our resources are on books now, but as the supervisor talked about, many people utilize lexus in excess -- nexus. and other resources. >> we are happy to work with the city as we work through this issue. we think that there are a number of supervisors, and others, interested in making sure that all city residents have access to legal resources. >> i would ask the city librarian, in terms of space, maybe not exactly space, but even computer portals or other avenues where we might look into it in the branch libraries, that would be helpful as we continue in our conversation. thank you. >> the last information we had from the city was that we were expected to vacate the veterans building in may of 2013, which would require moving costs. i was wondering if that could be changed so that it is not until july 1 of next year? supervisor chu: to the budget office. >> through the chair, members of the committee, debra from the budget analysts office. the $1 million of general fund revenue is in the department of public works budget, which will be coming back before you on monday. we will be including a re

mainly they relate to support services, lexus nexus, messengers, legal support services, and the like. of course, there are times when we contract with outside counsel. some of that we paid directly out of our office. sometimes it comes out of other city department budgets. mostly it relates to legal support services and outside counsel. supervisor kim: it would be great to have a breakdown. they all sound alike were these services, but it would be helpful to get a sense of them, and we like to look a cost effectiveness. >> just so you know, it might be helpful -- last year, we went through the budget process -- over the last couple of years, i always a few myself and our office as somewhat different from a lot of other departments. we do not have a lot of capital and fiscal products. so we try to really make sure that we are consolidating how we deal effectively with outside vendors services. for example, we put our lexis nexus services and renegotiated our rent at fox plaza to make sure we were minimizing the potential impact on the greatest capital that we have, and that is the peo

appreciate that answer and i think it is important for solo practitioners to have access to west law and lexus nexus. >> as you are aware, as an attorney, the product being provided, the modules being provided, even within those programs, are constantly being changed and added to. we actively provide guidance and instruction to all kinds of legal professionals about how to best utilize these. as you know in your own practice, you may have been working on one part of the law but then there are the things that come up where you are not familiar, so we have to do a lot of training. supervisor kim: i do not have questioned on the budget itself, is a small allocation from the general fund -- and these are just comments. i know they'll law library is looking to relocate due to the seismic retrofitting going on at the war memorial. i think it is a great opportunity to figure out how to perhaps consolidate maybe existing services with the law library. i know one of the options may be to look at the main library, but i think that could actually increase numbers of users, participants that come to the law lib