Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

1 MR. PATTON: That's right. He
2 walked in, and there was some major billions
3 of dollars short --
4 MR. HERMS: Right, exactly.
5 MR. PATTON: -- in the budget, so
6 he's trying to come up with a viable budget.
7 And so right at the beginning of 2011 and
8 then -- so there's discussions and a lot of
9 work's being done to identify how do we do
10 this.
11 MR. HERMS: Right.
12 MR. PATTON: And then I think the
13 volunteer groups, people started coming out
14 from the outside world, the non-government
15 world, trying to figure out how to help.
16 MR. HERMS: Right. And that, quite
17 frankly, at first, you have to remember, our
18 house is on fire at this point. We're about
19 to lose twenty-two million. We're trying to
20 figure out how to do this. We're trying to
21 figure out how do you close a park. In the
22 history of State Parks, a park has never been
23 closed before.
24 So we're struggling internally with
25 the legal issues, liability issues, the
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