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.
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