City Council Hatches Budget Plans And Ordinances
Council discusses repairing a 1970 refuse truck and carries over funds for a new vehicle. Discussion on medical insurance narrows to two companies with a potential administration fee for processing claims. The panel approves staying with Bankers Life and sets hearings and licenses for delivery businesses. It opposes Assembly Bill 15 on agricultural land annexation and votes to pursue a community center with block grants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll
Bill Cummings
Sheldon
Vannatta Insurance
Bankers Life Insurance of
Iowa
William K. Jones
Bankers Life
Elmer Unruh
Council
Assembly
West Side Reform and Federal Funding Debate at Forum
Local council candidates weigh ward division versus open run for office. Framing issues include park plans, recreation on the west side, and federal funding strings, with views from Vazquez Flores Link Cummings Brannon Colvard and Mayor Larson on appointments, elections, and fiscal policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cummings
Thomas
Vazquez
Colvard
Brannon
Colvard and Cummings
Community survey probes Shafter NC radio and Sparta offer
Interviews in Shafter North Carolina and with Sparta Electronics reveal citizen concerns such as crime drug abuse unemployment housing and elder activities. Leaders call for recreation housing water system education roads and better government communication with focus on migrant workers health care and flood control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Sparta Electronics Corporation
Brandon-Dorsey
Shafter
Com
Planners Continue Element Hearing to Complete Document
Planners will extend the element hearing from meeting to meeting next month until the entire document is drafted and adopted in full. The initial focus will be residential development, with discussions on a design review commission halted as unnecessary and potentially infringing on individual rights.
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Lee
Harrison
Mission
Taffern
Chuck Sanders
Public hearing set on canyon valley highway market permit
Kern County Board of Zoning Adjustment will hold a 7:30 p m hearing on March 11 1976 in Bakersfield to consider a conditional use permit for a small convenience market with gasoline pump island on 861 Central Valley Highway Shafter in a Buffer zone. A variance seeks an 85 foot building setback from the center line of Central Valley Highway where 90 feet is required. The project is categorically exempt. Testimony welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County Board of Zoning Adjustment
26Th Street
Bakersfield
California
Central Valley Highway
Finis Bailey
Shafter
Mdb&m
Kern County Planning Commission
Brandon-Dorsey seeks FCC FM permit for Shafter California
An FCC application filed January 30 1976 by Brandon Dorsey Communications Inc California lists officers Anthony Brandon and Terry L Dorsey. The plan is a Class A FM station on Channel 249A 97.7 MHz at Shafter Kern County with 3 kW ERP and a 300 ft tower at Seventh Standard Road Beach Drive NW corner location 3.5 miles south of Shafter. Public inspection at Shafter Public Library during business hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Communications Commission
Brandon-Dorsey Communications, Inc
California
Brandon- Dorsey Communications, Inc
Anthony S. Brandon
Terry L. Dorsey
Shafter
Seventh Standard Road
Beach Drive
Kern County
Shafter Public Library
James
Unification hearing praised as district adds teachers
Board members thanked the district for hiring additional teachers which reduced class size significantly. Dr. Claude Richardson met staff in the Richland music building to discuss the collective bargaining bill. The board approved an interdistrict attendance for a student to Richland while living in Belridge, added George and Mary Larson to substitute lists, and reviewed January finances showing 49 percent of the budget expended at 1 123 000 dollars. Policy readings covered certificated personnel and students and the dining room wedding reception decision was left to the superintendent. Executive session followed to discuss a personnel matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Richardson
Kern County
Richland Music
Richland
Belridge
George and
Mary Larson
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Bob Nixon
Jim Klassen
Police Administration
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Central Avenue
Ivan Meyer
Shafter Press
City Hall
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Larson
Jack L. Dalton
Golden State Avenue
Lomasemsa
Wasco
Buttonwillow
Lost Hills
Maple
Rio Bravo-Greeley
Semitropic
Stan Perisich
LeRoy Whitson
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