Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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As your Second District Supervisor, your safety is my top priority. I'm pleased to share some of what we at the county have accomplished in 2023, and what to expect in 2024. To help fill chronic vacancies, the Board of Supervisors approved significant pay increases for Sheriff's Deputies. Now we have record numbers of new recruits in our academies, and we have successfully recruited over a dozen deputies from other law enforcement organizations. The Board approved the addition of 25 new...
Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner has appointed Karen Sanders as his new Field Representative covering East Kern. "I am pleased to announce that Karen Sanders is joining our District 2 team", said Supervisor Zack Scrivner. "Her extensive experience living and working in East Kern, as well as her strong work ethic and passion for the area will serve our constituents well." Karen is a Texas native and long-time California City resident. Karen and her husband Roy raised a family of four and...
Now that 2023 has come to an end, as your Second District Kern County Supervisor, I want to share with you some of what we at the county has accomplished over this past year, and what the residents of Kern County have to look forward to in 2024. Over the past decade, the county has been impacted by significant fiscal challenges, which has resulted in reduced budgets, difficulty in staffing key positions and fewer investments in public services and amenities. I know the impact of this has not...
In 2022, Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced plans to allocate nearly $8.7 million for park improvements throughout his district. Funding for the improvements at eight county parks in District 2 will come from several sources. Recently, the County secured $3,023,637 from the Clean California Grant administered by the Department of Transportation for Mojave East Park. The County Administrative Office has also budgeted $1,000,000 from the County's allocation of federal American Recovery...
In accordance with the voter approved Measure K, an oversight committee has been formed to aid in transparency and oversight of the sales tax revenue generated by Measure K and to oversee compliance with the enacted ordinance. The Committee duties will consist in reviewing the annual budgeted uses of Measure K revenues as a part of the County's annual budget process, as well as other County financial reports related to Measure K which may be produced from time to time. Jeff Kermode will serve...
Major Developments and Deliverables Pedestrian Safety 20th Street West in Rosamond saw the completion of pedestrian safety improvements with the construction beginning in February 2021 and was completed in Summer 2022. The improvements were part of a Safe Routes to School Project and this location was selected due to the proximity to Rosamond Elementary School. The project constructed nearly 1 mile of sidewalks, pedestrian paths, ADA curb ramps and higher visibility crosswalks to ensure a safe A...
Good morning everyone, and thank you for coming to Kern County to discuss the future of California's economy. This is the right place in the State to have this conversation. Sacramento's ambitious climate goals, and all it hopes to achieve, cannot be accomplished without us. Here in Kern County, we are working to stabilize our water supply while still producing the food needed to feed our state and the world. Here in Kern County, we site renewable energy and energy storage for California while...
The Tehachapi Resource Conservation District is currently looking for applicants who are interested in serving on their Board of Directors. TRCD members must be registered voters in California and reside within the district, as well as own real property in the district. If you are interested in applying, please contact the office of Supervisor Zack Scrivner at (661) 868-3660 or email at [email protected]. Supervisor Scrivner encourages citizens interested in serving their communities...
Kern County operates and maintains over 5,000 acres of community and regional parks located across our 8,000 square miles. Each of these parks are unique in size, scope, function, location, geography, amenities and utilization. Our parks range from small neighborhood spaces to massive regional recreational areas, such as Buena Vista, Hart Memorial and Tehachapi Mountain Parks. Each one of them is as important as the next. Together, they are a bell-weather of community well-being, quality of...
Kern County's Second District Supervisor, Zack Scrivner, announced plans this week to allocate nearly $8.7 million for park improvements and maintenance throughout his district, which stretches from Boron on the edge of Eastern Kern to Taft and Frazier Park near the county's western boundary. Funding for the improvements at eight county parks in District 2 will come from several different sources. Recently, the county secured $3,023,637 from the Clean California Grant administered by the...
Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced on March 2 that the County of Kern has been awarded a $3,023,637 grant for improvements at Mojave East Park. The funding was made possible through a County of Kern submitted "Clean California" Local Grant Program application, a program focused on beautification and improvement of local streets and roads, tribal lands, parks, pathways, and transit centers to clean and enhance public spaces. "Park improvements for the Mojave area are a high priority...
Kern County is an organization grounded in ideas, energy, and innovation. We are a driving force in California's economy – the fifth largest in the world. We're proud to feed and fuel communities, providing essential services to the people in our state, nation, and beyond. Kern County is a hub for aerospace and defense, agriculture, energy, oil, mining, and logistics. Our region ranks third in the nation for most diversified economy, and fifth in the nation for millennial attraction, as our t...
