Ron-hope you have a lake there for your water supply <US Capitol in Trouble
The more often you see weasel words like 'confident', 'on track', etc.,, the more collapseable barrels for storing water you better buy!
Start with at least 20.
< washingtonpost.com.
Washington, D.C. is in trouble. It is behind on its y2k repairs, says a GAO report.
"On track, on track," says the bureaucrat in charge of the project.
This is from the WASHINGTON POST (Aug. 13).
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The District's late-starting year 2000 repair effort has fallen behind the tight schedule set to make sure city services do not fail on Jan. 1, a U.S. General Accounting Office official said yesterday.
The public works, personnel, employment services and procurement departments and the University of the District of Columbia have missed deadlines to make their computers Y2K-compliant, said Ronald L. Hess, assistant director of GAO's Governmentwide and Defense Information Systems Division. Several of these "priority one" departments and other D.C. agencies also are late in preparing manual backup plans that could be used if computer systems fail.
"Services are at risk," Hess said yesterday. . . .
D.C. Chief Technology Officer Suzanne J. Peck, who received a copy of Davis's letter yesterday, said that the GAO's analysis is largely accurate but that it does not make clear that behind-schedule computer repairs are only a small portion of Y2K preparations that are underway. She said she is confident that the District will finish its work on critical city services by year's end. . . .
As of yesterday, Peck said, five computer repair efforts that were supposed to be completed at public works, personnel, employment services and UDC were less than 85 percent done. But because these five projects are the only ones among "hundreds" that are lagging, "I am on schedule," she said. Repairs at the city procurement agency are on track, she said. . . .
Recognizing its late start on fixing Y2K problems, the District is also undertaking one of the largest contingency planning efforts of any major city. Peck said backup plans have been prepared for 81 of 96 service areas. The deadline for finishing these preliminary plans is tomorrow. . . .
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