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Orozco, Norma <br />From: <br />Sent: <br />To: <br />Cc: <br />Subject: <br />Attachments: <br />March 2, 2021 <br />Irvine United Congregational Church <br />4915 Alton Parkway <br />Irvine, CA <br />Steve Goetz <sgoetz53@gmaiLcom> <br />Tuesday, March 02, 2021 12:02 PM <br />eComment <br />carolina@elcentroculturaidemexico.org <br />Letter for March 2 City Council Meeting from Irvine United Congregational Church <br />Letter to Santa Ana City Council.pages <br />Dear Santa Ana City Council Members <br />Irvine United Congregational Church has been supporting several programs and homes that serve our unsheltered neighbors. <br />The persons whose names follow this letter are members of our church's Mission and Service Ministry. <br />Our position toward homelessness is that our neighbors who lack shelter must always be treated with dignity, compassion and <br />assistance. To treat the state of being unsheltered as a misdemeanor or as a ticket -able offense, or to fine an institution such as <br />El Centro Cultural de Mexico who are offering dignity, compassion, and assistance to the unsheltered, is simply indefensible. <br />We urge you to find a way to relieve El Centro of the $1,800 penalty levied against them and arrive, as an elected group of city <br />officials, to fair and humanitarian solutions for the homeless near El Centro and also the renters in the same building. <br />Fining, ticketing, and confiscating the possessions of the unsheltered population in the parking lot next to El Centro is, in the <br />end, not a solution. <br />Thank you for considering our support on behalf of both the unsheltered and the directors of El Centro Cultural de Mexico <br />Respectfully, <br />Steven Goetz, Co -Chair M&S Felicity Figueroa <br />Sharon Lynn, Co -Chair M&S Debbi Six <br />Rev. Sarah Halverson-Cano, Pastor Kathi Smith <br />Pam Kamps Tommie Kozlov <br />True peace is not the absence of war. Rather it is the presence of justice. <br />