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Orozco, Norma <br />From: Houston, Nicole <br />Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 11:42 AM <br />To: Alcala, Abigail; Huizar, Maria; Mitre -Ramirez, Norma; Orozco, Norma; Rojano, Michael <br />Subject: FW: Urgent Plea on the Homeless in Orange County - Specifically in the Santa Ana Area <br />Ymportance: High <br />From: Leyva, Raquel[mailto: <br />Sent: Monday, April 02, 2018 2:16 PM <br />To: DOC_Chambers@cacd.uscourts.gov <br />Cc: Andrew.Do@ocgov.com; audra.fishel@ocgov.com; michelle.steel@ocgov.com; lisa.bartlett@ocgov.com; <br />todd.spitzer@ocgov.com; Solor!o, Jose <1Solorio@santa-ana.org>; Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Urgent Plea on the Homeless in Orange County -Specifically in the Santa Ana Area <br />Importance: High <br />To the Honorable Judge David 0. Carter and other Orange County Leaders, <br />I am a resident of Santa Ana and I am outraged that other cities in the county are refusing to assist in the homeless <br />crisis. Like Irvine, Laguna Niguel, and every other city, our children also deserve a safe walk to school and a safe <br />environment all together. We deserve clean parks and public areas, and we deserve the same consideration for how the <br />homeless population affects our day-to-day lives. One city should not carry the burden of an entire county homeless <br />population as Santa Ana has been doing for the past few years. Our representatives have let this issue get way out of <br />hand and are to blame for not taking proper action in this matter way before this issue turned out as terrible as it is. <br />Please let me remind you that not all Santa Ana residents are second class citizens or are welfare recipients or on food <br />stamps! Some of us are hard-working decent individuals who deserve the same consideration and respect given to the <br />Irvine residents a couple of weeks ago! Our kids deserve the same consideration. My husband and I personally paid over <br />$8000.00 in property taxes annually! We deserve a city to be proud of not to be the dumping field for the homeless <br />population in all of Orange County! Other cities need to step up to the plate and the homeless population should be <br />divided equally amount ALL cities in the county regardless of status. Emergency shelters need to be created/build in <br />every city if there isn't one already in place. NO MORE EXCUSES FROM NEIGHBOORING CITIES! No city should be better <br />than the other and no city should have special privileges over another! <br />Santa Ana already has a terrible reputation among all the cities in Orange County and this homeless mess it's only <br />making it worse! The Santa Ana Riverbed, our downtown area and Civic Center area look like a third world country! Our <br />kids can't even visit the city's public library for goodness sake! <br />Please represent me and the thousands of other tax -paying, voting, and law-abiding citizens of Santa Ana by showing <br />your support in this matter! We deserve better! <br />Thank you for taking the time to read this and for really taking into consideration this very serious issue. <br />Raquel Leyva, Santa Ana resident <br />