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damaged and we depend upon all of our full and part-time staff to <br />provide full services to our community. <br />City employees help to keep our parks and streets clean, help small <br />businesses start in Santa Ana, process permits and public inquiries, help <br />to provide meals and entertainment for our seniors and youth, and help <br />influence their impressionable young minds, keep our community family - <br />friendly, maintain the libraries, and take care of our great zoo and <br />animals. All of this work is done by dedicated and vested city employees <br />who cherish our community. <br />Although privatization forces continue to target our civil servants, our <br />families and businesses rely on our employees to support them more <br />than ever. We should not repeat the mistakes of the past but instead <br />rise to the occasion to not allow cutbacks to already lean city staffing <br />levels that can impact the safety of our residents. These services <br />require dedicated public servants who put Santa Ana first. <br />Santa Ana cannot afford to further balance a budget on the backs of the <br />workers who make Santa Ana shine nor to solve other state -funded <br />organization's budget challenges with the use of precious City Funds. <br />We respectfully reiterate our prior request that the City Council Act <br />to rescind the separation of 176 employees done the week of May <br />18, 2020 as indicated above. <br />We are very open to creative solutions to face these next phases <br />together and with a positive eye on the future of the next generation. As <br />budgetary decisions are considered, please remember that Library. <br />Parks and Recreation. Senior and Youth Services and Sports are <br />the front-end of crime prevention and safety where vested <br />employees excel. <br />We appreciate the Mayor's work to obtain fiscal relief from California's <br />Governor. Additionally, SEIU and the House of Labor participated in <br />that team effort to successfully obtain the anticipated $28 Million and to <br />also advocate for the federal funding for additional fiscal relief. We will <br />continue in these efforts to partner to help Santa Ana. <br />Respectfully, <br />Monica M. Suter <br />SEIU Local 721 — Santa Ana City Employees Chapter President <br />