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My comments do not represent my organization.  They are my opinions
and stem from my own thinking.   

I have had the privilege of living in Kern County for over 37 years
and never had I experienced a summer like last, in which our
community received little respite from the excessive heat--(100+F
for almost 90 days straight in summer).  I'm asking that you guys
consider funding an initiative that includes, robust, safe walkways
and bikeways stretching across the poorest areas of Bakersfield,
Ca. designed to be the primary source of transportation for
everyone, especially the working poor, and the disenfranchised.  As
the proliferation of electric mobility (not EVs, but scooters,
electric bikes, and other personal electric mobility devices)
become more available and with the coupling of strategic heat
mitigating techniques in the built environment, I am confident of
the increase in the overall health outcomes these new paths would
entail. Low-barrier electric mobility will allow poorer children to
enter the work world without much help from missing family members
and other mentors. Exercise would mitigate some of the county's
obesity problems. Please let me know to whom I could write--so that
Kern County can participate meaningfully in this exciting but
challenging energy revolution. Solar panels can line these paths as
a source of power, shade, and climate control.