CONCORD, N.H. —

Gov. Kelly Ayotte is pushing to reform New Hampshire's Executive Council and move its work online.

She said the paper accumulated by the five-member, statewide elected body is wasteful and costly for taxpayers.

The council vets and approves all state contracts of $10,000 or more, producing large volumes of documents that are closely reviewed and then discarded.

Ayotte said switching to digital when it became possible in 2013 could have saved taxpayers $3 million.

"So, hundreds of thousands of dollars each year that are spent in printing those 1.3 million pages that are hand-delivered by troopers to each executive counselor," she said.

According to Ayotte, state police spend about six full weeks of work hours each year hand-delivering the documents to council members'

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