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Orozco, Norma From: Nancy Murphy < Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 5:26 PM To: eComment; Pulido, Miguel; Sarmiento, Vicente; Martinez, Michele; KSolorio@santa- ana.org; Benavides, David; Villegas, Juan; Tinajero, Sal; Godinez, Raul Subject: 600 to 700 Bed Emergency Homeless Shelter Categories: Correspondence Dear Mayor Pulido, Santa Ana City Council and City Manager: We are opposed to allowing a new 600 to 700 bed emergency homeless shelter in Santa Ana. The County stated that other cities have to support the homeless and other cities such as Huntington Beach, Irvine and San Clemente said, " NO". Santa Ana is a city of Hardworking people that were born, raised, attended Santa Ana schools and have lived in Santa Ana the majority of their lives. We are homeowners, tax payers and responsible citizens like other people in adjacent cities yet we seem to always seem to bow down to other cities because they are not doing their fair share. Our crime has risen with the homeless, trash left on streets with their possessions, vandalism, theft, people walking in the middle of street, some stores have no shopping carts (CVS at Main and Warner). It is hard to patronize small business in Santa Ana because the homeless are outside of the stores and restaurants. At Main and Dyer the 7/11, Yellow Basket and Del Taco have homeless people hanging around intoxicated or on drugs, we can't use the bike trail along the railroad tracks from Bristol to Main Street due to the homeless, at Flower and Alton and Sunflower and Alton the homeless live in the drainage ditch. We also open the Santa Ana Armory facility for the homeless and extended it to July to help out even more. Other cities do not want the homeless because they do not want their cities to become what Santa Ana has become. It is sad that our neighborhood children that attend Taft and MacArthur have to see people crawling out of the drainage ditch and I get frightened because they come out of the drains. I thought this was tresspassing? We understand the homeless population has issues but Santa Ana is the city that has taken on more than it's fair share of helping people in need. We are asking that other cities take on the homeless issue and "fair share" the homeless issues as the judge as stated. Please be fair to Santa Ana and do not open this shelter. Sincerely, Nancy Murphy