Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

1 MR. PATTON: So you say, as part of
2 the executive team, you were there at biweekly
3 meetings --
4 MR. HERMS: Um-hum.
5 MR. PATTON: -- where budget matters
6 are discussed. Tell me about those
7 discussions.
8 MR. HERMS: Well, the discussions,
9 especially as the Schwarzenegger
10 administration began signaling that they were
11 going to reduce our budget and then ultimately
12 when the Brown administration did reduce our
13 budget by twenty-two million, was how do we
14 deal with that, what are the impacts going to
15 be on the department.
16 There was a great deal of concern
17 about how the department would adjust in order
18 to be able to come up with twenty-two million
19 dollars in savings. And at no time do I
20 recall anybody being concerned that we were
21 going to have a surplus. The genuine honest
22 concern of everybody at the table was we've
23 got an ongoing reduction of twenty-two
24 million, and that's twenty-two million every
25 single year. There were --
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