lamps -- development of the five your i.t. plan. -- fisa your -- five year i.t. plan. i would be open to hearing john's thoughts on that or whether there are recommendations for specific initiatives that she would like us to pursue. i think that that is the big picture. we asked departments to make reductions in proposals that they can meet best. some of those reductions will involve by tea, others involved reduction in other operating costs. -- involve i.t., others involve production in other operating costs. >> -- supervisor chiu: without i.t. reserves, this work will like it done. it has been pulling teeth to get to where we are today. i am not particularly confident that in the next couple of months we will get to a place where we want to be. i am asking for some assurance an understanding of how that will happen. if the supervisor's idea of hanging on to these reserves is a way to make sure that this gets done in the next couple of weeks, it makes sense to me.

plans, the city's five-year i.t. plan, whether we can reallocate those savings to a high priority for other technology investments. supervisor chu: thank you. to the comptroller's office, just a question. there was a comment made by the budget analyst, that if we were not to release the reserves, meaning that we would not allow department to spend this money, that layoffs would have to occur. the apartments would have to figure out a way to reduce their expenses since we would not be giving them the resources. given the time line on layoff noticing, what would we expect, given that we are looking at this, at this moment? >> supervisors, then rosenfield, comptroller's office. it is impossible to put a hard count on the number of layoffs that would have to occur, if this were not released. we are certainly dealing with this time in the year, a timing issue with the amount of fiscal year that is left, during which departments would need to readjust their budget were this reserve not given. as of today, the vast majority

around staffing, the entire i.t. community knows in the city, just like the rest of the city is faced with challenges regarding budget and staffing, there will be levels of reduction in staffing. everyone will be able to account for a level of staff production related to this project. that is also figured into the roi calculations of this project. supervisor chu: i believe there is a question from a committee member, but i also wanted to welcome david chiu to the committee. >> thank you for the work that you have done. by way of background, we, during the budget process last year, have placed the $6 million-plus amounts on research. in part, because we recognize our city spend a lot of money on i.t., over $200 million. there is a general consensus around the city that we have a lot of inefficiencies and redundancies within our i.t. world that we need to focus on, particularly, during these tough budget times. some of the areas we have tackled in the past has been to move to consolidate the 700 different e-mail system

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supervisor chiu: the whole point of i.t. reserve was to figure out if there would be savings in the city. from my perspective, we have not done a good job in that. we have figured out a plan over the course of the year to figure out data consolidation, but we are not seeing savings. where are we going to find savings? we have been talking about this for years. we are still looking grantors. the problem is that if we do not come up with answers, here on the board we are forced to make budget cuts. hundreds of us will be making cuts to the parks department. if we could find consolidation in the budget, i would prefer to spend that money providing services back-to-back and park. for several years we have been asking for this work to be -- services- two -- services back to rec and park. for several years we have been asking for this work to be done. supervisor chu: we are looking for information from the apartments, probably bardee i.t. departments. we want them to share with us as a part of their budget commission de i.t. reduc

castro worked as an i.t. analyst at gao. we audited i.t. security and various government agencies. he has a bachelor's degree from georgetown university, and a master's degree in information security technology and management from carnegie-mellon university to find universities. dr. cook, co-chair of the nasa research of review of the 2010 census. he was elected from the national command to me -- the national academy of sciences. he has served as president of the institute of management sciences and the institute of operations research and the management sciences, and that is an acronym, in form. he holds a master's degree from southern methodist university. does that make you a mustang? and that phd in operations research from the university of texas. longhorn. mr. vargas, the executive director of the latino elected officials. prior to joining the national association of latino affect original elected in imported officials. he was the vice president for community education and public policy at the mexican-american legal defense and education fund, where he supervised and directed

