we have presentations by donna levitt, office of labor standards enforcement, and monique zmuda, controller's office. >> i and the deputy comptroller. the comptroller's office, and we have been working with the city attorney as well as with the office of labor standards to recommend these amendments that are before you today. the point of the amendments is to facilitate the appeals process for both the department of labor standards as well as for the appellant. the procedures are also recommended to clarify the appeals process, and, hopefully, we will expedite the appeals process and also will encourage settlement and agreement of us sitting issues when there is opportunity to agree. and, therefore, i would just like to walk you very quickly through some of the changes. there are not a lot of them, but we do hope they will expedite the appeals process. nearly all of the changes that you have in the legislation in front of you are located between pages 8 and 12 of the legislation, so the wording that is undermined or crossed out represents the amendment to the legislation, in starting on page

we have presentations by donna levitt, office of labor standards enforcement, and monique zmuda, controller's office. >> i and the deputy comptroller. the comptroller's office, and we have been working with the city attorney as well as with the office of labor standards to recommend these amendments that are before you today. the point o

>> madam chair, members of the committee, monique zmuda. i have been looking at these requests over the next five years. there is a pent-up demand for a number of infrastructure operating systems. the number of departments that have been forced, because there is insufficient money to take a look at their existing practices, existing operations within the i.t. area, and make trade-offs, we know a number of departments have fresh projects where all of their computers and software must begin to be replaced. there are a number of infrastructure requirements. i can tell you that what a number of departments have done, particularly large departments, they have found existing savings within their own organization and applied those savings to meet new needs rather than request general fund money. whether or not there is a cost savings that can be used towards the deficit is another question. i do know that there is a tremendous effort to reallocate in every appropriate resources and to prioritize those resources. with respect to a partial reserve,

. >> madam chair, members of the committee, monique zmuda. i have been looking at these requests over the next five years. there is a pent-up demand for a