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40 years, and I love Santa Ana for many <br />reasons. However, with the infra-structure (gas, water, <br />electric, refuse, social services, etc.) not ever built for so <br />many people living in one <br />house/apartment/garage/streets and so many who are not <br />legal, documented, or working paying taxes, having <br />babies in our hospitals without any means of supporting <br />these children except by our tax payer social services <br />generosity, we cannot handle the continued rise in <br />medical, utilities, police, fire, ambulance and increase in <br />personnel across the board to cover the density of this <br />population of people and civil and federal criminal activity <br />who are under the radar, and yet more to come, on our <br />incomes. <br /> <br />Our sympathies are with many, and as S.A. residents who <br />deal with this every day (and I do through my own <br />activity, of which Councilman Bacerra can confirm) I <br />understand the issues. To boot, my grandparents were <br />poor immigrants, my father first generation, and I know <br />the hardships and stories - my relatives were more than <br />dirt poor coming to America (legally). However, I hope <br />you will address issues stated here, as I guarantee you, <br />the word out there is that those who have been here a <br />long time will move, as I am contemplating if taxes, <br />utilities, etc. goes beyond my retirement budget that I <br />worked for over 50 years on a clerical salary from which I <br />"saved" for that retirement day, and that I was always <br />told was beyond what I would need to retire. I don't want <br />to leave, but then I won't be getting any services or <br />considerations on my electric bill, my taxes, or water bill <br />that amount to anything of substance, as I have done <br />2 <br /> <br />