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Salas, Diana <br />From: <br />karikarikari <karissbby@gmail.com> <br />Sent: <br />Tuesday, June 02, 2020 4:17 PM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />June 2, 2020- Agenda Item 65B <br />Dear Mayor Pulido and City Council Juan Villegas, <br />My name is Carina and I am writing as a Santa Ana resident to oppose the proposed <br />budget to increase public safety spending by $13.5 million. As I am sure you know, the <br />COVID-19 pandemic has caused financial obstacles for the city of Santa Ana. According to <br />Finance Director Downs, Santa Ana is experiencing $12 million in losses this year alone <br />due to 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, public K-12 <br />education, public transport, mental health resources -not the police department. Our <br />predominantly low-income city has been hit hard by the pandemic. Lack of access to <br />health care and packed housing has resulted in Santa Ana having the largest rate of <br />COVID-19 in Orange County. At this time, it is important that we fund community <br />resources and stop the overcriminalization of our city. <br />Thank you, <br />Carina <br />