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Orozco, Norma <br />From: Houston, Nicole <br />Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2020 2:34 PM <br />To: eComment_Forwarding <br />Subject: FW: <br />Kind Regards, <br />Nicole Houston l Executive Assistant <br />City Manager's Officel nhouston@santa-ana.org <br />714.647.5200 120 Civic Center Plaza I Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />+2020+ <br />census <br />SANTA ANA COUNTS <br />This email and any files or attachments transmitted with it may contain privileged or otherwise confidential information. If you are <br />not the intended recipient, or believe that you may have received this communication in error, please advise the sender via reply <br />email and immediately delete the email you received. <br />From: Cecilia Cardenas [mailto:ceci071997@yahoo.com] <br />Sent: Monday, June 01, 2020 8:27 PM <br />To: Sarmiento, Vicente <VSarmiento@santa-ana.org>; Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org>; Penaloza, David <br /><DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Solorio, Jose <JSolorio@santa-ana.org>; Bacerra, Phil <pbacerra@santa-ana.org>; Villegas, <br />Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>; Iglesias, Cecilia <Clglesias@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: <br />Dear Councilmembers and Mayor, <br />My name is Cecilia and I am writing as a constituent of your ward to oppose the proposed budget to increase <br />public safety spending by $13.5 million. As I am sure you know, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused financial <br />obstacles for the city of Santa Ana. According to Finance Director Downs, Santa Ana is experiencing $12 <br />million in losses this year alone due to hits to sales taxes, parking fines, special collected fees and other <br />sources of revenue. <br />In these challenging times what our city needs is funding for health care, education, public transport, mental <br />health resources-- not the police department. Our predominantly low-income city has been hit hard by the <br />pandemic. Lack of access to health care and packed housing has resulted in Santa Ana having the largest rate <br />of COVID-19 in Orange County. At this time, it is important that we fund community resources and stop the <br />overcriminalization of our city. <br />Thank you, <br />Cecilia <br />