The Executive Directors of Beta NYC, Citizens Union, New York Public Interest Research Group, and Reinvent Albany sent a letter to Acting Counsel to the Mayor Paul Rodriguez, City Clerk Michael McSweeney, and Commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) with recommendations for a new lobbying database in order to make lobbying activity more transparent.  Their recommendations include improving the search function, defining the terms in the search column, and making search results downloadable.

You may read the full letter here