Oh, budgeting was, well, budgeting for the government, federal and county government is very different than budgeting your private budget, ’cause it’s not like you have an amount of money that you know you have to keep within. I mean, I had, the federal budget was, National Zoo was good… Read More
I didn’t have to do any of those reports. Read More
Did you have people guiding you through it?… Read More
Budgeting, I had to produce a budget every year and keep track of the budget. Policy, I had to do collection plans, animal collection plans. So basically it was related to the animals, then yes, but policy, I can’t think of anything other than that. You know, education had a… Read More
Did you enjoy it?… Read More
When you were budgeting, was it fun?… Read More
Was it a task?… Read More
Do you think that animal rides, in general, have educational value for children or adults, I guess?… Read More
How involved at the zoo, Milwaukee Zoo, where you spent most of your time, were you involved in budgeting and policymaking at your level?… Read More
Well, I don’t know if you talk about educational value. I think just the contact, you know, just contact with the animals have educational value. We do animal talks. I mean, do a camel talk every, during the summer, where animals come out and, you know, the keeper will make… Read More
My management plan changed immediately. We stopped breeding. You know, we’re not replacing any animals until this goes. And I’m going, and this was two years before, this was a year before we were supposed to start construction, so yeah. So I know how not to do it. I’m not… Read More
What are your thoughts on animal rides in zoos, be they pony rides or elephant rides or animal rides or?… Read More
We still have pony rides. I think the camel rides have stopped. The elephant rides, getting rid of the elephant rides was part of the whole Lota deal, so we got rid of elephant rides and we still, one of the elephants at the zoo used to be one of… Read More
And I’m at this meeting with all these people and they said, and, you know, and where are the animals going to be?… Read More
And Bruce says, “Oh no, they’re gonna be there.” And I’m thinking, “You’re gonna tell me this when, that we’re gonna be doing construction and I have to keep the animals?… Read More
You know, are you going to, you know, where do we do this?… Read More
And I’m going, “I know how we do it here. This is not what I’m going to learn.” But I finally went and I came back and I said, “Well, you know, you’ve got your five-year plan and you do this.” Bruce says, “Well, we don’t do it that way.”… Read More
And they decided they were gonna do a mock-up of the, help us, sort of how we could redesign the feline building. Read More
Were you involved ever as a curator in the future planning of zoo exhibits and, or recommendations to bring certain animals into the Milwaukee Zoo?… Read More
Mm-hmm, we did, well, we did several renovations when I was there. Bruce had a very interesting way of doing animal, I mean, Milwaukee had a very interesting way of deciding what they were going to do. He was, remember, there were like four or five master plans that were… Read More