Results from Phase III Community Forums:
Bakersfield Adult School - April 11, 2000
Our Slogan:
· The best Mexican restaurants in the world
· The best opportunities in the state
· The city that has it all
· Bakersfield- the city of black gold
· The city with the best fruits
· The grape's city
· City of the future
· New future for this year 2020
· Walk with us
· Bakersfield is friendly and safe
Our Image:
· Clean city
· Latinos more involved in politics
· Fun
· Agriculture
· Great place to live
· Better - very good
The base of our ideas are out values
Our Reputation:
· Good people - who listen to others, help others
· Friendly
· No gangs
· Tough on crime
· Safe
· Very good
· Affordable house
· Good education for everyone
Business Environment:
· Factories, manufacturing
· Clinics for those who can't pay
· Lab services open 7 days
· More jobs, better pay
· Want cheaper gas here
· Bring in professional sports
· More loans to Spanish people
· Better planning zone for agriculture
· More computer businesses
· More location business
· We need more clothes, and toy factories
· More benefit for small business
· More assembly factories
Civic Culture:
· City needs a zoo
· A Mexican Consulate
· Monuments for members of our community
Education:
· More universities
· Better schools for children
· Music school free
Arts & Culture:
· More, bigger museums - children's & art
· Cultural center
· Arts & crafts
· Theaters
· Spanish theaters
· Art festivals - all cultures
· Arts workshops
Heart of the City:
· More trees
· International cultures center (EPCOT Center) cafes, music
· Keep it clean
· Less traffic
· Less homeless
· More schools
· More business
· More buses to ride out of town
· More parks
· Park zoo
· Canals should be changed to be a part of the landscape and pleasing to the eye
· Clean air, no pollution
· Capitalize on Bakersfield's history - great old buildings
· Cultural center for youth
· Prevention center for drugs
· Parking lots
Technology:
· Places to learn to use computers (cannot afford computers)
· A computer in every house
· Free internet
· More satellite
· More computers to the school
· (free) computer literate classes
· Internet access in all public libraries
· Bilingual computer classes
Transportation:
· Subway
· International airport
· Bigger airport
· Train
· Overpass
· Electric transportation
· Better bus stops (shade bench)
· Clean drinking water
· Buses from Buttonwillow to BakersfieldRoad under and business on top
· Rides shorter and faster
· Wide freeways
Our Values:
· Honest
· Good police
· More education for the parents
· Strong family values
· People are important
· Less violence on TV
Biggest Change:
· More security on the streets
· Great salary
· Jobs for women
· Great jobs
· Bigger, better university
· Less pesticides
· Clean water
· More trees
· Hospital for disabled children
· More adult schools
· More streetlights
· INS office
· Rest home, free, for the old people
· No more gangs
· Help for our children
Break Thrus:
· Eliminate asbestos throughout the community
· No more guns in schools
· No more racism
· Give drivers license to the people without residences
· INS office
· Higher education for intelligent children
· Everyone has a job
What's our vision for our economy over the next 10-20 years?
· More opportunities (desparate)
· Agriculture
· Technology
· Tourists
· Job training
· Need to raise the social security retirement
· We need more companies where the people work whole years
· More benefits for retired people
· More information about insecticide for field workers
· Different kinds of jobs
· Affordable everything
· More librairies
What kind of economic development initiaitve do we want to create?
· Need easier credit to buy a home
· More jobs
· More teachers
· More adult education
· More computer jobs
· More counselors for hispanic people
· Food processing
· More training programs for adults
· More classes for people withouth social security card
· Lower taxes for business
· Incentives for all business
· Taxes break
· For small businesses: more start-up incentives and less taxes
· More opportunities to get loans for small business
What kind of jobs do we want to attract here over the next 10-20 years?
