{"id":362392,"date":"2026-06-16T05:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362392\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:02:15","slug":"measure-a-gains-ground-could-let-kern-supervisors-fill-vacancies-or-call-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362392\/","title":{"rendered":"Measure A gains ground, could let Kern supervisors fill vacancies or call elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Votes were still being counted from the June 2 primary election, but updated results released today showed growing support for Measure A, a countywide proposal that would establish Kern County as a charter county.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Elections Office said the latest results showed Measure A with 63% support, despite public opposition to the proposal leading up to the election.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Board of Supervisors has said the change would give the county more control over how vacancies on the board are filled. Under Kern\u2019s current status as a general law county, the governor appoints a replacement when a board seat becomes vacant. Measure A would instead allow the board to either appoint a replacement or call a special election so voters can choose one.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The board has pointed to the recent District 2 vacancy as an example of why it believes the change is needed. Former Supervisor<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=+Zack+Scrivner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Zack Scrivner<\/a> resigned following allegations of sexually abusing a minor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Votes were still being counted from the June 2 primary election, but updated results&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-362392","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\/362392","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=362392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}