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Kern County Second District Supervisor, Zack Scrivner, is pleased to announce that construction of new group restrooms at Tehachapi Mountain Park is scheduled to begin on Aug. 12 and is expected to be completed by the end of October. This project will replace an existing non-ADA accessible restroom structure with a premanufactured ADA accessible restroom. The new restroom will include four single-user restrooms and two single-user showers. The exterior building construction is pre-fabricated...
At the Feb. 26 meeting of the Kern County Board of Supervisors, I introduced a resolution calling on the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) to abandon the High Speed Rail (HSR) project in its entirety. On March 12 the Supervisors voted four-to-one passing this resolution. At its best, this so-called "bullet train" was nothing more than a pie-in-the-sky idea sold to the California voters in 2008 as a way to produce more jobs, cleaner air, less congestion, etc. at a "modest" $9 billion...
I'm sure you share the pride I feel to live and work in Kern County. Our home is a special place! As we all begin 2019, I look forward to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Here are some of the highlights that the Board will tackle in the coming year: We are in the third year of our four-year plan to eliminate the county's General Fund structural budget deficit, originally pegged at $44.5 million, due to a drop in oil prices and steep increases in county employee pension costs....
I am grateful for the honor and privilege of serving Kern County's Second District on the Board of Supervisors. Together, we have accomplished much, and this newsletter focuses on some of the highlights for Kern County and the Second District. Kern County Budget Update The Board of Supervisors passed the county's budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year. We are in year three of our 4-year plan to eliminate the General Fund structural deficit, after several years of falling oil prices and rising...
Kern County Budget Update This week, the Board of Supervisors passed the county's budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year. We are in year three of our four-year plan to eliminate the General Fund structural deficit, after several years of falling oil prices and rising employee benefit costs. All county departments, except for Kern County Fire, have endured cuts during our four-year plan, but the Board and I have asked your county government to maintain service levels despite these cuts. The efforts...
Dear Friends, As your elected representative on the Kern County Board of Supervisors, I work to honestly and efficiently manage your tax dollars to provide the services you expect and deserve, and improve your neighborhood and quality of life. In 2017, I was honored to serve as Chairman for the Kern County Board of Supervisors. This year presented many challenges, but the county has achieved success in many areas and continued our focus on achieving fiscal stability. In managing the county...
The Kern County Board of Supervisors receives feedback and responds to concerns raised by Kern County residents on a regular basis. We take our community's concerns very seriously, and evaluate the best actions to take on each issue presented to us. Earlier this year, our Board was presented with an issue from a local business owner regarding a massage facility adjacent to her business and suspected prostitution taking place. She asked us to look into the matter as she felt strongly that this wa...
A Kern County Enforcement Task Force commenced action today to enforce the county's moratorium on three illegal medical marijuana dispensaries in the communities of Mojave and Rosamond. The three dispensaries, Big O Relief at 16940 Highway 14, and an associated grow site at 16916 Highway 14, Lights Out Wellness located at 1739 Poplar Street, Rosamond, and American Organics Club at 1737 Locust Street in Rosamond, were operating illegally. This Enforcement Task Force action commences an...
A Kern County Enforcement Task Force commenced action on Aug. 10 to enforce the county's moratorium on three illegal medical marijuana dispensaries in the community of Rosamond. The three dispensaries, Green Mile Collective at 2613 Diamond Street, Highway Relief Medical at 2929 Sierra Highway and 5 Gramz Stop at 2949 Sierra Highway, were operating illegally. This Enforcement Task Force action commences an initiative to close all illegal medical marijuana dispensaries that began operation after...
At the July 18 Board of Supervisors meeting, my colleagues and I received an update on the county budget process from County Administrative Officer Ryan Alsop. The county is still in the midst of a fiscal emergency, but we are making progress, currently in the second year of our five-year budget restructuring plan. The price of oil is predicted to remain flat, and low, for the foreseeable future. This has a major impact on the revenue the county receives from property taxes. However, revenue...
At the May 23 Board of Supervisors meeting, my colleagues and I proclaimed the month of June as “No Kill” Effort Awareness Month in Kern County. This awareness month will be the first of an annual awareness drive throughout the county. Back in December of 2015, Kern County Animal Services made a goal and commitment to the citizens and animals of Kern County to be a “no kill” animal shelter by 2020. Since 2015, the euthanasia rate has gone down from high of 6,600 animals to a projected 4,000 d...
