Subject:	Kalifornia: Passing Legislation To Declare State EMERGENCY
Date:	1999/07/14
Author:	Paul Milne <fedinfo@halifax.com>
	Posting History

Bill seeks to coordinate millennium planning   State legislative panel to hear measure that would, among other provisions, give governor power to declare a state of emergency By Bryce G. Hoffman TIMES STAFF WRITER   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---   FREMONT -- A key vote is expected today in Sacramento on a bill that would allow California's millennium bug bashers to launch a coordinated campaign to fix the state's computers and give the governor the power to declare a state of emergency on Jan. 1.   Under the provisions of Dutra's legislation, the department would have the authority to take over any agencies that are lagging in their Y2K work. It would have the power to reassign staff and redirect resources. The bill also allows the department to pool the state's 10,000 computer technicians and assign them to Y2K projects in any state agency.   In short, it gives the department's director, Elias Cortez, the power to do anything necessary to make sure that all state agencies are ready for 2000.     One provision of Dutra's bill would give the governor the power to declare a state of emergency prior to any actual crisis in California.     http://www.hotcoco.com/news/business/businessstories/jfm28594.htm     NOTICE the word ***PRIOR*** to any crisis.   Kiss your ases goodbye.   Think for one  minute that they will NOT excercise this USURPATION of authority?   "We made it very clear in our bill that he does have that authority," Dutra said. "As we get closer to the end of the year, (Cortez) is going to start exercising that authority."   Kiss your asses goodbye.   Paul Milne

-- a (a@a.a), July 14, 1999

Answers

So Paul,

Your recommendation is that we watch the midnight crossing, as south central LA goes up in intentional flames [for the third time in my life], and wait until the clock strikes twelve to call an emergency.

-- flora (***@__._), July 14, 1999.

So, Flora, do you think that exercise of such power is warranted if the situation doesn't indicate that emergency is in the wings?

You do realize that Paul is using the article to indicate the severity of y2k problems. (or do you?)

"We made it very clear in our bill that he does have that authority," Dutra said. "As we get closer to the end of the year, (Cortez) is going to start exercising that authority."

-- Fauna (woods@and.vales), July 14, 1999.

See also...

California proposed bill to give governor power to declare state of emergency prior to any actual crisis

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 0015Hc

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), July 14, 1999.

How many State employed programmers are going to stick around waiting to see what the 'plan' turns out to be? -shudder-

The programmer draft, hmmmmmmmmmm. Wonder when the Feds will adopt this strategy?

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 14, 1999.

Y2K CANNOT BE FIXED!

-- Jack (jsprat@eld.net), July 14, 1999.

Fauna,

It is a huge managment problem. I would have been relieved if they had had the foresight to prioritize essential technology systems a long, long time ago.

-- flora (***@__._), July 14, 1999.

"Wonder when the Feds will adopt this strategy? "

In a video-conference late last year (or early this year) between the "walking-dead" (Italy) and the #2 person in Ko-skin-em's office (can't remember her name), she said that the Fed was already planning this. Global. Didn't seem to be limited to current fed workers.

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), July 14, 1999.

anonymous,

do you have a link to that conference? i remember reading the article last year and i can't seem to locate it.

her name is abrams and i remember that she remarked that the federalis cannot be depended upon during the rollover. she was referring to the united states and the fact that the states, counties, townships, and burroughs are on their own... the federal government will be too busy dealing with the problems occurring at the federal level.

she did not elucidate.

she also mentioned elitest technological swat teams that would be sent to trouble spots worldwide. i believe that she said the government was asking major corporations to 'donate' their finest to the effort.

she also, at the same conference, inferred a, kind of, programmer conscription, but i am not too clear how that was worded... it is just the impression i got from reading the article.

-- marianne (uranus@nbn.net), July 14, 1999.

Was this it?

09 March 1999 - TRANSCRIPT: WHITE HOUSE'S JANET ABRAMS WORLDNET ON Y2K ISSUE

WASHINGTON -- Following is the transcript of a U.S. Information Agency WorldNet satellite television program with Janet Abrams, executive director of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion.

Abrams answered questions from reporters in Tegucigalpa, Managua, and San Salvador in the February 22 interview.

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), July 14, 1999.

Wait... *rustle* *rustle* *google*

Ah ha! Found the Abrams/"Italian" talk. It was from an earlier (23 December 1998) USIA video-conference:

TRANSCRIPT: ABRAMS CITES INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT Y2K COOPERATION

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), July 14, 1999.

i was just about to write and tell you no when your 2nd post came in. i had not seen the initial one you copied so i started to read through it... this is classic:

MS. ABRAMS: Thank you for the question. It's not one of the happier questions that I like to answer. But we certainly are in regular communication with Dr. Ed Jardenny (ph ) in New York. And Dr. Jardenny (ph)actually seems a bit more optimistic when we talk to him these days. But he continues to maintain that there's certainly -- I think he said 70 percent chance of a significant recession. We from the United States government do not have numbers to match up with his numbers. We do not have the same pessimistic view that Mr. Jardenny (ph) has. We believe this is a significant challenge that we are all working together on, but that the only thing you're hearing from an economist and expert like Mr. Jardenny (ph) is a guess, and his guess is as good as anybody else's guess. And John Koskinen, my boss, insists that we focus on getting the work done and not spend too much time guessing.

thanks alot... i could not find it.

marianne

-- marianne (uranus@nbn.net), July 14, 1999.