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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04/02/99 B A K E R S F I E L D CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE MEMORANDUM April 2, 1999 TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: ALAN TANDY, CITY MANAGER SUBJECT: GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Attached is a staff report summarizing the current progress by the City regarding the 2020 Vision principles and the status of the 2020 Vision process. The Chamber is scheduling a planning meeting on how to proceed with the 2020 Vision process on April 28th. Staff will be attending and the Chamber has requested that an elected official also attend. Urban Development Committee Chairman Rowles has indicated he is available to attend that meeting. 2. The court decision came out on the Kern Delta - North Kern case. It is very favorable for us, however, it is not the last step. 3. The Housing Authority is putting forward a proposal for an 80 unit downtown housing project for the elderly. It is on a site north of Central Park. They will be asking for very large amounts of assistance from housing and redevelopment set aside funds. When it is timely, it should go to a Council committee. 4. We are in the process of acquiring more of the banner poles that are in front and on the side of Centennial Garden. We want to carry the theme south to the ends of the parking lots. They have lights on top, and we are changing the heads of the lights in the parking lot to address lighting concerns that have been expressed to you. 5. Chief Brummer his identified his retirement date as June 4th. He will be missed! 6. Things have been happening regarding the VCI litigation. Please feel free to call for an update if you don't want to wait for the next closed session. 7. Enclosed is a copy of the position paper which the Kern Transportation Foundation developed in 1995 regarding transportation issues in Kern County, and their relationship to our economy and quality of life. Honorable Mayor and City Council April 2, 1999 Page 2 8. Meetings were held on March 26th to consult with all of the affected taxing agencies for the proposed redevelopment project areas. A summary is enclosed for your information. 9. The National Recreation and Parks Association has selected a Bakersfield program, the Bakersfield Regatta, as one of five finalists (out of 5,000+ submitted nationwide) to be considered for the keynote site for launching their Millenium Project. Agencies were asked to submit information about a "family/community" event that will be occurring in the summer. Thanks go to Jeanette Triscuit, Recreation Specialist, who developed the Bakersfield Regatta program and submitted it for consideration. The final determination will be made in the next few weeks. 10. The Recreation and Parks summer activity brochure is enclosed. AT:rs cc: Department Heads Pamela McCarthy, City Clerk Trudy Slater, Administrative Analyst BAKERSFIELD CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE MEMORANDUM March 31, 1999 TO: Urban Development Committee/ ~- THROUGH: Alanx3~Tan_dy, City Manager //?~// FROM: J0~b~.~tinson, Assistant City Manager SUBJECT: Greater Bakersfield - 2020 Vision Community Development Summit Report The City Council received a presentation on the 2020 Vision Plan by the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce. The goal of the report was to develop a common vision for the future of metropolitan Bakersfield. The report was referred to the Urban Development Committee of the Council. The Committee recommended that the Council adopt the three main principles included in the report, Which are: · Business Environment - Create an environment which retains and attracts business and industry and improves their long term viability. · Infrastructure - Improve and maintain existing infrastructure and provide new infrastructure to support growth. Prioritize investment in infrastructure that promote cultural, educational, business and social needs of Greater Bakersfield as a catalyst for private investment. · Integrated Approach - Adopt and implement a comprehensive metropolitan plan that incorporates consistent principles that support current and future community needs. The City Council adopted these principles at the March 17, 1999 Council meeting. The City of Bakersfield has been a leader in efforts to address each of these proposed principles in our community. Examples of city efforts in each area include: Business Environment: The City has implemented a balanced approach to business attraction and business retention. Through the establishment of Team Bakersfield, existing Bakersfield businesses are provided S:UOHI~UrbanDev~2020 Vision Report Memo.wix[ extensive technical assistance for any proposed business expansion. Team Bakersfield acts as an ombudsman to ensure a rapid efficient and streamlined permitting process. This has often resulted in substantial savings or improved project design. In addition, the City provides generous financial assistance to existing businesses tied to the generation of full time jobs. With respect to business attraction efforts, the City was a charter member of the Kern Economic Development Corporation. The City continues to be a very active participant in this collaborative business recruitment effort. This outreach effort includes the County of Kern, other Kern County Cities and private sector representatives who combine their resources to present a united front when promoting Kern County's and Bakersfield's competitive advantages. The City has shown it's commitment to these efforts through regular increases in it's financial contribution and active participation in KEDC. Another significant effort coordinated by KEDC is a business attraction and retention study being done by The Natelson Company. The study which is currently in progress, will identify key industry clusters that offer the greatest oppommities for business retention and expansion. It will also define what impediments may exist to what could be an otherwise burgeoning industry. It will also offer a comprehensive overview of the economic structure and provide an oppommity to re-examine our economic structure. The study will provide information that can be used as a valuable economic development tool and provide a focus to future economic development efforts. It is anticipated the report will be available in April of this year. The City has focused on the creation of job opportunities, the range of jobs created and improving the skills of Iow income individuals. Assistance has been provided to service industry companies (such as Holiday RV, Stier's RV, and Galey's Marine), to back office operations (State Farm, AFSA, and MDS Communication), and manufacturing (Harvel Plastics, Step 2, and Kern Tech) to name a few. The City has worked with Bakersfield College in the establishment of a customer service academy which focuses on providing quality employees for the call center industry. We also require that any agreement for financial assistance have a minimum of fifty-one percent of all jobs created filled by low or moderate income individuals. Additionally the City requires that companies receiving assistance utilize the Employers' Training Resource as a first hire source. This means that displaced workers (due to lay-offs, plant closures, etc.), or individuals that are under-employed are provided employment oppommities. The City has offered a wide array of housing programs. These have included grant programs to assist the disabled by improving the accessability of their home; first time home buyer's down payment assistance; Mortgage Credit Certificates; single and multiple housing rehabilitation; in- fill housing construction; and provision of care and shelter for the homeless. Current priorities call for an emphasis on downtown housing development using not only federal and private funds but also existing redevelopment housing funds. The City has dedicated significant resources to redevelopment of the downtown area to increase S:UOHN~UrbanDevk2020 Vision Report Memo.w~ business activity and attract potential customers to the area. The expansion and renovation of the Convention Center, the completion of the Holiday Inn Select Hotel and the construction of Centennial Garden Arena and Centennial Plaza illustrate the commitment of the City to improving the businesses environment in the downtown. The recently completed Downtown Streetscape project was also an effort to make the downtown more attractive. Additional lighting and the addition of shade trees should make the area more desirable for businesses and encourage more pedestrian traffic in this area. Infrastructure: The City has worked closely with the County of Kern and other cities within the county to prioritize and identify funding for road and highway projects. This process has been accomplished through the Kern Council of Governments. The City and County have been involved in reserving future freeway alignments through the adoption of specific plan lines. Funding for the Kern River Freeway project ($175 million) and funds for the Centennial Freeway project ($15 million) have been programmed. In addition the City has been very active in the planning and construction of grade separation projects. Currently we are beginning construction of the Q Street grade separation project and assisting the County with the Calloway Drive grade separation project. The City and County have both adopted a Metropolitan Bakersfield Transportation Impact Fee program which is intended to mitigate the impacts of development by providing funds for regional transportation improvements. These are in addition to the on-site or local improvements required for each project. The City and County have participated in an ongoing public-private partnership with the Kern Transportation Foundation. The City Council has approved participation in a proposed Transportation Sales Tax Survey to evaluate the feasibility of a one-half cent sales tax as a means to fund transportation improvements. The City joins the County, Golden Empire Transit District, KemCOG, and the Superintendent of Schools in contributing funds to the Kern Transportation Foundation for the study. Expansion of two of the City's wastewater treatment plants is currently underway. Several trunk sewer lines are being upgraded as well to accommodate greater sewage flows. This work is funded with developer fees. This again is an effort to properly plan and provide capacity for future growth within our city. The City has a long history of coordination and cooperation in providing for community agricultural and urban water needs. There are numerous agreements with local water agencies and districts which promote coordinated management of our water resources. The City currently is implementing a joint project with California Water Service to construct a new intake plant on the Kem River near Hart Park. This facility will provide water service to the northeast part of the City. It will also provide a more consistent water supply for Hart Park, the Kern Soccer Park and the California Living Museum. A portion of the domestic water demand in the southwest area is met by. the 2,800 acre recharge basin. This open space land use facility is used to store water S:klOHl~UrbanDev~020 Vision Report Memo.wpd from the Kern River, Friant Kern Canal and the State Water Project for retrieval and use for industrial and agricultural use. Integrated Approach: This City~-ad County have jointly adopted the 2010 General Plan which includes the incorporated and unincorporated areas of metropolitan Bakersfield. The 2010 General Plan is the constitutional document governing the physical development of the city with an eye to the future. The plan is the outcome of several years of extensive community input and collaboration by the City and County. The 2010 General Plan is the one document that embodies the vision of what Metropolitan Bakersfield should be in the future. City staff is proceeding with an update of the plan, in cooperation with the County, in order to reflect changes in the assumptions that have occurred since it was adopted. Because the 2010 General Plan was adopted jointly by the City and County, both entities will be involved in the update. Past efforts to encourage consistent city and county development, zoning and land division standards will continue. The update of the 2010 General Plan will' include a visioning process incorporating many elements that are included in the 2020 Vision report. This process will include creating vision statements for the general plan update using identified public planning issues to give direction to the visioning process. Following the visioning process, specific strategies will be developed to achieve the vision, including specific general plan policies and programs. An extensive community participation process is planned using available technology, workbooks, response forms, and workshops with the Planning Commission. Staff is anticipating use of new technologies such as the intemet as part of their public outreach efforts. The City and County have cooperated to address other joint planning efforts including the Kern River Parkway Plan and development of the Habitat Conservation Plan. Current Status: The Urban Development Committee has discussed 2020 Vision report and has recommended the adoption of the three statements of principle in the report. They discussed hosting meetings to provide for public input and information regarding the specific points listed in the report beneath each principle. The County Board of Supervisors on February 23 received the 2020 Vision report and approved the following recommended actions: 1) Direct that the 2020 Vision report be used, as appropriate, to guide the work of boards, committees, commissions, and groups appointed or supported by the Board of Supervisors and whose responsibilities include economic development, land-use planning, and infrastructure related topics; S:~lOHN~UrbanD~vk2020 Vision Report Merao.wpd 2) Refer efforts to create consistent development standards to the Planning Department; and 3) Approve the 2020 Vision report as a guiding document for the County's current strategic planning effort. The specific direction as to how further implementation of the Vision 2020 Report will occur is unclear. Representatives from the Chamber of Commerce, have indicated that they would like all the parties to continue the visioning process. It is their desire to further refine the principles listed in the report. How that is accomplished has yet to be determined. There are concerns that both the City and County are involved with other planning efforts (County Strategic Plan, County 2000 Plan and the Metropolitan Bakersfield 2010 Plan update) which may be duplicated by another visioning process conducted by the 2020 Vision group. In order to avoid duplication of effort it seems that incorporating the 2010 Vision principles and participants in the 2010 Plan update would be the most effective. The 2010 Plan area is the same as the area addressed in the 2020 Vision Report. The 2010 Plan is a joint City/County document that by its very nature integrates mutual agreement on goals, policies and their implementation. The General Plan process also promotes input from all indiViduals and groups within the 2010 General Plan boundary. Use of the General Plan process will also provide specific results from the visioning process since the General Plan is a legal instrument which provides specific guidelines for the development of the community which must be followed. The Chamber of Commerce has indicated they may choose to conduct a continuation of the visioning process separate from that of the General Plan update with the City and the County in the process. If that were to occur, the results could still be incorporated with the 2010 General Plan update as an additional source of public input. The Chamber is currently considering both options. They have scheduled an additional half day planning meeting for April 28th and have invited representatives from both the City and County to present information on the efforts each have made regarding the Vision 2020 principles. Staff will be attending the meeting and provide information similar to that included in this report for consideration by the Chamber. The Chamber has also requested that an elected official also attend. The Chairman of the Urban Development Committee has indicated that he would be available to participate since the Committee has been reviewing the 2020 Vision process. Recommendation: Either option can work effectively and the City can participate in either process. Should the process be chosen to proceed with a visioning process outside the General Plan it would be good to identify some number of specific activities or projects at the end of the process that would help achieve the "vision." cc. Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council S:klOHN~UrbanD~v'O.020 Vision Report Memo.wpd VITAL LINKAGES Transportation, the Economy, and Quality of Life in Kern County Susan H. Weaver Kern Transportation Foundation VITAL LINKAGES Transportation, the Economy, and Quality of Life in Kern County by Susan H. Weaver A Position Paper Adopted March 20, 1995 by the KERN TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION 3434 Truxtun Avenue, #290 Bakersfield, CA 93301 (805) 322-2873 CONTENTS Page Executive Summary i Introduction 1 Transportation and Kern's Economic Development 1 Maintaining Kern's Economic Vitality 2 The Structure of Kern's Economy 4 The Economy and the Environment 7 Can We Solve Our Transportation-Air Quality Problems? 9 Realizations and Resolutions 9 Conclusions 20 References 21 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper is intended to set transportation issues into the larger context of our county's economic development and relate these connections to the quality of life we enjoy here. Maintaining our standard of living and providing for the sustainable growth that will allow our children and grandchildren to work and live here comfortably will require foresight and planning. In charting our future it is essential to be honest about the state of our community at present and to take a critical look at what maintaining our present planning principles and practices implies for the future. Transportation is crucial to Kern County's prosperity because we rely on exports. Our major products--agricultural and petroleum--are not manufactured for local use, but primarily for export. But within the large and complex economy that has developed in our region, it is perhaps easy to overlook transportation's importance and to misunderstand the need to maintain and improve the region's transportation system. It is tempting, but dangerous, to focus solely on needs within our community because no modern economy stands alone, and our transportation system is what links ours with the rest of the world. How our transportation system compares with those of other areas will, over time, determine our continued economic competitiveness and viability. Transportation links consistently rank among the top criteria for locating businesses, and they have become increasingly important as business practices have changed. Industry's demand for "just- in-time'' access from manufacturing facilities to markets establishes the new accessibility standard under which areas compete to retain and attract business and industry. Kern County faces a serious challenge to its economic competitiveness for the foreseeable future because our area has been classified as a "serious nonattainment area" for air quality. Unless we are able to continue to improve our air quality here, we will find that we cannot build new businesses or homes. Unless we can show that new roads will improve air quality, we are cut out of virtually all federal and state funding. The amount of transportation funding available to us is greatly reduced because Kern has no locally generated matching funds. The new reality for local governments as a result of changes in air quality and transportation funding laws is that they must now consider the transportation and air quality implications of their land use decisions. Our historic pattern of low-density development cannot be sustained without a substantial investment in transportation facilities. To maintain our quality of life we must come up with a strategy that allows us to avoid transportation gridlock and the economic stagnation that might result from it. That strategy should include policies designed to accomplish the following: 1. To enhance the personal mobility needs of all segments of the population and effectively increase the amount of road capacity available for business purposes by integrating land uses and designing a time-efficient, cost-effective transportation network. 