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Committee Advances Ordinance Requiring City to Catalog and Publish Fiber-Optic Assets
Summary
The committee approved an amended ordinance directing the Department of Technology to map and catalog city-owned fiber and conduit and to coordinate with the PUC; the Budget Analyst provided estimated first-year and ongoing costs and DT said it has inventory systems to support work.
The Budget & Finance Committee on Feb. 3 approved, as amended, legislation requiring the Department of Technology to gather information on city-owned fiber-optic facilities and conduits and to consider public availability of network asset data.
Supervisor Mark Farrell framed the ordinance as part of a citywide effort to treat internet connectivity like other public utilities and to centralize responsibility for mapping county-owned fiber assets. "We started looking at last year and had our budget analyst look at what we owned as a city...responsibility is dispersed within many departments," Farrell said.
Harvey Rose, the Budget Analyst, summarized the BLA report showing estimated first-year costs (transcript contains numeric ranges) and potential ongoing costs, and recommended approval. Miguel Gamino, City CIO, said the Department of Technology uses an inventory system for DT-delivered fiber and will coordinate with the Public Utilities Commission on longer-term strategies.
Supervisors Yi and Tang moved to accept a small language amendment requiring DT to catalog assets and to request PUC consideration of future citywide fiber development; the committee took the motion without objection.
Next steps: DT will proceed to inventory city fiber assets, publish results per the ordinance requirements, and BLA will evaluate any FY16–17 funding requests that may be required to maintain data on an ongoing basis.
