Kern County Chief Administrative Officer Ryan Alsop is optimistic of Kern County’s long-term future, but he sees much work the county has to do in the short term to make that future happen.
From confronting the state over its anti-oil policies to addressing lackluster growth in tax revenue, significant headwinds face the county in the future.
“There are big things that we have to get done in Kern County and it’s going to require an all-hands-on-deck approach for everybody here,” he said. “We have challenges with water that are going to affect our agriculture community, and we have obviously real financial headwinds where the cost of running our business continues to increase, and the revenues that we have in any given year are not increasing at the same rate. While I’m really optimistic about the future, and all of the things that we have done over the next several years for a bright future – those are challenges.”
