{"id":122597,"date":"2026-01-06T20:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122597\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:46:18","slug":"city-of-bakersfield-to-host-community-meetings-to-discuss-proposed-sewer-rate-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122597\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Bakersfield to host community meetings to discuss proposed sewer rate increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The City of Bakersfield\u2019s Water Department is hosting several meetings for the community to learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Bakersfield%20Sewer%20Rate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">proposed sewer rate increases<\/a> that the City Council will soon consider.<\/p>\n<p>The first meeting will be held on Thursday, January 8th, at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers in City Hall South, located at 1501 Truxtun Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public are invited to attend to learn more about the potential rate options, ask questions, and provide feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Three additional meetings will be held the following week:<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, Jan. 13, at 6 p.m. at Southwest Library, located at 8301 Ming AvenueWednesday, Jan. 14, at 6 p.m. at Ridgeview High School, located at 8501 Stine RoadThursday, Jan. 15, at 6 p.m. at South High School, located at 1101 Planz Road<\/p>\n<p>In a release, officials said residents can learn more about the sewer system, the proposed rates, and why a rate increase is needed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakersfieldcity.us\/1226\/Understanding-Our-Sewer-System-Rates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">City\u2019s special sewer rate webpage here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The City of Bakersfield\u2019s Water Department is hosting several meetings for the community to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-122597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}