2. To resolve the mismatches between where we need to go and where our transportation system is currently designed to take us by developing alternative, multi-passenger transportation options that can respond to and alleviate the costly congestion caused by the changing pattern of jobs and housing locations. 3/31/95 i 3. To recognize the importance to the community-at-large of maintaining a pro-business stance, and to provide a modern, balanced transportation network that will encourage business to locate and remain here. 4. To encourage the growth that must occur if we are to sustain our standard of living and provide a community in which ~our children and grandchildren can flourish. 5. To plan for both the liveability and sustainability of our communities by keeping an eye to the future and responding to changes in the economic and regulatory environments. 6. To take both implicit and explicit costs of transportation into account and to demand cost- efficient transportation systems. 7. To aggressively seek funds for maintaining and improving our transportation system and to establish Kem as a "self-help" county to raise matching funds. 8. To provide funds to adequately maintain the current system, while allowing different development patterns for new developments thereby permitting a more efficient and economical use of our existing transportation system. 9. To do what it takes to keep gas dollars generated in Kern County here so they can provide jobs and income while providing improved transportation facilities. Establishing such a program will allow us to maintain a healthy economy and foster a competitive business climate. It would lower our personal transportation costs, minimize the time we spend commuting, and retain our personal mobility. It would reduce our impact on the environment, improving our air quality. It would provide for sustainable growth. Growth that will give our children the opportunity to live and prosper in Kern County. 3/31/95 ii Introduction The Kern Transportation Foundation is a Private/Public non-profit public benefit organization formed in 1992 to promote a modem, balanced transportation system that enhances our quality of life and supports the economic vitality of Kern County's communities. This mission was adopted in response to the new realities of transportation finance, which require local involvement and attention to environmental impacts. This paper is intended to set transportation issues into the larger context of our county's economic development and relate this connection to the quality of life we enjoy here. Maintaining our standard of living and providing for the sustainable growth that will allow our children and grandchildren to work and live here comfortably will require foresight and planning. It is helpful in charting our future to look briefly at our past, and critical to be honest about the present and the trajectory that it implies. Transportation and Kern's Economic Development The importance of transportation systems to Kern County's economic development is evident in the region's history. Until the late nineteenth century, the lower San Joaquin Valley was a rural and remote, and sparsely populated. In 1858 the Butterfield Overland Line began stagecoach service to the area, and this development is credited with opening up the area to new settlers. 1 In this predominately agrarian economy, early hopes for an economic boom were pinned on the coming of the railroad, which would improve agricultural trade with existing markets and make trade with new, more distant markets possible. The Southern Pacific Rail Road extended its line from northern California to northern Kern County in 1874, and by 1876 the Kern Delta region was finally connected by rail to both northern and southern California with the completion of the Tehachapi Grade and the connection to Mojave. Nearly four decades passed before the next major transportation improvement was complete and the Ridge Route opened in 1915, shortening the trip to Los Angeles by 60 miles.2 Intraregional links are no less important, and in Kern several of the earliest projects illustrate this: The construction in 1867 of a toll-road from Bena to Walker Basin, which connected the valley with the mountain communities.3 The paving of 19th Street in 1910, the first in the county, which linked Bakersfield's downtown business center with the one that had developed around the railroad station in what was previously Kern City.4 The passage in 1913 of a $2.5 million bond measure to grade and pave roads between and within Bakersfield, Taft, Maricopa, and McKittrick, from Wasco to Lost Hills, McFarland, and Rio Bravo, and from Delano to the Tulare County line? Transportation was then, and continues to be, crucial to Kern County's prosperity because we rely on exports. Our major products--agricultural and petroleum--are not manufactured for local use, but primarily for export. But within the large and complex economy that has developed in our region, perhaps it is easy to overlook transportation's importance and to misunderstand the need to maintain and improve the region's transportation system if you are not directly involved with a business that 1Bailey, p. 29-30. 2Ibid., pp. 49-51. 3Ibid., p. 41. 4poid., p. 81. 5Ibid., p. 80. 3/31/95 1 depends on moving good to and from market. It is tempting but dangerous to focus on needs within our region because no modem economy stands alone, and our transportation system is what links ours with the rest of the world. How our'transportation system compares with those of other areas will, over time, determine our continued economic competitiveness and viability. From the earliest times, those regions that were most accessible to trade were the ones which prospered the most. Historically, cities sprang up at the intersections of trade routes, whether these were across land or water. Locations along navigable rivers and at their confluences with natural ocean, sea or great lake harbors, and later along stagecoach, railway or highway routes were the most desirable and their land prices the highest in reflection of their value to commerce. Today theseforces are still strong, but the relative importance of the various types of transportation links has changed as technology and the structure of the economy has changed. To merely maintain an existing system will not help to maintain our community's current economic position. Locations that are advantaged with respect to transportation are subject to change. Old configurations and juxtapositions of buildings are not efficient, and hence not cost effective, so businesses tend to relocate to newer areas. While resident-serving business can be expected to stay within the community, export industries are more footloose and may move to other communities unless facilities can be updated in response to their changing needs. The critical factors for locating industry are available labor pool and transportation links6: Can they build it? Can they ship it? Can they do this economically? Robert Dunphy, an expert on transportation and infrastructure, underscores the importance of the last two questions: "The restructuring of U.S. business has literally pushed goods out of the warehouses and onto the roads, with just-in-time delivery allowing businesses to reduce inventory costs from 26% of final sales in 1980 to 20% in 1989--a $14 billion Saving. Rapid transportation is increasingly important in the U.S. economy...''? Kern County is advantageously situated to respond to the transportation needs of modem business. It should serve as a vital hub in trade between northern and southern California, between eastern states and California, and between the U.S. and the Pacific Rim countries. High speed rail will be the primary transportation technology to link the predominant economies of Southern and Northern California, and Kern must capitalize on its location by securing a Central Valley alignment if we are to retain our competitive economic position. The history of the Southern Pacific alignment and the blow that was dear to the city of Bakersfield when the station was built in Sumner should not be forgotten. Bakersfield recouped, and eventually the two communities became one, but the stakes are greater this time -- if the high speed alignment goes up through the coastal counties, Kern County miss out on the massive economic benefits that will derive from proximity to the high speed rail line. Maintaining Kern's Economic Vitality A regional economy is a hierarchical entity. Each of the constituent economies is a vital system, constantly contracting or expanding. Though stability is desirable, because it is a hospitable environment for business planning and investment, economies are always fluctuating and we have to actively cultivate our own economy in order to approximate stability. Here's why: 6ULI, p2. 7Dunphy, p. 32. 3/31/95 2 1. An economy is susceptible to outside force exerted by nature or, because no modem economies are isolated, by other economies. So when we speak of the economy of Kern County, we cannot ignore the pressures of other state, national and international economies. We have suffered from both these phenomena recently: first when the economic downturn in Southern California reduced the upward pressure on housing prices in that market causing the building boom that had been going on east of the Tehachapis to bust and second when the Northridge earthquake exacerbated and prolonged the situation. 2. In general, those economies which are most diversified suffer the least from economic fluctuations; they are less likely to ride the waves of a boom-bust cycle than those which are specialized. In Kern, though our economy is diversifying, we still rely heavily on two main industries, agriculture and oil. As long as those .two industries are not in a simultaneous downturn, our economy does not fluctuate as wildly as it does when both are doing poorly. We face challenges in both these industries, however: The international market is currently awash with oil that is both of a higher grade and less expensive to extract than the reserves in Kem County, and uncertainty remains about the availability of water for agricultural uses in the San Joaquin Valley. 3. Technological changes alter the structure of the economy over time and, hence, the relative advantages one region has over another. The rapid development of personal computers and other communications technologies has greatly improved the prospects of areas outside of major urban centers by allowing the development of "back-office" operations, such as billings and mail order services, in relatively remote locations. Those areas that have the communications infrastructure in place to handle the data needs of electronically based services are at an advantage. Kern County will benefit from this when State Farm relocates one of its regional offices to Bakersfield. As Bakersfield's economy expands slightly, another will contract slightly. 4. The footloose nature of modem industry heightens the competition between regions and between subregions within any given region. Again we can look to State Farm for an example. Though their building in Bakersfield is nearly finished, it is still unclear at this writing how large a workforee they will employ here, in what capacities, and when they will begin operations. We can also recall the experience with Freymiller Trucking, which found an more advantageous situation in Oklahoma, and lef~ Kem reportedly taking some 300 jobs with them. 5. The law changes and what once looked like an area with unlimited potential is now facing severe restrictions. There are two aspects to this problem for Kern--air and money. Because of air legislation and transportation funding legislation, and the interplay between the two, unless we take action now, we will find that we cannot build new businesses or new homes. The news on air is not new, we have known for sometime that our air quality must be improved and we have improved it over the last several years. We have required industry to clean up its processes, and we are driving cleaner burning vehicles. But we are not driving them less and, based on projections of population and driving trends, we expect that by the end of the decade we will have undone all the good we have done so far and then some. The news on money is newer and less well known: virtually all money available-from the federal and state governments to build roads is tied to improvements in air quality, and most of it is tied to local participation in funding. The practical result for local governments is that they must now consider the transportation and air quality implications of their land use decisions. This is a substantial change and one that is not as easily implemented as might first be thought.; the status of entitled, but as yet unbuilt, developments is drawn into question because the air quality impacts imposed 3/31/95 3 by these future developments may staunch the needed flow of funding for road improvements to serve them. How this situation plays out in the market for "entitled" developments remains to be seen, but it is clear that the decision matrix for new projects is changed. The Structure of Kern's Economy As the national economy recovered from the recent recession, expectations that the California economy would do the same were high. Even with the devastation to Southern California caused by the Northridge earthquake, many were optimistic that the downturn had been cyclical in nature. While California might lag the rest of the nation in recovery, just as it had lagged going into the recession, once it did rebound it would be robustly they reasoned. The outlook may not be that sanguine however, because California employment is not growing at the same rate as the nation's. To set California's recovery prospects in the proper context, it is important what happened to us in the recession. Th6 magnitude of California's job losses during the recession staggers the imagination: Of all the jobs lost in the nation between June 1990 and December 1992, more than a third were lost in California. Even more astoundingly, more than one-quarter of all the jobs lost in the nation were lost in the Southem California economy, While the U.S. economy as a whole was adding jobs during the twelve-months between July 1993 and June 1994, California lost about 75,000 jobs during the same period,s The reasons for our disproportionate job loss and for our slower than average recovery are not cyclical, they are structural. The high-tech industries, which provided the basic fuel for Southern California's spectacular growth through the eighties, have been dealt severe blows by the spending cut- backs for aero-space and defense. Other segments of the state's economy are not growing rapidly enough to offset those losses. The fix for structural damage is a lot longer in coming that the fix for cyclical damage. To the extent that much of Kern's economic momentum, particularly in its southeastern region, was provided by pressure from the Southem California economy, we cannot afford to ignore the economic realities in the Southland. Kern has benefited enormously from our proximity to Southern California's enormous market--far enough away to have relatively lower land and labor prices, close enough to be able to service that market in a reasonable amount of time. Without the pressure in Southern California producing positive spillover effects for Kern's economy that it once did, we must take all the more care in honing our competitive edge if we want to encourage industry to locate and remain here. The composition of Kern County's economy is significantly different from that of the state as a whole. Manufacturing employment, which pays relatively higher wages than most other categories, makes up a much lower percentage of Kern's economy, only 7%, compared to the state's 21%. Mining, which makes up less than 1% of the state employment, however, is more important in Kern, providing nearly 7% of total jobs. Agricultural jobs account for a much greater proportion of total jobs in Kern than in the state as a whole; the classification that contains agriculture only accounted for 1% of the state's employment in 1985, while 3% were in that category in Kern during the same time period. From 1985 to 1990, the percentage of jobs in Kern in the agricultural classification declined to slightly less than 2%, as the economy here diversified slightly. SCohen & Garcia, p. 110. 