{"id":316222,"date":"2026-05-14T23:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316222\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:31:06","slug":"bakersfield-city-council-delays-sewer-rate-hike-talks-after-hours-of-public-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316222\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield City Council delays sewer rate hike talks after hours of public comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A proposed sewer rate increase in Bakersfield has been put on hold after the City Council voted to postpone discussion until its next meeting on May 27.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-residents-speak-out-against-council-sewer-rate-hike-urge-alternatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED: Bakersfield residents speak out against sewer rate hike proposal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decision came after hours of public comment from residents concerned about the impact of higher sewer bills.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposal, annual sewer rates would gradually increase from about $247 to as much as $875 over the next several years. City officials say the increases are needed to pay for aging sewer infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Ken Weir motioned to deny the increase, while Councilman Andrae Gonzales said he wants to look into alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A proposed sewer rate increase in Bakersfield has been put on hold after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-316222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316222","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=316222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}