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Board approves Tejon Ranch services district
| Tuesday, Apr 15 2008 7:43 PM
Last Updated: Wednesday, Apr 16 2008 7:26 AM
Kern County supervisors on Tuesday approved a request from Tejon Ranch, through a public financing authority, to create a new community services district.
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The creation of the district will allow the Tejon Ranch company to take out bonds for the roads and other public facilities needed to expand the Tejon Industrial Complex to the east side of Interstate 5 just north of the Grapevine.
Bonds would be repaid by taxing the property owners in the area — either Tejon Ranch itself or companies it sells or leases property to.
“The Tejon Ranch people now want to develop the other side of the freeway,” said authority attorney Paul Thimmig. “The county will own the road improvements and other improvements so we need an agreement between the county and the authority.”
Tuesday’s action also changes the limit on the bonded debt from $40 million to $160 million.
CRISIS CONTROL
Supervisors approved a plan to move the Kern Medical Center Emergency Psychiatric Center from the KMC emergency room to the Mary K. Shell Clinic.
Currently the clinic takes voluntary patients on 23-hour holds. Under the new plan, which will need to be approved by the state of California, involuntary patients would be confined there for up to 72 hours. Kern Medical Center has had psychiatric patients walk away from its emergency center — prompting the state to issue violation notions against the hospital.
“Moving the EPAC out of our emergency room is critical to Kern Medical Center,” said hospital Chief Executive Officer Paul Hensler.
Patients could be transferred from KMC to Mary K. Shell by fall 2008.