Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

1 cases. In some places, it's just volunteers
2 that are going to be doing things. In other
3 cases, it's donors giving state parks -- for
4 example, I believe it was -- forgive me. It's
5 one of our large forested, beautiful oak
6 parks. They gave them 300 -- three different
7 donors 100,000 dollars a year for three years,
8 900,000 dollars over a three-year period. I
9 don't know what the total of the dollars were
10 or the in-kind volunteers, but it is far, far
11 less than twenty-two million dollars.
12 MR. PATTON: Okay. Now, let me ask
13 you this. So you never -- in all the -- so
14 you've described a year of dealing with
15 basically impending doom and a very big
16 shortfall of money and a plan to scale back
17 operations really by about six percent in
18 order to achieve that ten percent --
19 MR. HERMS: Yeah.
20 MR. PATTON: -- savings --
21 MR. HERMS: Yeah.
22 MR. PATTON: -- although the gross
23 number of park closures is a little more
24 shocking --
25 MR. HERMS: Right.
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