Donna Zalar to me

show details Jun 10 (5 days ago)

Hi Chris and thanks for your note. The past 5 days have felt like an eternity. The impact on technology at Lake has been significant, but I still don’t really know to what extent. The servers were not damaged physically and my office is intact, but the high school will probably be considered a total loss. The gym, cafeteria auditorium and media center were leveled and included projectors, mobile laptop cart, and computers. A rough estimate of items damaged is around 200 items, not counting the items that are simply gone.

The biggest priority has been getting some form of temporary office space in place. The main closet, phone system, heating and water were all located in the high school so every system is down. The fiber is shredded so I’m looking at some time to relocate the main data closet, then repair fiber and bring it into a different building. The good thing is that the elementary and middle schools should be ready to house admin by Monday. I have phones and DSL coming in the morning, then we can focus on the fiber. The high school will be housed and operated from a building at Owens, so that will be another major tech project setting up admin and high school classroom in that building. I imagine we are 1 year out at a minimum and probably closer to a 2 year project to rebuild the campus.

I know that I could use help, but am not sure how to take advantage of the offers. Perhaps we can talk after next week when I hopefully will have some information on insurance coverage and what will need replaced and/or salvaged. 

I’m sure you’ve been busy with the CATIIE Conference today and I hope it was a great success. I have no doubt that it was first class and am sorry I couldn’t attend. I wasn’t able to register due to vacation plans, but I don’t like to miss your events Chris!

I’ll stay in touch. Thank you so much for taking the time to offer help in the midst of your own busy schedule.

Donna

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