TechConnect Monday Hearing Results
So the concrete results are that DTIS was beat up. They'll now have to pay lip service to gathering Community input - before the RFP is released to bid. Of course, DTIS in the leaked RFP explicitly excludes the Public from reviewing the Proposals submitted during the RFP - DTIS is allowed to view them with no Public Input and to contract with whomever they like. Oh and the RFI/C submittals continue to stay secret too. Watch online here
Something like: They're real sorry, just a miscommunication, they won't do it again and they weren't being secret at all. But they get to keep all of their allowance.
Unfortunately, the Supervisors declined to actually exercise any legislative authority. They treated it more as an interesting intellectual discussion.
This isn't over yet - DTIS messed up so badly there is Another hearing Friday 12/16 by Another group of upset Supervisors - even if you spoke on Monday, you should speak again because these guys need to hear what you have to say:
Fri Dec 16th, 2 PM, (PST GMT -8) City Hall, Room 263 (across from chambers), LAFCO SFGTV2 called by Sup. Mirkarimi
http://sfgov.org/site/lafco_page.asp?id=36018
(you can watch it online from home or work too on SFGTV2 live internet streaming or LIVE on cable channel 78 on Comcast & cable channel 28 on RCN):
http://sfgov.org/site/sfgtv_index.asp?id=11463
At least thirty people spoke from a interesting collection of organizations at Public Comment (that's a lot) and many had excellent points. While Chris Vein of DTIS claimed that DTIS wasn't being secret, almost everyone that spoke complained that the process had not been open to community input. By the end, Supervisor's Peskin and Daly (2 of 3) openly agreed that the Community needed to be part of the plan.
We point out that we have no evidence that DTIS has announced the Public Hearing at LAFCO on Friday and it is not on their special TechConnect site. So much for Open Government.