Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

1 in that I had never heard any discussion of
2 the technical difference between what was
3 being reported to the Controller or to the
4 governor's office. That wasn't something I --
5 MR. PATTON: So tell me what you are
6 talking about. First of all, the executive
7 team would be?
8 MR. HERMS: The Director, the Chief
9 Deputy, the acting Chief Deputy, myself, the
10 Chief Deputy for Operations, the Chief Deputy
11 for Administration, for Planning, for -- who
12 else was in there. I'm trying to -- there
13 were -- we would have meetings every two
14 weeks, and it was all the deputies.
15 MR. PATTON: So all the other
16 division deputy directors?
17 MR. HERMS: Yeah, basically, yes.
18 MR. PATTON: And you were there
19 five-and-and-a-half years.
20 MR. HERMS: Yes.
21 MR. PATTON: So you were there '7,
22 '8, '9, '10, '11, and half of '12.
23 MR. HERMS: Something like that,
24 yeah.
25 MR. PATTON: So the Chief Deputy
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