3/31/95 4 During the five years between 1985 and 1990, the number of jobs in Kem grew at roughly the same rate as that of the state--12.55% to the states 12.22%--gaining jobs in all but two categories and exceeding the states rate of increase in six of the ten categories. Agricultural jobs were lost in that period, declining bynearly 29%. Kern lagged behind the state in the creation of service and retail trade jobs. Table 1: Employment--State of California InduStrial % of total % of total % change in Classification 1985 employment 1990 employment employment Ag services, forestry, fisheries78,984 0.78% 99,427 0.88% 25.88% Mining 42,761 0.42% 41,070 0.36% -3.95% Contract construction 594,810 5.90% 727,717 6.43% 22.34% Manufacturing 2,099,693 20.82% 2,167,133 19.15% 3.21% Transportation 608,642 6.03% 652,508: 5.76% 7.21% Wholesale 718,066 7.12% 812,777 7.18% 13.19% Retail 2,090,625 20.73% 2,276,880 20.12% 8.91% Finance, insurance, r. estate 842,732 8.36% 893,430 7.89% 6.02% Services 2,976,549 29.51% 3,608,896 31.88% 21.24% Unclassified 33,336 0.33% 38,678i 0.34% 16.02% Total ' 10,086,198 100.00% 11,318,516 100.00% 12.22% 'Includes employment covered by FICA and therefore excludes most government employees, railroad employees, and self- employed persons, domestic service workers, and agricultural production workers.) Source: Bureau of the Census, Count~ Business Patterns. It may seem illogical to state that Kern is most dependent on agriculture and oil production when those two categories combined account for approximately 8.5% of all jobs in 1990; however, much of the contract construction and manufacturing that occurs in the county is directly related to these industries. Together these basic (or exporting) industries account for about 24.5% of the county's employment. About 14% of the jobs are in either transportation or wholesale trade. A whopping 61% are in categories that are largely non-basic (that is non-exporting) industrial classifications: retail sales; finance, insurance and real estate; and services. To a large extent, the basic industries support nearly as many people as they directly employ, though the exact multiplier varies from industry to industry depending on specific linkages between them. The structure of Kern's economy as it is now constituted is problematic if we hope to see expansion rather than a limited recovery, because neither oil nor.agriculture can be expected to grow as rapidly as other parts of the economy as we emerge from the recession. The reasons for this, though previously stated, bear repeating--there is an abundance of oil in the world market and the supply of water available to San Joaquin Valley farmers is limited. Even if we are able to resolve the water issues in a manner that opens new lands to irrigation and production, the impact of those jobs would not be as great as that we might gain from manufacturing jobs; as a closer look at economic multipliers shows. Economic multipliers are estimated by using input-output models, which use matrix algebra .to model the flows of goods and services, expressed in monetary terms, between the different types of businesses and households within a region. The degree of accuracy of these multipliers varies from model to 3/31/95 5 model, but increases as the number of industries included in the model increases. At the grossest level, industries are categorized under the ten headings shown in the tables above, but each of these is broken down into subcategories. Individual finns are assigned to these subcategories by standard industrial codes (SICs) assigned by the Department of Commerce. Every five years, in years ending with two and seven, the government conducts a census of business, and the results of these, along with other data, are used in constructing input-output models. Table 2: Employment--County of Kern Indt~stri'al % of total % of total % change in Classification 1985 employment }990 employment employment Ag services, forestry, fisheries 3,431 2.98% 2,443 1.89%: -28.80% Mining 7,836 6.81% 8,539 6.59%~ 8.97% Contract construction 8,689 7.55% 10,478 8.09% 20.59% Manufacturing 8,164 7.09% 10,326 7.97% 26.48% Transportation 7,171 6.23% 8,164 6.30% 13.85% Wholesale 8,252 7.17% 9,683,i 7.48% 17.34% Retail 31,347 27.24% 33,799! 26.09% 7.82% Finance, insurance, r. estate 5,974 5.19% 6,489! 5.01% 8.62% Services ' 33,742 29.32% 39,159 30.23% 16.05% Unclassified 483 0.42% 457 0.35% -5.38% Total 115,089 100.00% 129,537 100.00% 12.55% (Includes employment covered by FICA and therefore excludes most govermnent employees, railroad employees, and self- employed persons, domestic service workers, and agricultural production workers.) Source: Bureau of the Census, County Business Patterns. The model used to estimate the impact'on Kern County's economy of demand or employment changes in various sectors in its economy generates a set of multipliers for employment, income and gross regional product for each SIC examined. The increased income infused into the economy by that change is spent and respent several times, first by a business owner, then by his vendors and employees, then by the businesses the vendors and employees frequent, and so on in successive rounds. The model also predicts changes in employment for all job categories so that the support relationships between occupations, say long distance truck drivers and supermarket clerks, can be seen. It is a Story of compounding and, like the classic compounding interest tale of bank savings, the final results, can be quite large. By way of example, the following seven hypothetical changes in employment classifications were considered: 1. A change of 100jobs in the manufacture of aircraft engines and engine parts. 2. The addition of 500 jobs by an insurance carrier (not agents, brokers, or service centers). 3. A change of 100jobs for insurance agents. 4. A change of 50 jobs in plastics materials and resins manufacturing. 5. A change of 300jobs in snack foods manufacturing. 6. A change of 300jobs in trucking. 7. A change of 50jobs in wood furniture manufacturing. The results are shown in the Table 3 below. As can be seen, the multipliers are different for each change. This is because the linkages betweenthese firms and their suppliers differ; not all primary inputs are available locally. Furthermore the wage structure for each industry is different. Given . 3/31/95 6 different employment changes, the multipliers might vary slightly also, with large changes having slightly stronger effects on the economy than small ones. Table 3: Multipliers for selected industries Industry Employment Output Wages Value Added Aircraf~ engines & engine parts 2.82 1.49 1.53 1.63 Insurance carrier 2.18 1.63 2.08 2.05 Plastics materials & resins 2.11 1.35 1.69 1.97 Snack foods 1.78 1.48 1.77 1.66 Truckin§ 1.76 1.73 1.54 1.61 Wood household furniture 1.48 1.41 1.47 1.57 Insurance agents 1.47 1.75 1.45 1.52 What these multipliers say is this: Holding all other conditions constant, for every job added in aircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing in Kern County, another 1.82 jobs will be supported in the regional economy. The multiplying strength of that employment on output and wages depends on the goods and services available within the regional economy. The more diverse the economy, the stronger the multipliers because there is less need for spending to "leak" out of this region and into other regions. With respect to output, for every dollar of output added by this industry, nearly half again as much is expected to be generated. For every dollar of value added to the gross regional product, another $0.63 will be added by other industries. The sectors impacted the most by. the increase in aircraft engine manufacture would be the retail trade, in which about 72 jobs would be supported, and services, where 65 jobs would be supported. It must be noted that were this a decrease of 100 jobs in the aircra~ engine industry, the multipliers indicate a contraction of the same magnitude; not only would 100 people in aerospace lose their jobs, support for 182 jobs would also be eliminated, all else constant (i.e. no comparable increase in demand from another quarter was simultaneously added). The other multipliers are read the same way, with the same caveats. The phrase "all else constant" is an important one in the foregoing discussion, as is the word "support," and these deserve further discussion so that the indirect impacts of job creation or deletion are well understood. First, "all else constant" is a necessary condition to impose on studying any economic change, otherwise it is nearly impossible to tell what the indirect impacts might be. Second, the word "support" is chosen carefully so as not to imply that additional jobs would necessarily be created or deleted as part of the indirect impacts. Whether job creation is a consequence depends upon the prevailing conditions: whether the positions needed currently exist and whether people currently employed are working at capacity. The Economy and the Environment While Kern's location is an advantage in responding to the transportation needs of modern business, it also imposes environmental problems, the most pressing of which may be air pollution. The topography and climate of the San Joaquin Valley air basin are conducive to the build up of pollutants. The mix of industries located here and the volume of vehicular traffic have resulted in ozone and PM 10 levels above the ambient air quality standards set by Federal and State laws. The area is classified as a 3/31/95 7 serious non-attainment area, and this imposes conditions and constraints with respect to both economic development and transportation planning. Economic development is affected because air pollution limits the type and number of facilities that can be located within an air basin. For Kern, as a serious non-attainment area, any facility which will have the potential to emit a significant quantity of pollutants (10 tons per year for ozone precursors, 550 pounds per day (ppd) for CO, 80 ppd for PM 10, 150 ppd SOx) must acquire emissions offsets, which document that real, surplus pollutant emissions at least equal to those that will be entailed with the new facility have previously been documented as permanently, quantifiably and enforceably reduced. (The exact offset depends on a distance formula and whether the source is stationary or mobile.) Without such proof, permits to construct significant new pollutant sources cannot be obtained, and virtually all manufacturing facilities fall into this category. Until recently manufacturing facilities were the ones most directly affected by air quality regulations, which required pollution control devices. Regulations also pertained to vehicle emission standards, but no other constraints were in place to limit the emissions from vehicles. Local air pollution control agencies still have no direct jurisdiction over vehicular emissions, bUt now have the authority to adopt indirect source regulations, which has extended their control over commercial and residential land uses. Where such the indirect source rules are in place, planning agencies must consider, as part of the environmental review, the pollution that will occur as vehicles are attracted to 'a proposed facility as well as the pollution added directly by the facility. ~ Programs to limit Or reduce the traffic generated, and hence the pollution generated, are to be implemented as conditions of approval. Even in localities where agencies have not adopted stringent indirect' source regulations, it is of little practical consequence because transportation funding laws indirectly~provide for them by requiting transportation plans to be consistent with Federal and State plans for attaining ambient air health standards bY dates certain. For areas like Kem County, which are non-attainment, this means that any transportation improve, ment program which will add more pollutants from increased traffic than it will remove by improving congestion; or other conditions that contribute to pollution, will be disapproved for funding. 3/31/95 8, 1 Can We Solve Our Transportation-Air Quality Problems? It appears we are caught in a version of Joseph Hellcr's Catch 22: We need transportation improvements to forestall congestion, to improve our air quality and to maintain our economic competitiveness. Our communities arc not configured densely enough to support the public transportation system necessary to maintain our current level of mobility at a reasonable price. ~1 We cannot get funds to build roads because they might encourage more traffic and add to our air quality problems. ~1 Without new transportation facilities, ourroads become more congested, our air becomes dirtier, and we lose our competitive position. Are wc doomed to economic stagnation and transportation gridlock? The answer-may well be "Yes" if we fail to respond to certain challenges. Avoiding a downward spiral and providing for economic progress and a healthier environment requires us to understand the practical relationships between transportation, air quality, land use patterns and the applicable laws, and to make some resolutions in light of these relationships. Realizations and Resolutions Realization 1: Personal mobility is of utmost concern to many residents, but the movement of people and goods for business purposes is at least as important. As individuals, we Kern Countians worry about congestion generally because of the threat it poses to our being able to get around quickly and conveniently. We need, however, to be equally concerned about the effect congestion has on business. In analyzing the results of the survey conducted for Area Development, a magazine published for economic development agencies, Charles Elliott notes that two major themes were present in responses: (1) the necessity to be competitive in global markets, and (2) the requirement of an "affordable, productive, and flexible" pool of workers? Transportation issues not only relate to the delivery of inputs and finished products, but also to worker productivity since it is affected by commute times. Elliott notes that companies in areas with extreme or serious nonattainment air quality designations will be at a disadvantage with respect to worker productivity because they will have to implement trip reduction programs within the next two years. Such programs will reduce the flexibility in work schedules, and hence impact productivity. Worker productivity is also impaired because large segments of our population currently have little or no personal mobility because our development pattern does not support an extensive public transit system and schools and commercial areas are inaccessible except by car for the most part. The young, the elderly, people who for health reasons cannot drive, and the poor have little personal mObility. A very large factor in the jobs-housing balance is job accessibility, in particular geographic accessibility. A worker must be concerned not only whether his job skills match those required by a 9 Bergeron, p. 44. 3/31/95 9 prospective employer, but also whether he can physically get to the job site daily. If a worker living in southeast Bakersfield has the skills needed by an employer situated in the industrial area to the west of the Meadows Field Airport but must rely on public transportation to get to work, that particular job is effectively out of reach, as are others in areas not served by public transportation. Lest it be naively thought that every one over the age of 16 has access to a car, consider that more than 15,000 households in Kern County were identified in the 1990 Census as having no vehicle available, and nearly 38% of those in metropolitan Bakersfield were in the southeast. I° Studies done in older metropolitan areas have associated the formation of concentrated pockets of poverty with the decentralization of jobs and the inability of public transportation to adequately service the low job density configuration that has resulted. This process, which forms "impacted ghettos," is called "isolated deprivation." ~ The cost to society of such "impacted ghettos" is very high. We could avoid much of this cost by providing residents of all areas with affordable transportation options that allow them access to jobs and increase their personal mobility. One approach to improving personal mobility and incidentally maintaining and/or improving worker productivity is to increase job and residential densities and allow mixed land uses so that convenient, ubiquitous public transportation is supportable in the metropolitan areas of our County. By giving individuals greater transportation options, we can free up some of our road capacity for business- related traffic. Resolution 1 · To enhance the personal mobility of all segments of the population and effectively increase the amount of road capacity available for business purposes by integrating land uses and designing a time-efficient, cost-effective transportation network. Realization 2: Our current development pattern demands we drive our cars. It is excessively time consuming, difficult and often dangerous to walk to shopping or work; nor'is public transportation a time effective way for most to commute. Where commuters want to go and where the road network is designed to take them are increasingly different. Since jobs have spread out over our urbanized area, what Robert Cervero calls a "fundamental mismatch" has developed because "[s]patially, while most commuters want to make lateral and criss-cross trips, many major thoroughfares have been designed to funnel commuters downtown...Clearly, changing travel patterns, combined with what some might call functionally obsolete roadway networks, are giving rise to unprecedented levels of suburban congestion. The most obvious local examples of this are found in metropolitan Bakersfield, wherethe major north- south corridor is Highway 99, the major east-west corridor is Highway 178/Rosedale Highway. The 101993 Kern Data Book, ~p. 341. l ~Hughes, p. 289. 12Cervero, p. 121. 3/31/95 10 arterials leading to and from these highways are the most heavily traveled in the area. Of the eleven busiest intersections ten years ago, only six remained on the list published in 1993. The intersection at 24th and Oak, which was the busiest in 1984, was ranked sixth in 1990, and seventh in 1993 (Table 1). Traffic volumes decreased there during the construction of the Rosedale Interchange, which may have depressed the 1993 numbers. In generall though, there has been a decided shit~ to the south and west of highest volume intersectiOns. In the past, the streets in the downtown area were the most heavily traveled, now the heaviest traffic flows circle the city to the high density employment areas in the southwest and northwest, where nearly 42% of the jobs were located in 1990. And though jobs are expected to disperse somewhat between now and 2015, the three existing high employment centers will remain dominant, and of them only the southwest will maintain a relative balance between population and jobs (Table 2). Grappling with this mismatch will require breaking out of our old routine and ways of thinking because our resources are limited. We will need to do more than add road capacity. We will have to find practical ways to move people quickly and conveniently from where they are to where they need to be. Increasing capacity of fixed routes, our traditional solution, may not be a cost effective way to resolve the problem. Roads are expensive and money is scarce. Table 1: City of Bakersfield Most Traveled Intersections Location 1993 1984 Rank Rank California/New Stine/Stockdale I 3 Wible Rd/White Ln 2 nl Coffee Rd/Gosford Rd/Stockdale 3 nl California/Oak St 4 2 Ming Ave/New Stine (tie) 5 4 Ming AveAVible Rd (tie) 5 5 Real Rd/Stockdale 6 nl 24th St/Oak St 7 1 Pierce Rd/Hwy 178 8 nl Oak St/Truxtun 9 8 Brundage Ln/Stockdale/Oak St/Wible Rd 10 nl Source: City of Bakersfield, California, 1993 Traffic Volumes City of Bakersfield, California, 1984 Traffic Volumes nl- not listed Since the mid-1970's highway construction costs in Calfomia have increased by nearly 400°/o~3 Funds to build them have not kept pace for several reasons: 1. · The taxes levied for transportation are not indexed to inflation. 2. Califomia generates more federal transportation dollars than it receives (just as Kern County sends more gas taxes to the State that it receives to spend on local projects). 