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<br />Orozco, Norma <br />From:Janine Stallings <brokensouvenir@msn.com> <br />Sent:Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:58 PM <br />To:eComment <br />Subject:City Meeting 6/18/2020 Comments - Items 75A and 85A <br />Approve item 85A, police oversight committee. Commit to it, not just that it will be considered. Give <br />the committee citizen involvement, investigative powers, and enforcement capabilities to hold police <br />accountable. Fund the committee. Engage the community. <br /> <br />Direct the committee to address the corruption between the police union and the City Council. The <br />police union should not be able to buy a special election and oust a Councilmember. If you were to <br />support rethinking police spending or support accountability, would your position on the Council be at <br />risk too? That is corruption. Why is a union associated with city employees allowed to finance <br />campaigns of Councilmember/Mayoral candidates who will then be voting on budget matters? That is <br />corruption. Seize this moment to get the Council out from under the thumb of the police union. <br /> <br />Respectfully, <br />Janine Stallings <br />2116 S Sycamore St, Santa Ana <br /> <br /> <br />Begin forwarded message: <br /> <br />From: Janine Maria <brokensouvenir@msn.com> <br />Date: June 16, 2020 at 10:15:13 AM PDT <br />To: "eComment@santa-ana.org" <eComment@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: City Meeting 6/16/2020 Comments - Items 75A, 85A, and 20C <br /> <br />To Mayor Pulido and Councilmembers: <br /> <br />My name is Janine Stallings, I am a homeowner in the Memorial Park area of <br />Santa Ana. I am writing to ask that the City Council reject the police budget for <br />FY 2020-2021 and all planned police related expenditures. The proposed budget <br />increases spending for police at a time when we are seeing budget shortfalls due <br />to COVID-19, and mass demonstrations demanding a reimagining of how we <br />spend money for issues currently being handled by police. This is also <br />immediately following the Santa Ana police union purchasing a special election <br />to remove a Councilmember they did not like. This kind of corruption should not <br />stand. <br /> <br />Reject the budget in its current form. Over time we have asked the police to do <br />more and more, and we have allocated resources away from services that <br />prevent crime in favor of policing and incarceration. Let's put our money where <br />our values are. Defund the police and increase spending for social services, <br />1 <br /> <br />