Phase III  

Visioning Meeting

High School Input � West High � April 4, 2000

 

Our Slogan:

�        Little town, big heart

�        Where you want to be

�        The future starts in the present-starts with us       

�        Hate the game not the player

 

Our Image:

�        City of music

�        Kool Kids with Kool Ideas

�        Big city

 

Our Reputation:

�        Known for our musical talent

�        Better achievement in schools

�        Agriculture

�        Better city pride

�        Known as a cowboy city

�        Hard working

�        Music

�        Try to eliminate the �dirty road� hick town stereotype

�        Clean people

 

Business Environment:

�        Better businesses that will provide work for the unemployed

�        More good paying jobs

�        More jobs for teenagers

�        Higher minimum wage

�        More entertainment (places to go for teenagers)

�        Amusement/Water Park

�        Encourage business to build on vacant lots within town

�        More competition for car dealerships

�        Ben and Jerry�s Ice Cream Parlor

�        Tall skyscrapers with pool on top

�        Bigger malls

�        Fewer bars

�        Fewer auto-repair shops

�        Build a Krispy Kreme donut shop

�        No more shoe stores

 

Arts & Culture:

�        Art museums

�        Cultural fair

�        Foreign languages should be taught rather than Spanish (high schools)

�        Bigger black history parade

�        More rappers

�        More art and music classes in schools

�        Bigger and better museum

�        No more Korn

�        No more Buck Owens

 

Heart of the City:

�        Art school

�        Classical music

�        Performing arts school

�        Park with lots of trees

�        Centennial Gardens

�        Water park

�        Amusement park

�        A renovated downtown

�        Giant fountain

�        Develop Central Park

�        Too many punk clubs downtown..more variety needed

�        Cultural center

�        Entertainment

�        IMAX Theater

�        Big sports stadium

�        Old time looking Bakersfield

�        Edwards, Pacific Theaters

�        Valley Plaza

�        West High

 

Our Values:

�        Education

�        Family

�        Conservative

�        Religion

�        Staying clean

�        No sex til marriage

�        No divorces

�        Parties

�        To love one another

�        More Christian radio stations and activities

 

Technology:

�        Super computers

�        Computers that affordable

�        A more diverse economy that helps teens get a better�in order to start off higher than before

�        More books for the school � New ones.

�        More computers for those students that have the skills to work

�        More jobs

�        Completely automated public toilets

�        Free cell phones

 

Transportation:

�        GET bus

�        Hovercraft

�        Subway

�        Cars that run on energy

�        Monorail

�        High speed rail

�        VW Bugs as taxis

�        Cooler bus with toilets

 

Biggest Change:

�        No more trash

�        Less drugs around our school

�        More places where teenagers can hangout without getting in trouble

�        More community involvement

�        Better variety in clothes

�        Better school parking

�        Change name of Oildale

�        Weather of our city

�        Build new business structures downtown

�        Extend 178 through Rosedale

�        More lanes for traffic in Northwest Bakersfield

�        Different transportation

 

Break Thrus:

�        Better education in school

�        Ski slopes-manmade

�        Better music and performing arts education

�        Clean environment

�        Drug free environment

�        No racism

�        Cleaning E. Bakersfield

�        More job opportunities for teens

�        No pollution

�        Roads and transportation outside and within Bakersfield

�        Less money for gas since we live next to Elk Hills

�        More clubs

�        Better buildings

�        More police

�        YMCA

 

Looking back I�m most proud of�

�        Making it this far without kids

�        Making it this far without having sex!

