AND McCOWN SAYS HE'S DOING ALL HE CAN TO
CORRECT THE DATA. HE SAYS IT'S A "MASSIVE
PROJECT.

. . .

MANY OF THE COUNTIES SAY THEY WILL
ISSUE CHECKS BY HAND, WHICH WILL BE
VERY TIME CONSUMING. THAT'S NOT THE
ONLY AREA AFFECTED. SOME COUNTIES SAY
THEY ARE HAVING PROBLEMS ISSUING CHILD
SUPPORT AND SETTLEMENT CHECKS THAT
WOULD ORDINARILY COME OUT OF THE
COUNTY TREASURY OFFICE. THEY'RE HOPING
THINGS ARE REPAIRED SOON.

KARK

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 08, 2000

Answers

Being an Arkansan and a county employee I've been watching this develop. But no one is covering it, besides KARK TV. I checked yesterdays Arkansas Democrat Gazette, nada. I'll check their website again, right now and report back.

There are at least two other threads on this if anyone wants to back track and read additional comments.

-- Lisa (lisadawn@yahoo.com), January 08, 2000.

Thanks for the post..........spider

-- kevin (innxxs@yahooo.com), January 08, 2000.

Nothing in today's online version of the state's largest newspaper, but did find this in Conway's Log Cabin Democrat: URL: http://thecabin.net/stories/010700/sta_0107000014.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some counties struggle with Y2K glitches days after new year begins By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Writer Friday, January 7, 2000

LITTLE ROCK -- Some Arkansas counties were still stuck in 1999 days after the new year began because computer glitches kept their accounting systems from working properly.

In some cases, the problems were connected to the Y2K bug. But in all cases, a computer manager said, the problems weren't affecting public services.

The counties all were using software systems designed years ago by the University of Arkansas but since turned over to the County Management Information Systems Association.

The group of nearly two dozen counties gets its technical computer support from Relational Management Services of Dallas, which on Thursday was trying to fix problems in more than one county.

"We knew the first week (of 2000) was going to be the roughest," said RMS president Sean Ryan. "Yes, there are some Y2K issues out there, but I don't know of any that are causing any problems with providing service to the public."

The county computer problems are among the few glitches in Arkansas involving computer systems that had to be reprogrammed to interpret "00" as 2000, instead of 1900.

Ryan said he did not immediately know the number of counties affected by the problems.

In some counties, Y2K problems were preventing computers from generating reports based on database information, Ryan said.

Other counties were experiencing problems, apparently unrelated to the Y2K bug, that resulted in wrong financial balances when accounts rolled over from 1999 to 2000, he said. The change-of-year problem also has occurred in previous years, Ryan said. (my comment ***It's not a Y2K problem, it's a "change of year problem!"****)

Among the counties experiencing some troubles was Clay County, where Clerk Charles Pollard is president of the computer association.

"We are having some glitches and that's all I can say at this time," Pollard said. "It's not going to be anything." (my comment***if it's not going to be anything, then why can't he say anything?**)

Pollard was talking Thursday with RMS technicians about fixing the problems. Conway County Clerk Beverly Paladino said RMS also was to fix a problem with her county's computers.

The computer glitch has not disrupted Conway County government because the county has kept the computers operating in 1999, Ms. Paladino said. But the county has to switch over to 2000 soon in order to meet Monday's payroll, she said.

-- Lisa (lisadawn@yahoo.com), January 08, 2000.

Beached Whale: Can we add another phrase to the dialogue?

It's not a Y2K problem, it's a change of year problem

-- Lisa (lisadawn@yahoo.com), January 08, 2000.

Lisa, it's just "computer menopause"

-- + don't expect a check (any@time.soon ha!), January 08, 2000.

"resulted in wrong financial balances"

Would you like white, whole wheat or burnt
toast with that egg?

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 08, 2000.