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Committee forwards 5-year ICT plan to full Board; plan guides tech investments, not immediate spending
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Summary
The committee voted to send San Francisco—s five-year Information and Communications Technology plan (FY2020–2024) to the Board with a positive recommendation; the plan sets strategic priorities and a scoring system but does not itself appropriate project funds.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Budget and Finance Committee on April 10 voted to forward the city—s five-year Information and Communications Technology (ICT) plan to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation, while clarifying that the vote approves the strategic plan rather than committing specific expenditures.
City Administrator Naomi Kelly, who chairs the COIT committee, described the ICT plan as a strategic, financial and operational roadmap for technology investments across city departments. Mathias Jaime, director of the city—s Committee on Information Technology (COIT), said the plan identifies four strategic goals — supporting critical infrastructure, preparing for cybersecurity and disaster response, improving operational efficiency, and improving customer service — and recommends growing COIT allocations by roughly 10% per year to meet rising demand.
Jaime told the committee the plan catalogs expected projects and provides a scoring framework counties will use during the budget cycle to prioritize requests. He said the plan covers large citywide projects already underway or planned — including a new citywide financial system and a Justice data-sharing initiative — but noted that approving the plan does not approve the line-item expenditures, which will return to the Board during budget votes.
Supervisors pressed for clarity on where the Justice project and major investments appear in the plan and whether juvenile probation data is included in the Justice Hub. Deputy City Administrator Ken Bukowski said juvenile probation data is not yet part of the hub and that some data-sharing agreements remain to be negotiated.
The committee took the motion to forward the plan "without objection." The action sends the ICT plan and its recommendations to the full Board for consideration during the upcoming budget and ordinance cycles.
