{"id":234575,"date":"2026-03-24T19:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234575\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:55:49","slug":"family-justice-center-replacement-vote-pushed-due-to-lack-of-quorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234575\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Justice Center replacement vote pushed due to lack of quorum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The vote to fill the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.turnto23.com\/news\/in-your-neighborhood\/bakersfield\/open-door-network-speaks-out-on-family-justice-center-termination\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vacancy left by The Open Door Network <\/a>at the Kern County Family Justice Center was postponed due to a lack of quorum Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A quorum is the minimum number of members of a group necessary to constitute the group at a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Recovery Services was chosen by the Kern County District Attorney&#8217;s Office to replace the services that The Open Door Network provided to the Kern County Family Justice Center, according to the supervisor&#8217;s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>When the agenda item was called, both Supervisor Chris Parlier and Jeff Flores had to abstain from voting on the item because they both received campaign contributions in excess of $500 from Bakersfield Recovery Services in the past. <\/p>\n<p>County Counsel noted that Parlier and Flores abstained because the bid process was not correctly completed. <\/p>\n<p>Supervisor David Couch was absent, which left only supervisors Phillip Peters and Leticia Perez without a quorum and unable to vote on the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed agreement with Bakersfield Recovery Services would last from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2028. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available. <\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The vote to fill the vacancy left by The Open Door Network at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,106193,100429,162,100428,8414],"class_list":["post-234575","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-recovery-services","tag-family-justice-center","tag-kern-county-news","tag-lauren-skidmore","tag-open-door-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234575","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=234575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}