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Mitre -Ramirez, Norma r From: Erie Scandrett < Sent: Sunday, October 1, 2017 9:26 AM To: eComment Cc: emscandrett@aol.com Subject: Regarding Homeless Encampnent in Santa Ana ..................... Dear Mayor and City Council, I am a member of the Morrison Park Neighborhood Association Board and writing to you as a 34 year Santa Ana homeowner. I located here because it is the county seat and because this was a beautiful, established, diversified city..............not a "planned community" like Irvine. I use the term "was" beautiful because it no longer is and is getting worse every single day. Homeless Problem..............As long as you allow all these do-gooder organizations to come into our city and supply food, water and other things to the homeless they will continue to reside on city property. There may not be laws against being homeless but there are laws against loitering, being a public nuisance and doing illegal drugs on city property and most certainly defecating in public! WHY ARE YOU NOT HAVING THE POLICE ARREST THESE PEOPLE???????????????????? If these organizations are so passionate about helping the homeless then make them transport them to their cities and help them there! I am sick and tired of Santa Ana being the dumping ground for other cities problems. You can go to any number of cities in Orange County and not one homeless person is in their parks At a minimum what you are proposing should be adapted but it really does not go far enough. However, baby steps in the Loss of Trees..............The other major contribLItion you are making to systematically destroy the beauty of our city is allowing trees to die and not replacing trees that have died or been taken out because of damage caused by storms. Recently we were told at a public meeting that there is no money to take care of our parks and mow the grass, much less replace trees. I'm not quite sure how that squares with keeping Santa Ana a beautiful city. Perhaps taking another look at budget allocations might be worthwhile. We were promised replacement trees for Morrison Park so that our residents did not have to sit at picnic tables in the hot sun. Never happened. We were promised replacement trees on Memory Lane when trees died because of lack of water. Never Happened. About time it does, please! Sincerely, Eric Scandrett