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The Sacramento city clerk’s office has gone digital.
 
In one of the presentations at the city’s first eExpo Wednesday, the office provided a sneak peek into its upcoming electronic agenda system.

The office estimates it will save about 50,000 reams of paper each year by creating its agendas to digital form, according to Assistant City Clerk Dawn Bullwinkel. She emphasized that the figure of 50,000 reams was a conservative estimate.

Bullwinkel told about 20 city staffers at the technology expo that the city will launch a new system to create paperless agendas by February or March. The city currently offers electronic agendas on its website, but the new Automated Agenda Workflow system will cut the amount of paper used in the process of creating agendas. 

“We’re going to be so committed to getting rid of our paper, we are not going to be printing resolutions, ordinances or minutes,” Bullwinkel said. “They are going to be signed digitally.”

Bullwinkel also explained the office’s philosophy on the digital world.

“And one of the things that we talk about in the city clerk’s office is that we are no longer an administrative office or a clerical office, we’re really a technology office,” said Bullwinkel, noting that the office depends on technology to deliver information.

The eExpo also featured presentations from other information technology professionals including Chris Preston, an executive at the EMC Corporation and Barclay Blair of Forensics Consulting Solutions.

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Kathleen Haley is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press.