I’d just come off at Disney, you know, I was getting paid pretty well, you know, now, now I come to, I’m gonna accept a job at Houston, which was a city zoo. The salary was half of what I was making, you know. But I went out there and visited it, and, and they had, the location was good, you know, it’s a really big philanthropic community. The, the staff was good. They just was totally underfunded. And they, and they had the wrong people in some positions. So I took the job under the condition with the, the parks director and the mayor that I, I didn’t use the word privatization. I said, can I form a task force to, to evaluate the zoo where it is now, and what’s the best, you know, best strategy for growing it in the future. And, and to make, and so that city isn’t, doesn’t have to foot the bill for the entire zoo, which was doing at that point, but it, it was, it was not that much money.
