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Orozco, Norma <br />From: stigma. marisa <marisaavina512@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Monday, June 01, 2020 6:40 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: June 2, 2020 - Agenda Item 65B <br />Dear Mayor Pulido and City Council, <br />My name is Matthias Avina 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, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused financial obstacles for the <br />city of Santa Ana. According to 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, 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 />Matthias Avina <br />Sent from my Whone <br />3`� <br />