LOS ANGELES : Wachs Urges City to Stop Wasting Paper on Forms
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The head of the City Council’s Governmental Efficiency Committee complained Thursday that the city prints enough forms “to destroy a rain forest.”
Councilman Joel Wachs said he wants to end the longtime practice of printing stocks of forms, storing them in warehouses and then processing the documents by hand. He proposed storing them in computers, then having workers fill them in via keyboard and transmit the information electronically.
To make his point, Wachs’ staff displayed stacks of obsolete, yellowed and dust-covered forms, some of which they said had been in warehouses because the city stopped using them years ago.
“With all puns intended, the system literally begs for re-form,” Wachs said, grinning at reporters at a City Hall news conference.
Wachs, chairman of the council’s Governmental Efficiency Committee, said he wants the city to adopt a modern forms management system as part of his efforts to cut government waste.
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