3. As cars and trucks become more fuel efficient, gas tax revenues have not grown as rapidly as the number of vehicles on the road. 13 Taylor, p. 48. 3/31/95 11 Table 2: Metropolitan Bakersfield Population and Employment Distribution 1990 Actual, Projections for Years 2000, 2010, 2015 1990 2000 2010 2015 Area % Pop. % Jobs % Pop % Jobs % Pop % Jobs % Pop % Jobs Central District 6.94 26.15 6.42 28.36 5.42 26.50 5.20 26.66 NE/Kern River 0.87 1.75 0.'91 1.79 0.96 1.61 1.04 1.59 Northeast 22.38 5.95 20.54 5.46 17.57 4.92 16.87 4.52 Far Northeast 3.31 1.73 4.17 2.27 5.67 2.78 5.75 3.05 Edison Hwy. 8.79 ' 5.73 8.67' 6.65 7.94 6.46 7.6g 6.23 Oildale 8.31 7.85 7.80 6.64 6.98 5.72' 6.75 5.77 Olive Dr./ 3.23 12.89 4.33 17.09 6.08 17.14 6.25 17.64 Fmitvale Rosedale/ 4.17 2.82 6.96 3.16 9.20 3.39 11.67 3.31 Stockdale Southeast 16.80 8.93 11.07 3.77 14.28 9.51 13.76 9.39 Southwest 25.20 26.20 29.13 24.81 25.90 21.97 25.03 21.84 Source: Kern COG Financial realities demand that we find creative solutions. Transportation 'modes that can simultaneously serve mUltiple passengers and respond to their changing origin and destination demands need to be developed. Resolution 2: To resolve the mismatches between where we need to go and where our transportation system is currently designed to take us by developing alternative, multi-passenger transportation options that can respond to and alleviate the costly congestion caused by the changing pattern of jobs and housing locations. Realization 3: Maintaining our current standard' of living will require developing a balanced transportation network. Communities across the nation are in stiff competition for locating businesses as is evidenced by the tax and other incentives being offered to influence their site decisions. If we continue to develop as we have been and don't take care of our transportation problems, we will have worsening congestion and Kem's communities will be less attractive to business because efficient and economical transportation is of utmost concern to business. Given a bad transportation picture, tax relief and similar enticements will not' induce business to locate here. Transportation concerns have several aspectS for businesses: employee commutes, supplier deliveries to business, and delivery of products to markets. In a survey conducted by American International College, modem highway and mass transit improvements ranked fourth in criteria of business relocation decisions. The top three criteria, in order of importance, were availability of a skilled 3/31/95 12 workforce, a pro-business attitude in the community and corporate income tax rates. Real estate prices and property taxes ranked fifth.TM Kern's air quality detracts from our competitive position, as locating manufacturing facilities must acquire permits to construct and operate. Depending on the type and size of the facility, this procedure can be long and expensive and act as a deterrent to firms' locating here. If we can reduce emissions from mobile sources, our prospects for being able to site industry in Kern improves. Not only manufacturing facilities are affected, however, because the California Clean Air Act of 1988 requires consideration of pollution from indirect sources, in other words, from the mobile sources (cars, tnlck, motorcycles, buses, etc.) that are attracted to stationary sources (grocery stores, dry cleaners, schools, etc.). Since Kern County is designated as a serious air pollution area, we are required not only to have indirect source control measures, but to adopt and implement transportation control measures designed to "substantially reduce passenger vehicle trips and miles traveled per trip." 15 Resolution 3 To recognize the importance to the community-at-large of maintaining a pro-business stance, and to provide a modern, balanced transportation network that will encourage business to locate and remain here. Realization 4: Curtailing growth is not an answer. Because of the pressures it imposes on an unprepared community, growth is frequently cast as the villain. This sentiment is commonly articlated as a call for growth control, implying that all our problems originate with newcomers. There is no real way to seal Kern County off from the rest of the world or even the State, but a simple population projection model gives an idea of what would happen if we could function as a self-contained community. The model was constructed using Kern County data about the population by age cohort and sex from the 1990 census, the survival rates by sex and age for the State of California, and birth rates calculated from the current ratios of children to the women in childbearing age groups. Two assumptions were made which must be noted: First, that the current birth rate will continue for ten years and then decline during the next decade (the model was too simple to allow a more sophisticated approach). Second, that absolutely no migration is allowed (this is, of course, a totally unrealistic assumption). What would happen, over the course of 20 years, in this hypothetical isolated county, whose population looks a lot like ours, but where anyone who wasn't there in 1990 is prevented from entering and anyone who was there in 1990 is required, barring death, to stay for the duration? It would grow--and not by an insignificant amount. Well over half a million people would be added to the population. People 14Urban Land Institute, p. 2. 15Silverman, p. 3. 3/31/95 13 who need houses. People who need jobs, places to shop, to go to school, to play. People who have transportation needs. The Kern COG projections, which are realistic in that they allow for migration and adjust fertility rates in a more refined manner, indicate roughly 500,000 people will be added to Kern County between 1990 and 2010. We have already added over 84,000 since 1990. Between now and 2014, more than 520,000 additions are expected as earlier gains are compounded. In fact, COG has determined that most of the net change in population between 1993 and 1994 was due to natural increase (births minus deaths) rather than to in-migration. One and three-fourths person originated from within Kern County for every person who moved here from someplace else during that period. Resolution 4 To encourage the growth that must occur if we are to sustain our standard of living and provide a community in which our children and grandchildren can flourish. Realization 5: We can continue to build the communities we want to live in and maintain our property values, but only if we keep our eye on the future. The development pattern we have opted for in Kern County is fundamentally suburban, with single family homes on lots that are spacious by Southern California standards. We have built pleasant neighborhoods that enhance our quality of life. But that pattern is very land intensive, so we are frequently caught up in discussions about "urban sprawl" and what that means for an area in which agriculture is a major industry and air pollution is a major problem. Frederick Steiner has written that "Sprawl is like cholesterol. There is bad sprawl and good sprawl.''16 His view is that low density development is not bad in and of itself, but must be judged based on its effects on the liveability and sustainability of communities. Of the two, sustainability may be harder to forecast because, as already noted, the economic and regulatory environments change. Rather than planning for a static economy, we need to be constantly assessing how our communities will respond to these changes. As the economy changes we may need to amend our planning and zoning practices for future development so that we can remain economically viable. Often what stands in the way of such changes is property oWners' understandable concem for maintaining property values. At some time in the past we became convinced that strict segregation of land uses was necessary to keep property values high. But the evidence on property values isthat they bear up at least as well in controlled mixed-use settings as they do in segregated ones. The overriding 16 Stiner, p. 14. 3/31/95 14 influences are the area's economy, which affects the supply and demand for property, and the owner's maintenance of the property. 17 The single best thing that can be done to maintain property values in a community is to maintain a healthy regional economy. If jobs leave, people leave and values plummet as a glut of property comes on the market, so we may want to amend our development pattern for future development in response to foreseeable changes. Resolution 5 To plan for both the liveability and sustainability of our communities by keeping an eye to the future and responding to the changes in the economic and regulatory environments. Realization 6: The costs associated with our current transportation system are exorbitant. We have hidden the costs of transportation in other things--house prices, medical costs, air pollution, water pollution, opportunity costs for land used to construct roads, etc.--so it is hard for us to calculate how much these implicit costs total. These are subsidies to our transportation system. What is more, the user fees, such as fuel taxes and registration fees, that we pay cover only part (about 69% in 1985) of the direct capital and operating costs; the rest comes from general government funds.~S Because the true cost of the streets and highways component transportation infrastructure is obscured, we have tended to "buy" more of it than we would otherwise have done. While our low density pattern of development is not strictly the result of subsidies granted to automobiles and trucks, these have nonetheless played a part. A more compact pattern of development would be more efficient from a transportation spending perspective. About two-thirds of all urban land in Southern California is taken up with automobile related infrastructure (roads, parking lots, etc.). Local streets account for about 80% of the lane miles provided, but carry only 15% of the vehicle miles traveled,t9 The implicit cost to municipal governments is the property tax revenue foregone on land given over to streets that might otherwise be developed. In the City of Bakersfield, where estimated property tax revenues for Fiscal Year 1993-94 were $13.8 million? If land dedicated to transportation infrastructure does indeed account for 2/3 of the area within the city limits, and if that area could be reduced by 1/3 and the land redeveloped in keeping with the current development of the city, an additional $9.2 million in property tax revenue might be collected (based on a property-taxes-per-developed-acre estimate). ~7Dale-Johnson, Heikkila et al. lgHanson, p. 61. 19Ibid., p. 66. 2°City of Bakersfield, p. 33. 3/31/95 15 . Nationally the explicit, that is to say out-of-pocket, costs associated with transportation account for 20% of the typical household's spending. The breakdown of that 20% is as follows: 46% for vehicles; 30% for finance charges, maintenance, repair and insurance; 18% for gas and oil, and 5% on public transportation.21 For an average family in the U.S., giving up a second car (assumed to be a seven- year old compact, while the first car is assumed to be a four year old mid-sized car) saves them $3,000 a year, even after paying public transportation fares and occasionally renting a car.2~ A study conducted in the Bay Area concluded that for residents of northeast San Francisco, where residential density averages 117 dwellling units per acre, the per capita vehicle miles traveled are only 26% of those traveled by residents of the surburban area of Danville-San Ramon, where there are 3.8 dwelling units per acre.23 (Across the Metropolitan Bakersfield area, which contains 301,026 acres, there were 0.399 dwelling units per gross acre in 1990.) If we use the vehicle miles traveled by household from that same study, conservatively assume that these autos average 27 miles per gallon of regular unleaded gas, and that the price per gallon is $1.299, the northeast San Francisco household saves roughly $1,225 per year on gas alone, compared to a household in Danville-San Ramon. This does not take reduced maintenance and other variable costs of operation into account. The County Engineers Association of California has taken the position that the cost effectiveness of all modes of transportation must be analyzed so that we can choose "the most coordinated and efficient transportation system [emphasis added[." 24 Such choices cannot be made unless we account for both the explicit and implicit costs associated with each of the modes we might choose. Resolution 6 To take both implicit and explicit costs of transportation into account and to demand cost-efficient transportation systems. Realization 7: The transportation funding system will penalize us for maintaining our current practices and land use patterns. As Robert Cervero notes, "Congestion ...is not all bad--a sign that communities have a healthy, growing economy...''25 Yet despite the positive economic indication congestion gives, it is a major ' source of imtation for Kern County residents. In public meetings on planning issues, dual fears are voiced by citizens: urban sprawl and congested streets. The increasing number of drivers and vehicle miles traveled by them, coupled with our natural setting, has contributed to the deterioration of our air quality. We have made major strides in reducing pollutant emissions from industrial facilities, but now we must also address the contribution of vehicular emissions. Federal legislation now forces the 21American Demographics, p.20. 22Hare, p. 12. 23Holtzclaw, p. 100. 24County Engineers Assoc. of Cal., 1994. 25Cervero, p. 121. 3/31/95 16 integration of transportation and air quality planning on states and local governments, having radically changed the way transportation projects are financed. The new law of the land with regards to transportation funding is the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 199 I(ISTEA). Unlike previous laws, it requires consideration of environmental effects of projects. Under ISTEA, Kern Council of Governments (COG) acts as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), and as such is the "keeper" of regional transportation plans. The local governments, county and cities as members of COG, work with COG staff to draw up these plans, which must be consistent with the Plans the State of California has adopted to meet the ambient air health standards by the deadlines established in the federal Clean Air Act of 1990. This finding of consistency, or conformity, is crucial. Without it there are severe funding consequences for transportation projects. The Regional Transportation Plan for Kern County, was recently prepared by COG and approved by the federal agencies. Approximately $5 million is available annually to Kern County from two ISTEA programs: the Surface Transportation Program (STP) which provides about $3 million annually, most of which is currently going to maintenance projects; and the Congestion Management Air Quality program (CMAQ), which are available for use only in the metropolitan Bakersfield area and may not be used to construct facilities for single-occupant vehicles. There is some flexibility in how these funds are allocated, since up to 50% of the funds from STP can be used on CMAQ projects, and vice versa'given the underlying constraints (e.g. CMAQ dollars are not used to construct or maintain single-occupant vehicle facilities). None of these funds are available for neighborhood streets, but are only for use on facilities that are in the federal aid system. Additional money is available to be spent on major roads included in the National Highway System within Kem County, namely Routes 5, 14, 46, 58, 99 and 395, but the State of California administers this program and has discretion over where these funds are spent. A State program, the Flexible Congestion Program (FCP) was set up by the passage of Proposition 111, and is to provide $3 billion over ten years for projects that enhance the capacity of the existing transportation system by preventing or alleviating congestion. This program requires a minimum of 50% matching funds, and some localities actually overmatch in order to claim these funds. FCP is funded with gas tax money, and $12 million to $15 million of the total generated annually in Kern County goes to other communities in California which can provide the match required. Seventeen counties have voted to tax themselves to provide money earmarked for transportation. They represent 82% of the state's population and will raise $23 billion for projects and matching funds.26 The California State Association of Counties (CSAC) repons that for the 1995-96 Fiscal Year the proposed Governor's Budget cuts State/Local Transportation Program funding in half, from $200 million to $100 million. CSAC also indicates that the self-help counties are the only ones likely to to meet the local match requirements necessary to qualify to receive these funds? Based on the transportation plans in place now, over the next 20 years Kern County will need about $150 million dollars a year to maintain what we have and provide for the growth we expect. We can reasonably expect $16 million per year given the current funding conditions, which leaves us with a $133 million shortfall per year. Not a pleasant prospect when we consider the importance of transportation to our economic viability. A study currently being conducted by Smith-Kempton 26Self-Help Counties Coalition pamphlet. 27 CSAC. 3/31/95 17 Associates will explore the opportunities for Kern County residents to generate supplemental transportation dollars. ResolutiOn 7 To aggressively seek funds for maintaining and improving our transportation systeTM and to establish Kern as a "self-help" county to raise matching funds in some manner. Realization 8: We have a huge investment in our current land use pattern and its supporting transportation network. We are not going to abandon what we have built or the development entitlements that have already been put in place, but we must begin to modify our develoment pattern as structures age and are replaced. In the meantime, while we are building up to densities that will support more frequent and extensive public transit and reintegrating residential and non-residential uses, we will have to maintain the existing streets and highways. We will also have to build improvements to better service changing areas. The Kern County maintained road system is the second largest in the state with over 3,330 miles, but is 37th in the amount spent per mile on maintenance. An average of approximately $3,000 per maintained mile of roadway is spent annually on preventative maintenance ($10,000,000 total), but this is $2,000 below the statewide per mile/per year average. The estimated cost to rehabilitate the existing system (new construction, overlays and safety projects) is an additional $13,500,000 annually.2g This would allow for reconstruction, overlays, safety projects, etc. to a portion of the existing system each year. The number of miles maintained by the County has been essentially constant for a number of years, with additions to the road inventory due to construction being roughly equal in lengthto those sections annexed into Other jurisdictions (and hence maintained by another entitity). The table below shows change in the Kern County Road Budget since 1986. Surplus years allow for projects which increase capacity of the existing system or for prior maintenance deficiencies to be made up. Over the last nine years, there has been a cumulative deficiency of $10.9 million, with $9 million of that accounted for during the last two years. Kern County Road Bud Millions' FY 8~)87' 87/88 88/89 89/90 90/91 91/92 92/93 93/94 94/95 Total $ 27.7 22.4 25.1 19.8 20.3 22.1 25.2 20.4 17.6 Surplus (Deficiency) 4.2 (1.1) 1.6 (3.7) (3.2) (1.4) 1.7 (3.1) (5.9) Source: Kern County Transportation Management Department It is imprudent to let a road syStem deteriorate because the cost of repair rises.dramatically when renovation is deferred. Repairing a road whose quality is poor or very poor (say after. 