· High tech jobs
· Factories
· More classes of technology
· Computer trining
· Oil refineries
· Processing plants
· More technology
· Clothes factory
· Raise the minimum wage
· Factories: electronic assembly, those that will not pollute
· More retail
· Small shops provide jobs
In our community's future we wanted and we got…
· More college and bettr salaries
· Everyone that can vote..vote! - good voter turn out
· More transportation ( in Northeast Bakersfield)
· More teachers for kids
· Baseball stadium
· More parent involvement
· More jobs
· Assurance that if we work and pay taxes with or without social security - please do not deprive of refunds
· Safe people - safer communities
· More Head Start programs
· Better salary
· More career options that pay well but don't need years of education
· More and better opportunities in schools and jobs
· More entertainment such as concert halls
· Want to see honest leaders inour community
· Mexican Counsul here in Bakersfield
· Better freeways (example: wider freeways)
· More shopping centers
· Cheap gas
· More sewers - not septics
· More lights (Real & Madrid)
· INS office in Bakersfield
· Freeway to beach
· Better opportunities to buy houses
· International airport
· More events
· More classical
· Medical center
· Transportation to South side of Bakersfield
· More green areas
· More money for salaries
· Don't pay for trash service
· Clean water
· More money invested in education
· Better streets
· Lower gas and water prices
· Bilingual education
· Youth education activities
· More sports teams
· Psychologists in the schools
· Higher fines for graffiti
· Spanish counselor in the community
· Big zoo
· More schools
· Young people have to be at home at 10 o'clock
· More sports
· Cultural dance of Mexico
· Water park
· Hospital for disabled children
· More childcare
· More recreation for the children and more parks
· Better cooperation between BPD and KCSD
· Take out pornography from TV
· Need drainage on Fairview and Union
· Separate schools for boys and girls
What we didn't want and didn't get…
· No more pesticides on the fields around our city
· No discrimination
· No more graffiti on the walls
· No more border patrol/immigration enforcement (deportation in the fields)
· No corruption in law enforcement
· More programs to prevent criminals from returning back to committing crimes again.
· No more increases in taxes (example: Clinton's creation of tax deduction for health care for social security retirees
· To pay more for resources we produce: oil, produce, agriculture
· Gangs
· Septic tanks
· Litter
· People selling drugs in parks like Virginia Park
· No drugs
· Less violent crime
· Less drunkeness
· No racist police officers
· No more 187s
· Bars. Casinos
· Police and hospital discriminiation
· Wait in the hospitals, clinics
· Drug traffic - sale and use
· No violence in Bakersfield
· No alleys in this area
· No prostitution
· No cantinas
· Take out the railroad from the city or make more overpasses
· Don't want women working on Union Ave.
Our Vision for Downtown
· Shopping area along the river through downtown
· Football and Baiseball stadium
· Place for playing volleyball, baseball, football, basketball
· Water World (park) out by museum
· Hospital and Coancer Society on 24th St
· Disneyland or Magic Mountain
· Hospital for disabled children
· Immigration Office and Museum on Truxtun
· Cultural Center and Culture and Arts between Truxtun and California
· Animal Museum in E. Bakersfield
· Bigger Zoo near Lakeview
· Skating rink W of Beale
· Clothes factory W of Lakeview
· Soccer stadium S of California between Union and Chester
· More basketball courts for playing and watching
· More public swimming pools
· Clean up East Bakersfield
· Needs more grass at Pioneer and Virginia Parks - also clean restrooms
· Need more lights @ Columbus & Mt. Vernon
· Call box to police on all major streets
· International airport
· Large soccer complex near Columbus
· Trees and library on 24th
· Better landscaping along Hwy 99
· Free museum on Truxtun between Chester and Oak
· More post offices, water park, more adult schools for Spanish speaking in S of California
· Book stores,. Better streets, restaurants, hospital, more stop signs, parks between Brundate and California and Union and Chester.
· Ballpark, Amtrak, convention cener on Trustun
· High rise parking downtown
· Big park with zoo @ Central Park, with museum
· More Boys & Girls Clubs in E. Bakersfield, park, and clean up streets, and more malls
· Lakeview area: more police, gas stations, hospital, more houses, better streets, speed bumps in residential areas, grocery store, park and recreation with security
· Lots more trees
· Ballpark near river - lime in drinking water.
· Bathrooms along river
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