COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SERVICES - - - - Room 400, City Hall Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tuesday, June 8, 2004 2:15 p.m. - - - - BILL 040615 - An Ordinance authorizing the Chief Information Officer of the Mayor's Office of Information Services, on behalf of the City, to enter into multi-year contracts with one or more providers of on-line research services to be used by various City and City-funded agencies, all under certain terms and conditions. PRESENT: COUNCILMAN BRIAN O'NEILL, Chair COUNCILWOMAN BLONDELL REYNOLDS BROWN COUNCILMAN FRANK DICICCO COUNCILWOMAN JOAN KRAJEWSKI COUNCILMAN FRANK RIZZO COUNCILWOMAN MARIAN TASCO - - - - V A R A L L O Incorporated Litigation Support Services Eleven Penn Center 1835 Market Street, Suite 600 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 215.561.2220 215.567.2670 I N D E X BILL 040615 CHRISTOPHER LANE, Law Dept........... KARL BORTNICK, Mayor's Office of Information Services............. LEWIS ROSMAN, Law Dept............... 4 3
Good afternoon. This is the first ever meeting of the Committee on Technology and Information Services. I hope it's not the last. I note that we have a quorum of the following members: Councilman Frank Rizzo, Councilman Frank DiCicco, Councilwoman Joan Krajewski. The Clerk will please read the following bill: 040615.
Bill 040615, an ordinance authorizing the Chief Information Officer of the Mayor's Office of Information Services, on behalf of the City, to enter into multi-year contracts with one or more providers of on-line research services to be used by various City and City-funded agencies, all under certain terms and conditions.
Good afternoon, Councilman O'Neill and Members of the Technology Committee of City Council. I am Christopher Lane, Director of Administration for the Law Department here to testify in 4 support of this bill. The Mayor's Office of Information Services is here as well. We jointly manage this contract. I manage the logistics of it; they manage the financing of it.
Good afternoon Councilmembers, Members of the Committee. I'm Karl Bortnick, Mayor's Office of Information Services. I'm here on behalf of Dianah Neff to testify on behalf of this bill.
I'm Lewis Rosman, an attorney with the Law Department. I'm just here available to answer your questions. I'm the representative of the users of these types of services.
In the past, the Mayor's Office of Information Services has put in place a multi-year contract which permits the personnel of the City as well as other departmental staff people to access services provided for legal records and online legal serve searches. Once again, we are before you 5 seeking your support on this bill because it permits us and gives us the opportunity to negotiate favorable terms and costs on behalf of the City. And for this purpose, the Law Department has drafted this bill.
We have prepared testimony submitted by your boss, Dianah Neff, and we'll submit it for the record. I understand there's substantial savings of 100,000 to 200,000 a year potential on this?
I think the testimony speaks itself. We're here to entertain any questions you may have.
We have your testimony; we have Ms. Neff's. Any questions for the witnesses? (No response.)
Hearing none, that concludes the public hearing. 6 - - - - COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC MEETING COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SERVICES - - - - Tuesday, June 8, 2004 - - - - Public meeting conducted by the Committee on Technology and Information Services, held in Room 400, City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the above date, to consider action on the following: BILL 040615. PRESENT: COUNCILMAN BRIAN O'NEILL, Chair COUNCILWOMAN BLONDELL REYNOLDS BROWN COUNCILMAN FRANK DICICCO COUNCILWOMAN JOAN KRAJEWSKI COUNCILMAN FRANK RIZZO
We'll now go into our public meeting. The Chair welcomes Councilwoman Marian Tasco. If the Council Lady doesn't mind, I'd ask for a motion on Bill NO. 040615 and a request for a Rules suspension.
I move Bill 9 040615 be reported out of this Committee with a favorable recommendation, and a request for suspension of the Rules so that this bill can be heard at the next Council Session. (Duly seconded.)
I also recognize Vice Chair of the Committee, Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown. Welcome, Councilwoman.
The ayes have it, and the motion passes. This concludes our public hearing. Thank you very much. We will report the bill 7 out at the next Council session. (Council adjourned at 2:25 p.m.) - - - - 9 C E R T I F I C A T I O N I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing proceedings of the Council of the City of Philadelphia of Tuesday, June 8, 2004, were reported fully and accurately by me, and that this is a correct transcript of the same. RE: COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SERVICES _________________________ Lisa C. Bradley, RPR