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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 rathern 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 cellphones

Transportation:
� GET bus
� Hovercraft
� Subway
� Cars that ron 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 nesx to Elk Hills
� More clubs
� Better buldings
� 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 -Hurrican 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 rollercoaster
� 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 waterparks
� 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 parrk - 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

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