New Hope for Colorado's Computer Systems

There's hope for Colorado, folks.  It looks like our newly-elected Governor, Bill Ritter, wants to make sure no more computer system fiascoes occur on his watch.  A very encouraging story appeared in this morning's Rocky Mountain News: Governor seeks to bring order to computer chaos.  Written by Ann Imse and Alan Gathright, it discusses the hiring of Mike Locatis as CIO for the State, and the powers given him under an executive order signed by the governor to exercise the proper management control over all IT development and operations in State government.  I am encouraged by this long overdue move, and think that you will be too.  Read the story.  I may have to quit whining about this topic and focus on the Global Text Project. 

Speaking of Global Text, please take a look at our new website, www.globaltext.org , developed by up2speedsolutions.com.  Joshua Ross, a former student of mine, is the company's president.  He and his team did a great job for us.

Comments

[Robert Kingsley]

CBMS seems to be noticably absent in this article. Is the Governor going to ignore this failed system? I have heard that the Governor pronounced the issues with CBMS as having been resolved. Is this the case? If the Governor did indeed say this, nothing could be further from the truth.

[profmcc]

Thanks for your post, Robert. I honestly don't know if the CBMS issues have been resolved or not. Somehow, I doubt it. Anyone else who is closer to the actual status care to comment?

[Robert Kingsley]

Don,

I work with the CBMS system every day as an employee with DHS. Not only is the system overly complicated, it continues to overpay recipients more than they are eligible to receive. One of the most frustrating things about the CBMS system is that prior to it's start up it took me less than one hour to compute an overpayment. With CBMS it takes about six hours to compute an overpayment and even after all that time, chances are that there are so many internal issues that the overpayment will not be validated.

Taxpayer money is still bleeding out of the system in an unbelievable rate. I have spoken with my representatives, but very little is being done to solve the problem.

[Donald McCubbrey]

Thanks for the feedback, Robert. I think I have an effective channel opening up soon to pass your comment along. Please stay tuned. It will be during the first week of September.

[Robert Kingsley]

Bless you Don! I hope something can be done to correct this massive problem.