12 to 16 years of 28Kern County Transportation Management Department. 3/31/95 18 service) costs 4 to 5 times as much as resuffacing one whose quality is fair (after 8 to 12 years of service).29 Resolution 8 To provide funds to adequately maintain the current system, while changing our development pattern to permit a more efficient and economical use of our existing transportation system. Realization 9: Money spent on transportation projects directly benefits Kern County residents. As was noted above, something between $12 million and $15 million of gas taxes paid by Kem County residents is spent elsewhere in the state because we lack the matching funds to bring that money back to Kern County. The real loss is even greater because of the missed opportunity to enjoy the multiplier effects associated with transportation construction projects. When transportation facilities are built here, work is created for Kern County engineers, contractors and vendors. Three projects from the 1993 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) are considered to illustrate this point: the Mojave Bypass on Route 58, the construction of two transit transfer sites, and a project to reconstruct and upgrade railroad track in the Bakersfield area. Mojave Bypass construction costs are forecast as $84 million dollars, of Which approximately $70 million would be spent within Kern County. It is projected that about 560 construction jobs, 127 manufacturing jobs, 274 retail trade jobs, and 507 jobs in the service sector would be among those supported by the project. In all 925 jobs would be directly supported, and an additional 734 jobs would be supported by the infusion of this spending into the regional economy. Estimated wages directly attributable to the project are $38.5 million, and would generate another $15 million as indirect and induced effects. Construction of two transit transfer sites is programmed in the RTP between 1994 and 1999, with costs estimated at $1.45 million. More than 73% of this outlay could be expected to be infused directly into the Kern County economy. Direct job impacts from this spending are forecast at 19.5 with wages in excess of $670,000, while indirect and induced effects would support another 13 jobs and result in approximately $258,000 paid out in wages. Six hundred thousand dollars is programmed to be spent on improvements to railroad tracks in the vicinity of Bakersfield between 1994 and 1999. Of the three projects, this one has the weakest employment multiplier effects because many of the inputs would be manufactured elsewhere, but in addition to the predicted nine jobs directly attributable to the project five more would be supported. The wages associated with these 14 jobs are projected at $405,000. 291bid. 3/31/95 19 ' As much as 82% and no less than 76% of the total direct expenditures for these three projects could be expected to be spent in the Kern County economy. For every $1 million dollars directly paid out in wages, an approximate $300,000 is generated indirectly. These figures relate only to the construction project and do not take into account the benefits to be realized because of improved access and other continuing effects. To let gas tax dollars flow out of Kern County because we chose not to provide the matching funds that would keep some ofthemhere is, as they say, "pennywise.and pound foolish." Money spent to improve our transportation system gives us much more than just another road, transit station or upgraded rail line--it gives us additional jobs and additional income. In eachofthese three examples, every million dollars spent generates between $630,000 and $675,000 of regional income by supporting between 19 and 23 jobs. Resolution 9 To do what it takes to keep gas tax dollars generated in Kern County here so they can provide jobs and income while providing improved transportation facilities. Conclusions The realizations are staight-forward. The resolutions are demanding but not impossiblc. They require a clear-eyed committment to building a better community. If we act on them, we are not doomed to what Cervero calls "Suburban Gridlock."3° We can plan a better future for ourselves. We can maintain a healthy economy by fostering a competitive business climate. We can lower our personal transportation costs, minimize the time we spend commuting and retain our personal mobility by increasing the efficiency of our transportation system. We can reduce our impact on the environment and improve our air quality. We can provide the environment for sustainable growth necessary to give our children the opportunity to live and prosper in Kern County. 3°Cervero, 1986. 3/31/95 20 REFERENCES American Demographics, Vol. 20, No. 11, November 1990. "Cars and Trucks." . Bailey, Richard C. 1984. The Heart of the Golden Empire: An Illustrated History of Bakersfield. Woodland Hills, CA: Windsor Publications. Beregeron, Tom. 1994. "Corporate Executives Rate Site Selection Factors.". Area Development, Vol. 29, No. 12. California State Association of Counties, Legislative Bulletin, No. 1, January 16, 1995, p. 10. Cervero, Robert. 1990. "Congestion Relief: The Land Use Altemative." 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Steiner, Frederick. 1994. "Sprawl Can Be Good." Planning, Vol. 60, No. 7. Surface Transportation Policy Project. 1992. "Tools for Change: The Clean Air'Act Amendments and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act," Surface Transportation Policy Project Resource Guide. Kern Council of Governments. 1993. Kern Data Book, Fourth Edition. Urban Land Institute (ULI). 1994. "Skilled Labor Force and Probusiness Attitude Most Important m Relocation Decisions," in Land Use Digest, Vol. 27, No. 11. 3/31/95 22 ~, B A K E R.S F I E L Di Economic and Community Development Department MEMORANDUM March 29, 1999 TO: Alan Tandy, City Manager ~ FROM: Jake Wager, Economic Development Direct SUBJECT: Affected Taxing Agencies March 26, 1999 Consultation Meetings Summary The following is a summary of meetings held, as required by California Redevelopment Law, to consult with all of the affected taxing agencies for both proposed redevelopment project areas. All of the taxing agencies were notified about the meetings. Separate meeting were scheduled March 26, 1999 for each project area. Old Town Kern-Pioneer Redevelopment Project Area Attendance Staff: Taxing Agencies: Jake Wager Louis G. Varga, Bakersfield City Schools Janice Scanlan Femando Cisneros, Kern County Water Agency Donna Barnes Jan Fulton Dave Chesney Ernie Glover, GRC Associates Mr. Wager led a discussion providing background about the establishment of the redevelopment project areas and setting of the base taxing rate then opened questions. Mr. Varga asked if his district was getting a set amount or is city to get 100% of tax increment. Mr. Wager explained that the city/agency get a percentage of the increment - beginning with 75% and gradually going down. Mr. Glover handed out copies of tables which illustrated the disbursement of tax increment funds to all the affected agencies over the life of the program. He then explained the tables. Mr. Cisneros asked if the KCWA Improvement District #4 which includes a major 36 inch pipe line going through the Sam Lynn Ballpark area would have to be relocated. Mr. Glover explained that at this time, no specific development projects are proposed. However, if development occurred in the area and the agency was involved financially in the project, the agency could also be involved in the costs related to such a waterline relocation. S:\REDVAREA\Taxing Meeting 3-26 summary.wpd Page 2 Alan Tandy March 29, 1999 Affected Taxing Agencies Summary Mr. Cisneros asked if any other water monies would be affected by the tax increment. Mr. Glover explained that the only effect is the amount above the base level of property tax, all other water revenues would not be affected. He further commented that if the area is growing at a rate of 2.5% annually at this time, if the agency can push the growth rate to 5% or better, the taxing agencies will be way ahead. As a result, there is a heavy inducement on increasing property values; there is a lot of room for cooperative projects. Mr. Varga wanted to shift' discussion to development projects asking about plans for streetscaping in the Baker Street area. Mr. Wager explained that something will be occurring on Baker Street - not as elaborate as Chester Avenue, but in keeping with the emphasis on the preservation of the historic flavor of the area. Mr. Varga explained that BCSD is interested is any such plans as they plan to do some streetscape work around their headquarters on Baker Street and wanted it to be compatible. Mr. Wager discussed the Association of Old Town Kern and their plans for street improvements, suggesting theat BCSD work with them. Ms. Barnes gave Mr. Varga her card so BCSD staff can contact her with particulars. Mr. Varga asked about the timeline for tax revenue distributions. Mr. Glover indicated that the first distribution would be at the end of 2000, nothing significant is expected for 3 to 4 years as it takes time for projects to develop. Mr. Wager explained that it will be difficult to do large scale projects in the OTK-P area due to the lack of contiguous vacant land. It is anticipated that most of the projects will be of a smaller scale, resulting in smaller increases in the tax increment. The southeast Bakersfield Project Area, on the other hand has more potential to put together a larger project which will result in a value increase spike. Mr. Varga indicated he appreciated the tables - it will be easier for him to interpret the affects. Mr. Glover said that Kem County may be producing an auditors report with a more detailed analysis. The report is not a requirement, but the Auditor Controller may be forwarding it to each taxing agency. Mr. Glover also distributed the tables for the Southeast Bakersfield Project Area. Mr. Cisneros asked about possibility of a project to replenish ground water, purchasing lands to develop spreading ponds. Mr. Wager suggested looking in the area of the City and County's sewer farms with other private land nearby which might work for such a project. There being no further questions, the meeting adjourned. Note: No taxing agencies came forward for the Southeast Bakersfield Redevelopment Project Area scheduled consultation. Xc: Central District Development Agency Members S:\REDVAREA\Taxing Meeting 3-26 summary.wpd DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS DATE: April 1, 1999 TO: Alan Tandy, City Manager FROM: Stan Ford, Director of Recreation and Parks SUBJECT: NRPA Millennium Project The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) and Ladies' Home Joumal is working on a program to correspond with "July is Recreation and Parks Month" and' the NRPA Millennium Project. This program is to identify program sampling sites and a keynote site that. will serve as the launch site for the NRPA Millennium Project. Agencies that were interested in being the keynote site were asked to submit specific information about a "family/community" event that will be occurring in their community this summer. Jeannette Triscuit, recreation specialist, submitted one of our new programs that she developed, the Bakersfield Regatta, for this competition. We have been informed that over 5,000 programs nationwide were submitted for consideration. I am pleased to inform you that our program has been selected as one of the five finalists for the keynote site. As a finalist, we have been asked to submit additional information. The final determination should be made in the next couple of weeks. Regardless of the outcome, we are pleased to have been recognized, especially given the large number of competitors. I will let you know the final outcome once we are notified. From: Stan Ford To: Alan Christensen, Alan Tandy, John VV. Stinson Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 4:50:00 PM Subject: NRPA Program Please see attached CC: Allen Abe, Jeannette Triscuit Patti Hoffman, R... General Information ............................. · ....... 4 Aquatics ...................................................... 5 After School Activities ............................... 12 After School Game Centers ....................... 13 Club Fun ................................................... 14 Silver Creek Community Center ................ 16 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center .. 17 Lowell Neighborhood Community Center... 18 .Arts & Crafts ............................................. 19 Dance ....................................................... 21 Exercise .................................................... 25 Learning & Leisure .................................... 27 Music ........................................................ 30 SPorts ....................................................... 31 Special Events .......................................... 35 Park Information ........................................ 40 Park Update .............................................. 42 Park Amenities Guide ............................... 44 Park Map .................................................. 45 Registration Information ............................ 46 Upcoming Fall Activities ............. : .............. 46 Registration Form ..................................... 47 City Council & Citizens' Advisory Committee .................................. 48 Aquatic Registration Form ......................... 49 Aquatic Refund Policy & Assumption of Risk ................................... 50 ' ae eral I :0rmati0 Photo Policy ~ New I~struotors Please be advised that all participants Do you have a special talent or skill you are involved in any department programs or interested in sharing? The Department of special events are subject to being Recreation and Parks is looking for new photographed. Such photographs may be instructors. We are especially interested in used by the city of Bakersfield without an finding instructors to teach classes in: obligation to provide compensation to those photographed. ~ · Ethnic Dances · Fashion · Mother & Baby EXercise · Photography ..... . · Tai Chi · Upholstery "' · Musical Theater, Dance, and Voice Lessons If you are interested in teaching one of these or any other class, please contact us at 326-FUNN. Ameri0ans With I/babilitles A0t L~ The Department of Recreation' and Parks complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination on. the basis of disability. Reasonable accommodations will be made in recreation programs and facilities to enable participation by an individual with a disability. Participants must meet essential eligibility requirements forthe program. If you are in need of special accommodations, please notify us. We offer a T.D.D. line for the hearing impaired. Please call 321-g$70. The pools will open on June 21. Activities will include swim lessons, lap swim, ~mpet~iv6 s~m, junior lifeguarding, recreational s~m, and a water exercise prOgram. Registration will be on a fimt-~me, flint-sewed basis and ~ntinues throughout the summer. We offer mail-in or walk-in registration. M il-I · Wai -l Begins: April 26 Begins: May 10 Will not be accepted for ~~ classes that are already in ~~~ Progress. ~~~ Where: Recreation & Parks ~::.. ~ ~ :~:~:::: ..::~::::~ depa~ment office 'at ~~~{{~{~ When: Monday -' Friday, Registration: Fast and 8:00 am- 5:00 pm. ~nvenient. Complete & sign formson pages 49 & 50. Mail to: The DepaRment of Recreation & Parks 4101 Truxtun Avenue Bakersfield, CA 93309 A~er May 9: Please call 326-FUNN to ~nfirm available openings. Beat the Heat! 1999 Lear to. Svdm Program '"., ...., The "Learn to Swim" program was developed by the Natiohal SafetY Council, Ellis & Associates, and the National . Recreation and Park Association. This program is an innovative approach which enables individuals of all ages to . leam swimming and water safety skills. The program's objective is to provide a positive, fun-filled opportunity to. learn skills that will reduce the number of drownings and pro~ide lifelong aquatic enjoyment. Lessons are taught Monday - Friday, for two weeks. Four sessions are offered throUghout the summer. Class descriptions are located on pages '8 & 9 and a schedule of class times' is on pages 10 & 11. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Oompetitive swim ' ams , .. Our swim teams offer participants a chance to learn n~w · skills, make friends, and compete against other swimmers.. Age groups are: 6 & under; 7-8; 9-10; 11-12; 13-14;-and,, · 15-17. Sign-ups are limited to eight participants per age group, per gender and swimmers must be registered no later'than July 2. Participants must be able to swim 25 yards without stopping. All swimmers will be tested on the first' day of practice. Practice times and swim meets will vary at each pool site, please refer to the schedule on pages 10 & 11. Swim meets are held at Jefferson Pool, MondAy - ThursdaY, starting at 6:00 pm. Each team will )articipate in six meets. Days: Monday- Friday Dates: June 21 -.August 6 Fee: $35 for city residents $45 for non-city residents TheCity championship meet wili be held. at t ~he CSUBpoOl , ', on August 7. 'Private & Semi-Private Swim Lessors Private and semi-private swim lessons will be available at Wayside Pool. Participants.will receive eight 30? minute lessons. There is' a maximum of three students in the semi-p~ivate lesS. on. Please see page 11 for available times. Days: Monday - Thursday for 2 weeks . ;.~: Fee: $25 for 8 semi-priVate lessons $50 for 8 private lessons· Aquamofio . Jr. Lifeguardi g Lap ,{lwim " This non.sw taming,aerobic,ProgramDo you want tO. get in-shape water exercise activity This two-week course will and, improve your ,overall,..,:., increases flexibility~ muscle · teach 12 - 15 year olds fitness? Participate in tone, and circulatory . .. various surface rescues and . lap swim program.this endurance. This program is. lifeguarding techniques, summer. Times vary at each carefully, designed for a safe Participants will work on of the pool sites, so choose and effective workout for. ~ stroke development by the one most c0nvenJent ~for. adults~. Participants.may swimming laps at the you. The schedule for lap wear water shoes, and/or .