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Salas, Diana <br />From: <br />Barela, Waldo <br />Sent: <br />Thursday, June 11, 2020 7:15 AM <br />To: <br />'Kelly Kraus -Lee'; BudgetOffice <br />Cc: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />RE: FY 2020-21 Budget Comments <br />Thank you for your comments. We will forward this email to the City Clerk's Office to distribute to the City Council as <br />budget comments for upcoming City Council Meeting. <br />Waldo Barela I Budget Supervisor <br />Finance & Management Services 1 20 Civic Center Plaza I Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />wbarela santta-ana.org <br />}0 2 O „ 7 a 1l. S U <br />IS <br />j NTA ANA COUNTS <br />http:Hwww.santa-ana.or <br />From: Kelly Kraus -Lee [mailto:kellyakraus@gmail.com] <br />Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 9:46 AM <br />To: BudgetOffice <BudgetOffice@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: FY 2020-21 Budget Comments <br />Santa Ana's budget needs to better reflect our community's priorities. Not only are we facing major losses due to <br />the coronavirus, but the national conversation has shown that we need more spending on libraries, youth <br />services, parks, and public works, and no further spending on police. I am proud to be a homeowner in Santa <br />Ana and happily pay my taxes and prioritize shopping in Santa Ana over other cities in order to support our <br />schools, parks, public works, etc., but the police spending in this city is out of control compared to the rest of <br />the budget. <br />I reviewed the slides from the community budget meeting and have a question: why is cutting police spending <br />not even listed as an option to balance the budget? Even cutting it by 5% would free up $15 million dollars. On <br />top of the already disproportionate amount of spending on police, giving the police a $13.5 million increase <br />during this time is irresponsible. <br />I am a UC employee and our system is looking at a 10% across the board cut due to COVID-19. 1 have been <br />told to expect a pay cut of potentially 5-10% and have adjusted my budget accordingly. It is time for the Santa <br />Ana Police Department to do the same. <br />Given the national conversation, if we increase any budgets right now, it must be in programming and services <br />for the community. We have so many underfunded programs from the libraries, parks, homeless services, and <br />