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If COVID-19-related cuts are to be made, they must come first and foremost from the SAPD budget. The City Council has increased SAPD's budget year after year, most egregiously in the form of the $25 Million Police Officers Association Contract of 2018. Residents should not make sacrifices while an abusive police force continues to receive unjust and exorbitant rewards. Instead, the City should make cuts to protect other critical city programs like libraries, parks, and housing, which positively impact the community and contribute to a healthier city. These services do far more for public safety than SAPD ever has. We demand the following actions from the Council in order to to challenge systemic racism, champion police accountability, and end police violence for our residents: 1. Cut SAPD's budget and use the savings to preserve and prop up city programs like libraries, parks, housing, etc. which have positive impacts on the community and contribute to a healthier city. Due to impacts of COVID-19 on the city's tax revenues, we understand deep cuts are expected in next year's budget. Yet public safety spending is increasing by $13.5 million. When the city equates public safety with police spending, it is unjust and inequitable. 2. Grant genuine community oversight of the police department through the creation of a civilian oversight board with the following powers: subpoena power; independent investigatory authority; disciplinary authority; adequate funding and staff to accomplish its duties; and the ability to hire and fire officers, including the Chief of Police. 3. Renegotiate POA contracts with respect to the handling of police misconduct, and include community stakeholders in the bargaining process, including in all future POA contracts. 4. The immediate release of all police misconduct records and body camera footages on a publicly available website at no cost. 5. A Resolution from the Santa Ana Council in support of Repealing California's Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act. 6. Demilitarization of the police and an end to all federal funding to purchase military equipment and weapons for our police department. 7. Address racial profiling by incorporating an individual stop and search database compliant with the California Racial and Identity Act passed by California in 2016.