LINKS: Know Your State of California & Y2K Information Sources

Official State of California Web Site

http://www.state.ca.us

Your CA Government links:

http://www.state.ca.us/s/govt/

California State Agency List & Links:

http://www.state.ca.us/s/search/hello.html

The California Bureau of State Audits
Audit Reports Issued 1993 - Present

2/18/99
Year 2000 Computer Problem: The State's Agencies Are Progressing Toward Compliance but Key Steps Remain Incomplete Browse summary or Download PDF (256 KB)

http://www.bsa.ca.gov/bsa/since93.html

State Of California, Department of Information Technology (not updated often enough):

http://www.year2000.ca.gov/

Contacts for Y2K Project managers. (Whew! Talk about listing the CA bureaucracy!):

http://www.year2000.ca.gov/Contacts/

State of California Cities (Official City Web Sites in California USA)

http://officialcitysites.org/california.htm

California State Senate

http://www.sen.ca.gov/

State Senator, John Vasconcellos (E-mail: Senator.Vasconcellos@sen.ca.gov)

http://WWW.sen.ca.gov/vasconcellos/

California Senate White Pages - contact information for State Senators.

http://www.sen.ca.gov/~newsen/schedules/finger.htp

California Legislature Gopher - This Gopher serves Senators, senate staff and the public. Thus, it is intended to serve both as a directory to information stored at this site for public access, and as a jumping off place for areas of interest to Senators and senate staff.

gopher://gopher.sen.ca.gov/

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), February 19, 1999

Answers

See also ...

State of California -- Called Unprepared For Y2K Mess

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 000W5X

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), February 19, 1999.

See also the y2k website for the Governor's Office of Emergency Services:

O.K., I've never created a hyperlink, so let's see if this works.

-- Pam G. (Pam95818@aol.com), February 19, 1999.

Guess it didn't work. The website address for the Governor's Office of Emergency Services is: www.oes.ca.gov

-- Pam G. (Pam95818@aol.com), February 19, 1999.

As Pam says ... Governor's Office of Emergency Services:

http://www.oes.ca.gov/

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), February 19, 1999.

Speaking of sites needing an update, here's one: CA Dept of Education Year 2000

Last updated: 05/08/98!

Sen. John Vasconcellos is quoted in the "State Unprepared" article as saying, "All along, the last administration never seemed to have a sense of urgency...". No kidding...

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.com), February 19, 1999.