and, you know, with our i.t. grids and our software vender, they really came together and pulled it together for us. it made it possible for us to be able to serve as many couples as we have been. >> so once you're ready, you and your husband to be or wife need to be need to check in here and check in again, ok. are you also going to get married today? >> yeah. >> let's process you one by one. do your license in, exit and re-enter again check in at that desk. >> our wedding is at 3:00. >> as long as we get you in today. >> we're getting married at 2:30. >> don't worry about the time line. we're greeting people at the doorway and either directing them to the services they need on this side which is licensing or the services on this side which is actually getting the ceremony performed. >> this is an opportunity to choose to be a part of history. many times history happens to us, but in this case, you can choose to be a part of it. this is a very historic day and so i'm very, very proud to be here. >> i have been v

shthere is a requirement to invest in our i.t. technology. we are moving our system from a billing system to an electronic health record. we are moving to a chemical system and this requires a significant amount of i.t. investment. we understand that president chiu has an investment in this area and any questions of how we are efficient as possible, we have much more available information. >> the department it holds the stake holder meetings two or three times a year to bring our stakeholders including our department's staff along with our -- communities that we fund to talk about the budget and also to plan out how we will meet our targets. over the years, we have tried numerous ways to reduce our budget. we have talked about looking across the board cuts but we also looked at some of the issues about non matched general funds. 2/3 of our general fund and realignment are used to draw down federal revenue. dph is a provider of last resort. this takes up about 100 million of general fund. but we cannot leverage those for revenue. there is a ma

hall there that commented tonight on our i.t. budget, and also commented that night on our i.t. budget also. and we had an update about the state budget. we discussed reinstating the one hour for t-10 security aids and got a figure amount of how much that might be to restore that one hour of work for them a week. we spoke about how we would preed during this budget process with our calendar. our next meeting will be on wednesday, march 30th at 5:00. >> thank you. commissioner madoff as? >> is that calendar on the website, what discussions you are going to have so we know? >> deputy superintendent? so you will put it on there? [laughter] >> other committee meetings coming up that we need to do, the curriculum coming up? >> we just had a curriculum this past week, but since it was not on the agenda, we will update you at the next board meeting. >> thank you. commissioner moffs? >> we are going to change the format so that the committee has a representative from a department coming and really tell us about what their department is, what they do, who works in the department, how man

with regards to i.t., i know that supervisor chiu mentioned that component. can we continue this item to the call of the chair? without objection. >> hearing to receive the update on the fire department's budget for fiscal year 2011-2012. supervisor chu: i believe we have the fire department to provide a presentation on this item. >> good afternoon. yes, we do have a presentation. before we get started, i would like to acknowledge the presence of my chief financial officer who will be assisting in the presentation as well as the deputy chief of the administration. also the good work of the comptroller's office as well as our budget analyst for their assistance in getting as to where we are today. it has been a collaborative process. we did submit our budget to the mayor's budget office on february 22nd. it was that there are five member commission and submitted with their support. as we get started, i want to remind you that the mission of the san francisco fired marvin is to protect lives and property in this 49-square-mile city. we provide fire suppression,

we will be postponing our at&t contract audit due to the fact that our i.t. department will be revamping that particular contract. we want to give them the opportunity to make the changes that we will go in and look at the changes they have made. we have been requested by charter to look at the review of hunters point. that has been delayed as well as a couple of construction audits with the puc. >> the morning. i'm from the comptroller's office and want to talk to you briefly about some of the projects we of completed this fiscal year and a couple that are in progress just to give you a sense of the brunt of the issues we cover. i think people have a strong intuitive sense of what an audit looks like a may be less of what a technical assistance looks like. i hope this will give you a stronger sense. as was mentioned earlier, the charter requires we work with parks and recreation to assess the cleanliness of our streets and parks. we have issued annual reports on those two activities this fiscal year. reports were issued and show our parks and streets were cl

the government audit and overseas i.t.enditures and policies city-wide, department heads, for supervisors, mayor's office, in a two-year plan to consolidate data centers. the department's is presenting some ideas about what we think it is of benefit to data center consolidation. we think there is significant operational benefits related to this more efficient model, rather than everyone building their data centers. probably, in light of a lot of things happening in the world right now, i would like to t

