Q&A
Administration's position on Intro 1132 and implementation challenges
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Commissioner Gross discusses the administration's position on Intro 1132 and potential challenges in implementing the bill. While supportive of the bill's focus on city-wide violations data, she highlights resource constraints that could impact implementation.
- The bill would require SBS to take on new data responsibilities beyond their current scope
- Implementing the bill would require new tools and expertise in data analysis and visualization
- Current SBS data management focuses on their own service data, not city-wide violations
- Resource gaps exist in creating a central data team for the detailed analysis required by the bill
Dynishal Gross
0:34:38
Thank you, council member.
0:34:41
Well, I'm a nerd.
0:34:42
So a a reporting bill that asks SBS to focus on, you know, agency wide, city wide violations data, I think is starting in a very strong place.
0:34:56
Here, I wanna reflect back on, you know, what I mentioned in my testimony.
0:35:01
There's some resource, challenges to delivering on this.
0:35:07
And I I think it's useful to think about what we were able to accomplish, in terms of increased effectiveness with our agency outreach team.
0:35:15
There, we created a central research excuse me, resource to, focus on outreach and, you know, we've been able to reach many more neighborhoods, many more businesses, and individuals, through that team.
0:35:29
We do have some staff at SBS that are focused on data management, but it is generally our the management of our service data.
0:35:38
So our data describing the work that we do, data describing our clients, we we manage it for reporting, to funders.
0:35:47
We manage it for reporting to the city council and for being able to perform our work and measure the effectiveness of our work.
0:35:54
So I believe this bill contemplates a a new type of data responsibility for SBS, which would be an analysis of city wide violations data.
0:36:05
Many of it much of it is available in the open data portal.
0:36:10
But to effectively mine and then analyze and then represent the insights that you're interested into would require, you know, geocoding tools, data visualization, specializations, mapping resources, and we would want to, you know, be able to tackle it the right way, if this bill moves forward.
0:36:34
So I I, again, I love the focus, but currently, we don't have resources, to create a central data team, to provide this type of detailed analysis or with the focus on geographic disparities, that you would like to see going forward.
0:36:52
And so for this, we'll have to, I think, remain in conversation, between the council and, the administration about the that resource gap.
Oswald Feliz
0:37:02
Okay.
0:37:02
A few more questions on that.
0:37:03
Does SBS know more or less how many businesses reach out for help related to regulatory compliance and fines and other legal issues?