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UYA'Irrnm�v,,AU <br /> POINT OF CONTACT: <br /> Daniel Diaz <br /> Co-Founder of The Santanerc <br /> ddiaz@santancro.org <br /> (714)-543-6974 (text first!) <br /> July 1, 2025 (finalized draft at 12:00 PM PT) <br /> TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC COMMENT <br /> Hello all, I'll try to keep it brief. If you don't know who I am, I'm Daniel Diaz, born and <br /> raised in Santa Ana and a product of Santa Ana Unified. I am, essentially, The Santanero. A <br /> man who wears all the hats in this growing world called community news. I have elected to say <br /> my piece in the flesh rather than publish an editorial that would go nowhere, so forgive me if <br /> I'm a bit edgy. <br /> It's been 23 days since raids began en masse here in Santa Ana, and 22 days since first sending <br /> my questions to Santa Ana P iblic Information Officer Paul Eakins and Santa Ana Police PIO <br /> Natalie Garcia. Over the course of seven days, I emailed them 87 questions, and an additional <br /> five to Garcia and City Attorney Sonia Carvalho the morning Narciso Barranco was detained. <br /> Eight were answered by means of press release, social media post, PRA response, or during <br /> the last City Council meeting. The other 84 remained unanswered. <br /> These questions I ask aren't to be nosy, I asked them because I believe the community has the <br /> right to know the answers given the high level of fear, anxiety, and uncertainty plaguing our <br /> community. <br /> According to Transparent California, Eakins got paid $167,297.16 in 2023 including benefits <br /> and Garcia received $167,966.48 in 2023 with benefits. I've always sucked at doing math but <br /> according to my calculations... Eakins received a little over $458 a day, while Garcia received <br /> $460 and some change per day. Those numbers may be up more due to inflations and such. To <br /> some, it sounds like a good job being paid all that taxpayer money for no answers. In all the <br /> budget reports I've reviewed dating back to 1989, in all the campaigns I've seen growing up, <br /> in most of the comments given by the electeds, it has always been the city's goal to be more <br /> transparent... but in times the city is gripped with fear, people refusing to step into the sunlight <br /> and shelter themselves in a blanket of grief, who do the people turn to? <br />