Community Preparedness

Federal CIO Council:  Community Guide to Y2K

• Power - Contact your local utility company or companies and ask about their Y2K preparations.
• Water - Contact your local water company or companies and ask about their Y2K preparations.
• Food - Contact your local grocery stores and ask about their Y2K preparations.
• Telephone - Contact your local telephone company and ask about their Y2K preparations.
• Emergency Services - Contact your local fire station and police station and ask about their Y2K preparations.
• Transportation - If you are flying on or around January 1^st, 2000, call your airline about their Y2K preparations.
• Money Accounts - Its good financial practice to keep all paper records of anything you receive from your bank, credit union and other financial institutions. Contact your bank, credit union, or retirement provider and ask about their Y2K preparations.
• Prescription Drugs - Contact your local pharmacist and ask about their Y2K preparations.
• Government Benefits - Make a list of all government benefits you receive and how you receive your benefits (through direct deposit to your bank, at the welfare office, etc.). If you receive some or all your benefits by direct deposit, check with your bank to make sure they are Y2K ready. If you receive some or all benefits by mail, you will still receive the benefits without disruption. If you receive your benefits by other means, check with the agency to see if they are Y2K ready.

Utne Reader: Y2K Citizen's Action Guide

Coalition 2000:  Suggested Steps of Y2K Community Preparedness - Steve Davis

• This document was prepared to build consensus on the issue of Y2K preparedness and is intended as guidance to local government and civic leaders. If this message can be delivered clearly and consistently, it will enable local leaders to move forward with emergency and community preparedness efforts.  This document is based on Federal Emergency Management Agency and Red Cross guidelines for both Y2K and natural disasters. For instance, these organizations recommend food and water storage levels of three days up to two weeks.  This document recommends taking preparedness steps consistent with these established guidelines.

Y2K & You - Public Technology, Inc. (PTI), the National League of Cities (NLC), the National Association of Counties (NACo), and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) have launched the Y2K & YOU Campaign to make local appointed and elected officials aware of the impact of the Year 2000 problem.

• National League of Cities
• National League of Cities - Local Government
• National City Government Resource Center
• Local Governments on the Internet (Piper Resources)
• Official City Sites, Official City Web Sites, Official City Home Pages
  • United States Cities
• National Association of Counties
• National Association of Regional Councils
• The U. S. Conference of Mayors
• State and Local Government on the Net - Piper Resources

• American Public Power Association
• American Public Transit Association
• American Society for Public Administration
• Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Government Finance Officers Association
• Information Technology Association of America
• International Association of Assessing Officers
• International Association of Emergency Managers
• International Municipal Lawyers Association
• Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
• National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials
• National Association of State Information Resource Executives
• National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
• National Association of Towns and Townships
  • Y2K
• National Civic League
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• National Forum for Black Public Administrators
• Public Risk Management Association

Belvidere Neighborhood Association Y2k Committee, Lowell, MA  This is an excellent example of what a community can do, working together to prepare.  In their related links of interest near the bottom are some links: "Preparing for the Millennium Bug in Our Neighborhood"

The Cassandra Project :

• To raise public awareness and alert Public Sector organizations of potential Y2K related health and safety risks, and interruption of basic and essential services
• Promote community preparation activities
• Monitor federal, state, and local Y2K activities as it relates to the public welfare
• Promote contingency planning for all health, safety, and basic and essential services related systems
• Establish a clearinghouse for neighborhood and community preparedness activities
• Neighborhood Organizing Materials
• "Individual Preparedness for Y2K"
• Community Preparedness Groups

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Year 2000 Initiative

• Y2K for Kids
• How will Y2K Affect You?

Survey Results - the more you know, the worse it looks (WDCY2k March 1998)

Community Action - State & Local Governments - Ed Yardeni

Will "All Y2K" be local? - Michael A. Aisenberg

Y2K News Magazine - Community Preparedness

• BCY2K - Making a Difference in Boulder
• Minnesota Works to Resolve Y2K Community Issues
• National Efforts
• From Atlanta to Oregon, Communities Prepare
• Coming Together for the Common Good

The Berkana Institute - a well organized list of articles and references.

Project Y2K at The Arlington Institute
Y2K Community Project  - BigMindMedia
Resilient Communities - Robert Theobald
Y2KCommunity - Rick Ingrasci
Community Preparedness - Chuck Lanza
Year 2000 Contingency Planning for Municipal Governments - Capers Jones
Co-Intelligence Institute  - Tom Atlee

Systems:

• Water & Sewer System
• Traffic Control Systems
• Treatment Plant
• City-Wide Financial Systems
• Utilities Billing System
• 911 Emergency System
• City Facilities
• Radio Systems
• Personal Computers