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1 and this was well below a level that I would
2 have been involved in at all. I'm -- it's
3 still not clear to me what all of this is. As
4 I said, I look forward to the Bureau of State
5 Audit's report to come out.
6 MR. PATTON: Anyone ever mention
7 revenues being generated from automated pay
8 machines?
9 MR. HERMS: Yeah. There was --
10 early on, when it became obvious that State
11 Parks budget was going to be negatively
12 impacted and that this was probably going to
13 just get worse as the years went by, the
14 Director basically said, let's start looking
15 into ways of increasing revenues, all ways, so
16 let's look at parking lots where we don't have
17 a kiosk, we don't have somebody in there. So
18 she sort of sent the word out to all the
19 district superintendants, and they began kind
20 of doing an analysis of the system to get at
21 that.
22 I know that -- I don't know a lot
23 about it because that was sort of the Ops side
24 of the house, but I do know that sites were
25 identified, machines, I believe, were
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