~ beginning of each class. This swim is on pages 10 and wave webs (gloves with. is a great class for Season passes are a great webbed fingers for participants who want to bargain, and they are gOOdat resistance). ' ' become lifeguards in the all pools. . Dates: June 22 - August 26 future. For times, please refer Fee: $2 per day Days: Tuesday &ThursdaY . to the schedule on pages $30 for a seasOn pa~s · Time: 8:!5'- 9:00 pm ' 10 & 11. Fee:' $35 for 10 Classes eale Park ' ' $4 Per class Silver Creek Pool ' · .Sessions 1-4. Wading Pool InstruCtor: Gina'Wheeler : Ce~tifiedlnstructor, ~ Jefferson Pool The Beale Park wading p,ool Location: ~ Silver Creek Pool Sessions 1 & 3 will be open Monday,~ Fr!day from 10:00 am - 4:30 pm and '~ Days: Monday- Friday Saturday and SundaY, 1:30 ~ ; Fee: $22 for two weeks to 4:30 pm. The pool is , :. and under. Children 3 and' under require one-on-°n~:, , :.... supervision by a parent or Lear. to ,~wim With gwlsh the Fish Join us for the National Safety Council's, "Learn to Swim" program. All leSiOnS are taught by~ licensed instructors. Journey with your children through the "Learn to Swi~m~ wo~book and followtheir progress while we provide a fun way to develop new swimming skills, Please read~ the coursedescription, and choose the journey that best fits your child ..... . ~' The,lour. e¥ ~erles '~ ...... ' .,' ~ to Il years ., " There are three J0bmey series.- Each' Journey has three aquatic ~adventures whiCh: break down swimming skills into a simplified .:. ,.. format. By providing an imaginative : adventUre to learning, .the children ""." · experience a'~fun Way to develop new "1 can Make It" swimming sk, ills. Accompanying booklets provide"rein:~Srcement .at I~or~e;.:and '~iso' The I~xpleratie. ,~eries keep' the parent involved and. aware' of i";'6 mo,~hs't0 ~.' years ' child'sProgress.'- .... "~.' :;,i;: :' '?i;:::.~;~ The parent works one-on-one with the child. -_ .._ .'.: The m .aximum class size is 12 parents plus ~olJr148y 1' children, per instructor..It is designed with safety education as its core focus. This Ages 4 - 6 The three adventures in Journey 1 are: course will provide, parents with'a wide . variety of activities to use in order to safely g0W# UlSd~r ~1~ ,~a ' enjoy the water with their child. Activities Adi~ustment to water, breath'hOlding: opening include: eyes in water, holding onto the wall and · S~wim lesson safety. . bobbing. · i~. Entering/exiting with.child '" AIIipter Allay · i,.i.~C, king& pulling ". ' .;. Stomach float and kick, begin back float, · ' Changing body positions ;.. '. back glide with kick, and underwater · ~' CPR introductio, exploration. ' ~ ·'.~ ·; Water exploration ' . ,' ~ Beginner strokes and changing directions? ,. . ~:' ?re'eh001 Swbh , cover distance of six feet, introduce.float, : "' ~-l/~. t0 ~. Years kick, and pull. - This class offers a five student.to one '~ ~. ~ ~:,~'.~:~ instructor ratio to meet the developmental ~..~, needs of this age group, Skills taught are adjustment to water, water entry, bobbing, ~;. ?.r ','- and front kick. Ages.7 & up . The t~;~ee adventUres in jou, rney 2 are: . SeaWeed pato[I ' Front crawl with breathingl StOmach 'float, treading water, and introduce side to side breathing<~ ·; .... ;~ ~...., ~ Offer's Cove Float and kick ~n back, ,roll over from front.to back.,, begin float', kick, and .Pull on back. TadPole Pool : . , . Introduce breast stroke, 'cPR skiffs, and water safety. 'Distances increase. .. A Helping Hand The Challenge .Series 9 years ~ up - Advanoed Students Students refine skills and strokes,, work toward 100 yard swims utilizing different strokes including front crawl, back crawl, breast stroke, elementary back Stroke, sidestroke, and butterfly. ' " ~ · Future Olympian , Ages 9 & up ...: The three adventures in.Journey 3 are: Frog. Pond., · Elementary back stroke and increase distances.. ' IPolphins ButterflY and increase distances. ' High' Five FlOunder Farm Sidestroke and increase distances. JUne.21 '-July2.:' ' ,July 5-July 16 ' July26-August6. August9-AuguSt20: I 9:00- {):30 am Joumey 1, 2, & 3 7:00- 8:00 am SwimTeam. ' 9:45 -'10:15 am Journey 1, 2, & 3 8:15 - 8:45 am Journey 1, 2, & 3 .:: 9:00- 9:30 am Journey 1, 2, & 3 .~ --10:30 - 11:00 am Infant & Preschool 9:45- 10:15 am Journey 1, 2, & 3' · 11:15- 12:15 pm Lap Swim (M- F) 10:30 - 11:00 am Infant & Preschool. 12:30-. 5:00 pm Recreational Swim 11:15- 12:15pm SwimTeam .... 5:30 ~ 8:30 pm Available for Rental 12:30 - 5:00 pm ReCreational Swim . 5:15- 5:45pm jr. Lifeguarding  6:00 - 8:00 Swim Meets (M - Th)' pm 6!30 - 8:00 am Lap Swim · ' 8:15 ~ - 8:45 amjoUrney 1, ~2, & 3I.. .... ~9:.00 .... 9:30 am Journey 1, 2, & 3 6:30- 8:00 am Lap swim ' '..4-: / 9'~45-';10:15am Journey !, 2, & 3 8:15- 8:45 am Journey'l 10:'30 -.11:00 am Infant & Preschool 9:00 - 9:30 am, Journey 2 &3 ' ' ".1.',!':15- 12:15 pm SwimTeam = 9:45- 10:15 am .JoumeYl/Jr. Lifeguard ~'12!30 - 5:00 pm' Recreational Swim 10:30- 11.:00 am Infant & PreschoOl . 5:15, 6:15pm SwimTeam 11:15- 12:15 pm SwimTeam .... 6:30 -. 8:30 Pm 'Lap Swim . 12:30 - 5:00 pm RecreatiOnal Swim -5:15- 5:45 pm Infant&'P~eschool  6:00 - 6:30 pm 1 & 2 Journey · .-6:45- 7:15 pm Adults (SesSions 1- & 3) 9:00-' 9:30 an~ JoUrney 1, 2, &3 ' 7:30 - 8:30 pm Lap Swim (M - Th) 9:45.; 10:'15 am, Journey;I, 2, & 3 10:30';'11.'.00 am 'CamPKing ..... ,11:15- 12:15 pm SwimTeam '12:30- 5:00 pm RecreationaISwim 6:00 - 8:30' pm Available for Rental 6:30 ~ 8:00 am Lap Swim 6:30 - 8:00 am Lap Swim (M - F) .8:15-. 8.;45 am .Journey 1, 2, & 3 8:15 - 8:45 am Journey 1, 2, & 3 9:00 - 9:30 am ~ Journey 1, 2, & 3 9:00 - 9:30 am Journey 1, 2, & 3 9:45- 10:15 am Journey 1, 2, & 3 9:45 - 10:15 am Journey 1, 2, & 3 . 10:30; 11:00 am Infant & Preschool 10:30- 11:00 am Day Camp 11:15- 12:15 pm SWimTeam 11:15- 12:15 pm SwimTeam 12:30 - 5:00 pm. Recreational Swim 12:30 - 5:00 pm Recreational Swim 5:15- 5:45 pm Infant &Preschool 5:15- 5:45 pm Inf/Presch/Jr. Lifegrd 6:00.- 6:30 pm Journey 1, 2, & 3 6:00- 6:30 pm Inf/PreschlJ3/Challenge 6:45- .7:.15pm Journey 1, 2, & 3 6:45- 7:15 pm Journey 1, 2, & 3 No classes offered after 5:00 pm at 7:30 - 8:00 pm Journey 1, 2, & 3 Saunder's 4th Session. 8i'15 - 9:00'Pm Lap Swim (M - w- F)" '8:15- 9:00 pm Aquam~ 7:00- 8:00 am SwimTeam 8:15- 8:45 am Journey 1, 2, & 3 9:00- 9:30 am Journey 1, 2,&3 .I 9:00- 9:30 am Journey 1, 2, & 3 9:45- 10:15 am Priv/Semi-Priv. Lessons! 9:45- 10:15 am Journey 1, 2, & 3 10:30 - 11:00 am Priv/Semi-Priv. Lessons 10:30- 11:00 am Inf/Presch/Challenge 11:15- 11:45 am Priv/Semi-Priv. Lessons 11:15'12:!5pm SwimTeam 12:30 - 5:00 pm Recreational Swim' 12:30- 1:30pm SwimTeam 5:30 - 8 30. pm· Available for Rental · 1:45 5:00 pm Recreational Swim 5:15 ' 5:45 pm Inf/Presch/Challenge · 6:00-. 6:30 pm Journey 1, 2, & 3 --6:45- 7:15pm Journey1,2,&3 .' 7:30- 8:30 pm SwimTeam A er School AcTivities · LOoking for. something fun and constructive for your child to d° after School? Then' Baketsfield's B.E.S.T. (Bringing Enrichment to Students Today) is the after sChool PlaYground prOgram for you. This drOp-in ~program'offers a varietyof activities inclUding games, arts and crafts, sports, music, special 'events, homework time, and more. The program is for children in 1st', 8th grades, with the exception of Planz school which has 3rd- 6th grades.. Participants must be stUdents of the school at the program site. There are no registration fees-for the prOgram; however, there'may be a small fee for certain craft 'Projects or special activities'. R~giStration:. A parent or guardian must complete a regis, tration and waiver form to participate in the program. The registration form will provide program leaders with important information and will be kept on file at the sitethe child attends. Registration forms are available at your child's school site and the 'department office. I .E.g,T. Fro ra gites a.d l'i teS ' . , Days: ,Monday - Friday '. (on days school,is in sessiOn) ' ' ' -Fee: Free Bakersfield City School District Sites: Schools: Casa Loma Time: 2:30 - 5:00 pm. Frank West 2:45 - 5:15 pm. Munsey ,' 2:30- 5:00 pm. Jefferson 2:00 - 4:45 pm. Sequoia Middle 2:30- 5:00 pm. Stella Hills 2:00 - 4:30 Pm. Washington Middle 2:00 - 4:30 pm, Co-Sponsored by the Bakersfield City School District Greenfield Union School District Sites: Schoolsi Fairview Time: 2:30 - 4:30 Pm. Kendrick '2:30 - 4:30 pm. McKee' Primary. & Intermediate 2:30 - 4:30 pm. Palla 2:15- 4:15 pm. Plantation 2:00 -.4:00 Pm. ~ ' Planz ~ . 2:30- 4:30 pm. Co-Sponsored by the Greenfield Union School District Good Times Good Friends This program offers supervised recreational activities including homework assistance, games, tournaments, arts and crafts, sports, music, and contests. The Lowell Neighborhood Community Center features a computer lab. There is no registration fee for this "drop-in" program; however, there may be fees for certain craft projects or special activities. A registration card and waiver form are required for every participant as this will provide the leaders with important emergency information to be kept on file at the playground centers. A parent or guardian must come to the program on the child's first day to fill out this registration form and sign the liability waiver. This program is not designed as a day camp or child care service. Children may participate in organized activities or play on their own at the park and come and go as they please. Silver ~ree/~ ~o~ity ~e#ter Days: Monday- Thursday (except school holidays) Time: 2:30 pm- 5:00 pm Ages: 1st - 8th grades Fee: Free M~i# lufher Ki~ ~r. Oo~u~i~ O~fer Days: Monday -'Friday (except school holidays) Time: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Ages: 1st - 8th grades Fee: Frae lowell ~ei~hborhood 0o~u~i~ Oe~fer Days: Monday- Friday (except school holidays) Time: 2:00 pm- 5:45 pm Ages: 1st - 8th grades Fee: Free Summer Teen Center is THE place .to Summertime is fun. time~t the Summe!.' this summer. Come down for some fun. Game Centers. Make S~me new friends'and is a "drop-in" program designed enjoy your summer wit, h~ Us. we provide y forhigh school students, supervised reCreational aCtivities at this" include: ' "drop-in" program. T, he center will provide an opportunity'for adventure through new Sports and games · Trips and creatiVe experi.endes. Enjoy any o~ all of Drama · Movies the following activities! Music · Art & crafts ' '- ..' Dances .. Socialactivities · Sports and games · 'Tdps' ~ Drama · Movies . A registration card and waiver form are , MUsic : ~'' · Art & crafts required for every participant. The · Dances ' ' ' ' .... -' Social activities registration card will. provide staff with ':, ' ' important emergency information to be kept A registration'card'and'waiver form are'. .' on file at the. site. For additional information required for every participant.- The please contact us at 326-FUNN. registration card will provide staff with important emergency information to be kept Days: Monday - Friday, except July 5 on file at each location. For additional Time: 2:00 - 8:00 pm information please contact us at 326-FUNN. Dates: June .14 - July 23 Ages: 14 - 17 Days: Monday - Friday, except July5 Fee: Free (a small charge for trips) Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Location: BHS Cafeteria · Dates: June .14 - August 6 · California Avenue & H street Ages: 14 Fee: Free (a small charge for trips) Ca#4p J~iI~IC~ · LoCations: Stella Hills Elementary School 3800 Jewett Street This Camp includes activities such as arts Washington Middle School and crafts, sports, games and more! River Blvd. & Columbus Enrollment is required and space is limited. Greenfield Jr. High School Please call the center at 322-9874~for more information. 1109 Pacheco Road Wayside Park Days:' Monday - Friday 1200 Ming Avenue Time: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Dates: June 14 - August 5 (except July 5) Ages: 6 - 12 years Fee: Free Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center Silver' Or'eekl;ay ,amp Lowell ummer Camp Are yo~ looking for something entertaining, The Lowell Neighborhood CommunKy educational, and 'eXciting for your children to Center is offering a summer camp for do this summer?. Bdng them to the Silver children who will be entering 1st - 6th Creek DayCamp. They will make new grades. Activities will include arts and crafts, friends, lear~n new skillS', and have a games, sports, music, special events, swim wonderful time. CamPer, s will utilize the lessons, and excursions. Registration is entire commUnity center including the required and is on a first-come, first-served swimming pool, tennis courts, covered basis. Campers are required to bring asack sports pavilion, and the al'r-conditioned multi- lunch daily. purpose room. Activities will include arts · and crafts~ sports, music,Special events, Days: Monday- Friday games, and swimming. Weekly trips for Time: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm activities such as ice skating, bowling, miler (Center will be open at 8:30 am) skating, and more. GUest speakers from the Dates: June 7 - July 16 community will also come to the camp to talk (Closed July 5) on a vadety of topics. Ages: Entering 1st- 6th grade .. .. Fee: Free Parents provide a morning snack, lunch, and Location:, Lowell Neighborhood Community a drink.' SWim lessons will be included for an Center additional charge during sessions 2, 4, & 5. Days: Monday- Friday Time: 7:00 am- 6:00. pm Dates: Session 1: June 14- June 25 Session 2: June 28 - July 9 (Closed July 5) Session 3: July 12 ~ July 23 Session 4: July 26 - August 6 Session 5: August 9 - August 20 Ages: Entering lst-6th grade Fee: $152 for each two-week session Additional fee, per session, for swim lessons: $22 for City residents $32 for non-city residents Registration begins: April 12 Learn a New Skill Time: 8:00 am- 5:00 pm To reserve a space: Fee: $50 deposit for each session Balance is due one week before session begins. Location: Silver Creek Community Center l[e tal | f0rmati0 The center is located on the corner of Harris Road and The center's multi-purpose roOm, kitchen, picnic areas, and Reliance Drive and is open pavilion are available for rental to the public. The maximum 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday - capacity of the multi-purpose room is 100 people. The Friday. In addition to rentable pavilion offers lighting for evening events, basketball goals, areas, this complex features: and removable volleyball standards. With the exception of picnic areas, reservations must be made at least two weeks · Basketball coUrts in advance and require a cleaning deposit. · Disc golf course · Exercise course Fee perhour · Horseshoe pits {2 hour minimum) · Playground equipment i Multi-purpose room $56 · Heated swimming pool Room w/kitchen $61 · - Tennis courts' Kitchen only $23 ;Covered pavilion area $23 ' ' Covered pavilion w/lights $26 Call the center at 665-8033 for One picnic area (includes shelter) $46 per day additional information. If a picnic area is not rented, it may be utilized on a first- There are a ~ariety Of leisure' come, first-served basis, classes held at the center.. These include: · Ballet & Gymnastics · Calligraphy · Clogging ~ - · Dog Obedience · Jazz & Gymnastics · Bike Safety · Fun With Spanish · Jazzercise · Karate · Tennis · Tiny Tot Dance · Pressed Flower workshop Silver Creek Community Center Please refer to pages ,, 19 - 31 for more information. The center is located'at 1000 S. Owens [el l'l'al I f0rmati0 ,..,,- . Street and is open from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday - Friday. This complex features: Facilities available for rental include: · . Lighted softball field · Gymnasium · Swimming pool · · Kitchen · Tennis courts · Meeting rooms · Circuit training equipment · Picnic areas For further information call 322-9874 These facilities are available for rental when such use does not conflict with activities ,' ~. ~ offered by the Department of Recreation and' ~ ~::' :~:;~!;.. 'i A deposit of $50 is required for all · ?;~:~ reservations, except picnic areas, with the. balance due one week prior to the ' ' ' reservation date. Fee per hour (2,hour minimum) i Meeting room $53 - ~'~ Room w/kitchen $58 Gymnasium $38 One picnic area $28 / day "We Love Our Center" Each additional area $18 / day Free Lu oh Program Notary Service The center will offer a free lunch program to Notary service is offered for semor citizens! anyone 17 and under. Sponsored by the Bakersfield City School District. Days: Monday- Thursday Time: 3:00 - 6:00 pm Days: Monday-Friday Dates: Ongoing Time: 12:15 - 1:30 pm Age: Senior Citizens - 55 and above Dates: June 14- August 13 Notary: Manuel Williams Fee: Free After Summer School ttomework ttelp Homework help is available for boys and ,girls in 1st - 8th grade. DayS: Monday-Thursday Time: 12:00 pm- 2:00 pm The center is located at 610 4th Street' and is open 8:00 am - 5:45 pm, Monday - Friday. It features: · · Game room ~ · Ciassrooms · Study areas · Computers · Basketball court · Playground area For more information, ple~ase Call the center' at 326-1602. Fun at Lowell We provide a wide variet, y of activities and programs for youth, grades 1 - 8.. Some.of .. the supervised programs include: · Outdoor activities · Indoor activities · Basketball/softball/volleyball · Board games · Jump rope/jacks/marbles · Billiards/arts & crafts ' · New games · Homework assistance · Special eventS/excursions Express Your Talent · Reading hour/computer lab ~ Movie days · - Workshop You can learn how to make a quilt in this :. ::!!' ' · .' 18-week program designed for beginners. " ifts FrO t the 0arden" Instruction will be given in all the skills needed to complete a quilt. Participants Create yourown beautiful stationery, must purchase their own supplies. This bookmarks,candles, and more; It's easy, class is sponsored by the Bakersfield AdUlt fun,.*pnd ineXpensive! ~, Learn the basics of School. pressing floWers properlY from an expert and finish p projectin class. Acomplete supply *' Day: Thursday kit With Pressed flowers is included. Space · Time: 9:00 - 11:00 am is limitedi' so register for this popular class Date: Begins August 26 immediately! Fee: Free i'Day: . ~ Saturday . Instructor: Mary Daniels ' Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm Community Center Dates: Session 1:July24 Session 2:. August 21 . AgeS:~ ~' 12 and up " :~.., Instructor: Lynn Pitts ': . Botanical Artist and ..: . .... Garden Writer " · Location: Silver Creek Community, ': Center · Calligraphy Workshop ,,. This two-hour workshop will help you add .flair to your invitations and greeting cards. YoU gain an understanding of hand-lettering techniques and fundamentals~ Topics include letter technique, proportions, spacing, layout and design for perso, nal or commercial application./: Day: Saturday Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Dates: Session 1: June 19 JJ--~-~ Session2:' AugUst 14 Fee: . $30 for one class plus supply fee Supply Fee: $10 payable to the instructor Instructor: Jill Thayer Ages: ........ 18 &'up ........ Location: Silver Creek Community Center Calling all aspiring artists 7 - 14 years old This program is'designed to offer childran'a who are looking for a one-of-a-kind way to variety of creative 'activities in a structured .. express themselves: .Art Studio will explore environment. Children will be instructed on how to make craft projects from a large art concepts Under the guidance of a talented, professional,-commercial artist, selection of materials. Program activities Major areas of emphasis will include include: beginning drawing, cartooning, and chalk. · Crafts Young artists from all over thecity won't :want to miss this great'summertime · Movies 0pPortunity; · · Table games Day: Wednesday Special events are designed to disPlay Time: 10:~15 - 11:15 am participants craft work and skills in a Dates:'. Session 1' June 16, 23, 30, competitive format: .. July 7 Days: Monday - Friday .