Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

1 you've got much larger visitation and so
2 forth.
3 So it wasn't just cost benefit
4 analysis, and if you look at the list of
5 criteria, you'll also see we looked at natural
6 resource assets, we looked at historic
7 resource as sets. We looked at a variety of
8 things that made parks unique so that even if
9 a park didn't make a lot of money, but it told
10 a unique story that nobody else told, we felt
11 that that was important enough to leave it
12 open even though we might be closing another
13 park that might have better cost benefit
14 analysis numbers but doesn't have the natural
15 resources. So it was a difficult task. All
16 of these parks are unique and special. There
17 isn't a lousy one out there.
18 MR. PATTON: Yeah.
19 MR. HERMS: And asking these
20 professionals to come up with this list was
21 not an easy thing for them to do either.
22 MR. PATTON: I would imagine. I'm
23 curious about something because I've -- I
24 remember seeing -- I've heard that there are
25 all told in the system are something like 270
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