Community Input

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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