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1. Supervisors meet in morning session

   By The Bakersfield Californian

   Tuesday, May 08 2012 08:46 AM

   Will it be a quiet morning at the board of Supervisors? There could be some surprises. And, if there are not, the afternoon promises some interesting discussions -- from a man facing fines for growing hundreds of marijuana plants on two properties to County Counsel Theresa Goldner's request for more vacation time to a discussion of solar development on agricultural land.

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2. Supervisors face Relay for Life equipment challenge

   Kern County supervisors will, this morning, take up the thorny topic of loaning the Kern County Fire Department's mobile kitchen to the Relay for Life event. Is Relay for Life a public benefit operation that can be sheltered under the county's mission statement? After coming down hard on the previous fire chief for lending out public equipment for private use, can supervisors tell the new fire chief to let a non-profit borrow a major piece of public equipment?

3. Animal shelter is frontline at Supervisors meeting

   Supervisors take up the issue of animal sheltering this morning. We'll hear what we can about the situation the county is in, its dispute with the city and its options going forward as the meeting gets moving.

4. Animal shelter is frontline at Supervisors meeting

   Supervisors take up the issue of animal sheltering this morning. We'll hear what we can about the situation the county is in, its dispute with the city and its options going forward as the meeting gets moving.

5. County animal shelter advances to next round of 'challenge'

   Kern County Animal Control rode a swell of support from county animal lovers and the Bakersfield SPCA to a great finish in the qualifying round of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' annual $100,000 grant challenge.

6. Supervisors to review fire audit Tuesday

   The Kern County Fire Department is still trying to clean up its financial house according to an auditor's report Kern County supervisors will review this morning.

7. Supervisors to hear department budget stories

   Kern County's many departments will make short presentations this morning about what they face in the coming fiscal year with the preliminary financial picture laid out by planners from the County Administrative Office.

9. Supes to ponder seasonal unemployment problem

   Tuesday morning's Kern County Board of Supervisors meeting won't involve the big issue of employee contracts and a possible move toward a strike, but it will be busy none-the-less.

10. Doctors to Supes: keep residency program

    The most interesting things about Tuesday's meeting of the Kern County Board of Supervisors may not be on the agenda. Local doctors are expected to speak out against the potential closure of the family medicine residency program at Kern Medical Center. Hospital officials have decided not to take a new class of residents this year and are looking at the long-term cost of maintaining the program.

11. Medical marijuana: will voters choose?

    Kern County supervisors -- blocked from banning medical marijuana collectives operating out of commercial store-fronts -- could send the issue to the voting public on June 5.

12. Supervisors to talk next years budget

    Kern County supervisors will talk budget Tuesday.

13. Pot raid could lead to big fine

    The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider whether to fine the owners of a parcel where marijuana was being grown.

14. Supervisors to weigh in on high-speed rail

    The Kern County Board of Supervisors will today be the latest local government to weigh in on whether California's high-speed rail plans should go forward as they stand now.