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On May 22, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Darrell White < wrote: Dear Hon. Mayor Pulido, I am a Santa Ana resident and I live in the Riverview neighborhood near Floral Park. Over the last few months, as Riverview Park Chair for the Riverview Neighborhood Association, I have worked directly with City Staff on deferred maintenance concerns shared by hundreds of my neighbors concerning Riverview Park. This Park is not only important to us, but to the entire City because of it is the base of operations and games for Santa Ana Pony Baseball. Since meeting with Councilwoman Amezcua, Gerardo Mouet, Mike Ortiz, and other City Staff in March, have spent months working to see funding allocated to the sorely needed deferred maintenance at our Park. In light of the imminent tentative budget meeting on June 2, 2015, 1 wanted to e-mail you with exactly what Riverview N.A. is asking for at Riverview Park: $1,006,200 in deferred maintenance, as calculated and recommended by Ron Ono in his attached Unfunded Deferred Maintenance CIP, to be included in the budget. Further comments on the Trial Budget are below. At this point, I've run out of time working with Staff on this. Unfortunately, I haven't seen Mr. Ono's recommendations for Riverview Park put in the Trial Budget. We need your help as our elected official to get this done. Cover Letter with City Manager's Recommendations for $4.6 Million in Deferred Capital Maintenance to City Parks: In his cover letter to the City Council dated March 17, 2015, City Manager Cavazos recommends "setting aside approximately $4.6 million in deferred capital maintenance... [to] address deferred maintenance needs in City parks and facilities..." An excerpt from that letter is attached for your reference. We ask that the City Council adopt this recommendation and specifically, allocate funding to Riverview Park in the Budget. City of Santa Ana Trial Budget: We've reviewed the City of Santa Ana Trial Budget. Riverview Park is in dire need of deferred maintenance. Despite general references to funding for Park related issues, (e.g. $620k in landscape maintenance at City Parks listed on page 20 of the City Manager's power point budget presentation as an additional funding priority that is "not included in trial budget") nothing in any of the publicly available materials expressly allocates funding for deferred maintenance at Riverview Park. This is very disappointing, especially in light of the months that we have worked with Staff to raise awareness of the safety issues and overall deferred maintenance need at Riverview Park. 3