. >> pamela levin, department of building inspection. on the friday before we were going to implement, we were notified by the unions that they wanted an opportunity to sit down with us and to essentially a meet and confer on the impact of change in work that they anticipate will occur as a result of implementing q-matic. we have implemented the training and notification of the public, we were all ready to go, and we had to delay it based on that. we haven't met with one of the unions. we have the meeting where we invited all the unions -- had the meeting were reinvented all of the unions that represented dbi. some of the unions had decided it would not have an impact on them, but two of the unions could not attend the meeting. one union did come to the meeting, and they were ok with it. >> will there be a meeting before the end of the year, or does it get extended to were part of this activation or perpetual implementation is not to occur this year? >> from what i understand in trying to get a meeting with one union, the union that requ

. >> pamela levin. the goal is to end up with a system at the end of the project that will serve the needs of the department, the other departments, in the fashion they are currently doing. in other words, the p.w. -- dpw input information, as well as others. i do not know who inputs dph, i do not know that they have direct access. the second phase of the process -- project is to move forward and start looking at the other things that the other departments want to do. dpw may want, and they have expressed the enthusiasm to look at all sorts of processes to see how they fit in to and they can use the features of the permit tracking system. using the system for business taxes. the board of appeals wants to use the system. initially, we need to look at what we are currently doing well and who is currently using it. and then we have every intention, having expressed in this to the board of supervisors and the mayor's office, working with other departments to get them to maximize their use of the features th

. >> pamela levin, department of building inspection. i want to go over the digitization project and then turn it over to the records management staff, if you have questions, and they will talk about how the project will aid the process for 3-r reports. currently, we have two positions in our budget for this project. we have looked at the volume of what needs to be done and we think we need an additional five more. we will be bringing justification to you for that during the budget process. the funding through 2011-12, we have set aside $1.7 million. we estimate that we will need a total of $5 million for this project. this is based on experience of other jurisdictions. we've also have estimated the project duration, once we get a contract and start the project, between three years and five years. as i said, and the volume of records to be digitized is quite large. we have 16 millimeter microfilm. i have examples of what they are. 1200 rolls of 16 millimeter microfilm, which is this. they have job cards, certificates of final completion