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Board receives MyKern app update; supervisors push wider use to speed responses
Summary
The Kern County Board of Supervisors received a presentation on MyKern, the county's mobile reporting and engagement app, and voted unanimously to receive and file the update after hearing usage statistics and plans to expand outreach.
Kern County supervisors on Aug. 5 received a presentation on MyKern, the county's free mobile app that lets residents report nonemergency issues and receive status updates. Supervisor Parlier moved to "receive and file" the presentation; Supervisor Couch seconded the motion, which passed on a unanimous voice vote.
The presentation, given by Erin Briscoe Clark, chief communications officer for Kern County, outlined how the MyKern app centralizes reports for public works and parks and recreation, uses GIS mapping to place service requests in the…
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