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Real Name: Gretchen Wenner Address: 1707 Eye Street Bakersfield, CA 93301 Member Since: November 01, 2007 Last Signed In: October 14, 2009 Profile Views: 1849 Blog Views: 37453 Bike riders: Watch for drilling rig on bike path! Canyons meeting under way... Bldrs Exchange drama... Recycling wackiness State's property values decline for first time since 1933... City seeking applicants for Board of Building Appeals Homebuilders v. city (and county): Latest buzz Council, Weds night: development "freeze?" Suing Bakersfield: Pork hits fan? And they're off! City Council seat beckons... City of Bako: Initial damage estimates from state budget deal November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 Get e-mail updates from this blog, and download to print on the go with the City Beat Printcast.
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The fate of a controversial 788-home proposed development south of Panama Lane called Ten Section is still unresolved. The development was on the council agenda, but the applicant has asked for it to be put off.
The developer, Jim Manley, has been struggling to get buyoff from two key agencies. The Kern Water Bank Authority, which owns property next door, has raised concerns about the potential conflicts. When the land is used for water banking, it becomes a mosquito breeding ground, and...
One thing I forgot to mention in the story this weekend on Mayor Harvey Hall's trip to Amritsar, Punjab, India was who paid for it.
According to Hall, the trip was financed by Bakersfield's Sikh community, the people who are promoting Amritsar as a potential sister city. Hall said he was housed by families of Bakersfield businesspeople.
Check out this PDF document from the Sister Cities International Web site. On Page 4 it talks about how, in other countries, sister cityhood is a...
I started working Thanksgiving calories off early lugging next week's Bakersfield City Council packet to the office. I think it's the heaviest I've yet seen. What's inside? Documents on the two Wal-Marts, EIRs for two other projects and lots of paperwork on, um, other stuff. Check out the Californian this weekend for the full skinny.
What I love most is the rubber band. That's not a band twisted around, nor is it two rubber bands. That's a four-way rubber band, more a harness than a rubber...
So the city bought the Borton Petrini and Condon building, kitty corner from City Hall, to be the new city hall. The transformation will take another step in January when HR moves in. But they need a name. Well, five names.
From today's General Information memo from City Manager Alan Tandy:
In the near future we need to rename that building as well as they building we currently occupy. The best idea we have come up with so far is to designate the entire area bounded by Chester on the...
At the start of tonight's City Council meeting, Public Works Director Raul Rojas updated the council on the city's many ongoing road projects. Councilman Harold Hanson had two questions: Can we speed things up? And can we make things cheaper?
Contradictory much?
I asked Hanson about it, and he said he's aiming the two comments for two different aspects. He'd like to see the environmental process sped up by better coordination between agencies, he said, and he'd like to see the savings...
Wednesday is Bakersfield's annual Teen City Government Day, in which 56 lucky students get paired with Bakersfield city officials for a look inside city government. In many cases, the students assigned to departments will be in groups getting presentations and tours. At night, 14 students will get to sit behind council members or high-level city staff during the council meeting.
The kids didn't get to pick their city staffers. But imagine for a minute you are a high-achieving Bakersfield...
You know how sometimes you don't have the money yet, but you know how youre going to spend it? Maybe it's your tax refund check, maybe it's reimbursement for medical bills, maybe it's the refund for those Decemberists tickets you have for the shows that were cancelled yesterday.
The City of Bakersfield is sure enough that it's getting $5.2 million from the California Transportation Commission next week that it's already drafted a press release. The money from the state Prop 1B is slated...
Bakersfield is facing a $183,000 shortfall in covering its employees’ health-care plans for the first six months of 2008.
The employees’ Blue Cross PPO is expected to cost 20 percent more in 2008, the city’s health-care consultants told a City Council committee this week.
That leaves the city council to consider cuts to employee benefits or find more money to cover the costs.
In particular, recommended cuts include an increase in the annual out-of-pocket maximum....
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