of comes on board -- the clock starts once the chief data officer has been appointed. so, my understanding is that conversations are already happening, trying to determine who is the right person and what that role looks like from a detailed perspective. 60 days out from that appointment will be that compliance plan that each agency will have to issue, which will be a catalog of the

different data sets that they manage. for some agencies, that might be one data set like the film commission. for larger agencies like puc, that may be many more, but they also have more resources to be able to compile that information. >> all right. any other questions from colleagues? supervisor campos. >> just a quick question. in term of implementation, what does this mean in term of how, you know, an entity like the sunshine task force oversees compliance, and are you in communication with them to make sure they understand, you know, what this means moving forward? >> i think this complements the efforts around transparency. i don't think it takes it away. i don't think it's duplicative. i think if you look at the legislation that we're doing, it recognizes us as president chiu had mentioned, that we live in a 21st century, data is stored electronically. we should not be sending faxes, pieces of paper to the extent we can issue this information in an electronic format, we

should do as such. so, i think it really -- it furthers the goals of the sunshine task force. >> thank you. >> all right. any other questions? >> i just want to acknowledge, i know there are a number of city staffers who have been working on this in a number of departments and want to see if there is anyone who wants to make any opening comments as well. happy for folks to do that. we have travis fox from the mta who oversees information technologies at the department. >> hi, good morning, supervisor tang, supervisor campos, president chiu. travis fox, chief information officer for the san francisco municipal transportation agency. just want to talk about sort of [speaker not understood] the leadership that's come from the board of supervisors and the mayor, speak to some of the things that we're undertaking in our agency and what we hope to do in the future in terms of

open date a. we have all of our next time -- next bus real time predictions available, [speaker not understood] park data and respond to a number of one-off requests as well. in the future what we're having coming forward is taxi data access system where we're going to offer the [speaker not understood] license developers to all taxi locations and electronically hail taxis in san francisco. all of us are very excited about that in term of making it easier for us to get around the city. also providing automatic passenger counter information to folks, additional information on transit vehicle and also bicycle information. one other area that we're working on that i know is of great interest to supervisor chiu and others is the information in terms of temporary closures of streets and temporary street closures, but also the ongoing street closures. i understand that's a very urgent area that has been?

some delays on that, but we put it a number of times recently in mapping the processes and are hoping to put both the static information in terms of ongoing closures, but also the temporary closure data out mid to late summer as well. so, we do -- i don't want to under estimate the challenges internally associated with that, but we're putting a great deal of effort into that as well. just want to give you a brief summary of activities underway. >> all right, thank you. >> and i just want to briefly comment. i want to thank you and the sfmta for the data sets you put out there and thank you for the conversations we had reese endly around temporary closures which would lead to information that could help i think our residents avoid having their cars towed. i understand this is not data that is just within your department. there are several other departments that need to be coordinated in this and it has been slow in coming, but look forward to working with you to hopefully get this out as soon as we can. i know there are citizens out there that are eager to get this information, not just for themselves, but i think there are the possibilities of

applications that could really use this to make things and life easier for folks who are circling around the streets trying to figure out where to park. and hopefully in short we'll be able to make some movement in that area. but thank you for your work. >> thank you. i look forward to working with the department. >> any other department speakers? >> good morning, reggie [speaker not understood] from the department of public health. so, as the environmental regulator for the city, i'd like to be first in line to be part of this process. the open data initiative, we've already sort of borne a lot of fruit for us. i think stepping back, the way i look at it is if our regulatory data is out there more visibly in the public eye that's going to create more responsibility on the part of the regulated parties. it's going to create more accountability on the part of the job my staff are having to do. so, the first example of this has been our work to get data out on food regulations.

yesterday yelp launched our food regulatory data as with sort of a first city -- (applause) >> food regulatory data out. we've had this data out since 2007, but it was buried in the bowels of our -- shouldn't say bowels. [laughter] >> of our health department website. if you've seen one of these, it's really exciting. now, that, that was -- i think we are going to be sort of a model for the nation and there's already other cities stepping up. but also internally it's done a lot of things. we work keeping data very clean and it's forced us to organize our data, integrate our data, have our just data be more comprehensible. it's forced us to have better mechanism for accountability for our own staff. we are about to launch a similar project for housing data so tenants and others wants to see property conditions before they represent or buy are going to have access. the secondary, i think, that i just want to sort of mention

has been we in mid 2000s, we created a data product called the sustainable communities index. there we had aggregated data on the health and sustainability and social justice in san francisco communities from eversiti agency and put it sort of in one basket. but we held it as a department and we were using it as a department. through the open data initiative we now have 90 different indicate ors, 90 different measures out in the open data site. we already have private application developers using this data ~ and you're going to be seeing some very exciting products come out from this. and i think perhaps most gratifying and satisfying for me, i'm now working with city universities ccac in particular, and they're using this data. and the brilliance and innovation coming out of these classrooms and the sort of desire to solve problems and how our data can be part of that has been really inspiring.

so, thank you for supporting this initiative and we hope to be sort of an ongoing [inaudible]. thanks. >> i want to thank your department forever all the work you're doing and thank the bowels of the residents of san francisco in particular for the work you're doing in the restaurants. [laughter] >> you know, certainly when it comes to health care, being able to track our data and our statistic and measuring over time period the progress we're making toward better health outcomes, environmental outcomes is incredibly critical. so, we look forward to future data sets that will result in better health. >> thank you very much. >> thanks. any other city departments? if not, i know there are a number of folks who have come here today to talk about this discussion. madam chair, if you can get to public comment. >> i do have one speaker card. we're opening this up for public comment. first i have alex maxa. i do know there are other individuals who are here today. >> and i just want to note i see there is a mother with a child. do you want to speak in public comment or -- would you like to speak first? [laughter]

thank you. good morning, supervisors. thank you very much for hearing this legislation. my name is sue [speaker not understood]. i'm here on behalf of sf tech dom. and we are in full support of this legislation. an open government is an accountable government. san francisco should be at the forefront as far as innovation and entrepreneurship and this legislation goes a long way in making that happen. so, we ask that you vote to send this legislation back to the full board. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. good morning and thank you, supervisors.

especially thank you, david chiu, for introducing this important topic. i'm alex maxa. i'm here on behalf of my company curb text based here in san francisco. it is a parking communication app that can save your car from getting towed. i'll explain and how we can serve the city better. the way code tech work is you can register your license plate with our service. if anybody sees your car parked in a bad way, for example, it's blocking a driveway or your headlights are left on, they can send a text message to your phone via the license plate [speaker not understood] skew me. to improve our service, we need to access the city's towing data in real time so that curb text can automatically send -- automatically and instantly text people to alert them that their car has been officially targeted for towing by the city or will be targeted for towing by the city in the event of sunday streets, for example.

another example is when a parking control officer radios for a tow and the dispatcher records that plate number, at that moment we'd like to know the plate number. then we'd be giving that person a chance to move their car before the tow truck arrives. if they can't move it, at least they'll know what happened to it and where they can go to retrieve it as soon as possible. here's how to use curb text. first you register with curb text by entering your cell phone number and your license plate number. you can do this online or simply by texting your plate number to the curb text plate number to your mobile phone. once your plate is linked to your phone number, anyone can contact you by sending a text message beginning with your license plate number to the curb text phone number. for example, if you're blocking your neighbor's driveway and they don't know how to reach you or even if that's your car, they can take out their phone, pull up the curb text phone number and type in your plate numb