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Families, volunteers and Corbin Burns urge Kern County to preserve Northwest Bakersfield Baseball’s Metro Center lease
Summary
Multiple speakers told the Board of Supervisors that Northwest Bakersfield Baseball has reinvested in Metro Center for nearly 30 years and urged the county not to award an RFP to a travel‑baseball organization that they say could displace affordable recreational play.
Dozens of community members told the Kern County Board of Supervisors on March 10 that Northwest Bakersfield Baseball has stewarded the Metro Center complex for decades and should retain first right of refusal if the county seeks a new concessionaire.
Jason Royer, vice president of Northwest Bakersfield Baseball, described a 29‑year relationship under which the nonprofit league reinvested more than $1.25 million into lights, fencing, dugouts and fields and maintained the 24‑acre facility with volunteers. He said…
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