Shafter Council Pledges Forward Look for City Development
City leaders edge toward revitalization plans at a February council session. Mayor Don Zachary urged residents to look to the future while Acting City Administrator John Guinn outlined steps, amid debates on land zoning, lot sizes, and a gas housing proposal. Council members Thomas Hiebert Prout and Zachary attended, with voting on 6000 square foot lots and stalled 10 acre parcel changes. A noise ordinance and vendor regulation were discussed, and officials planned a joint Feb 18 meeting with the Planning Commission to cover conflicts of interest Brown Act and redevelopment feasibility. The next meeting is Feb 24 at 7 p.m.
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Don Zachary
Shafter
John Guinn
Wayne Wood
Wood
Kenneth B. Smith
Shafter Motel
Beech Street
Lerdo Highway
Los Angeles Street
Ordinnance
Los Angeles and
Shafter Avenues
Thomas
George Wise
Zachary
Hiebert
Prout
Wise
Farmers Home Administration
Borhoods
Juanita Gonzalez
la Nueva Mexicana
Richard Oberholzer
Guinn
Planning Commission
Ron Young
Shafter City
Council
Davisson joins State Pupil Services Committee at ACSA
Davisson, dean of Mary students at Shafter 4 School, appointed to the 15 member statewide Pupil Services Committee serving Kern, Kings and Tulare counties. The panel, meeting January 30, aims to study education issues, train professionals and propose acts for about 14,000 ACSA members mostly in K–12.
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Davisson
Mary
Shafter 4
Association of California School Administrators
ACSA
Kern
Kings
Tulare
State Department of Education
Shafter High School
Shafter
SHS
Association
Wesley Acker
ACLA
Cal State-Bakersfield
Highland
Vista East
Bakersfield
Weather report from Shafter Cotton Research Station
At the Shafter USDA Cotton Research Station the daily weather data record shows temperature highs and lows and measured rainfall amounts for the period.
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Shafter
Usda Cotton Research Station
Shafter Parks Department Details and City Funding
The Shafter Parks Department employs one full time staffer with trustees from Kern County Lerdo Correction Facility and a summer worker for park maintenance. It oversees four parks totaling 30 acres and maintains grounds along Lerdo Highway Central Avenue and Highway 43 plus City Hall Police and Public Works grounds. Annual costs total 38000 with 28000 labor 5980 materials 200 electricity 3120 insurance. City taxes fund parks with 17 percent of property taxes. 83 percent go to county and schools. One cent of the six cent sales tax stays in the city. the rest goes to the state for programs including Dial A Ride.
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Shafter Parks Department
Kern County
Lerdo Correction
City of
Shafter
Mannel Park
Calloway Street
Mannel and
Central Avenues
Kirschenmann
East Marengo
East Euclid
Birch Street
Rodriguez
Stringham Park
Sunset
California Avenues
Park Department
Lerdo Highway
Central Avenue
Highway 43
City Hall
Ment
City Public Works Yard
Parks Department
State
Apple cold storage plant grows near Lerdo in 1980s era plan
The article describes an under construction apple cold storage facility near Lerdo between Shafter and Lerdo Highway with controlled atmosphere rooms for apples. It notes Granny Smith trees planted in 1983 in an orchard south of the site, dwarf trees selected to produce fruit in about six to ten years, and mentions Australian or New Zealand origins of Granny Smith.
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Lerde Highway
Bidart Bros
Granny Smith
Apple
Lerdo
Lerdo Highway
Shafter
Bidarts
Australia
New Zealand
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Frank Christensen
Oberholzer
California
United States
Weather Report
City Government
Iene Ieee
Mike Addieman
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