What recession?….not for one lucky developer. The city of Bakersfield City Council (Politburo) is giving 1.5 acres of taxpayer owned property to a developer to build 57 subsidized apartments.
The best part is that the taxpayers will be giving a $2.7 million dollar loan to the developer interest free for 55 years………….wow, how many taxpaying homeowners [...]
Redevelopment is Corporate Welfare
Posted Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
by Ken Mettler in Opinions
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Courthouse Rip-off of Bakersfield Taxpayers
Posted Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
by Ken Mettler in Opinions
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 [...]
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 [...]
Redevelopment Frolics
Posted Sunday, September 21st, 2008 at 8:41 am
by Ken Mettler in Opinions
Where are the “limited government” Republicans?
The City of Bakersfield, Republican controlled city council, approved a 70 unit taxpayer funded low income apartment project at Mill Creek. Yes, in the same Mill Creek that already has the defunct and empty taxpayer funded low income condo project.
The vote was a rubber stamp without any questions, such as: [...]
