Would the people involved have a beginning meeting with you and then a close out?
Yes.
I remember that one in ’88, where Briggle was sort of the team captain. I wasn’t sure what the difference was between things that were really important that happened and some of the things they recommended that didn’t happen.
That’s what you’re always trying to sort out. You’re always trying to sort out, “Did they really want to do this?” Sometimes, a team member can make a recommendation that really looks like it really makes sense, and yet it doesn’t. So you just sit these and say, “Hey, okay, well that’s fine if you want it to go into the final report, but there ain’t any way that will happen.” So I don’t know about all superintendents, but I always felt I had a lot of discretion because I kept my job and I ignored an awful lot of that stuff as not being necessary.
Have there been OE’s that get into subject-matter specialty? Of the two that have been here while I’ve been here, nobody has asked about the history program and they don’t ask Mark Buktenica how to do lake research better.
That should come into play once the area has matured after a major thrust of development, like we did. In other words, I would have expected, now that pretty much the die has been cast throughout the park, whether it is housing or buildings or programs or concessions or all of this stuff, that subject-matter specialists on such things as the history program or the lake program, would have happened by now, They would have happened had I been there because we had outgrown, just as we outgrew the construction phase in maintenance and we were going into a maintenance phase, this rapid changing of everything in the world [park]. Because we did. There wasn’t a thing that hadn’t seen tremendous changes since I first got there.
