Streamlining the legislative process will be accomplished by bringing several procedures online, including the large bi-monthly council agendas that are currently completed manually on paper. This automation alone will save the Metro Government a full day's labor of printing the actual agenda packets and upward of $25,000 a year on paper for the council meetings. The new voting system will enable the voting record of the 26-member Metro Council to be instantly recorded and disseminated appropriately.
"The City of Louisville and Jefferson County recently merged to create a community of 386 square miles and 700,000 residents," said Kevin Kramer, president of the Metro Council of Louisville/Jefferson County. "This consolidation gave us the opportunity to develop a more responsive and efficient local government. The new agenda management program will bring the government and citizens closer together by making it easier for citizens to learn what is going on and to have a say in the decisions that impact their lives. We anticipate that more citizens will now re-engage with their local government thanks to the system's ease of use."
SIRE solution will provide an automated system for creating several different types of reports including voting reports and summaries by council member, meeting action reports, enacted legislation reports, and several others. Furthermore, SIRE is able to help users more easily navigate the Metro Government's complex agenda item approval process with its workflow technologies.
