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Salas, Diana <br />From: <br />BudgetOffice <br />Sent: <br />Tuesday, June 02, 2020 8:10 PM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Cc: <br />BudgetOffice <br />Subject: <br />FW: FY 2020-21 Budget Comments <br />Please see email below regarding Budget Comments <br />From: Dixie Valle [mailto:dixie2000@berkeley.edu] <br />Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 8:06 PM <br />To: BudgetOffice <Budget0ffice@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: FY 2020-21 Budget Comments <br />Dear Mayor Pulido and City Council, <br />My name is Dixie Valle and I am writing as a Santa Ana resident to oppose the proposed budget to <br />increase public safety spending by $13.5 million. As I am sure you know, the COVID-19 pandemic <br />has caused financial obstacles for the city of Santa Ana. According to Finance Director Downs, Santa <br />Ana is experiencing $12 million in losses this year alone due to hits to sales taxes, parking fines, <br />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, <br />mental health resources-- not the police department. Our predominantly low-income city has been hit <br />hard by the pandemic. Lack of access to health care and packed housing has resulted in Santa Ana <br />having the largest rate of COVID-19 in Orange County. At this time, it is important that we fund <br />community resources and stop the overcriminalization of our city. Our city is time and time again over <br />criminalized by neighboring cities. To spend more on police that we do not need speaks volumes of <br />what the city believes from its own people. <br />Thank you, <br />Dixie Valle <br />