Why is the Bakersfield City Council allowing a San Francisco based federal bureaucrat to demand that the taxpayers of Bakersfield gift over one million dollars of public property to a private developer? Why did the Redevelopment Agency spend $428,000 of taxpayers money on an adjacent parcel to provide the parking for this project? Why would [...]
Courthouse Rip-off of Bakersfield Taxpayers
Posted Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
by Ken Mettler in Opinions
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Redevelopment made painfully simple
Posted Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
by Ken Mettler in Opinions
The Kern County Board of Supervisors recently discussed spending $908,000 of the taxpayers’ money on out-of-town attorneys and consultants to initiate another layer of unaccountable government called the Oildale Redevelopment Agency.
Why not use the money to just hire local community activists as Community Improvement Liaisons (CIL) within a designated target area? The CIL would act [...]
