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5 <br />IT Contingency Planning <br />Contingency planning for IS Department operations is underway <br />IS Department staffing schedules are being developed for Y2K and <br />contingencies. IS staff will be at the IS Computer Center during the transition to <br />the new year and the contingency planning will focus on what is required for <br />critical operations to resume in the event of power or communications outages. <br />A second refurbished mainframe was acquired by Information Systems for Y2K <br />testing and will provide for a complete duplicate mainframe system to be used as <br />a backup should the operational mainframe system be effected by power or <br />communications outage. <br />A generator will be acquired to provide continuous power to critical network <br />systems at the IS Computer Center. If power outages are lengthy, the backup <br />mainframe can be moved to another County location with more substantial power <br />backup and operated overthe countywide network from that location. <br />A Business Recovery Plan has been in place since 1997, based on a contractual <br />program with IBM; it provides for our mainframe operations to be back in <br />operation within 72 hours of a disaster, such as fire, flood or storm. While this is <br />not a Y2K-specific program, it does provide for recovery in the event of a similar <br />disaster. <br />