The past few years have been challenging economically for the County of Kern. Due to the fall in the price of oil, the county has endured budget cuts and hiring freezes, and this past year, public safety was cut to balance the budget. Anything that can save the county money and allow us to operate more efficiently and productively, while still maintaining a high-quality level of service to our constituents, should be put to use. The Lean Six Sigma initiative is one that I am excited to see imple...
With the County still in a declared fiscal emergency, overtime costs are eating the fire budget alive and must be addressed. That’s why the Kern County Fire Chief is reducing staffing from three-person shifts to two-person shifts at nine stations throughout the County to cut fire overtime costs by $2 million to $3 million annually. The firefighters union jointly developed this plan with the Fire Department as a fiscal emergency clause in the current Memorandum of Understanding between the County...
Supervisor Zack Scrivner attends National Security Forum Maxwell Air Force Base, AL – Supervisor Zack Scrivner received a personal invitation from the Secretary of the Air Force and attended the 63rd annual National Security Forum (NSF) at the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The purpose of the NSF was to expose influential citizens to senior U.S. and international officers and civilian equivalents in order to engage each other’s ideas and perspectives on Air Force, nat...
TEHACHAPI – Supervisor Zack Scrivner today announced that the Kern Stop Meth Now Coalition will hold a community town hall on Thursday, May 12th, 2016 at 5:30PM at the Tehachapi Veterans' Hall, 123 E. "F" Street in Tehachapi. The Tehachapi Town Hall will provide local drug trend information and invite those in attendance to identify local issues that might contribute to the problem, as well as possible solutions. The Kern Stop Meth Now Coalition welcomes participation from those in business, e...
TEHACHAPI - Second District Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced today all veterans are welcome to speak to a Kern County Veterans Services representative via teleconferencing at his Tehachapi office on the first Tuesday of every month, which started on Oct. 6, 2015. "I am happy to provide my Tehachapi office to those Eastern Kern vets to speak with the county Veterans Services Department to explore any and all benefits they may be entitled to. Using the teleconferencing at my office will save...
Second District Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced today the total amount of dollars granted to Eastern Kern businesses in 2015 through the RENEWBIZ program. RENEWBIZ is a community revitalization program, created by Scrivner and the Kern County Board of Supervisors in 2012, that offers $5,000-$10,000 grants to businesses in unincorporated Eastern Kern, with a local match from the business of 10% of the total grant. The money from the grants funds the refurbishment of the exterior of businesses...
7 saw no shortage of challenges facing the County. Below are some updates on many important issues that came before the Board of Supervisors in 2014: Kern Medical Center The new management team hired by the Board of Supervisors to turn around Kern Medical Center has steadily brought the hospital back toward profitability while staying true to KMC’s core mission of providing quality health care to all who need it. KMC’s in come in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2014-15 came in $3.5 mil...
Kern County has much to be proud of - especially the people that live here. Chelley Kitzmiller of Tehachapi is one of those people we can all be proud of. Chelley is diligently working to make one of our county's worst statistics much better - that of unnecessary animal killings because of the severe pet overpopulation problem we have in our communities. Chelley is the founder of Have a Heart Humane Society based in Tehachapi. Chelley and Have a Heart have been providing low-cost spay and...
My office and other county officials are working with Eastern Kern communities and Fresno State University to conduct the East Kern Economic Strategy. At this time, Fresno State has met with stakeholders and has put together a funding strategy for the plan that includes 50% from the participating communities (California City, Rosamond, Mojave, Boron, Ridgecrest) and 50% in the form of an Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant from the federal government. Funding from the participants...
After two months of public meetings and much deliberation, the Board of Supervisors passed the 2014-15 FY budget. The good news is that there will be no layoffs, save for the already scheduled layoffs from the ongoing restructuring at Kern Medical Center. The total budget passed is $2.7 billion, an increase of $87.1 million from last year’s budget. Of that $2.7 billion, only $72 million is discretionary. All the rest of the monies are either “pass through” funds from the state or federal gover...
For the past several years, the County has adopted our final budget in August, after the County accounts for all of its "carryover" funds (monies left over from the previous fiscal year), and more accurate projections on property tax revenue are completed. This has allowed the Board of Supervisors to make budgetary decisions with the most complete and accurate financial information. In prior months, all County departments were asked to prepare their budget requests for Fiscal Year 2014-15 with...
