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1. Cover Letter <br />May 13, 2021 <br />Steven Mendoza <br />Assistant City Manager/Executive Director, Community Development <br />City of Santa Ana – City Manager’s Office <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />Dear Mr. Mendoza: <br />Health Management Associates, Inc. (HMA) is pleased to submit our proposal to the City of <br />Santa Ana, Community Development Agency to provide Feasibility and Fiscal Evaluation <br />Services for a Municipal Public Health Agency in response to RFP No. 21-054. <br />HMA’s team is uniquely positioned to successfully complete this project given our team <br />members’ extensive understanding and work in public health systems and our knowledge and <br />experience working in Orange County and Santa Ana to improve health outcomes for its <br />residents. Christina Altmayer, who has worked directly in Orange County as the former <br />executive director of First 5 Orange County and former strategic consultant to the Santa Ana <br />Building Healthy Communities initiative of the California Endowment, will lead our team. We will <br />ground our public health analysis in the experience of three senior members of our team, <br />Jonathan Freedman and Michelle Parra, who held previous leadership positions in county public <br />health departments, and Helen DuPlessis, MD, MPH, who has a broad background in public <br />health, school health, health services research, and the California safety net. <br />We are committed to providing the City of Santa Ana with an independent, critical review of the <br />challenges and values associated with creating a municipal public health department and <br />engaging City leadership in strategic discussions of the benefits and challenges of various <br />options, resulting in an informed, responsive decision. <br />HMA is a “C” Corporation. Please contact proposals@healthmanagement.com if you have any <br />questions regarding this response. For contracting matters, please contact our contracts <br />director, Jeff DeVries, at 517-482-9236 or contracts@healthmanagement.com. As chief <br />administrative officer, I am authorized to bind HMA contractually with this bid. <br />We are excited about the prospect of working with the City of Santa Ana and are confident HMA <br />will provide exemplary service on this project. Thank you for the opportunity to bid on this very <br />important work. We look forward to your decision. <br />Sincerely, <br />Kelly Johnson <br />Chief Administrative Officer <br />EXHIBIT 1