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Orozco, Norma <br />From: <br />Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2018 5:56 PM <br />To: eComment; Pulido, Miguel; Sarmiento, Vicente; Martinez, Michele; Solorio, Jose; <br />Benavides, David; Villegas, Juan; Tinajero, Sal; Godinez, Raul; andrew.do@ocgov.com; <br />shawn.nelson@ocgov.com; todd.spitzer@ocgov.com; michelle.steel@ocgov.com; <br />lisa.bartlett@ocgov.com; frank.kim@ocgov.com <br />Cc: luterlutz@aol.com <br />Subject: Emergency Homeless Shelter <br />Categories: Correspondence <br />Dear Mayor, Members of the City Council and County Officials, <br />I would like to say I am opposed to having a 600-700 bed shelter established in Santa Ana. Best practices <br />indicate no shelter should be larger than 200 beds. <br />• The County of Orange Homeless Assessment report shows a 200 -bed emergency shelter for each of the <br />three service planning areas: north, central and south. <br />• Santa Ana currently has the largest emergency shelter, the Courtyard. The number of beds has <br />exceeded 400 over the past several months. <br />• This temporary site, the Courtyard, was only planned for 200-300 beds. <br />• The County's own numbers show more than half the people staying at the Courtyard are from areas <br />other than the Central Service Planning Area. Using this information, a 200 -bed emergency shelter for <br />the Central Service Planning Area would meet the need. Most of the shelter beds are not filled with <br />Santa Ana residents. <br />• If additional beds are needed in the Central Service Planning Area, then Huntington Beach, Garden <br />Grove, Tustin, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Orange, Villa Park and Westminster need <br />to help. <br />• The County has 85 acres from the former Tustin Marine Base and 100 acres at the former EI Toro <br />Marine Base. <br />We need the County to address several issues and for the other cities in the central service planning area to <br />step up and do their share. <br />Respectfully, <br />Dale Helvig <br />29 � ('� <br />