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0i "I found out about this on Wednesday when I got my agenda, so it's sort of the same issue. We just found out," said Supervisor John Moorlach, who questioned why the vote waldel_ abed Supervisor Pat Bates said key input was missing and that another forum is called for. Santa Ana Unified School District officials "should have been commenting" on residents' concerns about safe routes to schools on Tuesday, said Bates. "I believe that you need to have another meeting to specifically address how you're going to look at that issue and allay their concerns. That is fundamental to my support," she added, to applause from the audience. 4- 1 Supervisor Todd Spitzer, meanwhile agreed that Santa Ana Unified board members "need to weigh in." He also criticized county management fo when it comes to homeless sex ottenders X'To come here toda and not know these isheartening because we want to champi before it came here to a vote." but these questions should " said lgr.. "It's answered The county's lead staffer on homeless issues responded to the criticism, saying the outreach was extensive. "I think they did a great job getting community notices out," said Karen Roper, director of OC Community Services. "We hope that the community will feel that they can be a part of this." The $3.6 million building purchase now goes into a 90 -day escrow period, where the property's condition will be inspected, before the sale is completed. After that, the county would seek bids from contractors to operate the shelter. The 23,000 - square -foot warehouse, at 1217 E. Normandy Place in Santa Ana, is located near the corner of Grand and McFadden avenues. The county would be purchasing the property from B &N Group and JRMV Investments, Inc., who are represented by Blake V. Elliott. It would then spend another $2.3 million to renovate the building, and about $2.6 million per year to operate and maintain the shelter. Operating costs would be covered by a mixture of county, federal and private funds. In many respects, the scene Tuesday was a replay of the effort last year by Nelson to RLish through a proposal for the county to buy a property in Fullerton and build a homeless shelter before getting buy -in from Fullerton residents. Faced with stiff resident opposition, the Fullerton City Council nixed that plan last June.