Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

1 Most parks, many parks have fringe
2 organizations that support them through
3 volunteer work, through a wide variety of just
4 volunteer stuff that they do to help the park
5 just on the natural. And so many of these
6 fringe groups would go to the district
7 superintendant and say, hey, your park is on
8 the list, we'll take it over. The district
9 superintendants, especially early on, did not
10 know how to react to that. They did not know
11 if they had the authority to say okay. They
12 didn't -- there were just a lot of unanswered
13 question.
14 And the administration was
15 struggling, because remember, this was in the
16 early days. The Brown administration was
17 struggling getting staffed up, getting people
18 in place who could sort of ingest this much
19 information. People think that this is a
20 simple exercise. Most people have no idea how
21 incredibly complicated it was. And we had
22 lots of meetings through the state with lots
23 of groups, but early on --
24 MR. PATTON: "We" who had those
25 meetings?
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