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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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