Phase III  

Visioning Meeting

Juvenile Hall � Female Treatment Program

April 21, 2000

Our Slogan:

�        Be cool, stay in school

�        Hot spot, cool place

Our Image:

�        Better jobs, More jobs

�        Better schools

�        After school activities

�        Jobs in low budget communities

Our Reputation:

�        Kind & caring

�        Friendly and kind

�        Respect for others

�        Treat others the way you want to be treated

Business Environment:

�        More job opportunities for teenagers

�        Equality between adults and teens in the job world

Arts & Culture:

�        More trees

�        Museum parks

�        Art center

Education:

�        More opportunities to graduate

�        More magnet programs

�        More tutors

�        Better programs

�        More computers in schools

�        Teachers who care

�        Art schools

�        More graduates

�        New books for the school

Heart of the City:

�        No drugs

�        More schools

�        More parks

�        Stop building new neighborhoods until we fix the ones we have!

�        Working together

�        More Boys & Girls Clubs

�        More churches

�        No gang-bangers

�        Stop arson

�        No graffiti in the community

�        Help! Greenfield, S. Union, East Bakersfield

Our Values:

�        Respect

�        Love

�        Commitment

�        Truthful

�        Honest

�        Community

�        Considerate & caring

�        Honest contentment

Technology:

�        More computers in schools

�        No welfare

Transportation:

�        Make the mass transit more appealing

�        Buses to run 24/7

�        Lower prices on cabs and more of them,

�        Subway

�        200mph cars

�        Better organized bus stops and buses

Biggest Changes:

�        More hospitals

�        More street cops

�        Bigger airport

�        Water park

�        No drop outs

�        No drugs

�        Am-track

�        Cheaper clothes

�        Subway

Break Thrus:

�        Clean air

�        No more teen pregnancy

�        No more teen suicide

�        No more baby deaths

�        Less pollution

Our Vision for Downtown:

�        Swimming pool, parks, arcades, grocery stores, pizza place, Magic Mountain, Chucky Cheese, and plaza N of Golden State Hwy

�        34^th St. area:  Little kid play places like Discovery Zone, Water slides, Clothers store, mini-mall, nail shop, Taco Bell

�        Beale Ave. area:  Buildings for concerts, more parks, McDonald�s, Football stadium

�        Central Park & S of Union Ave. area:  New motels for traveling people, mini-zoo, safer ways to not drown, beach

�        S. of California:  Skateland, mall, Hurricane Harbor, jewelry store, another plaza, place where families can go to have picnics, supermarket

�        S. of California near Lakeview:  Park, more stores, arcade, more security, more health clinics and hospitals, more activities in the South, better streets, more houses, police station, gas station, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell

In our Community�s Future We Wanted and We Got�

�        Less gang fights

�        Amusement parks

�        Another mall

�        Water parks, water slides

�        Daycare centers

�        Better programs for juveniles

�        Friendly community

�        Better security

�        Better jewelry stores

�        Better highways

�        More churches

�        Cleaner blood banks

�        Zoo where we can feed the animals

�        High school graduates

In our Community� Future We Didn�t Want and We Didn�t Get