By choosing a gloom-and-doom view toward the year 2000 problem in state government (Page 1, June 14), the Tribune omitted the critical safeguards that currently exist.
Even if Illinois should fail to move closer to a solution than the current 40 percent of state agencies, government financial activity will go on as before.
Your coverage, while comprehensive, left out the fact that the comptroller’s office’s breakthrough financial management system that went on-line last July 1 was specifically designed to include a Y2K solution, months ahead of any other state in America. The new system automatically converts incoming fiscal data to beat the Y2K bug. The result is assurance that state employees, taxpayers and firms doing business with the state will continue to be paid after Jan. 1, 2000.
