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THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Date: January 19, 1999 Matter of Record
Subjects Year 2000 Awards of Excellence
On this date, Steven A. Steinbrecher, Chief information Officer, Centra Costa
County Department of Informatiion Technology, speaking before the Board of
Supervisors, commended his staff for their efforts to remediate the County's data
center computers so that they will be able to properly work January1, 2000.
Supervisor Canciamilla expressed appreciation for the Information Technology
Department, for all their work and effort, when presenting the award.
Anthony Cellini thanked the members of the Team 2000 staff.
Addressing Chair Canciamilla, Phil Batchelor, County Administrator, remarked that
Mr. Steinbrecher has been recognized as a leader throughout the state on the Year
2000 process.
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December 17, 1998
TO: Claude Van Marter, Assistant County Administrator
FROM: Steven A. Steinbrecher7—
SUBJECT: Year 2004 Awards of Excellence
Van, thanks a lot for getting these on the agenda for us!
The Information Technology Exposition and Conference (ITEC) Board is an organization that
puts on high tech conferences all over the United States. It is supported by most of the major
high tech firms (e.g., IBM, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, etc.) in the country. The California
Association of State and Local Chief Information Officers(CaICIO) is an organization chaired by
the State of California's Chief Information Officer (cabinet level position in the lgovernor's office),
and has as members, CIO's from a mixture of large, medium and small counties and cities
throughout the State of California. Contra Costa is a charter member of CalCI'O.
As part of the Silicon Valley Information Technology Exposition and Conference for 1998, held
in San Jose on December 15, 1998, a series of awards were given for Year 2400 leadership in
the State of California. CaICIO asked for nominations. Nominees were considered, and winners
were announced by the ITEC Board and CaICIO membership in late November.
Contra Costa County was selected as the winner of two awards. One, the "Year 2000
Readiness Award of Excellence"for 1998, is significant in that:
• It recognizes the efforts Mr. Anthony Cellini and his Team 2000 staff from the
Department of information Technology have put into getting the County's data
center programs and infrastructure ready for the Year 2000. This is a result of very
hard work in the areas of planning, analysis, corrective action, testing, and system
certification.
• It recognizes the efforts of the County in all other areas of Year 2000 remediation
and readiness efforts, such as imbedded chip technology, community awareness
and communication, business resumption and potential disaster recovery scenario
planning.
• It recognizes more than three years of national leadership in Year 2000
preparedness in the public sector by Contra Costa County, and the County's efforts
to partner and share its knowledge with numerous other public and private sector
organizations since 1995.
E am asking the Board of Supervisors present this award to DoWs Team 2000, in recognition for
their dedication and excellence in working on this problem. Most of the people on Team 2000
have not had a complete holiday weekend off with their families since January of 199 ! They
have shown a level of diligence and professionalism that will result in a smooth transition to the
new millennium within Contra Costa County.
The second award, which was presented personally to Mr. Cellini in San .lose in December,
was for"Year 2000 Project Management Excellence." I am asking the Board of Supervisors to
"re-present"this award to Mr. Cellini in recognition for:
• Project management excellence and design in Year 2000 remediation work, at a time
when no one else had accomplished this task (1995). At that time, there was barely
any information about Year 2000 remediation work available, so Mr. Cellini
essentially"invented" Contra Costa County's entire process.
* The thousands of hours Mr. Cellini has put into the successful management of
numerous resources required to successfully complete this project, on time and
within his initial budget estimates.
• Mr. Ceilini's unceasing efforts to assist others with their Year 2000 remediation
efforts, even at times when his own internal workload and deadlinepressures were
tremendous.
Van, I know this is a LOT more than a few graphs. Please feel free to use what you need for the
presentation. Again, 1 appreciate it!
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