Work Study Session
Not located Fiscal Year 2023-24 Budget Workshop
- The budget workshop for 2023-24, held to give staff direction before the public hearing on 6 June.37:33
- Five animal rescue volunteers and nonprofit directors asked the city to fund a spay and neuter clinic, vouchers or reimbursement, describing an unmanageable cat population and county programmes that no longer exist.40:41
- A resident from the French Park association asked for the police athletic league at Davis school, saying it would make families feel safer.59:41
- The chair of the city's youth commission asked for a council-funded youth centre, noting a quarter of residents are under eighteen and there is nowhere for them to go outside school and home.1:09:07
- