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City Manager Office <br />www.santa-ana.org/city-managers-office/ <br />Item # 54 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />June 21, 2022 <br />TOPIC: Repeal Resolution No. 416 of the former Santa Ana Board of Trustees <br />Authorizing the Destruction by Fire of Santa Ana’s Chinatown in 1906 <br />AGENDA TITLE: <br />Resolution Repealing Resolution No. 416 of the former Santa Ana Board of Trustees <br />Instructing the Fire Department of Santa Ana to Burn with Fire Each and Every One of <br />Said Buildings known as Chinatown <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Adopt a resolution repealing Resolution No. 416 by the former Santa Ana Board of <br />Trustees, which authorized the destruction by fire of Chinatown and led to the destruction <br />of homes and businesses and displacement of Santa Ana’s Chinese community. <br />DISCUSSION <br />At the May 17, 2022 City Council meeting, the City Council adopted Resolution No. XXX <br />apologizing to Chinese immigrants and their descendants for acts of fundamental injustice <br />and discrimination, seeking forgiveness, and committing to the rectification of past <br />policies and misdeeds, including the dismantling and destruction by fire of the City’s <br />Chinatown in 1906. At that meeting, the City Council expressed its desire to also repeal <br />the earlier resolution authorizing the destruction of Chinatown. Resolution No. XXX was <br />approved, but because the agendized item did not include the action of repeal of the <br />earlier resolution, any repeal had to be separately agendized and considered by the City <br />Council. <br />This resolution accomplished the stated purpose of repealing Resolution No. 416 by the <br />former Santa Ana City Board of Trustees. Repealing Resolution No. 416 unequivocally <br />rebukes the heinous acts enshrined in the former resolution. <br />ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT <br />There is no environmental impact associated with this action. <br />FISCAL IMPACT <br />There is no fiscal impact associated with this action.