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P,AP-A-ROUND
Volume V, August 13, 1993
The City and its organization are people and these
people have served the City well. We celebrate the
following employment anniversaries which occur
during the next two weeks:
Twenty Four Years
BARBARA R. RANEY
Utility Office
Eleven Years
FIDEL M. ESTRADA, SR.
Parks
Ten Years
GABRIEL DOMINGUEZ
Pump Maintenance
Six Years
PEGGY M. LAMBERT
Police Services
Five Years
BARRY L. TREFFTZS
Police Services
Three Years
BARTLEY BOWDEN
Wastewater Collection
Three Years
MARY PAT MCLAUGHLIN
Library
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Georgetown
INS .AND OUTS
city
Of
Georgetown
The City wishes a farewell to the following Parks
and Recreation part time employees:
Roy S. Bessent, Jr.
Kristen E. Carr
Paul D. Castro
Analie B. Drusch
Alan J. -Hamilton
Jerry B. Holloway
Robert H. Jones
Shawn Pipkin
Matthew K. Southern
Brian Mendenhal leaves the Pump Maintenance
department to return to school. Good luck to you,
Brian.
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BULLETIN BOARD
Help Wanted...
Recreation Superintendent, Parks & Recreation.
Position open until filled.
Free Pups to Good Homes...
Aren't they cute, and don't you want them both??
Call Leane at X3575 for details on the critters.
DEPARTMENT UPDATES
Fire Services Division
Several members of our Division attended Texas
A&M Fire School during the month of July. The
fire school included Haz-Mat School and
Municipal School.
Haz-Mat School:
Chemistry Haz-Mat - Craig Krienke
and John Montgomery
Haz-Mat Technician - Mike McLaurin, Clay
Shell, and Jeremy Chapman
Municipal Fire School:
Members representing our Division as instructors
were: Les Bunte, Tom Leggitt, Anthony Lincoln,
Robert Kleen, Jessie Lozano, Richard Bunte, and
Anthony Lozano.
Rescue I Class
- Mark Shields, Ike
Lambert, and Robert Munoz
Rescue H Class
- Tommy Bizzell and
Larry Connelly
Firefighting H
- Kimberly Schmidt
and Wayne Schaefer
Fire Officer V
- Training Captain
Mark Moss
Pump Maintenance
- Paul Pausewang
Information Services
ASCII
Backing Up
Part III
Last time we talked about the different types of
backups that are available. This time we will put
it all together and create a couple of different
backup plans. To use these backup schedules,
you will need several sets of backup disks. A set
of disks is nothing more than enough storage
media (disks or tapes) to backup your computer
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wikh. It is recommended that you use the disk or
tape with the largest storage capacity available.
files only.
The first plan is for the user who does not have
their files separated in program (application) and
data files and uses their computers regularly.
This schedule will provide a copy of your data for
three months. You will need seven sets labeled as
follows:
Monthly 1 Monthly 2 Monthly 3
Weekly 1 Weekly 2 Weekly 3
Weekly 4
If you have a tape backup, your weekly sets can
be on the same tape if there is enough storage
space on the tape.
Pick a day that you will perform your backup
each week.
1. Using the Monthly 1 set, perform a full backup
of the contents of your hard disk.
2. The following week, perform an incremental
backup using the Weekly 1 set.
3. Continue this process throughout the month,
changing the weekly set each week.
4. At the start of the next month, perform a full
backup using the Monthly 2 set.
5. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until the third month.
6. At the start of the third month, perform a full
backup using the Monthly 3 set.
7. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until the fourth month.
8. At the beginning of the fourth month, begin the
cycle again with step 1.
The second plan is if you have you hard disk
stored in separate program and data files. The
process is the same, with the following changes,
which will save you much space and time.
1. Before the process starts and anytime you add
additional programs, perform a partial backup,
doing only your system and program files.
2. Instead of performing full backups each month,
perform a partial backup, doing only your data
files.
3. When performing the weekly incremental
backups, perform the incremental on the data
The final plan is for those of you who do not use
your computer very often, or have the data stored
elsewhere ( on floppies for example). You can
get by with performing the monthly backups listed
above. You would still perform full backups on
the three monthly sets, but you would not perform
the weekly incremental backups.
