Record digitisation

Invercargill: Invercargill City Councillors will discuss today the establishment of a dedicated inhouse digitisation team to sort out about 30,000 property files the council has.

A report from the council’s customer and environment manager Darren Edwards says the project began in December 2015.

The primary driver was to improve efficiency.

To date, a small inhouse team has digitised about 24% of the property files.

‘‘At this current rate of progress it is estimated that it will be 2031 before all property files are digitised,’’ he said.

The intention was to have a focused team to council deliver the project by July 2025.

The project was estimated to cost $3 million.