Request to add new policy for Fayetteville, NC

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Accessory fields:
title: Fayetteville
states:

• NC
  shortdate: 3/18/2019
  wwc: Yes
  notes:
  portal_urls:
  General: http://data.fayettevillenc.gov/

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place:
year:
date: 3/18/2019
legal_custom: Council Resolution
policy_url:
press_url:

A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, NC DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER
TO ESTABLISH AN OPEN DATA PROGARM AND SUPPORTING OPEN DATA POLICY
WHEREAS, it is the mission of the City of Fayetteville, NC (hereafter, ‘The City’) to provide quality and sustainable public
services; and
WHEREAS, the City is committed to engaging the community by working with residents and soliciting their ideas, input, and
creative energy; and
WHEREAS, the City Council previously adopted a resolution to support high performance and government innovation with a
foundation in open and transparent practices; and
WHEREAS, the City collects and stores a multitude of data types from various operations; and
WHEREAS, the City, by sharing that data freely, seeks to develop opportunities for economic development, commerce,
entrepreneurship, and civic engagement; and
WHEREAS, the City seeks to encourage the local creative community to develop applications, tools, and analyses to view,
explore, organize, communicate, and share public data in new and innovative ways; and
WHEREAS, publishing structured, standardized data in machine readable formats creates new opportunities for information
from different sources to be combined and visualized in new and unexpected ways allowing residents to browse, interpret, and
draw attention to trends and issues with greater efficiency; and
WHEREAS, the thoughtful implementation of an open data program maximizes transparency, access to public information, and
coordination and efficiencies among organizations across the public, non-profit, and private sectors; and
WHEREAS, an open data program proactively provides information currently sought through public records requests, thereby
saving the City’s scarce resources; and
WHEREAS, the protection of privacy, confidentiality, and security will be maintained as a paramount priority through
publishing data consistent with North Carolina Public Records law and Information Technology best practices in cybersecurity;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Fayetteville does hereby affirm the following:
Section 1. The above recitals are true and correct and incorporated herein.
Section 2. The City Council hereby directs the City Manager to:
 establish an Open Data Program to facilitate the objectives stated in this Resolution
 provide an online location accessible to the public for the open data and open data policies to reside
 create a publicly accessible, comprehensive list of all open data information holdings
 provide an annual update to Council on the Open Data Program
Section 3. The City Council further directs the City Manager to establish and enforce administrative policies and staff
responsibilities to support the operation of the Open Data Program and to provide resources for operation of the Open Data
Program to include maintenance of and enhancements to the City’s open data portal.
Section 4. The City Council pledges openly and faithfully to increase transparency in all City transactions and operations.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, on
this, the ___ day of _____ , 2019;
By: _______________________________________
MITCH COLVIN, MAYOR
ATTEST:

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PAMELA J. MEGILL, CITY CLERK