Special meeting on tax limit and local issues in Shafter
The Shafter City Council reviewed its audit on January 30 with Davis of Baily Brennan and Davis on hand to explain the format. Letters from Richland School District and County Administrator discuss the Jarvis Amendment and its potential impact on local revenue, plus council actions include Amtrak schedule support, annexation notice, and new permits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Davis
Baily, Brennan and Davis Accountants, Inc
Richland
Evron Barber
Lerdo
Barber
Norman McNamee
McNamee
Planning Commission weighs parking at therapy building site
The Planning Commission met Tuesday January 24 to discuss Conditional Use Permit 77-18-Lewis for a therapy building beside the convalescent hospital at Tulare and Willow. The project lacks required front parking. several proposed solutions were rejected and the panel approved a motion to provide hospital parking with therapy lot landscaping by one vote.
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Planning Commission
Lewis
Convalescent Hospital
Tulare and
Willow
Tulare Street
Bill Sheldon
Wit
Jane Zachary Reaches Top Ten In Junior Miss
Shafter student Jane Zachary placed among the top ten finalists in the California Junior Miss program held in Santa Rosa. She earned a 300 scholarship and a silver platter for participation, with 59 top seniors competing statewide.
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Shafter
Jane Zachary
California
Santa Rosa
Sharon Biloff
Kay Millwee
Jane
Shafter Fire Department Fights Three Week Calls
Shafter fire crews responded to three recent incidents including a car fire on a Dodge Coronet owned by Marie Ryan and a residence blaze on 248 East Ash caused by wiring, plus an attic fire from an electric heater at 363 Walnut. Losses totaled thousands with substantial saves.
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Shafter City
Marie Ryan
Manuel
Charles Armstrong
E. Ash
Shafter Fire Department
Norval Winters
Walnut
Shafter Police arrest closet gardener and auto thieves
Police arrested Thomas Ray Goodwin of 140 Poso Street January 23 on suspicion of cultivating marijuana in a closet. Earlier, theft reports include a 1969 Pontiac GTO stolen from George Thomas’s driveway January 21 and multiple juvenile suspects linked to auto theft, burglary at Richland School, and recovered items.
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Thomas Ray Goodwin
Poso Street
Shafter
Western Municipal Court
George Thomas
Rosalee Avenue
Thomas Goodwin
140
Richland School
Richland
Safeway
Pedro Garcia
Garcia
Marland Hiebert
Atlantic Street
S. Shafter Avenue
East Ash
Shafter Police
Randy Roy Spears, Jr
Peerless St
Bakersfield
Assis
James Lee Harris
South Valley Street
Public hearing on Shafter Parks and Recreation District formation
The Kern County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday February 21 1978 in Bakersfield to consider formation of the Shafter Parks and Recreation District. Protests written requests for land inclusion or exclusion will be heard and the board will decide on district formation and whether to dispense with an environmental impact report.
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Shafter Parks and Recreations District
Kern County Board of Supervisors
Kern County Administration
Truxtun Avenue
Bakersfield
Vera K. Gibson
Board of Supervisors
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Amtrak
San Francisco
Hudson
Hudson Parkette
City Hall
League of California Cities, City Managers Department
Pasadena
Police Department
Department of Benefit Payments
Commission
Washington, D.C
Senate
Hearst Foundation
United States Senate
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Telephone Company
Lerner
Lerdo Highway
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