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Salas, Diana <br />From: Hannah Kim <hannahkim37@yahoo.com> <br />Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2020 12:15 PM <br />To: Iglesias, Cecilia; Penaloza, David; Bacerra, Phil; Sarmiento, Vicente; Villegas, Juan <br />Cc: eComment <br />Subject: Public Spending Budget <br />Dear Councilmember Jose Solorio, Juan Villegas, Vincente Sarmiento, Phil Bacerra, David Penaloza, and Cecilia Iglesias, <br />My name is Hannah and I am writing as a concerned student to oppose the proposed budget to increase public safety <br />spending by $13.5 million. As I am sure you know, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused financial obstacles for the city of <br />Santa Ana. According to Finance Director Downs, Santa Ana is experiencing $12 million in losses this year alone due to <br />hits to sales taxes, parking fines, special collected fees and other sources of revenue. <br />In these challenging times what our city needs is funding for health care, education, public transport, mental health <br />resources-- not the police department. Our predominantly low-income city has been hit hard by the pandemic. Lack of <br />access to health care and packed housing has resulted in Santa Ana having the largest rate of COVID-19 in Orange <br />County. At this time, it is important that we fund community resources and stop the overcriminalization of our city. <br />Thank you, <br />Hannah Kim <br />0 <br />