FRAZIER PARK, CA (Friday, Dec. 1, 2023 at 3:01 p.m.)—After six weeks of local organizing that included information tables on street corners, newspaper articles with a cut-out mail-in form, a website dedicated to protesting the proposal, collection boxes around town and a great deal of incendiary talk about unfairness, the proposed mandatory trash pickup service fee will not be approved by the Kern County Board of Supervisors. Kern County Public Works Assistant Director Lisa Shreder told The Mountain Enterprise this afternoon that Frazier Park has exceeded the required number of valid protests to defeat the proposed mandatory service and fee. The minimum requirement to defeat the proposal was 842. According to Shreder, the validated protest count today stood at 853. A final count will be delivered at the December 5 public hearing in the Board Of Supervisors chamber.

This is part of the December 1, 2023 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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