GEORGIA Y2K county reports

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Forgive me if this has been presented before...haven't seen it...

The Govenor of Georgia's Citizens Task Force has recently come out with their latest report on Y2K readiness (second round of reports.) You can go to addresses below, look up your county and read actual report from the various agencies (911, police, hospitals, water, wastewater, and other local agencies requiring specific government certificates)on their degree of readiness. At the end of each report the state scores the report (Green-ready; Yellow-not ready, making progress; Red-not ready/questionable) and the reasons why they were given that score.

State statistics: http://www.year2000.state.ga.us/year2000/ctf/statistics.html

Scoring Criteria: http://www.year2000.state.ga.us/year2000/ctf/Sco.htm

Other pages in this same site (see choices on sides and at the top are also of interest.) Seems to give some "facts" to what we've been guessing at for quite some time.

-- gardener (gardengal@home.com), October 09, 1999

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Gardener,

Thanks for this info. I'll pass it along to my family that lives in the Peach state. For the most part, the counties around HotLanta look like toast. Wondering about a new definition of what HotLanta actually means. Hummmmmmmm

-- (cannot-say@this.time), October 09, 1999.


"Any survey not scored as either a "green" or a "red" will be scored as a "yellow"."

humm.. looks like they learned a lesson from the Navy/Lord boo-boo...

A good % of no responses, which should indicate a "red" were also ignored if I read the statistical chart right...

Doesn't look good for the folks in Atlanta... wonder if CNN is prepping? :)

-- C (c@c.com), October 09, 1999.


It will be interesting to see what CNN does, not what they "say" on air...and how seriously they take their headquarters contingency planning.

Absolutely nothing in the news here about them.

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By the way - single story here on Sunday afternoon on the radio - says Atlanta has "most" of their 911 system fixed, but haven't run an integrated test yet - just partial tests on the various sub-systems.

Claims they will spend rest of this year doing (and preparing for) integrated 911 testing.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), October 11, 1999.


Note that this is for counties - not citites - and the remediation within a city must be done also.

(Hint: Fulton county under Skandalakis' leadership is doing pretty well, City of Atlanta under Campbell's corruption is failing outright....)

the listing are very hard to read and understand - lists are under the wrong html "header" - not grouped well, not understandable, not related to absolute criteria - sure hope the state is doing a better job of remediation than it is doing displaying data and updating status. For example - Chattahoochie Cty is 5 - 0 - 0, but Cobb is 165 - 52 - 20: even though both have the same "types" of systems such as fire, police, sheriff, taxes, courthouse records, finance, payrolls, pensions, etc. One or the other is in big trouble, and I don't think it's Cobb.

Another puzzle: Why still "red" lists under Cobb? They have finished and tested, and been audited a long time ago?

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), October 11, 1999.


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