-. Session 2: 'July 14; 21, 28, Time: 3:00 - 6:00 pm ' ~' ' '" AuguSt 4 Dates: Ongoing !Ages: 7- 14 Ages: 5- 12 ' Fee: $30 plus supply fee Fee: Free JSupply Fee: $5 - payable to the instructor Instructor: Faye Feltus Ilnstructor: Terry Kirkindoll Location: Martin Luther King Jr. ILocation: Silver Creek Community Center CommunityCenter Tiny tots will explore,, a v:ariety of dance` styles in this comb!nation class. This class is perfect for beginning dan~ers ~Who will learn the basic termsi~ positi.o,:ns, and movements of tap, ballet, .and tumbling. What a gmat .way, t° in!;roduce'your tiny tot. · to the beautiful art of dancing: Register early for this popular class! Day: Tuesday Dates: Session 1: May4,.11, 18, 25 Session 2: June 1, 8, 15, 22 Session 3: Ju y 6, 13, 20, 27 Ballet {ym.astios - Instructor: Belinda Bean,. All:Star Dance ¥011~ Location:. Silver Creek Community Center · ....... ~ "' Children will develop style and self- '"~ i. ., confidence, while learning foot positions,' ' dance routines, and floor exercises Gymnastics is offered with ballet or jazz. ~ Day: Thursday - Time: Ballet/Gym: 5:30.- 6:15 pm fl~~ Jazz/Gym: 6:20- 7:05 pm.' . ~ · .~ Dates: Session 1: May 6, 13, 20, 27 : · ~[l Session 2: June 3, 10, 17, 24 · Session 3: July 1, 8, 15, 22 Feei $28 .. Instructor: Belinda Bean, All Star Dance . Location: Silver Creek Community Center ./ Fallrooe Pa oing .... · If you're ready to thoroughly enjoy yourself ' while learning how to glide along the ballroom dance floor, then this' class is for.' .::;~::/ ;.~. you. Join Ellie and Agnes Dimaya as they show. you just how easy it can be to go from.' .. :~ tragic to magic. ?~:~ ~':' D~y: ". Wednesday Time:. 6:00 - 8:00 pm Date: Ongoing . Fee~ . Free InstrUCtor:. Ellie & Agnes Dimaya Location:' Richard Prado, East Bakersfield Senior Center ': 2101 Ridge Road Dance Instructors, Ellie and Agnes ~ ' (Ridge Rd. & Mt. Vernon Ave.) "' Recommended attire: Ologgilqg Ladies: Party Dress Gentlemen: Coat & Tie Enjoy the traditionalAmerican folk dance taught to a Variety of music, from bluegrass. I1~ ~* ,' ' to pop-rock and country. Clogging is a ai 0e Troupe fantastic form of exercise that helps you IW develop balance, coordination, and flexibility. Boys and girls will.be introduced to the art of Come join this fast-paced, exciting class! ,tap and modern dance, and will have the opportunityto perform throughout the Day: Tuesday community. They can develop style, self- Time: confidence, coordination, and balance while Beginning: ', 7:15 -, 7:45. p.m, learning dance positions and routines. Easy Int: 7:45 - 8:30 Pm Intermediate: 8;30- 9:15 pm Day: 'Saturday Int& Advanced: 9:15- 10:00 pm Time: 9:00 - 11:00 am Date: Runs C°ntinuously'for Date: Ongoing ~ 8 week Sessions. Ages: 12 & under ":.~" · .. ee Free Beginners may join:. June 8'~" InstruCtor: Karen Bostick . August 3 Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Septembe[ 28 Community Center Fee Per Class: $4 adults $3 children under 16 instructor: , Loni O'Donley Location: Silver Creek Community C. entef eoi i cj 'galsa" ".' ltawaiia Itula Tahitla Salsa can be hot and you can be too! This class is for beginners of all temperatures. Here is your chance to learn those Latin The graceful Hawaiian Hula has enchanted steps in a fun and easy class. We are so audiences for years. Learn the "Hukilau" in sure you will enjoy this class, that it comes this fun 4-week course for beginners from. with a money-back guarantee. If after the 8 - 80! Or, learn to "shake it" as the first lesson you wish tds{bp, we will issue pulsating drums set the pace in the Tahitian you a total refund. Classes .will be held four Dance for beginners. This exciting rhythmic times a month, on Wednesdays. Don't just dance of the islandswill be fun for ages 10 sit there like a bowl of chiPs, dip into the and up. Both classes are taught by a Salsa. Ole! ' · ..-. professional inStructor with over25 years' experience. Day: Wednesday Time: 6:30 - 7:30 pm - Beginners Hawaiian Hu/a 7:30- 8:30 pm- Intermediate Beginner- Session 1' May 5, 12, 19, 26 Start Date: First Wednesday of the month Session 2: July 7, 14, 21, 28 Fee: $20 per person $35 a couple Inter/Adv- Session 3: August 4, 11, 18,.25 Seniors 60 & over free Tahitian Dance Instructor: Veronica Quintana Location: Aldo's Night Club Beginner- Session 1' June 9, 16, 23, 30 1900 Union Avenue ' .... Day: Wednesday '~ Time: 7~.15 - 8:15 pm Ages: 8 - 80 Hawaiian Hula 10 and up Tahitian Dance Fee: $30 InstruCtor: Eileen Ki'ilani Caneta Location: Silver Creek Community Center Dipping into Salsa Come learn the latest dance 'craze from the East or West Coast. On Tuesdays,' experience' the smooth country moves of the West Coast Swing. Wednesdays, you can enjoy the high energy steps of. the East Coast Swing. Choose one or both ofthese introductory classes .- '.. taught by a regional dance champion, and dance the night away! Comfortable shoeswith smooth soles for turning will be needed. PArtners are not required. Classes fill .up fast, so register in advance,' : WeSt Coast Swi.g i ast Coast Swf.g Intermediate Swing Day: Tuesday Day: Wednesday Time: 7:30- 9:00 pm Time: 7:30- 9:00 pm if You've already mastered" Dates: Sessioh 1: Dates: Session 1' the basics of East and We~t: May 4, 11, 1'8, 25 " May 5, 12, 19, 26 Coast Swing, and you're Session 2: Session 2: ~ looking for a new challenge, June 1, '8, 15:.22 June 2, 9, 16, 23 this is the class for you. Session. 3: ' ' SessiOn. 3: Increase your expertise while July 6, 13, 20, 27 July 7, 14, 21, 28 learning some new'moves ~ Session 4:. 'Session 4: from the East and West ,.: August 3, !0' 17, 24' August 4, 11, 18, 25 Coast., Nopartners required. ":" ~.. Agei .Allages Day: MondaY ..... Fee: $25 Time:' 7:30- 9:00 pm ' Instructor: Andrea Hall Dates: Session 1: Location: Studio Del Sol May 3; 10, 17,.24 ~ 1417 H Street Session'2: .,June7' 14, 21, 28 ~. Session 3: July 5, 12, i9, 26 Session 4:' August 2, 9, 16, 2'3 Watch the Toesf Jazzer be ,erobio ' Jazzercise is a dance exercise program that Get in shape and feel great and energetic for features energetic dance routines with new those busy summer months ahead. Join us and exciting choreography. This program for a refreshing, Iow impact, cardiovascular emphasizes flexibility, coordination, balance, workout. and cardiovascular endurance. Days: Monday- Thursday Days: Monday- Friday Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm Time: 9:00 - 10:00 am Date: Ongoing Day: Saturday Ages: 16 and over Time: 8:30 - 9:30 am Instructors: Andrew Hill Vincent Ludd. Days: Monday & Wednesday Fee: Free Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Dates: This is a year-round exercise Community Center program so begin at your convenience. Fee: $35 for 15 classes Senior Health Club $25 for 8 classes $10 for 5 classes (Introductory Come join our senior health club. A offer for first time students) supervised stretching and walking program $ 5 for 1 class designed for seniors. All Participants are Instructor: Shannon Ong encouraged to set and reach a goal of health Location: Silver Creek Community Center through walking and stretching. Days: Monday, Wednesday, & Friday ~~~ Time: 8:30-9:30 am ~ Date: Ongoing Fee: Free Workout Schedule Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Morning Community Center Men: Jazzercise Tues: Step/Circuit Wed: Jazz/Circuit Thur: Jazz Fri: Step Sat: Cardio-Quick Evening Men: Jazzercize Wed: Step Adult Fitness Center Modern equipment is availablefor weight lifting and fitness training. Sign-uP and waiver form are required for participation. SPace is limited. Fitness Center Hours Open Training Days: Monday - Thursday Time: !0:00 am - 1:00 pm 3:00 - 6:00 pm Dates: Ongoing Ages: 14 & older Fee: Free Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center Equipment Available · lateral pulldown · chest press · pec machine · shoulder press · ab machine · bicep curl · step machine · leg extension · leg press · incline sit-ups · curl bench (free weights) · bench press (free weights) Looking for some great recreational fun? The gymnasium will be open fo~ drop-in, recreational basketball, Monday - Thursday. ParticiPants sign in on a list for pick-up games. Special times for youth and 'adults. This supervised activity is a great way to burn offthat excess energy! " Youth Days: Monday- Friday .Time: 3:00 - 5:00 pm 'Adults Days: Monday- Thursday Time: 5:00- 8:00 pm Fee: Free LoCation: Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center Build your self-confidence, coordination, balance, and good health habits in this traditional karate program. This class is designed for beginning to advanced students. Each session begins the first week of the month @nd meets weekly. Ages: 6 & up Fee: $25 for four lessons, plus: Insurance: $10 per year for children .$20 per year for adults Instructor: Japan Martial Arts World 3600 Chester Avenue Day: Monday Time: 7:00 - 8:00 pm Dates: Session 1: May 3, 10,.!7, 24 Session 2: June 7, 14, 21, 28 Session 3: July 5, 12, 19, 26 Session 4: August2, 9, 16, 23 Location: Japan Martial Arts World ..... 3600 Chester Avenue Day: Tuesday Day: Saturday Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am Dates: Session 1:May 4, 11, 18, 25 Dates: Session 1: May 1, 8, 15, 22 Session 2:June 1, 8, 15, 22 Session 2: June 5, 12, 19, 26 Session 3:July 6, 13, 20, 27 Session 3: July 10, 17, 24, 31 Session 4:August 3, 10, 17, 24 "' Session 4: August 7, 14, 21, 28 Location: Silver Creek Community Center Location: Japan Martia,I Arts World 3600 Chester Avenue I oller , ka .O lee kaflng i.-Iine flng Learn to skate in four weeks! Skatem will Do you want to learn in-line or roller skating? learn the basi~ and enhance their balance, Then this class is for youl Children and speed, agility, and Power. Free skate rental adults receive 30 min~es of instruction,' and practice time included. Skaters must skate rental, and ~o hours of open skating arrive 20 minutes prior to class time to lace ~ each lesson. Classes are one month long up their skates. Dross warmly. Mittens or. and sta~ the first Saturday of each month, gloves are re~mmended. Day: Saturday Day: Monday Time: Advanced: 11:30 am Time: Pre.ice: 3:~5- 4:15 pm Intermediate: 12:00 pm Le~on: 4:15 - 4:45 pm Tiny Tots (4-7): 12:30 pm Dates: S~sion 1: May 3, 10, 17, 24 Beginning (8 & up): 1:00 pm Session 2: June 7, 14, 21, 28 Session 3: July 5, 12, 19, 26 Open Skate: Session 4: August 2, 9, 16, 23 Morning: 9:30 - 11:30 am A~emoon: 1:30 - 3:30 pm Ages: 4 & older Fee: $35 "~'' Dates: Session 1: May 1, 8, 15, 22 Loc~ion: I~ Pala~ Session 2: June 5, 12, lg, 26 3737 Rosedale Highway Session 3: July 3, 10, 17, 24 Session 4: August 7, 14, 21, 28 4 Fun Fee: $20 Learn Spanish through games, activ~ies, ~lnstru~or: Natalie Dunn Fries Loc~ion: Skateland dialogues and discussion. This is an exciting language ~urse taught by an 4~ 5 Ming Avenue experienced and credentinled instru~or. Day: Wednesday Go team gel ~uppo~ your team, increase Dates: your ~ordination, strength, and flexibil~y Session 1: June 2, 9, 16, 23 using dance. S~sion 2: June 30, July 7, 14, 21 Day: Tuesday Ages:, 4th grade- adults Fee~ $30 Time: 3:00 -.4:00 pm Date: Ongoing Inst~or: Aimee Lurer Ages: 3rd - 6th grade Loc~ion: Silver Creek Community Center Fee: · Free . In~ru~or: Staff Loc~ion: Lowell Neighbo~ood Commun~y Center Effeefive Cycling Kids I: Effeefive Cycling Kids II Balancing isJusf Se ~eoin~ing Peal World Cycling For Kids, There is more to bicycle safety than You wouldn't send your kids to the pool balancing. Get your young Children started without teaching them to swim. Why send off on the right pedal! Learn proper helmet them into the street on a bicycle without the and biCycle fit, the quickest safety check . proper training? Whether yoUr kids ride their around, common caqses of accidents and bikes to school, tothe store, or just around how to avoid them, and howti3 help your the neighborhood, they will benefit from this children learn the skills they need to ride class. Topics include traffic laws, scanning, safely. This 1-1/2 hour class includes a road position, emergency stops, common video, handouts, and discussion for parents, hazards for cyclists, and more. as well as hands-on instructional time with your kids. Each child must have a helmet Day: Saturday and a bicycle in good working order. (May Time: 9:30 - Noon have training wheels) Dates: July 17, 24, 31 Ages: Grades 4 - 6 Day: Saturday ~., Fee: $55 for 3 2-1/2 hour lessons Time: 10:00 - 11:3earn InStructor: John Lotze, Certified Effective Dates: Session 1: May 15 Cycling Instructor with the Session 2: June 26 League of American Bicyclists Session 3: August 21 Location: Silver Creek Community Center Ages: 4- 8 years Fee: $16 per child/parent combo, per session Instructor: John Lotze, Certified Effective Cycling Instructor with the '. League of American Bicyclists, Location: Silver Creek Community Center Music Ilarmony i:oad Summer Music · Beginning Frums Camp Children ages 4 - 11 will discover the joys of Learn beginning rhythms and drumming making music in this 4-lesson introductory skills under the creative direction of Matthew course. 'Activities include moving to music, Boyle. This class is designed for boys and singing, ear training, beginning note reading, girls with little or no experience with drums. rhythm games, beginning keyboard, Affordable and enjoyable, these summer ensembles, and much more! A parent or. lessons are just what a young, budding primary care giver attends each class with musician needs. Practice pads and sticks the child. A keyboard 'at home is helpful but ara provided. not required. Day: Friday Session I Time: .10:30- 11:30 Dates: June 14, 15, 16, 17 Days: Monday- Thursday Dates: · - Session 1: June 11, 18, 25, July 2 · Session 2: July 9, 16, 23, 30 Time: Ages 4 - 5: 9:00 am - 9:45 am Ages: 7 - 14 Fee: $30 Ages 6 - 7: 10:00 am - 10:45 am Ages 8 - 11 :' 11:00 am - 11:45 am Instructor: Matthew Boyle - The Garden Matthew has been teaching drums for 1-1/2 Session 2 years. He toured with the BHS band. Dates: June 28, 29, 30, July 1 Days: Monday- Thursday Location: Silver Creek Community Center Time: Ages 4 - 5: 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm Ages 6 - 7: 3:30 pm- 4:15 pm Ages 8 - 11:2:30 pm - 3:15 pm SessiOn 3 Dates: July 12, 13,',14, 15 Days: Monday - Thursday Time: Ages 4- 5: 9:00 am - 9:45 am Ages 6 - 7: 10:00 am - 10:45 am Ages 8 - 11:11:00 am - 11:45 am Fee: $50 Materials Fee: $5 for workbook' Paid to instructor at first lesson. Instructors: Cindy MoSley Location: Bakersfield Community Church 22nd & P Streets USTA Tennis LessonsTen"is Anyone? Juniors will gain tennis experience and new Group lessons are available for children and skills in this instructive program, with an adults. These classes offer a great emphasis o~ competition~ and opportunity to perfect'your game or to learn sportsmanship. SPonsored by the Southern' the basics. Participants must supply a California Tennis Association, member of racket and one unopened can of tennis balls. the U.S. Tennis Assdciati0n. : ~ Class size is limited, so sign up early! DayS: Monday - Friday Time: 8:00 am - 9:30 am Days: Tuesday & Thursday Dates: June 14 - July 30 Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm Children .Ages: 8 - 18 7:00 - 8:00 pm Adults Fee: Free Dates: Session 1: Instructor: Faye Feltus May 4, 6, .11, 13, 18, 20, 25, 27 Location: Martin Luther King Jr.. Session 2: Community Center..~ June 1, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24 Session 3: 'Adult Tennis , 0eial ~' July 6, 8, 13, !5, 20, 22, 27, 29' ;Fun, food and friends! Looking for Ways to Session 4: 'meet new players, make new friends, get August 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26 some exercise, orjust have some fun? Join Ages: 5 - 15 Children us for one of the four week sessions of : 16 & older - Adults tennis action. The format will be co- Fee: $28 Children 'recreational with a handicap scoring system $35 Adults making it fun for players of all levels. For 8 lessons Players must be at least 18 years old. Instructor: Robert Limpias Registration Will be limited to 16 players Location: Silver Creek Park taken on a first-come, first-served basis. Enjoy a season ending potluck dinner for all interested players.. Days: Monday & Wednesday ~ Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm Children Day: . Tuesday' 7:00 - 8:00 pm Adults Time: 7:00' 9:00 pm Dates: Session 1: Dates: :' .Session .1; June 21, 23, 28, 30 June 22, 29, J~ly 6, ~3 July 5, 7, 12,.14 - Session 2: July 20, 27, August 3,~ ;10 ' Session 2: · July 19, 21, 26, 28, Registration Deadline:` June 3' August 2, 4, 9, 11 Ages: 18 & older Fee: $16 per person Ages: 5 - 15 Children 16 & older - Adults Location: Siemon Park Fee: $28 Children $35 Adults Instructor: Chris Kayes Location: Siemon Park , ports Beginning Golf AdUlts and kids will enjoy, these group g01f 'lessons .designed for families and individuals.. Learn the fundamentals of the golf'swing, grip, and' basic scoring. Know the proper golf etiquette before' you hit the greens! Each Session jnclUdeSdriving range use, and nine'holes:of golf on the last Saturday. A golf club will. be provided for each participant if needed. Sign-up early for this popular class~ ' Day: ~.., Saturday Time: 2:00-.3:30 pm. Dates: Session 1: 'May !; 8~ 15, 22 · " Session 2:· JUne 5,.::12~,- 19, 26 ' ' SessiOn 3: July i0,"17,:24, 31 · SeSSion 4: A.ugust 7, 14, 21,28 AgeS: 10 ·- Adult Fee: $40 " Instructor: Roland ReeSe' Location: Valle Grande Golf Course · 1119 Watts Drive Tennis Lessons .." . T~is'ye'ar-r°und class is. a junior " · ' development program. Participants will learn basic skills and techniques including forehand, backhand, serve/and volley. A hmited number of balls and rackets are , ; . ~ .!~,.~:~ available for loan. .~ · ,'!...-:~! ~. .. Day: SaturdaY; -.. * .:... .~= Time: ' 8:00 - 9:00 am' . . ~ '.' :, · .~ Ages: 11 - 17' '-' ~''~''' :"' '"." Day: Saturday ~" ': Time: 9:30 - 10:30 am :. Ages: 7- 10 ' Date: Ongoing '" "'''':~" Fee: Free ;;. :,..': i:- InstrUctor: Kevin Nichols ' '~'''''' '" : Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center IPla? Ball o T-Ball That is r So you.have a boy or girl that is ready to try their firsf.~"on;competitive, fun, positive, team sport? Then the city of Bakersfield's T-Ball is for you. League will run for siX weeks with games played once a week, Participants will receive a bat.and t-shirt.. Registration: May 3 - May 28 League,Begins:Wednesday, June16 Saturday, June 19 Ages: ' '5 -'7 Y~ars old Fee: $20' ' Day:.. Wednesday ~'-' ' Time: 6:00 Pm~ Location:. Patriots'Park :;'~ Day:"' ' Saturda~y Proper Fo'rm Time: ~ 9:00 am Location: Yokuts Park Sign'up for Wednesday or Saturday. · H~me Run The Outfield Softball. · Softball fever?. Catch the cure in ou~ upcoming'summer softball season, Leagues are being offered for men'S~ WOmen's, and co-recreatiOnalteams. ASA rules with modifications will apply. Player's participation will be limited to a men's or women's, plus one co-recreational team per season, No team will be accepted after registration deadline unless needed .to balance leagues or maintain equity. Games will be played weekdays from 6:30 o 10:15pm. Registration: May 10 - ,June 4 Divisions:. . Games Begin: Week of dune 14 A)' Most Competitive* ". Ages: 18 and older' B) *Competitive · Fee: $431 per team '" C) Semi-Competitive Locations: Beach, Martin Luther King Jr., ~, D) Recreational Patriots, Planz, and . The Department will determine - ." ~ · ~Wayside Parks*.