Community Input
Results from Phase III Community Forums
San Joaquin Hospital - April 20, 2000
Our Slogan
- The Place to Be!
- The Best Kept Secret
Our Image
- Kind
- Friendly
- Fun!!
- Connected
- Accepting
Our Reputation
- Take care of our own
- A great place to work and live
- Honest, fun-loving and hard-working
- Health conscious
Business Environment
- Low cost of living
- Fair allocation of state healthcare funding
Arts & Culture
- More children related plays, musicals, etc
- More productions - live theater, musicals, etc
- Bette Midler, Garth Brooks, Michael Jackson, Barbara Streisand. Celine Dion, Shania Twain
Heart of the City
- Family oriented
- Fun
- Value spirituality/faith
- Accessible health care
- Care for underserved
Our Values
- Family
- Security
- Fair/equal treatment & access to resources
Technology
- Increasing opportunities for people to learn about computers
Transportation
- "Beltway" Freeway
- Local transportation
- High Speed rail to L.A. (stops at San Diego)
Biggest Changes
- Shift in minorities
- Healthcare delivery/management
- Focus on care of elderly
Break Thrus
- Cure for diabetes
- 100% immunizations for kids
- Cure for cancer
- Cure for mental diseases
- Cure for Valley Fever
What's our Vision for our Economy over the next 10-20 years?
- Greater diversity and higher paying jobs
- Steady growth
- Increasing opportunity for women inbusiness
- Magic Mountain
- Flat tax
- Curbside recycle (mandatory)
- Major/Big golf tournament
What kind of Economic Development Initiatives do we want to create?
- Dairies are great
- Agriculture has been our foundation - retain it
- Tax incentives for business
- Increasing manufacturing e.g. Fritolay
What kind of jobs do we want to attract here over the next 10-20 years?
- Computer science
- Compete Silicon Valley
- Affordable childcare for working parents & flexible hours (for NOC workers)
- Increasing opportunities for teenagers, i.e. working in amusement park, grocery stores, etc.
- Increasing technologic jobs
- Nurses
- Qualified teachers
- Psychologist/therapists
Our Vision for Downtown
- River Walk
- Hockey Center & NHL team
- Baseball stadium
- Water World in East Bakersfield
In our Community's Future We Wanted and We Got…
- More community sponsors in the schools (Business partners for schools)
- Safe bike path
- Aquatic centers at high schools
- Cleaner air
- Better transportation
- More entertainment - theaters, plays
- Increasing literacy rates
- An unbiased newspaper
- Wider freeway 65/41
- More parks/water parks
- More restaurants that stay open later and serve more vegetarian and healthy foods
- Hockey Center
- Baseball stadiumdowntown
- Christian community
- Nordstrom's
- RNs
- A return to a strong agricultural base
- Develop a community "personality"
- Affordable therapy for families
- More "community hours" required for high school students
- Senior oriented day care programs
- Freeway loop around city
- Coffee shops
- Pediatric hospital/treatment facility
- More cops in school areas & on public transportation
- Increased competent, qualified teachers
- Fast food vegetarian
- More things for teens to do
In our Community' Future We Didn't Want and We Didn't Get…
- Drugs
- Congested streets/freeways
- Gangs/violence
- To look like every other "big city"
- Graffiti
- Uninsured population
- More movie theaters
- Child abuse
- Elderly abuse
- Teachers that don't care
- For profit hospitals
- Teen pregnancies
Metropolitan Bakersfield - 2010 General Planning Area
- Freeway to bypass Bakersfield proper
- High speed rail station downtwn
- Park off of Hageman and Allen Rd.
