Fighting for Our Fair Share

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    [Kern County Board of Supervisors video image]

Redistricting is about where county funding goes…and where it does not go

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Our Fair Share Town Hall — Monday, Nov. 1, 6:30 p.m.
Frazier Mountain Park Community Center
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By Marcy Axness, TME

This Monday, Nov. 1, at 6:30 p.m. a welcoming and informative town hall will be held at Frazier Mountain Park Community Center.

It is to answer your questions about how redistricting—based on the 2020 census—can help fix what you want to see improve here.

It is about how the Frazier Mountain Communities can get a fair share of funding and representation from elected officials of our county.

High Quality Internet

Why do rural communities lack basic infrastructure needs, such as high-quality internet access, healthcare—including home health care—good roads, deputies and transportation?

Lori Pesante of the Dolores Huerta Foundation will explain why drawing new district lines is about …(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Lori Pesante, Director of Civic Engagement for the Dolores Huerta Foundation, will be at Frazier Park’s “Our Fair Share” Town Hall on Monday, Nov. 1. She will explain how an equity coalition does its job to respond to community interests. The Director of Civic Engagement for the Dolores Huerta Foundation explained the Equity Coalition Map to Kern County supervisors this week (Left), telling why the Sierra Club and the Kern River Parkway Foundation want to be in District 3 instead of District 1. The county cartographer adjusted the map lines.

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This is part of the October 29, 2021 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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