Bakersfield City Council Meeting - March 25th, 2026

Bakersfield City Council · March 26, 2026

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Opening and roll call

14:20 → 15:30(1m 9s)

Mayor Karen K. Go called the 3:30 p.m. meeting to order and the clerk conducted roll-call: Mayor Go, Vice Mayor Core, Council members Aas, Gonzalez, Weir, Smith, Kleman and Basher (one member later noted absent during closed session). The council announced a student visitor and then recessed to closed session for labor negotiations under Government Code section 54957.6.

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The Bakersfield City Council on March 25, 2026 received a midyear budget update that outlined hiring-freeze savings, vacancies and reserve balances; approved a contested property purchase deposit (consent item 7H3); and directed staff to pursue planning for utility-scale distributed energy resources after presentations on community choice aggregation and municipal energy options.

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