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Board adopts 2025 state and federal legislative platform emphasizing funding, infrastructure and industry
Summary
Kern County supervisors unanimously approved a revised 2025 state and federal legislative platform that staff said simplifies language, highlights funding priorities and adds specific items including support for affordable property insurance efforts and an expedited VA clinic construction.
The Kern County Board of Supervisors on Feb. 25 adopted a revised 2025 state and federal legislative platform intended to give county officials a clearer reference for state and federal advocacy.
Thomas Brown of the County Administrative Office presented the platform and described three core pillars: protect funding for local services, support a business-friendly regulatory climate to sustain local industry, and advance infrastructure and land-use policies. The platform also added a simplified budget breakdown and a new earmarks section for funding requests, staff said.
Brown summarized specific additions recommended by the county’s Legislative Program Committee, including support for efforts to deliver affordable property insurance to fire-prone communities (platform section 1.18); backing FAA enforcement of minimum safe manned and unmanned aircraft flights over sensitive airspace (section 10.13); expedited construction of a new VA clinic in Kern County (section 11.7); retention of tax credits that promote domestic manufacturing and extraction and support for carbon-capture and sequestration projects (section 12.6); and measures to mitigate effects of federal tariffs on local industries (section 12.7).
Supervisor Peters and Supervisor Flores, both members of the Legislative Program Committee, praised the format changes and broader public participation introduced this year. Janine Adams, a member of the public who attended the committee meeting, urged the board to use the platform proactively at the federal level to protect rural health services and funding streams.
After brief discussion the board moved, seconded and voted to adopt the platform; the clerk recorded the vote as "all ayes." County staff will use the document to guide outreach to Sacramento and Washington, D.C., and indicated the county plans to solicit additional public input at the December Legislative Program Committee meeting.
Why it matters: The platform steers the county’s formal positions on legislation and funding requests, including public-safety, health-care and industry-related priorities that affect county budgeting and services.
