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Wasco High graduate named to San Diego board

Wasco High ('98) and University of the Pacific ('02) graduate, Anthony Bernal II, son of Tony and Connie Bernal (Wasco, CA),  has been elected to the 2009 San Diego Sigma Chi Alumni Chapter Executive Board.  Sigma Chi Fraternity (EX) is one of the largest and oldest all male, Greek-lettered social fraternities.  Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.  Sigma Chi's purpose is to promote the concepts of Friendship, Justice, and Learning; its mission statement is to develop values-based leaders committed to the betterment of character, campus and community.  Currently, there are 133 alumni chapters located all throughout the US and Canada.

Veteran county adminstrator appointed as new budget & finance director

Gloria Dominguez, a veteran Kern County administrator, has been appointed as the County's Budget and Finance Director.
In her new position, Dominguez will oversee the preparation and monitoring of an annual budget totaling $2 billion that includes a broad range of State-mandated programs and many essential local services such as law enforcement, fire protection, roads, airports, landfills, parks, and libraries.
Dominguez, who was a senior administrative analyst in the County Administrative Office, has 12 years of accounting and management experience with the County.  She joined the Kern County Superior Courts in 1996 as an administrative services officer and served the District Attorney's Office in the same capacity from 2000 until 2006, when she joined the Budget and Finance Division of the County Administrative Office.
“I am very pleased that the County budget and the programs it supports are in Gloria Dominguez' extremely capable hands,” County Administrative Officer Ron Errea said in announcing the appointment.  “She knows every aspect of program budgeting, policy analysis, and finance, and she will be a valuable leader as the County seeks to maintain quality services to the public while handling the fiscal challenges that confront us.”