Herms William Interview 9 24 12 - California Resources Agency

1 in the papers had you ever heard about any
2 reserve monies or anything at Parks.
3 MR. HERMS: And I had never heard
4 anything. I had never even heard a discussion
5 about the discrepancies in the numbers and
6 certainly nothing about a reserve. In fact,
7 during the time that I was there, especially
8 the latter years, the concern was much more on
9 the department running deficit spending than
10 having any kind of reserve.
11 MR. PATTON: So before we went on
12 the record, you said that -- and I told you
13 that I've -- we've talked with some people who
14 know a lot about this discrepancy, some who
15 say they have no knowledge of it and some --
16 and you identified yourself as someone who
17 might fall in the middle. So what were you
18 referring to?
19 MR. HERMS: Well, I guess what I
20 have knowledge is the discussions about the
21 department's budget, how the budget was
22 characterized to the executive team, how I
23 felt the executive team -- or where I felt the
24 executive team believed the department was
25 fiscally. And so I guess I fall in the middle
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