Community expresses what improvements they'd like to see in Bakersfield

A project for the future, neighborhoods in parts of Bakersfield are coming together to apply for grants that could help improve their areas and make them better places to live. The focus area where the projects are targeted, it covers parts of east, downtown, and central Bakersfield, all to help people in the communities and in disadvantaged neighborhoods where officials said more than 80,000 residents live. Tuesday was a community meeting to ask residents in these areas what improvements they want to see.