Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

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1 MR. PATTON: It is 2:44 p.m., 2 Monday, September 24, 2012. Thomas M. Patton, 3 Deputy Attorney General, speaking, with 4 Michael Mattson as an agent with our 5 Department of Justice, and he's here assisting 6 me. And we're recording the interview, and we 7 have with us this afternoon -- 8 Go ahead and introduce yourself, 9 spell your last name for the record. 10 MR. HERMS: William Herms, 11 H-E-R-M-S. 12 MR. PATTON: And you are currently 13 employed as? 14 MR. HERMS: The Chief of Staff to 15 Assembly Member Roger Hernandez. 16 MR. PATTON: Okay. Excellent. 17 Thank you. 18 And previously, you worked, I think, 19 for the Parks Department. 20 MR. HERMS: I did. I was the Deputy 21 Director for Legislation. 22 MR. PATTON: And tell us about your 23 Parks Department career. How long were you 24 there? 25 MR. HERMS: I was there for Sarnoff, A VERITEXT COMPANY 877-955-3855 Page 2
1 approximately five-and-a-half years. 2 MR. PATTON: And the whole time you 3 were Deputy Director for -- 4 MR. HERMS: For Legislation, yes. 5 There was a short period where I was the 6 acting Chief Deputy, I think that was a couple 7 of months, but that was just to sort of fill 8 in. 9 MR. PATTON: You say four-and-a-half 10 years? 11 MR. HERMS: Five-and-a-half years. 12 MR. PATTON: Five-and-a-half years 13 Deputy Director at Parks for Legislation. 14 MR. HERMS: Um-hum. 15 MR. PATTON: So that entails, I 16 guess, being the legislative liaison? 17 MR. HERMS: Yes. And so my duties 18 and responsibilities were, in essence, to be 19 the interface between State Parks and the 20 legislature as well as reporting to agency and 21 the governor's office because the information 22 kind of goes both ways. It comes down from 23 the governor through State Parks over to the 24 legislature and then back again. So I would 25 take all calls from members and deal with all Sarnoff, A VERITEXT COMPANY 877-955-3855 Page 3
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