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She re-created its whimsical floral design by masterfully painting it on kitchen backsplash tiles. She also had it worked into carpet left over from the master bedroom to make four area rugs that help unify the family room, foyer and dining room.
FAMILY 'FOERSTE' Furniture and other memorabilia from the Foerste family and from Mary Jo's family are standouts among newer furnishings. In the foyer, an ornate hall tree from Terry's grandparents' home in Okawville stands sentinel on one wall. An antique hanging pendulum clock on the opposite wall worked in his late father Wallace's business, Foerste Jewelers in Dupo. Railroad employees would synchronize their pocket watches with the clock, Terry said. The master bedroom suite is from Terry's family, as well as the Hoosier cabinet and dining table in the kitchen. Mary Jo converted a chest of drawers from her mother, the late Margaret Harst Vernier, into a handsome marble-topped bathroom sink and vanity.
STYLISH AND SENSIBLE Geothermal heating and cooling helps the Foerstes realize dramatic energy savings; though large, the all-electric home costs an average of about $145 a month to heat or cool. They installed energy-efficient windows throughout and used energy-saving appliances.
Across the country, other organizations, such as the Hawaiian state government, have disclosed similar plans as well as telecommuting initiatives and flex-time to reduce carbon emissions, give employees a break from crushing gas prices and possibly cut down on expenses.
But as beneficial as these plans promise to be, without early involvement by IT, they may be doomed to failure. Experts say it's critical for IT to assess the infrastructure's ability to support increased remote access to services by employees and customers.
If you're going to shut buildings down and change work schedules, you have to know how you're going to keep business going and what IT support you'll need to make that happen, says Utah CIO Stephen Fletcher.
Well before Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman revealed his four-day workweek plan to the public this summer, he gathered his cabinet members, including Fletcher, to determine if such a move was even feasible. The governor was very clear in those early meetings that we still had to make services available even if our buildings weren't physically open for business, Fletcher says.
Keeping 850 online services operating Fletcher met with every department to figure out which applications their customers would need access to during the off day. He focused on completing the 850 online services the state now offers and building up the external-facing Web infrastructure needed to support increased traffic from citizens looking to pay taxes, renew driver's licenses and carry out other common e-government tasks.
Fletcher's team earned top ranking in this year's Center for Digital Government's Digital States Survey of e-government services
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