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<br />Orozco, Norma <br />From:Mikaela Garduno <mikaelagarduno@yahoo.com> <br />Sent:Tuesday, February 02, 2021 9:48 PM <br />To:Sarmiento, Vicente; Mendoza, Nelida; Bacerra, Phil; Penaloza, David; <br />thaivphan@gmail.com; jessie@votejessielopez.com; <br />johnathan@hernandezforsantaana.org; eComment <br />Subject:Re: Community Choice Energy for Santa Ana! <br />Dear Mayor and City Council Members, <br /> <br />Hello! I wanted to include my comment on CCE that I wasn’t able to make during the recent <br />zoom call. <br /> <br />This was my very first city council meeting it’s very exciting to participate in our democratic <br />process. <br /> <br />I am 24 years old and have lived Santa Ana ward 3 all my life. <br /> <br />Thank you for taking the time to listen to the public works presentation for Community Choice <br />Energy and for listening to the public comments. Also thanks for reading and acknowledging <br />the Santa Ana resident emails in favor of CCE and for taking the time to consider to have <br />Santa Ana join CCE. <br /> <br />You all have so much passion for improving the city of Santa Ana which I truly admire. <br /> <br />And I want to thank you for all of your efforts to address the covid crisis. My hope is that you <br />also see the climate crisis with the same sense of urgency as you do with covid in terms of <br />actions taken. <br /> <br />Investing in renewable energy pays off over time and of course investing now will help <br />mitigate the costs of further damage that climate change will cause. For example, the wildfires <br />that are exasperated by Santa Ana winds, cause massive power blackouts and they will only <br />get worse. 2020 was the worst record with over 4 million acres burned. In 2020 I definitely felt <br />the affects of smoke choking the air, not going outside for days and the fear of having to <br />evacuate my home many times. As we move towards a sustainable future we will decrease <br />chances of having these extreme fires and blackouts. Renewables are the way to go! <br />Renewables are crossing a threshold and are becoming cheaper than fossil fuels. <br /> <br />We can’t wait to take action, because climate change is a crisis and we must treat it as such. <br /> <br />The future of our planet depends on the immediate actions we take to tackle the climate crisis <br />right now, in this very moment. Switching to affordable clean renewable energy is critical for <br />the protection of people and the earth. <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />