{"id":215005,"date":"2026-03-11T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215005\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:35:07","slug":"kern-county-eyes-higher-streetlight-charges-for-nw-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215005\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County eyes higher streetlight charges for NW Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Northwest Bakersfield residents may soon see higher charges on their bills to keep their neighborhood streets illuminated.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to set a public hearing on a proposed increase in streetlight service charges for the area.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, May 12, at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Property owners in the area will be notified by mail about the proposed increase ahead of the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Northwest Bakersfield residents may soon see higher charges on their bills to keep their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,735,98627,162,16552,46360,85642,98628],"class_list":{"0":"post-215005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-kern-county","13":"tag-kern-county-board-of-supervisors","14":"tag-kern-county-news","15":"tag-northwest-bakersfield","16":"tag-property-owners","17":"tag-public-hearing","18":"tag-streetlight-fees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215005","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=215005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}