COUNCIL VOTES TO ELIMINATE PACE PROGRAM

The Bakersfield City Council has voted to do away with the Property Assessed Clean Energy or PACE program, which helps homeowners install solar panels and pay back the loan on their property taxes. Brian McCarty runs the similar Kern County HERO plan and thinks Wednesday night’s decision is a punch in the gut to those who need it most. Others said tax liens and shady lenders made their homes impossible to sell, Supervisors dumped PACE last week.

Suzanne Grant