Thats right she is another Jeb protege, she used to be the Florda Park Service Director. You can take my word on this, she was dispised by most of the feild staff in the FPS. She is arrogant, ass kissing, lock step, toadie of the Bush family. Learn the name FRAN MANILLA, she gutted the Florida Park Service, she was trying to privatize the whole thing. Except it had already been tried in Tennessee and failed miserably. Fortunately some legislaters (both Dems and Repubs) saw the light and kept her at bay.
Here is a good read, its a White Paper on the privatization of the Tennessee Parks.
No Walk in the Park
Dismantling the Tennessee
State Park System
This white paper is an account told by a score of current
and former employees within Tennessee State
Parks. No Walk in the Park is an attempt to tell the
public from the inside about the effects of closures,
cutbacks in operating hours, lay-offs and other changes
made in the Parks system during the past two years.
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
Commissioner Milton Hamilton’s plans to
reconfigure public parks are the main backdrop for
this white paper. In No Walk in the Park , employees
explain some of the motivations for this shift of mission
and burst the myths and “spin” Commissioner
Hamilton’s office has used in its campaign to shrink
and privatize a public park system.
No Walk in the Park does not represent the official
views of the Tennessee Department of Environment
and Conservation. Quite the contrary, this white paper
is meant to articulate a dissenting opinion from
the official company line — a dissenting opinion no
longer tolerated within the Department.
While some may dismiss these accounts as sour
grapes, this white paper articulates the insights of
seasoned professionals who have dedicated their careers
to Tennessee Parks and who value the state’s
unique natural, cultural and historic resources. They
are not short-term political appointees like Commissioner
Hamilton. Their views are a distillation of decades
of experience.
The contributors to this white paper hope to stimulate
a public discussion of the serious concerns about
abandoning protection of the state’s broad heritage
of cultural and natural resources in favor of operating
profit-centers at a few resort destinations. The
contributors also offer steps they believe need to be
taken to restore the Tennessee Parks system. PEER
would like to thank the contributors to this report,
including Ron Castle for his editorial assistance.
As with previous employee-authored PEER white papers,
the contributors remain anonymous in order to
avoid career repercussions and to allow the information
in this white paper to speak for itself. The authors
invite independent reviewers to examine the
public record and draw their own conclusions.
PEER is proud to assist conscientious public servants
who have dedicated their careers to the protection
of natural resources and the faithful execution of environmental
laws.
Jeff Ruch
PEER Executive Director
http://www.tnpeer.org/State_Park/no_walk_in_park.pdf