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2 Certain critical County services cannot be allowed to have a lapse in service for any period of time. The critical services, along with the required support systems have been identified as follows: Emergency Management • 9 -1 -1 dispatching capabilities • Telephone service, both internal and external • Infrastructure services such as water, power, HVAC for the facility • Emergency power supplied through an on -site emergency generator • Ambulances: All on -board equipment that could include embedded chips; vehicles; and communications equipment (including mobile radios, cell phones, pagers, etc.) Volunteer Fire Departments • Communications equipment • Vehicles Jail • Cell lock system • Communications equipment (including radios, intercoms, prisoner monitoring devices); and infrastructure items such as water, power, HVAC Sheriff's Office • Communications equipment • Vehicles Central Services • Telephone system Sewer • Efland Sewer lift stations and emergency power DSS • Support systems in place to allow adult/child protective services to operate Other functions, while extremely important, are one step down from the level of criticality attached to the above life /safety functions. These include (but are not limited to) systems such as DSS ability to process entitlements and applications to operate the County's business system (e.g. finance, purchasing, payroll, etc.) land records system, and tax collections system. These will undergo the same level of compliance testing as the aforementioned items; however in some cases, their compliance may not be assured until later this summer. Work on other less critical systems will continue over the summer. The County's public information effort related to Y2K compliance will also receive increased emphasis over the summer. This fall, the Y2K coordinator will assist County staff in contingency planning for continuity of the most important County services, should circumstances beyond the County's control (e.g. widespread unavailability of electrical power) preclude normal operations and prevent the use of automated systems that the County has rendered Y2K compliant. Extensive documentation of County assessment, repair, testing, and validation efforts to date are maintained by the Y2K Coordinator and are available for review at the Board's request. Staff members of the County's Y2K Steering Committee will be available at this meeting to respond to any Board questions about the County's Y2K implementation plan.