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Pacific Park Resident <br /> Santa Ana Arts Leader <br /> Community Arts Leader <br /> Pacific Park Neighborhood Association Stifling of Community Input / <br /> Leadership <br /> Hello, Margarita, <br /> I am writing to address the vicious stifling of community input, attacks on our co-leader, break <br /> down in decorum and egregious lies propagated by Selica Diaz's cronies at yesterday's Pacific Park <br /> Neighborhood Association meeting. <br /> As you are well aware, stifling of community input by Selica has been a longstanding concern with <br /> our Neighborhood Association, particularly around the issue of the Cypress Fire Station. I lodged a <br /> formal complaint to you on August 12, 2022 regarding Selica stifling community input at the <br /> August 2022 meeting, and also referenced a previous incident at the June 14, 2022 meeting in my <br /> complaint. <br /> MORE STIFLING OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CYPRESS FIRE STATION <br /> Here we are nearly a full year later, and again we are faced with the same issue. Even though a <br /> Cypress Fire Station update was on the agenda for the meeting, one attendee sitting with Selica's <br /> contingent aggressively forced the discussion of the agenda item to a close after only the first <br /> question, which was by Sandra, one of the co-leaders of the Pacific Park Neighborhood <br /> Association. As such, our community was cheated ONCE AGAIN from participating in an important <br /> city input process regarding a historic building in our own neighborhood. <br /> Additionally, during the heated discussion in which we were defending community input, one of <br /> Selica's friends asserted that Sandra did "not even live here." This was such a bald-faced lie, that I <br /> felt the responsibility to point out that it was a tremendous disrespect and violation of the <br /> sanctity of the process to lie to the community at a Neighborhood Association meeting. <br /> At that time, the tattooed man who initially shut down discussion of the Cypress Fire Station <br /> agenda item, and who was sitting next to one of our Youth Committee members, stood up and <br /> confronted me in a fighting stance. The potential of actual violence from this man was so <br /> palpable, that his friend had to hold him back. <br /> I want to repeat that the agendized discussion of the Cypress Fire Station was silenced after ONLY <br /> THE FIRST QUESTION in the discussion, and barely fifteen minutes into the entire meeting, <br /> 2 <br />