Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

1 The real concern, the general
2 concern of the executive team was more about
3 hitting the twenty-two million ongoing target
4 and what happens if we can't move people fast
5 enough, we get sued because something happens
6 at a park that we closed, any number of
7 liabilities. What happens if, and we run a
8 deficiency. These were genuine concerns that
9 the executive team had, and that's what most
10 of the discussions were about was how do we
11 deal with these things.
12 MR. PATTON: Let me ask you, early
13 on you indicated that facing a twenty-two
14 million dollar cut, you'd gotten to the
15 point -- the department had gotten to the
16 point where reducing staffing levels,
17 maintenance issues, all these things, public
18 safety was starting to become a concern,
19 health issues a concern. It had gotten to the
20 point where the department had identified that
21 we can't simply absorb this as an across-the-
22 board cut and not close down some units
23 because we're now cutting things -- we've gone
24 beyond the level of reasonableness.
25 MR. HERMS: There were many people
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