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�Mok-,\ s� �\� 1�3 I `s I a() V� August 15, 2018 t19 1 11A n! 2. Dear Mayor Miguel Pulido: Ai The Santa Ana Healthy Neighborhoods Alliance opposes the proposed 600 - 7(�rr's�fgginey Sheter in Santa Ana. We urge you to rethink your support of this proposed 600 — 700 Bed Emergency Shelter, and to publicly oppose. Mayor Pulido you are an elected official for all of us; residents, children, businesses, the homeless, the Schools, and city employees. The city needs to bring in new businesses to rebuild our economy and help our current businesses to thrive. There are other fiscally appropriate, and cost-effective solutions. Ownership to solving this on-going crisis in Orange County belongs to all of the OC cities. Mayor Pulido you are well position to build proactive and working partnerships with the OC Supervisors and the elected officials and businesses in the other OC cities to provide housing and services to the OC homeless across the county. Santa Ana is over represented in the housing and services provided to the OC homeless. Currently we do more than any other city, and way beyond our share of services and housing. * Best practices and solutions for the homeless crisis indicate no shelter should be larger than 200 beds. In 2014 we presented to the city council, several successful housing models from across the country to solve the homeless crisis, including the Utah model. This packet of successful housing models were hand delivered to the Santa Ana City Council offices and the OC Board of Supervisors during the Normandy Campaign. * As you have publicly stated at City Council meetings, Santa Ana has done its fair share on providing housing and services for solving the homeless crisis in Orange County. We were at the city council meeting where you opposed Santa Ana providing more shelters and beds, and moved forward the recommendation to sue the other OC cities to do their fair share of providing housing and services. * An Emergency Shelter with the magnitude of 600 - 700 beds will remove responsibilities from the other OC cities to be actively engaged in the solutions, and the construction/operation of housing facilities across the county; both transitional and permanent. There is more land and open space in other parts of the county to successfully provide more housing and services. *Once the federal dollars for a shelter of this magnitude are spent, the City is in no position to sustain the cost, operation, and maintenance. An emergency shelter of this magnitude demonstrates a lack of economic planning, mindfulness, and social justice for the Santa Ana community --- so horrific to put on the Santa Ana tax payer's back --- as a potential result of the proposed 600-700 bed shelter. * The impact of the proposed 600 - 700 bed facility will have a devastating impact on the business community, residents, schools, and the homeless. Our current crisis will continue, and increase. Santa Ana will continue to be a dumping ground for the other OC cities. Mayor Pulido, we encourage you to be a champion, a real warrior, in opposing the 600-700 Bed Emergency Shelter. Most Sincerely,,�n s ,� Susana Sandoval, Irma Jaureg ��✓ll