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Orozco, Norma <br />From: Kelly Kraus -Lee <kellyakraus@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2020 11:51 AM <br />To: Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Bacerra, Phil; Villegas, Juan; <br />Mendoza, Nelida; Ridge, Kristine; Gomez, Daisy, council@santa-ana.org; Pulido, <br />Miguel <br />Subject: In Person Commenting <br />Dear Santa Ana City Council, <br />It is appalling that you are resuming in -person public comments at your meetings when Santa Ana continues to <br />have the highest case counts in the county, and the numbers are increasing daily. Yes, people can always e-mail <br />in their comments, but we all know that sending an e-mail is not the same as speaking to the council. The <br />overwhelming consensus is that bringing multiple people from different households together indoors is the <br />riskiest activity one can participate in (not to mention taking a bus to get downtown). There is no reason to <br />bring back in person commenting and remove the option to call in and comment during the meetings. You are <br />endangering the lives of the people you serve for no good reason. While the Zoom function certainly had some <br />"cons" on the pro/con list, it had one pro that outweighed them all: no resident had to risk their life or the lives <br />of their family to comment at the meeting. <br />Like all of you, I am continuing to make personal sacrifices to do my part to slow the spread. I haven't held my <br />baby niece in 4 months, and it looks like she'll be walking before I have a chance to hold her again. My 92 year <br />old grandfather is alone in his house everyday and I can only visit him for as long as I can stand the IE heat <br />since we have to sit outside when I drive out. But now, suddenly, the council thinks it's okay to gather indoors <br />with complete strangers at a time when infection rates are at their highest? Must I risk infecting myself and my <br />family in order to make my literal voice heard during a council meeting? I hear a lot of talk about wanting to <br />hear from residents, yet this move seems to be an attempt to silence us. <br />My UCI physician told me a few days ago, "we are re -opening for economic reasons, not because it's safe." <br />Things in Orange County are worse than they were in March. It is not hyperbole to say that people will die as a <br />result of this decision. The council should be ashamed. <br />Kelly Kraus -Lee <br />