Project: Report Scanning "Complete"

At this date I have finished scanning reports for the admin department. The scanning process included taking Statistics Reports and Annual Reports (no TPS Reports) and scanning them into a .pdf file.

Meeting: JCW History Committee

A Meeting was held today in my office/conference room regarding the history project currently underway. Karen supplied me with some photographs to scan, dataing back to the late 40's. It's going to be a great project when it gets done.

Meeting: BOCC Wastewater Budget Meeting

Today I attended the Wastewater Budget meeting which was a special session of the Board of County Commissioners. Disucssed were items such as adding a new Sewerline camera truck and crew, a new engineer, and increases in utility bills. Most items were approved, although the new engineer was not approved. Currently, Wastewater contracts out work to frims such as GBA (George Butler & Associates) and Black & Veatch.

Event: Volunteer at SkillsUSA

Today I spent the day with karen Sorenson downtown at Bartle Hall doing volunteer work for SkillsUSA. More specifically helping run the Web Design contest. More can be found on SkillUSA at http://www.skillsusa.org/.

Meeting: KCMAGWEB

Today I attended the KCMAGWEB (Kansas City Metro Area Government Webmasters) meeting with Karen Sorenson. It was a very informative meeting, discussed uses of CSS and a drawing was held for a copy of Windows XP Professional, donated by Microsoft.

Project: Wastewater Bill Redesign

Cynthia Williams got me started on redesigning the bill for Johnson County Wastewater. It makes for a "cool" project because my design is eventually going to be mailed every other month to somewhere around a quarter million people.

Field Work: GPS with Jim Bills

Today I started to work with Jim Bills (JCW GIS) on some GPS stuff. Very interesting.

Tour: Driving tour of JCW Plants

With Troy Young I toured the Wastewater plants today. Took pictures to possibly use for web development items.

Here's a couple of pictures:

A line cleaning truck


Robotic Camera- Used to view the inside of Wastewater Pipes

Tour: Johnson County ITS

Today I toured the ITS department at the Johnson County Administration building (with Karen Sorenson, Wastewater Webmaster). It's a very interesting place, and their server room is especially interesting, its all secure and something like triple reduntly cooled, etc. Let's just say its a vault with a lot of fail-safes.

Meeting: BOCC (Board of County Commissioners)

Today I attended the regular business session of the county board of commissioners. Today was declared "Leawood day." Was able to attend meeting so that I might more throughly undertsnad the government process at the county level. Very interesting, but ran past its scheduled time.

Meeting: "Doug's Wastewater 101"

Today I attended "Wasterwater 101" put on by the Wastewater Administrator, Doug Smith. 101 covered all the basics of what wastewater does, how the government process with wastewater works, etc.

Info: Phone #, E-Mail, and where I work

My Phone number at JCW is
(913)681-3200 extension 2157

my e-mail is:
ryan.metcalf@jcw.org

Here's a picture of my desk, all the ones of "my office" turned out fuzzy.

Start Job

I started my internship at Johnson County Wastewater today.
Met a lot of people in the building, got walked around and introduced.
Was "overdressed"