On Jan. 2, 2022, the Kern County Board of Supervisors unanimously elected Second District Supervisor Zack Scrivner to serve as this year's chairman of the Board. Chairman Scrivner was first elected to represent District 2 in 2010 and has spent more than a decade serving the communities of Bakersfield, Boron, Caliente, California City, Maricopa, Mojave, North Edwards, Rosamond, Taft and Tehachapi. This year, Chairman Scrivner will lead Kern County forward, as an organization grounded in ideas,...
Following the U.S. Census every ten years, redistricting takes place to adjust for population shifts and changes. As we have done every 10 years since Kern became a California county 1866, Kern County is tasked with redrawing our supervisorial district lines again this year. Although this process only happens every ten years, a common story is being told about the desert and mountain areas that make up Eastern Kern County, largely by those who don't live here. This tired and familiar story uses...
In response to Governor Gavin Newsom's announcement that his administration will undertake to phase out hydraulic fracturing, and ultimately all oil extraction in California, Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner issued the following statement. "Newsom's announcement today continues his misguided and heartless attack on Kern County communities and families, where the oil and gas industry contributes nearly $200 million in property taxes to local governments and schools, provides 17,000...
Truly, 2020 has proven to be extremely challenging due to the spread of COVID-19, which has impacted virtually every facet of our lives. The Board of Supervisors and staff at the County of Kern have worked hard to meet the challenges of this pandemic, while still providing the other essential government services that our residents and taxpayers expect and deserve. When Governor Gavin Newsom escalated his attacks on Kern County's oil industry, I called for a special meeting in January that had...
On November 17, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered Kern, and 40 other California counties, back into the most economically restrictive Purple Tier. These 41 counties represent 95 percent of our state's population. COVID-19 infection rates have been increasing all across the country, moving largely in an east to west direction. California counties have been monitored by the Governor's Office and the CA Department of Public Health (CDPH) using three metrics: Case Rates, Testing Positivity Rates and an...
On September 23, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order calling for a ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in oil production by 2024, and a ban on sales of new gasoline engine passenger vehicles by 2035. In doing so, Newsom demonstrated that Kern County and our hard working 900,000 people don’t matter to him. Kern County produces 80 percent of the state’s oil and conducts 98 percent of the hydraulic fracturing in the state, but we also site and build more renewal energy and alt...
On Aug. 25, the Kern County Board of Supervisors approved our budget for Fiscal Year 2020-21. The challenges we face in budgeting for this next fiscal year are many. While we continue to struggle with little to no year-over-year growth in the county's two primary revenue sources, property tax revenue and sales tax revenue, the cost associated with providing essential services continues to increase, primarily driven by the cost of labor. This foundational fiscal challenge is compounded this year...
To Whom it May Concern, As the County Supervisor representing the Tehachapi region, I wholeheartedly support the proposed American Viticulture Area of "Tehachapi Mountains" Docket No. TTB-2020-0006. I believe that the proposed rules of this AVA, the boundaries, and the name "Tehachapi Mountains" appropriately reflect the intent of the vintners within the proposed area and will be properly presented to consumers once placed on the bottles. I achnowledge the work the Tehachapi Win Grower's...
At our May 19 Board of Supervisors meeting, my colleagues and I unanimously approved the implementation of the Kern Small Business Relief Program (KSBRP). This program provides $25 million in loans for local small businesses impacted by COVID-19. In the coming days, local small business owners and tax-exempt nonprofit organizations will be able to apply for a forgivable loan from multiple local business lenders. Local small businesses will be eligible to receive a forgivable loan in an amount...
My family and I are praying for health and comfort for our communities and our nation during this unprecedented time. The COVID-19 Pandemic has had far-reaching effects on our health care systems, our economy and our daily lives. The operations of government on all levels, including the County of Kern, has been drastically altered over the past several weeks, and no one knows for sure how long the current situation will continue. As your Second District Kern County Supervisor, I want to assure...
On Jan. 14, the Board of Supervisors held a hearing in response to my referral on Governor Newsom's attack on Kern County's oil and gas industry. In attendance from Newsom's administration were Legislative Affairs Secretary Anthony Williams, CalGEM Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk and Department of Conservation Director David Shabazian. In California, 366,000 jobs supported by the oil and gas industry are in jeopardy, as well as $21.6 billion in annual local, state and federal tax revenue...
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 article focuses on some of the highlights for Kern County and the Second District. Kern County Budget Update... For the Kern County Board of Supervisors, 2019 was a year that presented numerous challenges, but was also marked by much success. On Aug. 27, the Board of Supervisors adopted our final 2019-2020 Fiscal Year Budget, which successf...
On Aug. 27, the Board of Supervisors adopted our final 2019-2020 Fiscal Year Budget, and I'm extremely pleased that this budget will completely close the General Fund deficit of $44.5 million that was identified four years ago. This large deficit was caused by a significant drop in oil prices over two years and steep increases in employee pension costs (70%) over the last ten years. It took a lot of hard work from county employees and department heads to get there, but our four-year mitigation...
