By Patric Hedlund

Kern County Supervisor Mike Maggard seemed a little surprised at his board’s regular meeting Tuesday, March 10, to hear that Friends of the Kern County Library are concerned about the county’s lack of transparency when it comes to a decision to possibly privatize management of the Kern County library system.

“I don’t think we have opened public dialogue yet,” Supervisor David Couch said in an interview with The Mountain Enterprise on Monday, March 9, but then said, “We haven’t…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

The Frazier Park Branch Library, just before it opened October 22, 2011.

Can you find yourself in this crowd? Hundreds of people showed up to celebrate the opening of the new Frazier Park Library in 2011.

Nancy Kerr, new Director of Kern County Libraries, from LSSI, LLC

John Nilon, Kern County Administrator, who has been researching a contract with LSSI, LLC to privatize the Kern County Library system.

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