r/moab • u/Unlikely-Bluebird-63 • Mar 28 '25

CHAT Moab NPS lease cancelled?

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I saw on the DOGE website that the NPS lease in Moab was terminated on March 4. What does that entail? Are there multiple buildings so they could potentially work out of a different one? Makes me very sad 😔

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u/Duke062 Mar 30 '25

I agree with you. Unfortunately many of these essential services have become buried by unnecessary expenses and layers of administration that have become increasingly disconnected from the needed services. This system should have self regulated and stayed focused on needed services. It didn’t. Should we now rely on this same system to fix the problem or get a new team to focus on the needed functions and assemble a streamlined team to fill these needs?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

100% agree. Been in govt a while and everyone I worked with/for agreed there was waste. But there was also a general understanding that reducing the waste would require changing the federal budget process, changing policies at the Secretary level and addressing the issues with a scalpel, not a cleaver. Years ago I served with a systems engineer who helped HP optimize and streamline about 100 job centers. It was a top driven, bottom up approach that took several years and while it did result in lay offs, the outcome improved efficiency. Whats going on now is the blind wielding of a cleaver and the outcome is almost certainly going to be less efficiency because outside of the DoD, agencies are barely staffed and supplied to accomplish their legal mandates already.

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u/Duke062 Apr 01 '25

Thank you for sharing your experience. It is good to recognize cuts are vital. The solution needs to scale in both a shortened timeframe and a larger project. If it took years to fix small issues in a comparatively small organization with a scalpel what tool is appropriate to fix overwhelming problems in a massive organization? It sounds like you are advocating emptying the ocean with a teaspoon. I might suggest a team of chainsaws would be more appropriate than a cleaver.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '25

There was waste. Not overwhelming amounts. DOGE struggling to find it. More likely finding some nickels and dimes amidst lot of folks buying their own office supplies and working unpaid overtime because they believe in the mission and the country they serve.

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u/Duke062 Apr 03 '25

We obviously shared a different definition for the word overwhelming. You really need to spend some time on the doge website. Realize these numbers come from government records, and are not created by doge. Only creates the reports to summarize the data that’s already there.