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Orozco, Norma <br />From: <br />Moi Villegas <moises01villegas@gmail.com> <br />Sent: <br />Tuesday, June 16, 2020 3:42 PM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />City Council meeting 6/16 Item 75A <br />To the Santa Ana City Council. <br />I am a resident of Santa Ana where I have lived my whole life. I attended all SAUSD schools k-12. <br />And I live in council ward 6. 1 am emailing you as a young resident of this city, a recent college grad <br />with dreams of building my career and my future long term here in this city. Although I have attended <br />city council meetings before this is my first public comment. <br />I am emailing in regards to agenda items 75A <br />As a resident of ward 6 1 have seen first hand the manipulation tactics of the Santa Ana Police Officer <br />Association in order to secure pay increases. The recent re -call of our former council member for <br />ward 6 Cecilia Iglesias is a clear signal to us as a community that the POA has too much money and <br />power. <br />As we face the realities of a broken police system both locally and nationally, and as we work to <br />recover from this pandemic (COVID-19) 1 urge that the city council make strong cuts to Santa <br />Ana Police Department's budget. I urge you to re -distribute funds to the following <br />departments: LIBRARY, PARKS AND REC. The previous fiscal budget allocated 46.4% of the <br />budget toward Public Safety: which we all know goes very largely to policing. <br />Please listen to your residents and adopt a people's budget. A budget to prioritize community and <br />youth programming through Parks and Rec dept. A budget that allocates for Library repairs, <br />expansions, more educational centers around the city. How can you say and announce "Education <br />First" as your city motto when education is being defunded! While police are making their way into our <br />de -funded schools. You say "Education First," so ACT LIKE IT! <br />Concerned Resident, <br />Moises Villegas <br />