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Kern County certified election results on Thursday, December 8th, ahead of the state’s set deadline. The Board of Supervisors will hold a special meeting about certain measures on December 9th.
County supervisors placed Measure K on the mid-term ballot over the summer. It's a one-cent sales tax on retail sales in unincorporated areas of Kern County.
Gov. Newsom talked up clean energy at the California Economic Summit in Bakersfield. But his optimism doesn't jive with Kern County leaders, who say they are staring down a financial crisis amid declining oil revenues
Kern County supervisors placed Measure K on the mid-term ballot over the summer. It's a one-cent or one percent sales tax on retail sales in unincorporated areas of Kern County.
Kern County's coffers have been walloped by a decline in its tentpole industries: Agriculture, oil and gas.