Governor Frank H. Murkowski has approved an effort, which began today, to consolidate human resources management and other personnel functions into one cohesive unit within the Division of Personnel in the Department of Administration. Currently, human resources managers are scattered throughout the fourteen departments of the executive branch.
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today that both the number of individuals and the number of families receiving assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program declined between March 2002 and March 2003.
Totals for these quarters show that the number of recipients (defined as individuals) in March 2003 was 4,963,771, a decline of 4.3 percent since March 2002 and 59.5 percent since August 1996, when the TANF law was signed into law. The number of families (defined as family units with children) receiving TANF declined about 2 percent during the same period, to 2,039,917 in March 2003. Since August 1996, the number of families receiving TANF has fallen by 53.7 percent.
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The State of Alaska Service Center has advised us of continuing, intermittent service interruptions impacting State WAN services. These intermittent interruptions are affecting various State Agencies. State of Alaska and ACS Technicians are currently working on the problem. The State of Alaska Service Center will update this outage notification when additional information regarding the cause or duration is received.
We were hit with the Blaster Worm Friday. The timing couldn't have been much worse for our folks on the Network Services team. When the worm hit, Network Services had already worked all night trying to restore the CC server and half of our Network Services team was in Kenai doing a PC installation. A small team of people were left to do the work of many. Those individuals were:
John Mirelez, Myria Newport, Mike Morris, Sara Nogg, Brady Green and Tammie Rivera who was not only instumental in tackling the Blaster but coordinating the efforts of other staff.