City Hall & County
What to Watch
Upcoming public meetings in Bakersfield and Kern County, with posted agendas previewed item by item. We flag items that touch surveillance systems (Flock / ALPR) and publish post-meeting recaps as review drafts.

City of Bakersfield
Multi Modal Transportation And Traffic Safety Committee
2026-08-18 · 12:00:00 — 0 agenda items
View agenda preview agenda postedSpecial Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods Committee
2026-08-14 · 13:00:00 — 4 agenda items
View agenda preview agenda postedKeep Bakersfield Beautiful Committee
2026-08-14 · 12:00:00 — 0 agenda items
View agenda preview agenda postedPlanning Commission
2026-08-20 · 08:00:00 — 0 agenda items
View agenda preview agenda postedHousing and Community Development Committee
2026-08-13 · 12:00:00 — 5 agenda items
View agenda preview agenda postedSpecial Laws and Legislation Committee
2026-08-14 · 12:00:00 — 12 agenda items
View agenda preview agenda postedWater Board
2026-08-19 · 10:00:00 — 0 agenda items
View agenda preview agenda postedMiscellaneous Civil Service Commission
2026-08-18 · 14:00:00 — 0 agenda items
View agenda previewKern County
Kern County Board of Supervisors
Next regular meeting — agenda for 8/11/2026: 101 items extracted.
View agenda previewSchool boards
KHSD and BCSD agenda feeds are stubbed — their portals block automated access from datacenter IPs; a home-runner migration is planned.
On the roadmapWhat They Decided
Post-meeting recaps are generated as review drafts in the
repo (drafts/) — they are never auto-published. A recap appears there after a
meeting date passes; we review, edit, and promote it to the site with
python scripts/promote_draft.py drafts/recap-<slug>.md.