City of Surrey 2017 - 2021 Financial Plan

City Manager

CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY

 Corporate Scanning initiative seeks to ensure that City Scanning is addressed as a Corporate Service performed by the Surrey Scanning Services division in the Records Centre. Surrey Scanning Services will ensure that scanning is adequately documented, and that scanning is accomplished to industry standards, and in compliance with legislation. Surrey Scanning Services would reduce the growing costs of outsourcing, reduce departmental workloads, give the City the ability to scan and upload directly into City applications, reduce offsite storage costs, resolve issues while ensuring we meet legislative compliance.

 The Digital Mailroom is a concept where all incoming, physical communication (mail) is centralized in the mailroom, converted to digital form by a document scanner, then routed electronically to the appropriate parties throughout the organization based on established distribution rules. A Digital Mailroom will improve the City’s business processes making them more accurate, much faster and more cost effective giving the City a competitive edge as we grow the City of Surrey. A Digital Mailroom turns paper into digital data allowing for the automation of the mailroom process. This data can then be sorted, distributed and stored instantly creating departmental efficiency savings in time and money; and

Community Safety Patrols in the community

2017-2021 FINANCIAL PLAN

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