brian, and i'm a deputy director with the city of technology. i would like to thank the grand jury for their interest in the department of technology and their hard work for putting together this record and the board giving us an opportunity to comment on the report. in 2011-12, the grand jury report highlighted major issues that the -- we feel we've made real and meaningful progress since then. since that original report, we've continued to improve city wide coordination on it needs specifically to coit. the city's information on the city's technology. our most recent plan, or ict plan was released this spring and it provides a framework how the city will -- this plan recommends $150 million in city general fund investments over that same time. as you know, the fiscal year is 2015-16 and 2016-17 approved budget includes $190 million in it investments. of this, $61.3 million is slated to come from the general fund. this represents an important step in improving the it infrastructure. this includes the radio replacement effort and a new city wide financial system, a new property tax

the thing about permit tracking is because the grand jury and some of the citizens in this city says we don't know how the heck you guys give out permits some people get it and some don't some have a harder time this is about is how transparent do we want to make the permit tracking system i think when i say people don't have a dog in the fight come on we have been hats has a dog in the fight the people at the it department through who the mayor's office hired has a dog you're showing friends get the permit the people that contribute to certain campaigns get the permit and others don't what is did permit tracking system actually going to show the citizens and to me we should be involved when you talk about the requirements we should be involved in that discussion how do you find out and track a permit how do you track who touches that permit from the minute the guy walks in the door whether a design professional to every plan checker and clerk that touches it and signed out of how the public looks like that i feel that this being taken over by the it department the bic we don't get t

find their way in our beautiful area. now, we like them and others to learn more about us and our city by having a grand san francisco museum continue in 2015 what the pan pacific expo started if 1915. they left us as caretakers of the one remaining jewel. the palace of fine arts. let's make a memorable place and a fully open to all place for the next 100 years. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. peter with the cultural action network. i had something brief to say. my organization is looking at the clear cutting of culture in the city right new. we have published a closed studio map that accompany the recent open studios map. we're seeing massive exodus of our culture in the city now. there's no other way to describe it than that. i can provide you with tons of information. we're losing 40 artist in two weeks out another location. we just lost 60 artist out of another location in the mission. these are all related. they're all under the same kind of pressure, market pressure, government pressures. my real question is if at all time boom economy, we can't be preserving these

. now, we like them and others to learn more about us and our city by having a grand san francisco museum continue in 2015 what the pan pacific expo started if 1915. they left us as caretakers of the one remaining jewel. the palace of fine arts. let's make a memorable place and a fully open to all place for the next 100 years. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. peter with the cultural action network. i had something brief to say. my organization is looking at the clear cutting of culture in the city right new. we have published a closed studio map that accompany the recent open studios map. we're seeing massive exodus of our culture in the city now. there's no other way to describe it than that. i can provide you with tons of information. we're losing 40 artist in two weeks out another location. we just lost 60 artist out of another location in the mission. these are all related. they're all under the same kind of pressure, market pressure, government pressures. my real question is if at all time boom economy, we can't be preserving these kind of public treasures. i wou

neighborhood and for the city and reactivate that space. the other thing i will add is it has a wonderful entering vestibule as a grand theater does. it has a nice tur ozo on the bottom. the sidewalks on divisadero are narrow and try ied to solve that but it is narrow sidewalks so i appreciate the privately owned part of the space that is the entry provides depth to the sidewalk at that location. that gets congestion out of the way and enlivens the space as well so very thrilled to hear this happen. >> thank you next speaker, please. >> good afternoon everyone. my nake isen weir and live at 1290 hayes. the building on the corner that is sandwiched between the 2 structures. excuse my nerves, i ppared what i would say but it may go out of my head. it is nice to finally hear about the plans. i have been traveling a lotto missed a lot of there planning meetings and i'm new to the project. i think it is better to have the harding theater stay there and not go through demolition , but we have concerns. i am as one of the few tenant-it isn't a huge building but we have concerns because the area

more about us and our city by having a grand san francisco museum continue in 2015 what the pan pacific expo started if 1915. they left us as caretakers of the one remaining jewel. the palace of fine arts. let's make a memorable place and a fully open to all place for the next 100 years. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. peter with the cultural action network. i had something brief to say. my organization is looking at the clear cutting of culture in the city right new. we have published a closed studio map that accompany the recent open studios map. we're seeing massive exodus of our culture in the city now. there's no other way to describe it than that. i can provide you with tons of information. we're losing 40 artist in two weeks out another location. we just lost 60 artist out of another location in the mission. these are all related. they're all under the same kind of pressure, market pressure, government pressures. my real question is if at all time boom economy, we can't be preserving these kind of public treasures. i would really ask when will that time com

get treated the same but the bucks is supposed to oversee dbi sometimes the city attorney says we can't oversee that part but the thing about permit tracking is because the grand jury and some of the citizens in this city says we don't know how the heck you guys give out permits some people get it and some don't some have a harder time this is about is how transparent do we want to make the permit tracking system i think when i say people don't have a dog in the fight come on we have been hats has a dog in the fight the people at the it department through who the mayor's office hired has a dog you're showing friends get the permit the people that contribute to certain campaigns get the permit and others don't what is did permit tracking system actually going to show the citizens and to me we should be involved when you talk about the requirements we should be involved in that discussion how do you find out and track a permit how do you track who touches that permit from the minute the guy walks in the door whether a design professional to every plan checker and clerk that touches

