FACT SHEET: Y2K PREPARATION
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER
Key CU-Boulder Y2K contacts:
Tom Carney Emergency Management Coordinator, 303-492-5162
303-441-3851/0891 (pager), 303-550-4719 (cell)
Jim Fadenrecht Chief, CU Police, 303-492-6666 (after 5 p.m.)
John Kish Lieutenant, CU Police, 303-492-2303, 492-6666 (after 5 p.m.)
Emergency Operations Center CU Police, 303-492-5586, 492-2286, 492-2971
Deborah Keyek Franssen CU-Boulder Y2K coordinator, 303-492-2403, 303-356-0133 (cell)
John Bruning Director, Facilities Management, 303-492-4229
Physical Plant Problems Facilities Management Service Desk, 303-492-5522.
Tom Carson Housing, 303-492-6067, 303-817-1634 (cell)
Willard Hall, 303-492-5378
Housing Maintenance issues, call 303-492-6067
Monteith Mitchell, Institutional Relations, 303-492-5526 Friday day
Jeannine Malmsbury News Services, 303-492-3115, or 492-5586 Friday night
Jim Scott News Services, 303-492-3114, or 492-5586 Friday night
Bobbi Barrow Institutional Relations, 303-492-1924 Saturday
Peter Caughey News Services, 303-492-4007 Saturday
News Services Main Office, 303-492-6431 Sunday
University Power/Co-generation Plant
o CU-Boulder is the only campus in the state that has its own power plant.
o Most of the CU-Boulder campus receives power for electricity, steam and cooling systems from the university聮s co-generation plant. A few areas, including the College Inn and other buildings between 17th-19th Streets and Marine Street, the Grandview Terrace area and the CU Research Park are served by the Public Service Co. During the Dec. 31 rollover, CU聮s power system will be running independent of the Public Service grid to guard against possible, but unlikely, power outages by Public Service Co.
o During the fall 聮99 semester, a backup (standby) generator was installed at CU聮s co-generation plant, providing "black-start capability" if the turbines stop. The "black-start" capability will only be used if both CU聮s plant and Public Service Co. systems are not functioning.
o The co-generation plant has two turbines and uses both during normal daily operations. As of Dec. 30, both turbines were in use but one was switched to fuel oil as a backup fuel source to ensure power is not interrupted should natural gas supplies be unavailable. In case of an interruption of the gas supply, the plant will transfer its power source to the fuel oil turbine to maintain power
o Several CU buildings have backup generators that provide power for lights, fire alarms and sprinklers. They include:
Williams Village Housing Complex Cristol Chemistry
Institute of Behavioral Genetics Folsom Stadium
Housing Maintenance JILA
Euclid Autopark ABC Quad (Aden, Brackett and
Porter Biosciences Cockerell Halls)
Wardenburg Health Service
Baker Hall Chemical Stores (near engineering)
Cheyenne Arapaho Hall Hallett Hall
Recreation Center Police Department
Ekeley Chemistry Coors Events/Conference Center
Research Satellites
o The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics will be operating two NASA satellites from the Space Technology Building at the CU Research Park as the millennium rolls over, said Randy Davis, LASP's head of mission control. More than two dozen undergraduate and graduate students are involved in controlling the satellites, although staffing will be skeletal during the Y2K rollover.
Staffing/Student Housing
o Approximately 65 CU-Boulder staff members will be on site or on call for the Y2K rollover on Dec. 31-Jan 1. Some of the staffing will include: 23 employees from Facilities Management; nine from CU Police with all of the approximately 40 officers on call; five from Housing with 14 on call; all Environmental Health and Safety staff; about 23 from Information Technology Services with the remaining 130 ITS staff members on call; and five from News Services/Institutional Relations.
o Very few students will be living in campus housing on Dec. 31. Occupancy will be higher in Family Housing's 861 apartments. Willard Hall and Reed Hall are the only campus residence halls that will have students in residence on Dec. 31.
In Willard Hall, 22 students will be in the building Dec. 31, mostly international students. At least one Resident Adviser will be in the building Dec. 31 overseeing the hall. In Reed Hall, a graduate student hall, 10 or fewer students will be in the building Dec. 31. In Family Housing, about 90 percent of the 861 apartments are expected to be occupied over the holidays although exact numbers are not available because occupants come and go at will, according to the Family Housing Office.
In addition, the Housing office will have one security person working Dec. 31-Jan. 1 to check on the two occupied halls during the nighttime hours.