Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

1 MR. PATTON: So this is where we get
2 into the discussion of park closures?
3 MR. HERMS: Exactly.
4 MR. PATTON: Okay. And you say some
5 of the more expensive and less visited units.
6 MR. HERMS: Right.
7 MR. PATTON: Okay. And so -- and a
8 plan basically was drawn up to figure out how
9 to do that?
10 MR. HERMS: Right. So what we did
11 was we brought our most experienced field
12 people together, district directors and other
13 experienced park professionals, and we put
14 them in room. And there were, I'm guessing,
15 twelve to fifteen, it's been quite a while,
16 but approximately. And we put them in a room,
17 and we gave them the charge of -- we're going
18 to take -- I think the initial charge for them
19 was give us a ten, a twenty, and a thirty
20 million dollar list, start giving us a ranking
21 because at that time we didn't know exactly
22 what the hit would be.
23 And so they began doing that, and
24 this was an ongoing process where they began
25 to look at a number of parameters. And then
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