we compassionate but the results will not play out. >> you get 50 grand it maybe years but at least requires some amount of time to see if this looks like it is a wise use of city's money. >> and some of this will be you know if i think- to determine to on the enthusiasm on either the mayor or board of supervisors part never mind of how many people are applying for the preservation funding what we're able to grant and who's on the registry we don't have the funding so we will need to think periodic updateed to track this data so we can be able to pull it up relatively quickly so. >> i mean, the good news the supervisors office i mean not like they've got a lot of these staffing they're the fir place to get to and back further the process of filling out the application so the business owner first through that and get nominate and that means some evaluation by the supervisors office we get a bunch of inner complete applications will push back and don't do that because we can't process those they're not ready so up there is it will take momentum but momentum as the supervisors office u

there. i want all the developers all over the city, mission bay, treasure island, hunters point to let them know ace is on the case. my method in the madness is bring [inaudible] here we are 61 years old, father, grand father, great grand father. everyone changed, politicians and the developer change and people go to jail. fbi investigation over 10 years. i put together [inaudible] people can see what happened in the last 10 years so we can figure what is going on now because i'm about the future. i want to know what is happening for the future. let's talk about pligz bay, my request all most demand and make sure to be a platefirm when you talk about mission bay there is something to recognize that my kids know when they grow up a african american had something to do with mission bay however it will look. i want to make sure specifically [inaudible] that there is something to recognize jim jefferson. i will sit down and talk about other things later, we'll talk about the fillmore and every else. i may not have time because i have togo down and talk to the board of superizvisors but thi

this happen and get much needed housing in the neighborhood and for the city and reactivate that space. the other thing i will add is it has a wonderful entering vestibule as a grand theater does. it has a nice tur ozo on the bottom. the sidewalks on divisadero are narrow and try ied to solve that but it is narrow sidewalks so i appreciate the privately owned part of the space that is the entry provides depth to the sidewalk at that location. that gets congestion out of the way and enlivens the space as well so very thrilled to hear this happen. >> thank you next speaker, please. >> good afternoon everyone. my nake isen weir and live at 1290 hayes. the building on the corner that is sandwiched between the 2 structures. excuse my nerves, i prepared what i would say but it may go out of my head. it is nice to finally hear about the plans. i have been traveling a lotto missed a lot of there planning meetings and i'm new to the project. i think it is better to have the harding theater stay there and not go through demolition , but we have concerns. i am as one of the few tenant-it is

this happen and get much needed housing in the neighborhood and for the city and reactivate that space. the other thing i will add is it has a wonderful entering vestibule as a grand theater does. it has a nice tur ozo on the bottom. the sidewalks on divisadero are narrow and try ied to solve that but it is narrow sidewalks so i appreciate the privately owned part of the space that is the entry provides depth to the sidewalk at that location. that gets congestion out of the way and enlivens the space as well so very thrilled to hear this happen. >> thank you next speaker, please. >> good afternoon everyone. my nake isen weir and live at 1290 hayes. the building on the corner that is sandwiched between the 2 structures. excuse my nerves, i prepared what i would say but it may go out of my head. it is nice to finally hear about the plans. i have been traveling a lotto missed a lot of there planning meetings and i'm new to the project. i think it is better to have the harding theater stay there and not go through demolition , but we have concerns. i am as one of the few tenant-it is

but the results will not play out. >> you get 50 grand it maybe years but at least requires some amount of time to see if this looks like it is a wise use of city's money. >> and some of this will be you know if i think- to determine to on the enthusiasm on either the mayor or board of supervisors part never mind of how many people are applying for the preservation funding what we're able to grant and who's on the registry we don't have the funding so we will need to think periodic updateed to track this data so we can be able to pull it up relatively quickly so. >> i mean, the good news the supervisors office i mean not like they've got a lot of these staffing they're the fir place to get to and back further the process of filling out the application so the business owner first through that and get nominate and that means some evaluation by the supervisors office we get a bunch of inner complete applications will push back and don't do that because we can't process those they're not ready so up there is it will take momentum but momentum as the supervisors office understand what

the results will not play out. >> you get 50 grand it maybe years but at least requires some amount of time to see if this looks like it is a wise use of city's money. >> and some of this will be you know if i think- to determine to on the enthusiasm on either the mayor or board of supervisors part never mind of how many people are applying for the preservation funding what we're able to grant and who's on the registry we don't have the funding so we will need to think periodic updateed to track this data so we can be able to pull it up relatively quickly so. >> i mean, the good news the supervisors office i mean not like they've got a lot of these staffing they're the fir place to get to and back further the process of filling out the application so the business owner first through that and get nominate and that means some evaluation by the supervisors office we get a bunch of inner complete applications will push back and don't do that because we can't process those they're not ready so up there is it will take momentum but momentum as the supervisors office understand what they'r