Youth Commission Appointments

At a glance

• What: Council appointment of regular and alternate members, by ward, to the Youth Commission for 2026-27 (terms expired July 2026). Names of the young appointees are left off this page.
• Where it stands: on September 16 the Council appointed regular members for Wards 2, 5, 6 and 7 and alternates for Wards 2, 5 and 7; no Ward 6 alternate was named. A sixteen-seat appointment item was on the August 5 agenda; its outcome is not in the copy of the minutes.

Sources

• Minutes of 2026-08-05: https://docs.bakersfieldcity.us/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=2000875&dbid=0&repo=CITYRECORDS (read from a scanned document)
• Minutes of 2026-08-26: https://docs.bakersfieldcity.us/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=2000876&dbid=0&repo=CITYRECORDS (read from a scanned document)
• Minutes of 2026-09-16: https://docs.bakersfieldcity.us/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=2001808&dbid=0&repo=CITYRECORDS (read from a scanned document)

Log

2026-09-16 - City Council

City Clerk Drimakis announced eight applications plus one more received by staff memorandum. Mayor Goh, on behalf of Bashirtash (Ward 6), nominated a regular member and an alternate. The Council appointed four regular members (Wards 2, 5, 6, 7) and three alternates (Wards 2, 5, 7). One applicant spoke on the item. Weir and Bashirtash were absent.

2026-08-26 - City Council

A speaker raised a Youth Commission appointment during non-agenda statements.

2026-08-05 - City Council

The 3:30 session agenda listed sixteen appointments to the Youth Commission for 2026-27; the outcome is not shown in the minutes text. At the 5:20 session Local Government Management Assistants and Youth Commissioners presented the commission's annual project, and the Council received and filed it on Vice Mayor Kaur's motion, unanimously.