Commission Letterhead - California Off Highway Vehicle Page ...

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of places are trying to bring on your summer staff, the
seasonal staff, and so far right now the freeze is in
place. And so far we haven't been able to get past that
freeze. We are working on an exemption to try to do
that, particularly places that are heavy summertime use.
So not so much Ocotillo Wells, but other places need to
bring on that summer staff to keep the parks
appropriately staffed, cleaned, all those things.
Another issue that we're facing right now is
going through an exercise statewide, all agencies --
we're not exempt from that -- looking at our cell
phones. They're all off right now, so they can't
take -- so that we're having to give up half of our cell
phones. All right. We can deal with that. That's not
going to kill anything. But they're also making us do a
very thorough look -- requesting us, I should say, to do
a very thorough look at our vehicle fleets. So we're
having to go through and spend quite a bit of time going
over records, endless records and justifying one vehicle
by -- you know, vehicle by vehicle for every vehicle
that we have. This is both the highway-licensed
vehicles, the off-highway vehicles, the tractors, the
graders, the dumps, just transport trailers. Every
piece of rolling stock we have, essentially, we have to
justify. Their goal is to get rid of as many of those
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OHMVR COMMISSION MEETING April 5, 2011 MINUTES - APPROVED