the government audit and overseas i.t.enditures and policies city-wide, department heads, for supervisors, mayor's office, in a two-year plan to consolidate data centers. the department's is presenting some ideas about what we think it is of benefit to data center consolidation. we think there is significant operational benefits related to this more efficient model, rather than everyone building their data centers. probably, in light of a lot of things happening in the world right now, i would like to stress it is really about disaster readiness. the traditional way we have done things in creating data centers, although some of them have been low cost, have not been the most disaster ready facilities. this new plan really improves the readiness of the city, of the equipment in these

since this mush or i.t.cquisition process to prepare for successfully implementing automated data collection. fifth, we recommend the avoiding massive and decade field operation through continuous union address melissa maps with a large and decade operation which has $444 million in 25% cost overrun. since his link to it the address lists and maps continuously throughout the decade innocent or another options to meet its address in that requirement. sixth, the beer should implement improved project planning and management techniques early in the decade. for the 2010 decennial track more than 9000 dvds for several years for 44 different operations. we have made recommendations aimed at strengthening project and risk management. finally comes the spirit director position should be established with administrations for the lifecycle of the 2010 decennial, we counted six directors in the directors but benefits from greater leadership continuity. francis has embarked on its plans. however, it was a continued focus

there is in little bit of invasive i.t. coming up. you will notice that this only covers 10 or 12 feet but there are remnants of the other trees that would hide this better. there are seven polls and they are 70 feet tall. they partially obscured the sky. and those are not enough because there are 12 more. these you can see from golden gate ave. here is a better shot. there are about 17-19 70 feet tall poles. not only did they change the skyline and impose on our view of the sky, there is -- how can we achieve this? it is obvious that there is a zigzag in the retaining wall. there was 10 or 11 additional trees that the neighborhood mrs.. i am here to ask you to give me back the open space. i am not even talking about the space that we have to walk on. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening. and the sitting president of the university terrace association. you have our letter of support for the department proposal -- >> before you finish, i need to disclose that we have served together on the board of the chinese internatio

it has taken us 10 years to get our i.t. system going through three or four directors. the same amount of time to do what seems obvious, preparing for earthquakes and doing what we can as a department. i get your frustration. i think that in hindsight we should look to the great successes that we have had. i think that it is probably very difficult for a department head to work with the commission. i think most building departments do not. i think that the issue of morale in our department has been there since i have been on the commission. the people that work for our department work hard. they believe in our city. they love our city. they look to us to help support our director in running the department, and i hope that we can continue to do that. because i think we are going in the right direction, and i think it is frustrating for everybody that we have gone through this economic challenge that we have over the last couple of years, but i would remind commissioners that we actually are in the black, that we have done this painfully, because we had to lay off a lot o

and when things go awry and they have a lot in the -- like, the big i.t.ystems, city and federal, that's when both sides are off. so i'm trying to bring some jobs in, i'm trying to send some jobs out and trying to get it right. so i would say it's more of the nature of the person, the agency, the system, and inherently which sector owns the solution. >> when did you do -- take something private in your experience both in indianapolis and here that worked the best? >> a couple of those in indianapolis worked very nice. one, waste water, which was -- is generally across the country at the time and still is a government-run operation. we offered it up for bid. ended up not selling the asset by bringing in a very large international manager. the manager at my encouragement accepted our ask me union and accepted our ask me leadership. everybody was very anxious at the time. it turns out a few years later, accidents had been reduced by 90 percent, workers comp claims had been reduced by 90 percent, grievances had been reduced by 100 percent, pay went up, in othe

