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I.E City of Louisville •Community Upda iitinrnr ',9 ' CITY PREPARATIONS FOR Y2K Mayor: Torn Davidson The City continues to review plans and equipment so that we ma` Ward 1 Councilmembers: be prepared for difficulties that might arise with the coming New Year. Charles Sisk,Jay Keany The City Y2K committee, created in November 1998, consists of representatives from each department. The committee was then divided Ward 2 Councilmembers: into two areas, those departments with only computer issues and those Kevin Howard, Torn Mayer departments that cover essential city services. Essential City services Ward 3 Councilmembers: are the Police Department, Water Treatment, Wastewater, Finance, an( Rob Lathrop,Arnold Levihn Public Works Operations. City Clerk: SYSTEMS 'TESTING Dave Clabots Beginning in the fall of 1998, the City began the task of Treasurer: inventorying and prioritizing all City systems. This was completed William Hesson March 1, 1999. Testing of City systems took place in April and May. Th€ Water Treatment Plants and the Wastewater Treatment Plants each City Administrator: run with the help of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition William Simmons (SCADA) computer programs. This program and the computers they rur Public Meetings on were tested in April. No problems were found that would shut down production at any plant. In addition, all of the plants can be run City Council: manually, and at capacity, even if the computers go off-line. The City The first and this Tuesdays of each purchased a new computer network in late 1998. This purchase month at 7:00 PM at City Hall included all new hardware and software. The network was tested in Planning Commission: early May and found be compliant. Testing of the network and the The second and fourth Tuesdays of plants included tests for date compliancy, software compliancy, each month at 7:00 PM at City Hall embedded firmware, and the ability to read dates properly. Board of Adjustment: CITY VENDORS The third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM at City Hall Critical City vendors, including US West and Public Service Company, have verified that they will be compliant by August of 1999, Inside Thos issuo and they continue to keep the City updated with detailed reports of their progress. The City recently signed a new banking contract with Norwest Bank. Norwest has given us written assurance that it will be SeniorRdx't p 2 totally compliant and that the date changes will not affect our ability to W few p 2 pay our bills. In addition, we are currently gathering compliance information from all of the banks that we do business with for direct Ii„aryNews pp. 3_4 deposit, direct payments, etc. The City is currently gathering compliancy information for all OpenSpacePtarhase p. 5 City facilities, including elevators, heating and air conditioning systems and security systems. CommunilyE>ents p. 6 CONTINUED ON PAGE 5