BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Bringing issues that impact youth to light and finding solutions– the City of Bakersfield is gathering students looking to be a part of their youth commission.

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This is Braden Mendiburu’s second year on the Bakersfield Youth Commission .

He says, “We connect youth leaders to tangible issues in our community. So what we do is we’ll try to find a youth driven issue and we’ll try to come up with an initiative or a project and we can tackle that.”

The commission consists of high school students throughout the Greater Bakersfield Area, representing youth in their ward.

“I’m really hands-on and I like being able to tackle things myself,” said Braden. “The commission is really helpful to be able to connect me with different issues that I’m

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