{"id":68645,"date":"2025-11-25T04:26:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68645\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T04:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:26:31","slug":"grand-jury-urges-restoration-of-kern-county-public-health-budget-to-combat-service-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68645\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand jury urges restoration of Kern County Public Health budget to combat service impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Kern County Grand Jury report released Monday warns that budget cuts to Kern County Public Health are creating a health care crisis. <\/p>\n<p>In August, county supervisors implemented the fiscal year budget, which included a 25% cut to public health, reducing their budget to $38.2 million from more than $51 million the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The report details the various services and programs affected by the cuts and recommends that the Board of Supervisors restore the budget to its previous level. <\/p>\n<p>It also suggests providing more funding for testing and treatment of STDs, diabetes, and valley fever, among other changes. <\/p>\n<p>The supervisors have 90 days to respond to the report, while public health has been given a 60-day deadline to respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Kern County Grand Jury report released Monday warns that budget cuts to Kern County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-68645","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\/68645","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=68645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}