* ' game ioc~,fi0ns. Manager's Meeting: ' June 9 Co-recreation &,' .... . . . ~, * ...... Women's: ,,,- ,'r., ~ 6:00-- 7:00 pm Men's: :. ,~ 7:15-8:1.5 pm gawd Volleyball geries It's our 4-on-4 adult sand volleyball tournament series. Adults are encoUraged to sign-up for this fun tournament for the beginner to the most, competitive. · Day: SaturdaY. Dates: Series 1: May 15 Registration: April I - May 3 Series 2: June 12 Registration: May 3 - June 4 Series 3: ~.July 17 Registration: June 7-July 5 Series 4: July 31 Championship Tournament Ages: '18 & over Fee: $60 per series Location: Kern River Parkway Truxtun Avenue Extension, at Mohawk Street A, II Hatio,s ( elebratio,s Come out and enjoy the foOd, music, and dance of cultures from around the world. You will have the opportunity to experience a different culture each Week in a beautiful park setting. , , .Thisis sure to be an event full of fun for the entire family! Day: Tuesday ...~ . Time: 5:30 - 7:30 pm ~ 'Dates: April 6 ............. African-American April 13 ............... Pacific Islander ". April 20 ................ Asian ~ ' April 27 ............... Mediterranean · May 4 ................ Hispanic *Fee: Free Location:* Jastro Park If you o,r. your group would like to participate,'please call us at 326-FUNN. · Mozart for Moe .-..-.,..-.-,.. Comecelebrate Mother's Day in a unique and speCial way. Enjoy the music of Capela surprises are in store for · ~~ , Mom including a'free . . ~ ,~~& drawing just for her, so don't e~ miss this special evening in - her honor.. ~. Fee: Free ~ . · Day: SUnday ~ Location.' Patriots Park Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm' Date: May 9 : Fee: Free Location: Yokuts Park Muslefest '99 Spend. a relaxing summer evening with Be a part of this 60th year celebration of your family enjoying the Silver Creek "Summer Concerts in the Park'.'..' .The Musicfest. The Department of Recreation Bakersfield Municipal Band, under the and Parks and Castle &_Cooke present direction of ·Colonel Wesley Moore, will Musicfest '99. These free concerts will ' entertain and inspire us with big band music. feature different musical styles and groups ·Come out early with your picnic baskets,· every week! Bdng .your lawn chairs and lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy a. blankets and enjoy a musical evening with musical evening with your family. Be sure'to your family in the park. attend the special July 4th concert. Special activities will be planned for each concert to Day: ' 'TueSday celebrate 60 years of this wonderful Time: 7:30' 9:00. tradition. Date: July 6 - August 10 Fee: Free Day: Sunday LocatiOn: Silver Creek Park Time: 8:00 pm Dates: June 13 - July 25 Fee: Free Location: ' Beale park. L, Bakenfield leaaffa Ever wanted to be the Captain of your own ship? Ever touted that you can float your own boat? Well, here's your chance! Participate in the first annual Bakersfield Regatta. The Regatta is a model boat race down the Kern River. You can bring your own boat or build one with the experts before 1:00 pm. We launch the boats from Beach Park starting a 1:00 pm. Once your boat comes in at Yokuts Park enjoy the afternoon with a boat show brought to you by Galey's Marine. See the demonstration booths from: · City of Bakersfield Fire Department's Swift Water Rescue Group · Bakersfield Police Department · Kern County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Team · Hall Ambulance Service, Inc. There will be food, games, music, and entertainment from 1:00 - 4:00 pm at Yokuts Park. Boats will be judged on originality, style of constrUction, and if they can float. To register your boat, please come to the Recreation & Parks office at 4101 Truxtun Avenue. Boat Divisions: Day: Saturday Date: June 19 Individuals: Youth-Adult Time: BeachPark Groups: Youth - Adult 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Business/Corporations 1:00 pm boats released (Please no remote control boats or Yokuts Park those longer than 36") 1:00 - 4:00 pm Food, games, music, & entertainment ' ~o_/',~'~ ~ ~/~f,.,~ Fee: Free C~~ .,mo...,..,-~,o,~,~:,.~_~,,.,,,~:.:.,, Location: Beach & Yokuts parks AMBULANCE Come out and shoW-off your Yo-Yo skills. There' is a division for everyone to enter. ~ Meet new friends and learn some new tricks. Watch 1997 Advance Division World Yo-Yo Champion and President of the American Yo-Yo Association, . John stangl~ ~emonstrate his skills. Lots of great priz~ es and plenty of fun! Come to the department office to pre-register for this event. For more information, Please ¢~11 326-FUNN. tuner: 1 division (8 yeasts & under) Novice: 2 di,~isions (12 &'under) and (~i3 & over) Advance: 2 divis~ions (Junior - 15 & under) and (Senior - 16 & over) EXpert: I division (no age restrictions) Compulsory SkillS only Championship: t division (no age restrictions) Freestyle (maximum 3 minute routine) Bakersfield City Champion: · 1 division (age break outs: 8 & younger, 9-15, 16 & older) Contestants must reside in the oity of Bakersfield Day: Saturday Date: July 10 'Time: Registration/Check-in - 9:00 am ~. C°mpetition - 10:00 am Age: Everyone interested in showing their Yo-Yo skills Fee: Free Location: Silver Creek Community Center F. oeki ' The Kiver Kick back and relax while enjoying Bakersfield's best classic rock bands, These free concerts are being co-sponsored by B-Rock 99,3 FM and begin at 7:30 pm each night, Bring your lawn chairs and picnic baskets to Yokuts Park ~and get .ready to hear some great rock n' roll, August '17 Featuring: Eddie and the Brush Fire August 24 ~ Featuring:DiminishedCapacity ~B~OC[B~i~ August 31 Featuring: Last Call Summer 0ar. ival Ready to test your skills and win that prize? Then come to the SUMMER CARNIVAL FOR KIDS, Children of all ages can participate with unlimited access to games and activities, Prizes and refreshments are included, So come out and have some fun! Day: Tuesday Date: July 20 Time: 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm Age: Children of'all ages Fee: $3 wristband Location: Wilson Park Be Still! ~. He Shoots, He Scores! I ark I foreatio The Department of Recreation and Parks takes a great deal of pride in the 39 parks located throughout the city, as well as the Kern River Parkway. Many of these parks have facilities available for rental to the public, whenever such use does not conflict With scheduled recreational activities. All permits and reservation policy requirements are obtainable at the department office, located at 4101 Truxtun Avenue. A list of the parks and their amenities is' available on page 44. For more information, please call the office at 326-FUNN. Party in the Park Pie.lo Area [eser at'ion ' Picnic areas are available for rental up to 120 days in advance, and no less than 2 working'" days pdor to the date needed. Insurance, necessary documents, and additional fees may be required depending On the type of event. Thedaily fees listed below refer t0 the number of'*. picnic areas and/or serving shelters available. One Area or Facility: $28 Each Additional Area or Facility: $18 ~. Aleoh01 Fermits A permit is required to consume alcohol in all oity parks and facilities. Permits must be** '* obtained at least 48 hours in advance. o{ ball *Field Use There are six lighted, regulation softball fields available for rental. For a list of parks that have reservable fields, please refer to the amenities guide on page 44. These fieids must be reserved at least 2 working days in advance. Insurance, field fees, and a refundable deposit are required for daytime use. Daytime Rental: $28 Lighting: $17 hour (2 hr. min.) Batter Up Soeeer/l ugby Field Use Many of the city parks have multi-use fields that can be used on a firSt-come, first-served basis. Two of the parks have reservable fields with a minimum two working days notice. Insurance, field fees, and a refundable deposit are required for daytime use. Beach Park Soccer Field Daytime Rental: $28 Lighting: . $12 hour (2 hr. min.) Yokuts Park Soccer Field Daytime Rental: $28 Lighting: $9 hour (2 hr. min.) New Park We are very proud of our parks. Therefore, we feel that.our signature signs should reflect that pride. For the last several years we've been installing new signs in various ~arks Such as the one shown. New signs are also located at University, Siemon, Tevis Parks, and the Kern River Parkway. Signs forthe other parks will be installed in the coming months. New Fe.'ee at ( e tral I ark .. Welcome to Patriots Park Those ducks just. won't give up. They keep trying to fly away from the beautiful canal that runs through Central Park. That's why Recreation and Parks, in conjunction with Water Resources, decided to rePlace the old fencing with a new fence and concrete curbing. This attractive addition will not only help keep the ducks~at home, but enhance the beauty of one of our finest parks. Crawl Through the Tunnel at Corvallis Park "New playground equipment,is being .installed in parks around Bakersfield. Some structures have 'been removed and are being replaced with up-to-date fun equipment, The new series of playground equipment is constructed with safety and multiple usage in mind. We are proud to have these new additions at Campus Park South, Centennial, Jefferson, Lowell, Siemon, Tevis, and Wayside parks. Grissom Park is being completed presently. Scheduled in the near Mike Doyle, superintendent of Parks future are Beale, Jastro, Kroll, and Saunders tries Out the toys! parks. So take the kids out and have fun! ".T~'e tree'SeCtiOn staff'have their hands full year-round. Maintaining the trees in all ,391 acmSof parks, 200 acres of streetscapes and medians, and 793 miles of streets . and alleys, trimming 10,479 trees and removing 227 trees, keeps this dedicated crew ,busy throughout the year.' Bfitit doesn't StOp therei These staff members were the front line in cleaning up after the,Janua~ snow storm, responding to over 800 requests for cleanUp in the streets. ~These staff members are on call during any storm that may affect the trees throughout our citY. They're the ones that 'get the calls in the middle of the night to come and remove a fallen tree or limb from the roadway. :They also assist Code Enforcement and the Bakersfield Police .Department in special alley cleanups and other projects. Here They Are Top rowl left to right: Glenna McCombs, Norman Lum, Rick Mayes, Roger Bail~y, Primo Jaquez, David Cebreros, Joe Bejarano. Front row, left to right: Boonthieo Souksavar~e, James Watkins,' Ray Lozano, Abel Aguilar, Henry Joke. Not pictured: Amy Boado, David Harris '. Thank you for a job well done! ::::::~::::: ::::"' :::~ :~:~:~:~::: :::: E :~: Beale '~' ' 2 Campus Pk N Castle` ., ~S'easons ... one-Creek.. '.; ~ ................ - ..' . .... ~: . ~ Basketball 0 0.5 1 2.5 mile. 0.250.751.25 · ~/'0 Ways to Register,..  Mail-In Registration ' General Registration Fast and convenient! Registrations will be processed in the order received. If a program is full, you will be RegiStration will be accepted · contacted. For prompt processing, please complete the from the date this brochure is released, unless a program following steps: . specifies otherwise. Many of our · Fill out registration form completely programs fill very quickly, and. · Enclose check or money order payable'to' registration is on a first-come "City of Bakersfield" ~. first-served basis. Schedules 'are ' subject to change, cancellation, · · Sign form. Registration will not be or rescheduling. Programs may processed without a signature, be canceled if minimum · Mail to: ,enrollment requirements are not City of Bakersfield ......... met. '. ' ' Department of Recreation & Parks '4101 Truxtun Avenue' 'AsSumptiOn of Risk Bakersfield, CA 93309 The Assumption of Risk at the'  bottom of the registration form. on Walk-In Registration page 47 must be signed for all programs at the time of. Drop by the department office at 4101 Truxtun Avenue. registration. Cash, checks, and money orders are accepted for payment. Office Hours: Monday- Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm ~%~gi~"~"~O~ For'~ (Do not use for aquatics, see aquatic registration form on page 49) Please read the registration, information on the previous page before completing this form! This form is not for adult team sports use. You must register in person for adult team sports. Registration Form (Please print) Adult/Parent Last Name :iii First Name Daytime Phone Address Evening Phone ,~ity State Zip iiii Emergency Contact Name & Phone Special Information (Medical Alerts, etc.) Youth Sports: Shirt Size & Grade in School Office Use Only Roloase/^ssumption of Risk Participants are required to read and sign the following declaration IN CONSIDERATION of my, and/o[ my child(ren)being permitted.to take part in this event, I hereby waive, release, and discharge Bakersfield, its Mayor, officers, employees, agents and assigns, from any and all claims for damages for personal injury, death or property damage which may hereafter accrue to me, or my child(ren), as a result of my, or my child(ren) participation in this event. This release/assumption of risk, is intended to discharge in advance the foregoing parties from any and all liability arising out of, or in any way connected with, said acceptance and receipt, even though liability may arise out of the negligence or carelessness on the part of the persons or entities, mentioned herein. IT-IS FURTHER' UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED that the undersigned. assumes all risks associated with this event and that this waiver, release and assumption of risk iS to be.binding on my, or my child(rens) heirs and ' assigns. I agree to indemnify and hold free and harmless t~e foregoing parties'from any loss, liability, damage, cost or expense which may incur as a result of any death, injuries, maint.e.nance or property damage that may be sustained, to me or my child(ren). I HAVE CAREFULLY READ THIS AGREEMENT AND FULLY UNDERSTAND. ITS CONTEN:rS. I AM · AWARE THAT THIS IS A RELEASE OF LIABILITY AND I SIGN IT OF MY OWN FREE WILL. Signature Date If participant is under 18, parent or guardian must sign release. City of Bakersfield r City Council Mayor B°b Pdce Ali.America City Ward 1 Irma Carson, Vice Mayor . Ward 2 . Patricia J..DeMond IIII' Ward3 Mike Maggard ' · I Ward 4 David R. Couch .. Ward 5 Randy RowleS Ward 6 Jacquie Sullivan Ward 7 Mark C. Salvaggio Administration. · " City Manager · Aidn Tandy · Assistant City Manager John W. StinSon '~" Assistant City Manager Alan'Christensen' Community Services Citizens' Advisory Committee The public is invited to attend the committee meetings held at the department office, 4101 ~~ C[T~ '[T~t~ T ruxtun Avenue, on the second Tuesday of " each month at 12:00 pm,. ' · ' Members . . . Richard Russell, Chairperson ., ~ Jack Go!d?mith, Vice Chair Paul Cato ' . Imogean McGill . · Leonard Schmeder .. Alfonso Sierra . · Judy Valenzueia The Department Recreation & Parks is .- an agency member of the NRPA. *' ". P/ease do not marl unt/I Apr//26 1. Make checks payable to "City of Bakersfield". Do not send cash. 2. Mail completed form with check to: Aquatic Registration, 4101 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 93309. 3, Proof of residency is required. Please include imprinted personal check or copy of utility bill. 4. 'If you are unsure of your residency status, please cell 326-FUNN for verification. ,5. Assumption of Risk form must be signed. Registration cannot be processed withOut signature. 6. Please copy this form or attach a sheet with additional information if registering for more than five classes. 7. Total the fees for your first choice classes. Non-residents need to pay the higher non-resident fee. 8. Children with the same parents or guardian may register on the same form. 9. Please circle M or F (male or female) and indicete Date of Birth (if signing up for swim team). Aquatic Registration Form will be accepted with post marks on or after April 26. Any forms mailed in prior to April 26 will be returned to the sender. Swim Lessons Competitive Swim Jr, Lifeguarding $22 ($32 non-city residents) $35 ($45 non-city residents) $22 all residents summer 1999 Aquatic Registration Form (Please Print) Parent/Guardian Last Name First Address City Zip Code Home Phone Work Phone Emergency Sl:Jecial Information (Medical alerts, etc.) Participant's Name DOB Pool Session Time Class/Level Fee I ~)~cond Choice: M F Second Choice: M F I .......... 8ocend Ghoice: M F Second Choice: M F Second Choice: M F ,quafio I ufld Folie¥ ,ssumpfio of I I I Aquatic refunds m~y be issUed under the following guidelines: 1. If participant becomes sick or injured: a. Written doctor's waiver must be submitted to the Department of Recreation & Parks. b, Pro-rated refund will be given if the lesson is in progress. 2. If child is unable to enter water due to, extreme fear: a. Parent must submit a,note from pool manager to the Department of Recreation and Parks. b. Note must be,submitted no later than the third lesson. 3. If three or more lessons within a two week class are canceled I~y the city, and' the cl~s is not rescheduled: · a. Classes maybe Canceled due to pool maintenance probiems or weather conditions. b. Refunds'will be pro-rated.' ' Assumptio of I isk PartiCi~3ants 'are reqUired to read and sign the following declaration~ IN CONSIDERATI°N of,my, and/or my child(ren), being permitted to take part in this event, I hereby waive, release, and discharge the city of Bakersfield, its Mayor, officers, employees, agents and aSsigns;ifr, om any and all.Claims for damages for personal injury, death or property damage which.may iiereafter accrue to me, or my child(ren) as a result of my, or my chi[d(ren) participating in this event. This release is intended to.discharge in advance the foregoing parties from any and .all liability, negligence or carelessness on the part of the persons or entities mentioned h?rein. : . IT-IS FURTHER UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED that this release and assumption of risk is to I be binding on my, or'my child(rens) heirs and assigns. I agree to indemnify and hold free and harmless the foregoing parties from any loss, liability, damage, cost or expense which may incur as a result of any death, injuries, maintenance or property damage that may be sustained. I HAVE CAREFULLY READ.THIS AGREEMENT AND FULLY UNDERSTAND ITS. CONTENTS: I AM AWARE THAT THIS IS A RELEASE OF LIABILITY AND I SIGN IT OF MY OWN FREE WILL; Name of all participants registering: ' Print name .of parent or guardian, if participant is under 18: Signature: Date: If participant is Under 18, parent or guardian must sign release. ~ CITYOFBAKERSFIELD 4101 Truxtun Avenue Bakersfield, CA 93309 (661) 326-FUNN