Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

1 MR. PATTON: -- but in fact, it
2 sounds like more like a six percent
3 curtailment of Park operations. And through
4 all these discussions and all this planning
5 for that, in these executive committee
6 meetings or anywhere else, you don't recall
7 ever hearing about there being any additional
8 monies that the Parks Department might be able
9 to avail itself of, not contributions, any
10 additional monies within the Parks budget?
11 MR. HERMS: The Parks budget is very
12 fluid, so when you say "additional monies",
13 every year we do a projection on what we're
14 going to get in fees.
15 MR. PATTON: Um-hum.
16 MR. HERMS: And when we change fees,
17 we have to try and think, all right, we raised
18 some fees, what's that going to give us.
19 Sometimes when we raise fees, we see an
20 increase. Sometimes when we raise fees, we
21 see a decrease. So, yes, there were
22 discussions about different ways that State
23 Parks might be able to bring in additional
24 funds; however, most of those were in the out
25 years. They weren't, certainly not for the
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