�        Making it this far

 

 

In our Community�s Future We Wanted and We Got

�        Clean area

�        More trees

�        Recreational centers such as water parks, high paying jobs

�        Higher minimum wage

�        More fun activities

�        Amusement parks

�        More companies (bigger)

�        More concerts

�        Less fields and more buildings

�        Lower gas prices

�        More schools instead of jail

�        Better shopping malls

�        Faster speed limit

�        Water parks

�        Clubs, trees, parks, Black university

�        Community painted murals

�        Better & higher educated students

�        More sports clubs

�        Bigger & better parks and libraries

�        Child care centers with cheaper prices

�        Less grocery stores

�        Better radio stations

�        More scholarships for music students

�        Professional choir

�        Water Oarj �Hurricane  Harbor

�        Nordstroms

�        Baseball stadium

�        Pro football team

�        Bigger race track

�        Amusement Park (not like Camelot, bigger)

�        A bigger public skate park

�        A performing arts auditorium like San Luis

�        Build up and not expand into our agricultural area

�        Maze craze

�        More people being in high tech societies

�        Art colleges in town

�        Better water treatment

�        Orphanage

�        Higher paying jobs

�        More fire stations � better police

�        Architecture firms

�        More high school funds

�        Better theatre department

�        NBA team

�        Krisy Kremes

�        More senior independence

�        Mall with roller coaster

�        Roscoe�s Chicken & Waffles

�        Developed SE Bakersfield

�        Paintball arena

�        More jobs in technology

�        More activities for teens so they won�t be on the streets

�        More shopping areas in each housing area (lessen pollution)

�        Concerts

�        Brighter downtown

�        Technical schools

�        Fix up older schools

�        Preserve agriculture in West

�        2nd floor to the Valley Plaza

�        Strong cultural center

�        Art museum

�        Better doctor insurance

 

In Our Community�s Future We Didn�t Want and We Didn�t Get..

�        Promising careers for students that at the end, the career you chose is not worth a thing

�        Teen pregnancy

�        Money wasted on useless products such as water parks

�        Homeless people

�        BPD

�        Higher gas prices

�        Dusty fields

�        Crime

�        Poverty

�        Pollution � air, water

�        Gangs

�        Low paying jobs

�        Sex offenders

�        Busted up roads

�        Run down houses/apartments that take up space

�        Trashy environment

�        Urban blight

�        High unemployment

�        More freeways

�        No more cows and hicks

�        Less gangs (organizations)

�        People moving here

�        Dairy

�        Tumbleweeds

�        High dependence on Ag and Oil

�        Old downtown buildings

�        EB degradation

�        Teen pregnancy � poverty

�        Cowboys

�        Criminals

�        Pesticides

�        No curfew for teenagers

�        Haters

�        Pollution from S.F.

 

 

Our Vision for Downtown

�        Water parks

�        Pro Team

�        Teenage clubs

�        Child care centers all around downtown

�        Museum

�        Libraries all around downtown

�        University

�        Sidewalks, Grocery store, police substation = Lakeview

�        Big shopping Mall

�        Theme Park

�        College

�        Park with beautiful garden

�        Renovated art museum

�        Monorail all around downtown area

�        Big football/baseball stadium

�        Outlet Mall

�        Record stores

�        Subway

�        Retirement homes near 34th

�        Day care

�        Orphanage and additl rec. center for youth

�        Lakeview:  re-urbanization, car wash, gun safety courses, high school, National Guard, hospital, casino, amusement park

�        Central Park � Lake

�        Upgrade Union Ave. � hotels

�        New businesses � jobs- less poverty � urban renewal along Golden Stat Hwy

�        34th Street/Columbus � recreational center like Marketplace

�        New sports park, Water Park � S of Golden State

�        Paint Ball Arena

�        Water Park

�        Teen Club

�        Fill vacant buildings on California Ave.

�        Re-do the river in park � expand Central Park

�        New Hospital downtown

�        Beale Ave.-destroy old buildings, �eye sores� � new business structures

�        Preservation of older homes in area and renovation of land marks in our history � E of Beale

�        Urban renewal E of Union on Truxtun

�        Lakeview to Union:  Entertainment for teens, more street lights, more police activity, new housing, urban renewal, rec areas for young children