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1 close -- I don't even remember what the number
2 was -- forty-eight. The number was fluid, it
3 was a very political sort of issue. Each
4 administration was sort of throwing things out
5 there, pulling them back, and we were trying
6 to respond to that in a timely manner because,
7 you know, when the governor says he wants a
8 list and he wants numbers, he wants it now.
9 And so we would try and respond to that.
10 But what we found was -- this was
11 over about three years, from the
12 Schwarzenegger administration through the
13 Brown administration, when all these different
14 proposals were put out there. And we
15 appreciated, and even though he's not my boss
16 anymore, we appreciate the current governor
17 who said to State Parks this is the size to
18 cut, you've got some parameters, take your
19 time, use the parameters, get the
20 professionals in the room, and give me a good
21 list. And so we had almost a month to do
22 that. Under Schwarzenegger, we had three
23 days.
24 And so you can imagine it was
25 predominantly cost benefit. It was the data,
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