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Orozco, Norma From: George M. Collins <george@santa-ana.tv> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 11:14 AM To: eComment Subject: Message to the Council Ms Huizar if you can make this for public comments I would appreciate it. Thanks George M. Collins City Council and Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor, as you stated at the meeting with Santa Ana's sister cities I filmed many years ago, You wanted Santa Ana to be more like the cities in Mexico. Mr. Mayor you have achieved that goal. We have nightly shootings, our crime rate is reaching that of many of the cities south of the border. We have a depleted police department, not only by man power but by will power. Our officers have given up. Our neighborhoods are suffering with fear of bullets falling through the roofs of the residents. Many people can not tell the difference between the gun shots and the overwhelming illegal fireworks we are experiencing each night, but a trained ear can tell that there are many guns going off along with the illegal fireworks. I realize this is the 'comfort zone' you wished to achieve, but now if you got and read the many emails 1 get each day from Nextdoor you would realize how disgusted the residents are with the situation. Trying to give space to the few so they can fell at home as if they were back in Mexico and allowing the dangerous explosions each evening that affects 4000 to 6000 homes at 2 AM with the 3 or 4 large explosions, then all the dogs barking in fear along with the 15 minutes of car alarms going off is causing a hate for all the members of the city council including the Mayor. You wanted Santa Ana to be more like Mexico and many times you stated there was not enough diversity in Santa Ana from the different states in Mexico. I think now you have achieved your goal. But when my Mexican neighbors move to Costa Mesa so their children can go to safe schools, so the parents and children can sleep all night, that tells us that the Mexicans that came here to escape the terrible crime in our Sister Cities and to have a better life are not finding that in Santa Ana. We realize you count on the census to get money from the federal government, that Santa Ana has the largest SLUM in the United States, this is your legacy, a poor city that all of Orange county drops it's homeless, criminals and drive out people from their cities to the only city in Orange County that welcomes the over crowding, the increase in crime and the problems that go along with high density housing. That failed in Europe and Mexico, people are fleeing those locations to escape that life and those conditions only to find them in Santa Ana. From the Golden City, the city of Education, to Downtown OC. Every downtown in every major city that has used your methods of increasing population are the new Detroit's. Santa Ana is the Detroit of Orange county with business being forced to leave for security reasons, homeownership is at all time low because people are moving out and renting their homes. This was your stated goal, well Mr. Mayor you have achieved that goal Read what I get 10 - 20 of a day. These are the residents of Santa Ana speaking to you. George M. Collins W Alton Ave