As the Health Department's Windows 2000 Server and system becomes fully active we will back up their data as well. Our 3 person staff has been supplemented with a part time employee fulfilling the backup program maintenance and record keeping. We have and are in the continuing process of connecting computers throughout the county. Some of the connections include several locations in Arkansas City, Emergency Management, Noxious Weeds department. We are helping the County Health Department as they grow into the WAN to serve their needs throughout the county.
Some RPG programming does continue.
Our department has created an access database utilized by each department to track requisitions separate from the accounting program used to pay the bills in the Clerk's Office. Various other databases have been set up for different departments to facilitate computerizing formerly record keeping by hand. We maintain a backup of the Novell file server and the AS400 programs and files on a daily basis. We are learning and have moved into helping with imaging and GIS as these processes become more active in the county. As requested by the various departments, specialized data requests for third party entities are produced utilizing printing, creating data CD's and diskettes or tape.