Sunshine request
To: Custodian of Records Date:10/26/2005_4:00PM PST
_DTIS, PUC, OES & Office of the Mayor, SF Purchasing and Contracting departments
____San Francisco_________
Departments Department Address
Name of Requester:___Kimo Crossman_____________
you may contact me 24/7
Subject or Item Requested: (Please be as specific as possible)
My interest in this matter is purely as a community particpant - I am not representing any party involved and i am concerned about the lack of openness in this process to date. I don't think wifi causes anyone harm - no tinfoil hat for me, but I do have concerns about the transparency of this process. I am very interested in seeing wifi for san francisco!
For example, whole RFI submittals (AnchorFree) are not available for review stating they are completely proprietary, and i have previously identified that intial comments posted on the site did not reflect a complete record of comments sent to the committee. Lastly the many of the submittals posted for public review are heavily redacted or there is a high level public version drastically different from the submittal (Google's public version is 6 pages, reports are that their submittal was 100 pages)
I am open to negotiation regarding what is easy to find and what is hard or expensive to find as well as what will severely torpedo this initiative I do request that this information be posted as soon as possible incrementally rather than all at one time. If in the process of gathering this material for posting online there will be a delay in providing it, i am open to reviewing it in person as long as i can receive digital copies which i will post myself online.
Specifically i am requesting full public access to all RFI/RFC Techconnect 2005-07 proposals submitted with only minor redaction's for legitimate company secrets. Additionally I am requesting full public access to the all comments emailed to the techconnect@sfgov.org mailbox,
I request that an estimate of cost be performed before incurring it and that all materials be provided online for download at the techconnect site for public access so that no cost need to be incurred for copies or postage
I am happy to volunteer some of my technology expertise and time to assist in this process.