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Orozco, Norma <br /> From: Soto, Daniel <br /> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2022 7:53 PM <br /> To: eComment <br /> Subject: FW: Contact the City Council Submission <br /> From: notify@proudcity.com <notify@proudcity.com> <br /> Sent:Tuesday,June 7, 2022 2:04 PM <br /> To: Soto, Daniel <DSoto@santa-ana.org> <br /> Subject: Contact the City Council Submission <br /> Name <br /> Ruben Alvarez <br /> Email <br /> StayCon nectedOC(a�gmail.com <br /> Address <br /> 1101 W.Walnut <br /> Santa Ana, California 92703 <br /> United States <br /> Map It <br /> Phone <br /> (714)661-9768 <br /> Who is this message for? <br /> • Mayor Vicente Sarmiento <br /> • Mayor Pro Tern Phil Bacerra <br /> • Councilmember Thai Viet Phan <br /> • Councilmember David Penaloza <br /> • Councilmember Jessie Lopez <br /> • Councilmember Johnathan Ryan Hernandez <br /> • Councilmember Nelida Mendoza <br /> Comments or questions <br /> Dear Mayor and members of the City Council of Santa Ana, as well as the Commissioners of the Parks, Recreation and <br /> Community Services Board, <br /> We the People that you wholeheartedly love, and that elected you to represent us, are requesting that you honor your <br /> commitment to our communities and culture. A large number of us, friends and neighbors grew up on a ball field. Playing the <br /> great American pastime and so much part of our southern California culture.We also understand the budgeting process that the <br /> city has invited the residents to be involved in allocation decisions to benefit the community, especially in a positive way. <br /> Our goal is to not let our experiences on those fields past be forgotten and not acknowledged. And in that request is a <br /> community day at the park yearly funding that recognizes the history of Little Leagues and the Softball leagues of the city. Over <br /> decades, whole generations of successful Santa Ana residents were able to learn about good sportsmanship,working hard for <br /> goals, how to be honorable in loss and how to be humble in victory, be the best you could be, on or off the field.We learned how <br /> to work as a team, an important lesson as we took that skill into our adulthood. Our parents were a big part of the equation as <br /> they supported us as well as they could. Many of our parents had to work the weekend too and were not able to attend all <br /> games. But they sacrificed what little they had to get us involved in the character building American pastime. And in their <br /> 1 <br />