Fwd: [Mpls] Sunshine Week Presentation

[Steven Clift]

From: Janet Nye <p-jan...@forums.e-democracy.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:05 PM
Subject: [Mpls] [Mols} Sunshine Week Presentation
To: Mpls Issues <mp...@forums.e-democracy.org>


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This Wednesday I was lucky to attend a presentation by the new team
dedicated to providing access to government data for the city. I was
impressed by the thorough presentation by Casey Carl, Kristen Olson,
Josh Schaffer and Christian Rummelhoff. They did an excellent job and
welcomed questions, which they answered thoroughly.


This is a great step forward for a city aspiring to openness and
transparency. I hope the city follows up with adequate staffing for
the records department at City Hall, which has been grossly
under-staffed for quite a while. I will be watching to see what
happens as this dynamic group continues to innovate and update our
data practices department.

I have provided a link to the presentation.


Janet Nye
Phillips




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To: "Schaffer, Josh J." <Josh.S...@minneapolismn.gov>
Cc: "Rummelhoff, Christian N"
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Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:25 AM
Subject: Sunshine Week Presentation




Good Morning,

Thank you all for coming out last night to the City’s Sunshine Week
presentation on accessing government data. We were very happy to see
that people were engaged and interested in the work that the City is
doing to bring greater transparency to our work and to make data more
accessible. We appreciate that many of you stayed late and it was
great to get a chance to speak with you personally after the
presentation. I would like to make a special thank you also to Don
Gemberling for coming and sharing his knowledge of the Minnesota
Government Data Practices Act, and for sharing the first, and best,
joke I’ve heard on the subject. As promised, I’ve attached the
PowerPoint presentation which contains links to many of the resources
on the City’s website that we viewed last night. The Minneapolis Open
Government site that we also previewed can be found here.

As was mentioned in the presentation, we are always looking for
suggestions on improvements to our process, datasets that you’d like
to see made publicly available, and any information and resources that
would help you better engage with the City of Minneapolis. Please send
any such suggestions, questions, or comments to
rec...@minneapolismn.gov, or feel free to call any of us on the
Records & Information Management team using our contact information
from the attached presentation.

Thank you again and we look forward to seeing you in the future as we
continue our work to engage with the community and make Minneapolis a
city that is open by design.


Josh Schaffer, MPA
City Records Manager

City of Minneapolis – City Clerk
350 S. Fifth St. – Room #304
Minneapolis, MN 55415

Office: 612-673-3032
josh.s...@minneapolismn.gov
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📎 Sunshine_Presentation.pptx (245kb)
http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/file/fEXTxdZBh3OPgisj1UuR46V71jW-11GX-2zbxDuw/



Janet Nye
Phillips Neighborhood, Minneapolis
About/contact Janet Nye: http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/janetnye


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[Bill Bushey]

I was also at the Wednesday evening event, and like Janet, I was impressed with what the City - in particular the Clerk and his staff - shared and the way they answered questions. I left with the sense that the City Clerk's office really is committed to enabling and improving resident access to public data held by Minneapolis, in spite of limited resources and the limited enforcement mechanisms of the Data Practices Act.

To me, the most impressive thing mentioned during the Wednesday event was that the City Clerk asked the City Auditor to audit the city's records and data management and access processes - knowing full well the resulting public report would be very critical of the processes that the Clerk is ultimately responsible for. And the report submitted to the Audit Council on October 20th, 2015 was pretty critical. The Clerk also mentioned that he will be presenting his plan to address the Auditor's issues at the March 30th City Council Meeting, at 10am. I plan on going to that meeting, and I'll encourage everybody to attend to learn about the Clerk's plans to improve public access to city information, and to show support for greater public access to Minneapolis data and official records.

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[wbushey]

A quick reminder, Minneapolis' City Clerk will be presenting his plan to address the Auditor's issues, and improve public access to data held by Minneapolis, tomorrow morning at 10am. The agenda for tomorrow's meeting can be found at http://www.minneapolismn.gov/meetings/cow/WCMSP-176359 , and the Clerk's 114 page response is at http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/public/@clerk/documents/agenda/wcmsp-176371.pdf

Cheers,

Bill