BAKO GETS SALES TAX AFTER ALL

The surprise passage of the Measure N sales tax in Bakersfield means about $50-million in new funding. City Manager Alan Tandy says the money will be used for community development and to hire new BPD officers. “It will take about three years to fully hire 100 sworn [officers], fire department cuts which were made in 2008 will be fully restored. “The additional one-cent sales tax was losing by 15-hundred votes after the election, it passed with 97.

Suzanne Grant