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Orozco, Norma From: Emma Medina < Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2018 8:52 PM To: eComment; Pulido, Miguel; Sarmiento, Vicente; Martinez, Michele; Solorio, Jose; Benavides, David; Villegas, Juan; Tinajero, Sal; Godinez, Raul; andrew.do@ocgov.com; shawn.nelson@ocgov.com; todd.spitzer@ocgov.com; michelle.steel@ocgov.com; lisa.bartlett@ocgov.com; frank.l<im@ocgov.com Subject: Please say NO to more homeless shelters in Santa Ana! Categories: Correspondence Please FIGHT with us on this! I am tired of having to back up Santa Ana to people from other cities and explain that our city is not so bad. Between needle exchanges, homeless shelters and all the crime that we don't seem to have enough police force for - it's all just too much for all the residents here. We can't even ask for nice things at this point like commercial buildings that are kept up or even trees or grass that are (not) watered. Everything green that was once beautiful around us is dying! Parks have dead grass & trees with limbs falling off from not being watered, needles everywhere, homeless taking over bus benches that normal folk don't want to be near or can't use, drug addicts driving around like lunatics and causing accidents, and people that clearly need to be put away to a mental institution walking around like zombies. I mean, for peets sake - when will this city go back to the residents? It's just pathetic! Why, because it's Santa Ana! Is this the pay off for living in a city that has a lower income bracket? Most people that live here are already at a poverty level so politics is not necessarily the first thing they are concerned with. No, that tax bill won't get passed in November. Don't put your money mistakes on your residents - figure it out yourselves. The other residents that do show concern are completely being ignored. How about busing us in to the Civic Center like Irvine did to protest this? Oh yeah, because we actually have to work and don't have time to even attend meetings. Why is our city becoming the arm pit of OC? It must stop. Do you all not see what has been currently happening all throughout our city with the crime that the drug addicts have been producing? People that aren't even from this city but other cities! How many more people is this city going to take in that can't contribute to a healthy lifestyle? What about the fires they've started in million dollar homes in Floral Park? The littering and panhandling on 17th St. Feces, urine, needles all throughout our city. A bigger shelter will only increase our problems here and bring more people to this city instead of surrounding cities. OPEN YOUR EYES AND FIGHT FOR YOUR RESIDENTS! We are tired of being tossed aside and not cared for by our city council people. T his is not an issue Santa Ana should figure out for the rest of OC - it's the rest of OC that needs to start helping Santa Ana take the burden off! Thank you for reading.