{"id":234225,"date":"2026-03-24T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234225\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:18:34","slug":"mailing-error-prompts-a-second-hearing-for-bakersfield-sewer-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234225\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailing error prompts a second hearing for Bakersfield sewer rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Bakersfield is adding a second public hearing for proposed sewer rate increases after a mailing error caused 30% of the residents affected to miss their notices.<\/p>\n<p>The city sent out replacement notices last week.<\/p>\n<p>The community can now weigh in on the plan on April 22 and again on May 13.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council will make a final decision at the May meeting.<\/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 Bakersfield is adding a second public hearing for proposed sewer rate increases after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,106074,106075,1610,162,106076,106077],"class_list":["post-234225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-public-hearing","tag-bakersfield-sewer-rates","tag-city-council","tag-kern-county-news","tag-mailing-error","tag-utility-rate-increase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234225","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=234225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}