PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO

About the Book

A Presidio of San Francisco Closure Study began after the controversial Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1988 (BRAC 88) was enacted and placed the Presidio of San Francisco on the BRAC 88 Base Closure list. The required Presidio of San Francisco Closure Study, prepared by the Headquarters, Sixth US Army staff, tried to justify the continuance of the Presidio Post. This study continued for several years but eventually was ineffective bowing to political and military pressure and interference. This Case Study complements the Presidio of San Francisco Closure Study that overlaps the same time period that planned and programmed a systematic process where both management theory and assumptions could be applied to justify improvements in management competence, organizational improvements, and cost effectiveness. This Case Study contains a chronological history of events at the Presidio of San Francisco, and reviews a crisis precipitated by the Department of Defense (DOD) action under a Congressional mandate for Post and Base closures. This caused an administrative dilemma while concurrently, trying to plan the realignment of the Headquarters, Sixth US Army staff; discontinuance of the Presidio Garrison; closing the Presidio of San Francisco as a US Army military Installation; and transferring the Presidio Post operations, repair, and maintenance activities to the US National Park Service.

About the Author

Dr Robert W. Curtis, DBA in Management, retired from the USAF as a Chief Master Sergeant (Management Engineering Superintendent), with 25-years of active duty. Dr Curtis also retired as a GS-13 Human Resource Officer for the US Mission to the United Nations after 22-years of Federal Civil Service. Dr Curtis received a BS degree in Business Administration with a minor in Management from the University of Maryland at Tokyo, Japan; completed MBA requirements at the University of California San Bernardino; received a MPA degree from the University of California Northridge; and received a Summa Cum Laude DBA degree in Management from Corllins University at Stockton. Dr Curtis also completed over 40 in-house personnel and management engineering courses while serving in the USAF. Dr Curtis served as a Human Resource Officer (personnel management consultant, trouble-shooter, and advisor) to a SES-4 Chief of Military Construction at Frankfurt in Germany for 12 years with a $6 billion dollar military construction program within Europe; a Coast Guard Base Commander at Governors Island in New York; the Sixth US Army Commanding General at the Presidio of San Francisco covering 12 Western States; and five US Ambassadors to the United Nations (10 during the Session) with 182 foreign embassies or local hires in New York City. Dr Curtis is an author and resides at Carson City in Nevada. Dr Curtis is self employed as a Personnel Management Consultant.