The commission has had to limp along with out-of-date technology and a shrinking staff.
Or he may really be vulnerable, as his falling standing in a poll and shrinking staff suggest.
In recent years, amid budget cuts and shrinking staff, maintaining the more than 1,900 parks has become an ever greater challenge.
Much of the decline in enforcement is because of shrinking staff and complex new rules enacted by Congress in the I.R.S. Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998.
But some bungled strategies are said to be what resulted in the company's fall from investor focus and the cause of a shrinking staff.
For years, a steadily shrinking staff struggled to maintain the aging collection and to catalog the growing archive of Holocaust-related clippings culled by a group of volunteers, some of whom had themselves survived German death camps.
Gomer said shrinking staff numbers combined with increasing aid budgets over the last decade pushed contracting officers to follow a "path of least resistance", opting to employ large, experienced contractors at the expense of developing relationships with smaller firms.
Judge Steve White, who presides over Superior Court in Sacramento, the state capital, said a shrinking staff had already caused the number of service windows at family court to be reduced to 2 from 10, leading to waits of five to six hours.
It's been a bumpy road for Dave Morin's Path, as manic rumors over the last year have pegged the "private" social network at once as the subject of lagging growth, shrinking staff and potential acquisitions, while at the same time raising a mega $50 million round at a $500 million valuation.
