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circumstances, the City's response to your Public Records Act request will be delayed. Thank you for <br />your patience in these unprecedented times. <br />From: Community Petition <support@communitypetition.com> <br />Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 5:29 PM <br />To: Gomez, Daisy <dgomez@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: [Community Petition] Agenda Item 75A -adopt fiscal 2020-2021 budget <br />Dear Daisy Gomez, <br />Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: <br />Whether you are a parent, resident, business owner, employee, or have some other <br />connection to the City of Santa Ana, you have to be appalled by the conduct of certain <br />activists, few of whom live in our city. It is shameful that they use the heartbreaking <br />and senseless death of George Floyd to advance their political rhetoric and baseless <br />agenda calling for defunding the police. This is the time to confirm our commitment to <br />the police department and level of service our community has voted for. It is not the <br />time to close the police department or government; it is the time to dig in and do the <br />hard work to make our institutions better. <br />Each of you was elected because your campaign platform focused on public <br />safety. The majority of Santa Ana voters have spoken. By electing you they have said <br />that they want to feel safe in their community. It is municipal government's core <br />service, so our children feel safe walking to school and so our businesses can flourish. <br />We ask to be safe while enduring a historic world pandemic. We ask to be safe while <br />those demonstrating are given the space to do so. We ask to be safe while at the same <br />time asking what our society truly values and how do we make it a reality for all. In this <br />unprecedented time, we're asking our police officers to do more than ever before. <br />These protests have created a huge financial burden for the City, requiring hundreds of <br />hours in overtime staffing. Many officers have been required to work overtime on a <br />daily basis; many have gone weeks without a day off. Ironically, those calling for <br />defunding are forcing additional expenditures of monies that could be used to address <br />their very issues. <br />2 <br />