{"id":47217,"date":"1999-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/94d4307d-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-07-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-07-06T00:00:00","slug":"94d4308e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/94d4308e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"NMC holds off implementation of\nY2K-compliant computer system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Regents of the Northern Marianas College has approved the release of $160,000 to complete the process of upgrading its computer system by acquiring Y2K-compliant hardware, board chairman Ramon Villagomez said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>NMC has started upgrading its system, but during Friday&#8217;s meeting the board agreed to push back the implementation of the new system until October, when the employees are completely prepared for it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t be doing these things without proper training,&#8221; said NMC president Agnes McPhetres.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, she said the college would have to go back to the old system &#8220;while we are learning how to deal with the new system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McPhetres said in the past months, NMC&#8217;s business office was inundated with work as it tried to cope with the new system.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, she said, &#8220;people at the business office were behind by six weeks&#8221; causing a halt to the transactions at the finance office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have therefore agreed to continue using the old system until the end of fiscal year until were are ready,&#8221; McPhetres said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Regents of the Northern Marianas College has approved the release of $160,000 to complete the process of upgrading its computer system by acquiring Y2K-compliant hardware, board chairman Ramon Villagomez said Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}