working on the demand model, they provide a i.t. development. unless we have the finance administration section, budget development, obviously we take care of the budget development every fiscal year. taking care of the billing, accounting, lbe program, the human resources function, and the paper program management. with that, let me remind you that this is an information item. we are here to seek any items from you for the budget. you will be seeing this budget for a final look at next month's meeting. supervisor mar: thank you, colleagues. are there any questions? thank you for such great detail in each of the five areas. really well done. if there are no other questions, is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? seeing no one, public comment is close. thank you for the informational items. please call the next item. >> federal legislature, action item. supervisor mar: taking the long walk? >> i apologize, usually i said in the front row. we are in the middle of legislation considering bills these days. your matrix has been upd

i think very positively on health care i.t. i am someone year, we've seen the private sector step up. do you know that you today cannots have a medical record emailed to yourself? hippa -- hipaa. the industry stepped up and agreed to and amendments, basically requesting information in between and ensuring it was transmitted using high principles of security. that happened because the private sector did it. there was no framework yet. 90% of the health care sector had already accepted the direct specifications for safe, secure e-mail. if you focus on verbs, then you engage in what has been the greatness of the american economy. but when you channel that energy, great things will happen. and i think it applies. >> unfortunately, we've only scratched the surface on these issues. you will have to come back soon. >> aw. >> cecilia kang, thank you. >>

. >> we spoke to our computer and i.t. expert and we asked if this was a failure of one company or an entire industry. >> well, we have to be aware of the fact that we don't know anything about the company's security policy. this policy has failed. it has failed big time in this case. sony is not just any other company, so we can expect that they have been a special target of a hacker group or even a single actor. that is quite possible since it has drawn the ire of the community. there has been a couple of lawsuits against hackers recently. it could be that sony was a special target any data that is stored anywhere in the internet is not safe -- it cannot be protected from a targeted attack. >> ok, there was an attempt to stop a week of fighting between cambodia -- cambodian and thai forces. bangkok stopped the peace talks. it people have been killed since hostilities have flared up. thailand and cambodia each blade each other for provoking the latest clashes in the dispute over a temple complex. about 50,000 civilians in

what we had to really do is to build the i.t. architecture in the cemetery to even have the means to put out a survey electronically, but that is one of the future plans that we are having. we are also putting out a new burial guide that truly is a guide that will really answer a lot of the questions that individuals have that before they just didn't have a place to go, which will lay -- which will outline all of the places of how you can contact anyone in the cemetery. >> and, finally, i'm curious about a related matter. i know many family members care deeply about the mementos that are left at these grave sites, particularly military grave sites. there's a real history of that. does arlington national cemetery now operate some sort of system for protecting these mementos, properly cataloging them, and then allowing family members to access them, this information, in a reliable way? >> sir, the mementos are collected in section sixes, which is where most of the current casualties from the wars are. and we have our center for mil

if you have ever been in a computer server room of an office or i.t. environment, this equipment gets hot very quickly and when you bury it underground, that exascerbates that issue. if we need to underground this, it needs to be placed in a controlled environmental vault and that vault needs to be dry. that vault needs to be air conditioned and cooled and because this equipment requires access by our technicians, it needs to be safe. and we have to meet os hmp a standards about when women go underground and they need

. >> >> i.t. will take care of that. and i apologize for -- >> ok. >> there you go. >> ok. this is a slight show that andrea played a little while ago. but i wanted to point out several things. my name is lisa, by the way, and i've been organizing a lot of this. because i used to work for the national park service and i think that they're lying and i think they're pie wased. i'm sad about it, -- biased, and i'm sad about it. i want to show you a bunch of slides that are about joy. we are the people who are using the parks. who do they want to reserve it for? so kids. kids are afraid of dogs. here we are. people of color are afraid of dogs. this is what -- this is just sunday. this is sunday. any day we could have seen this. this is a family. people need places for their kids and their dogs. this is an elderly person, ok, on sunday afternoon, ok, with a cain. i keep hearing people are afraid of dogs, people with disabilities, blah, blah, blah, i think it's a lie. and that's one of the things that i want you to pay attention to. this is a small dog group, it's a community tha