HomeMy WebLinkAboutIrene Neri Hernandez 01-11-2022
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Subject:Webform submission from: Public Comment Form on Communities of Interest for
Redistricting
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Submitted on Tue, 01/11/2022 - 14:23
Submitted values are:
Please Choose Your Language Preference:
English
Name
Irene Neri Hernandez
Date
01/11/2022
Email or phone number:
How do you describe your community to someone who hasn’t visited? What streets/boundaries define
your community?
Santa Ana, is a low income latinx community where people fight each other instead of helping each other. The
city has been built around white rich cities, that have placed as the home for the homeless. This surrounding has
also caused Santa Ana representatives to start a movement toward gentrification, removing the latinx culture
Santa Ana was built on. Representatives have also invited unnecessary police activity to criminalize the low
income people of color of the city ONLY. There are no youth groups that would help children get to the same
level as white rich children in surrounding cities. Also the streets are dirty and the pavement has many cracks on
them, it looks the city is not taken care of.
What are the major cultural/recreational/educational/religious institutions in your community?
Hazard Elementary School,
Rosita Elementary
Los Amigos HIgh School,
Santiago High School
Newhope Public Library
Rosita Park
Cesar Chavez Park
Santa Ana Community College
Do you have concerns about the current boundaries of your Ward?
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I do not even know what that means. That being said if someone who has a college education does not even
understand this question, I wonder what the rest of the population that might not have time to even look into this
have to say? This is where the audience and decision of representatives are not representing Santa Ana as a
whole, but rather those who have time and dont struggle with a language barrier. It is not that people do not
care, it is the fact this information is not as known as people in the city council might think.
Other Comments:
This ward situation sounds like another form of redlining, where people are trying to reshape Santa Ana in a
form that many low income people again who do not have time dont have a say in this, get pushed around to the
liking of others who have better access to this information, please note at the time I filled this application I did
not see one Spanish form filled out.
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