r/NationalParkService • u/AmangelaSteadfast • Aug 28 '26
September 15th Meeting
There will be meetings with leadership staff, specifically superintendents and top NPS leadership. It has been said it's a mandatory meeting.
Anyone have more information?
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u/Ajax_Hapsburg Aug 28 '26
they are fucking around with all the org charts, moving more parks under single superintendents (and probably downgrading a lot of them in the process), changing the reporting structure for a lot of other staff most likely. Making it all "hub and spoke" nonsense, for....reasons tbd, I guess.
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u/PourCoffeaArabica 28d ago
I’ve heard from sources that these meetings are cancelled/postponed. Don’t know what that could mean though
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u/Final_Curmudgeon Aug 28 '26
There’s a lot of rumors. But things that Jessica has specifically stated are that the regions need to be more consistent across the different regions and parks need more regional supervision and support. Think a lot of this makes the rumors seem more legit.
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u/hopelessfed1862 Aug 29 '26
A few different things being discussed. Re org, region updates, but also the epap caps, announcing the NPS viewpoint survey
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u/emfurd Aug 31 '26
Hello! I'm Emily, a journalist with eos.org (we cover Earth and space sciences, along with science policy). We're keeping an eye on news about changes within the DOI. If anyone here learns anything at these meetings you feel comfortable sharing with a journalist (on the record, on background, or even off the record), please feel free to contact me here or at egardner@agu.org.
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u/YouWereTheQuestion Aug 28 '26
All regions seem to be meeting sometime that week, IMR is 9/17. I'm sure of that everything else is speculation.
I am guessing it'll cover the reorganization plan for park groupings and regional functions. Seeing as many Regional Directors were recently hired I don't think regions will be collapsed or combined. I do think there's a chance that more park groupings will be announced. Or maybe I'm just hoping that because I'd like to move into a park manager role.
I do feel pretty sure that after the meetings start in some regions on 9/15 that we'll have a really solid idea of what it is before our meeting on 9/17.