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Committee clears 5-year ICT plan; members press on SFWiFi, conduit and digital inclusion
Summary
The committee amended a typographical error and forwarded the city—s 5-year information-and-communications-technology plan to the full Board. Members pressed COIT and the City CIO on Market Street SFWiFi quality, Dig-Once conduit implementation and strategies to address the digital divide.
The Budget & Finance Committee on Wednesday amended and forwarded the city—s five-year information and communications technology (ICT) plan for fiscal years 2016–20, approving committee transmission after COIT corrected a typographical date error.
COIT described the plan as a framework for funding and prioritizing ICT projects that support city goals of innovation, sustainability and resilience. The plan proposes $150 million in general-fund ICT funding over five years, including $91 million for major IT projects and $59 million for annual projects; COIT said the major IT allocation represents a roughly $91 million increase for critical legacy replacement work.
Why it matters: The ICT plan sets priorities for multi-year projects that underpin city systems (payroll, financial systems, CAD, property tax database) and public infrastructure (SFWiFi, connectivity planning). Miguel Gamino, the city—s CIO, said the city monitors SFWiFi performance via back-end management tools and front-end user feedback and that technical vendor/architecture fixes have been implemented in recent months.
Supervisors also pressed for an aggressive rollout of the "Dig Once" conduit policy so the city does not miss opportunities when streets are excavated. Gamino said the Department of Technology is preparing implementation criteria with a consultant and expects a departmental review package shortly; he warned some technical configuration and vendor tuning is needed to stabilize SFWiFi user experience.
Digital inclusion questions persisted: supervisors asked whether San Francisco should pursue municipal fiber-to-the-home models like Chattanooga. Gamino said connectivity planning is likely to be a hybrid approach that leverages municipal fiber backbone and conduit while exploring how to bring private-sector and other financing to last-mile connections.
What the committee did: The committee adopted a minor amendment to correct a date in the resolution and forwarded Item 3 to the full Board with a positive recommendation. Budget analyst Rose recommended approval in committee.
Next steps: COIT and the Department of Technology will finalize prioritization and sequencing of major IT projects within the annual budget cycle; staff will return implementation plans for conduit (Dig Once) and continued SFWiFi improvements.
