In addition, each college has identified the following person as the Year 2000 project leader to ensure its individual college-based systems and services are Year 2000 ready. Maricopa's purchasing department and college fiscal agents will only approve purchases of Year 2000 ready products. Both the district office and the individual college Year 2000 teams are using a similar process to achieve Year 2000 readiness for their respective areas of responsibility. During awareness , phase I, the goal is to communicate to everyone as to the nature of the Year 2000 problem and gather a complete inventory of all systems and services which store the year as two digits instead of four digits. Impact Analysis, phase II , is analyzing the potential impact and developing detailed plans for correction, replacement or discontinuance of the system or service.
Subsequent steps vary based upon contents of the selected plan.
The scope of responsibility for each college in the discovery and eradication of potential Year 2000 hardware, software and network issues includes the following. This scope is inclusive of the main college campus and any remote sites under the college's administration. Similar criteria have been defined at each college for the college-based systems and services. The systems and services will accurately process date data beyond Dec 31, 1999. All calculations such as comparing, sorting, computations and leap year calculations will be correct, when the system and services are used in accordance with the user documentation.