While this may seem to be too much work, think
of the cost in time and effort if you were to lose
the contents of your hard disk. A second
advantage, which is often forgotten, is that if you
delete a file and it is unrecoverable, you just
might have a copy on one of your backups. If
anyone has questions, or wants to set up a special
backup schedule, just call IS.
Good computing!
Library Services
City employees: if you wish to reserve the
Library meeting or board rooms, you need not ask
for the Library Director. All staff members are
able to help you with this. The meeting room
holds approximately 100, the board room 20-25
people.
The end of the Summer Reading Club party on
July 29 at the Community Center was a great
success. Over 200 children attended and enjoyed
performances by Scott Magic, the Performing
Arts Studio, and Sunshine Generation. Drawings
were held for a bicycle, $100 and $50 savings
bonds, and many other prizes donated by local
businesses. Kenneth Haggstrom. won the award
for most books read with a total of 210, while
mom Susan Davidson received a plaque for
reading 98 books to her children Allison and
Blair. The Library hosted movies and special
programs all through June and July, which were
well attended by area children. After an August
break we will resume activities in September.
Preschool storytime will begin again Thursday,
September 2 at 10:30.
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ALL DIVISIONS
48 REASONS WHY WE/IT/THEY
CAN'T CHANGE
CHICAGO - The Government Finance Officers
Association of the L7nited States and Canada
(GFOA) is pleased to announce that the City of
Georgetown, Texas has received GFOA' s
Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for its
1992/93 budget. This is the 4th consecutive year
the City has won this prestigious award. This
award is the highest form of recognition in
governmental budgeting. Its attainment represents
a significant accomplishment by the management
and elected officials of the City of Georgetown,
Texas. To receive the award, governments
submit their budget document for review by a
panel of independent budget experts. Using
extensive criteria, the reviewers evaluate the
effectiveness of the budget as:
A policy document
A financial plan
An operations guide
A communication device
Award -winning documents must be rated
"proficient" in all four categories.
Since 1984, over 500 governmental entities have
received the Distinguished Budget Presentation
Award nationwide. Winning entries represented
truly pioneering efforts to improve the quality of
budgeting and provide excellent examples for
other governments throughout North America.
The Government Finance Officers Association is a
nonprofit professional association serving 9,500
government finance professionals throughout
North America. Over 11,000 governments
participate actively in the association's activities.
The association produces a variety of technical
publications in various fields of governmental
finance, and represents the public finance
community in Washington, D.C. The association
provides numerous training opportunities, and
conducts an annual conference attended by over
3,000 public finance professionals.
(1) We've never done it before. (2) Nobody else
has ever done it. (3) It has never been tried
before. (4) We tried it before. (5) Another
department tried it before. (6) We've been doing
it that way for 25 years. (7) It won't work in a
small department. (8)It won't work in a big
department. (9) It won't work in our department.
(10) Why change, it's working okay. (11) The
boss will never buy it. (12) It needs further
investigation. (13) Other departments are not
doing it. (14) It's too much trouble to change.
(15) Our department is different. (16) the janitor
says it can't be done. (17) It can't be done. (18)
We don't have the money. (19) We don't have
the personnel. (20) We don't have the equipment.
(21) The union will- scream. (22) It's too
visionary. (23) You can't teach an old dog new
tricks. (24) It's too radical a change. (25) It's
beyond my responsibility. (26) It's not my job.
(27) We don't have the time. (28) It will make
other procedures obsolete. (29) Citizens won't
buy it. (30) It's contrary to policy. (31) It will
increase costs. (32) The employees will never
buy it. (33) It's not our problem. (34) I don't
like it. (35) You're right, but... (36) We're not
ready for it. (37) It needs more thought. (38)
Management will never accept it. (39) We can't
take a chance. (40) It takes too long to pay off.
(41) We're doing all right as it is. (42) It needs a
committee to study it. (43) It needs sleeping on.
(44) It won't work in this division. (45) It's
impossible. (46) We're not going to do it
PERIOD! (47) Let's wait awhile, we'll get to it
later. (48) I don't want to do it.
REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS: Joanna Brandon, Jeff
Clausius, Stephanie Crenshaw, Leon Henderson, and Penny
Thomas.
Please submit ads or articles you would like in the newsletter
to Joanna Brandon BY 5:00 the Tuesday before payroll.
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