Passaic County, NJ.... Forget it

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More and more and more $$$$ needed

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-- PJC (paulchri@msn.com), November 27, 1999

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Wow, they're really screwed!

-- read the short article (how@many.more?), November 27, 1999.

They have a lot of freakin' inmates there too...and they're going to go on manual records? That sucks.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), November 27, 1999.

$1M more OK'd for Y2K readiness

Wednesday, November 24, 1999

The cost of the Y2K problem continues to grow for Passaic County.

Having already authorized the borrowing of $1.5 million to address anticipated computer glitches caused by the year 2000, the county freeholders agreed Tuesday night to bond another $1 million for the work. And that is not expected to be the end of it.

Computer and system upgrades at the county jail could cost additional millions.

"When we did the $1.5 million bond ordinance, we knew that was not the final piece of it," said county Finance Director Robert Calise. "We just didn't know how much more it will be."

The $1 million in bonding approved Tuesday will go toward the purchase of new hardware, software, and wiring of computers and systems throughout county government, Calise said. It will not cover the work needed to make the computer systems at the county jail and the superintendent of elections' office Y2K compliant, he said.

In fact, the jail will not be in compliance until halfway through 2000. The county sheriff has already informed officials that a contingency plan is in place for the beginning of 2000. Details of that plan, however, are being kept confidential because of security concerns, said Freeholder James Gallagher.

Governments and businesses around the world have been working for years to make sure their key systems do not malfunction come 2000. Older computers, which recognize only the last two digits of the year, were not programmed to recognize the year 2000. Many would read the 00 and either not recognize the number or read it to mean 1900.

-- KENNETH LOVETT

Copyright ) 1999 Bergen Record Corp.

-- Cut and (paste@R.us), November 28, 1999.


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