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Orozco, Norma <br />From: <br />Alysia Vazquez <alysiav@sbcglobal.net> <br />Sent: <br />Tuesday, June 02, 2020 2:59 PM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />June 2, 2020 - Agenda Item 65 B <br />Dear Mayor Pulido and City Council, <br />My name is Alysia Vazquez and I am writing as a Santa Ana resident to oppose the proposed budget to increase public <br />safety spending by $13.5 million. As I am sure you know, COVID-19 pandemic has caused financial obstacles for the city <br />of Santa Ana. According to Finance Director Downs, Santa Ana is experiencing $12 million in losses this year alone due to <br />its 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 over criminalization of our city. <br />Thank you, <br />Alysia Vazquez <br />\01 <br />