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January 19, 2016 <br />7!. ,",19N,3:55 <br />CITY ` r, <br />C 1. r.. <br />Mayor and City Council, City Hall, City of Santa Ana <br />Subject: OCTA's Recent Changed Direction to Our Senior <br />Mobility Program <br />Dear Mayor and City Council: <br />We are your seniors from both the Santa Ana Senior Center and the <br />Southwest Senior Center. We respect you as our leaders of Santa Ana <br />and expect you to focus on protecting our rights as citizens and taxpayers of <br />this great city. <br />As you may know, out of the many miles provided by the Santa Ana <br />Senior Mobility Program, 85% of these miles are from home to Senior Center <br />and back, which we are grateful that OCTA in allowing us to continue to do <br />so. You should know that from these miles, 7% of the trips are for taking <br />seniors to the store and buy food and THAT is what OCTA is not allowing us <br />to do anymore and THAT is why we are writing you this letter. We think that <br />OCTA thinks we are seniors that live in Newport Beach and that we are well <br />off. We are not. Some of us are disabled and some of us no longer have <br />people in our family that can help us with our basic transportation needs. If <br />you take away our ability to go and shop for food, you are purposely being <br />hateful toward elderly poor people that need to get their food. This is not a <br />luxury, it is a necessity. A very basic necessity for all human beings. <br />Another 8% of the trips are for excursions to enrich our lives. That is <br />what has triggered their "horror" on how they believe their OCTA money is <br />1 <br />