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<br />Orozco, Norma <br />From:gisselle ibarra <gisselleibarra15@gmail.com> <br />Sent:Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:56 PM <br />To:eComment <br />Subject:Additional funding for after school programs <br />Mayor and Council, <br /> <br />I support additional funding for afterschool programs. It is important for the youth of Santa Ana to have access to extracurricular <br />activities and the infrastructure for high speed internet access. Additional funding hot spots are important and necessary. <br /> <br />The Santa Ana Police Athletic and Activity League is a great outreach and community oriented program that could benefit with <br />additional funding. <br /> <br />I, like many others in the community owe a lot to city funded programs like the Santa Ana Police Athletic and Activity League. My <br />brother and I have attended this afterschool program since the year it was created. This was our safe haven despite all of the violence <br />around us. The staff and directors taught us the values of education and were the people who have brought me to where I am today. I <br />know that I can speak for others when I say that if it wasn't for this program I would not be where I am today. As a minority student with <br />immigrant parents I never thought that I would be able pursue higher education. Now here I am as a third year Electrical Engineering <br />student at UC Davis. <br /> <br />As years have gone by I have seen staff struggle due to lack of funding. This is unacceptable. We should continue to fund programs <br />like them and send more Santa Ana kids to college by providing them with the resources to do so. This is why I ask that you decide to <br />provide additional funding for afterschool programs to continue to provide resources for other students like me. <br /> <br />Thank you for your time and consideration. <br /> <br />Best regards, <br /> <br />Gisselle Ibarra <br />1 <br />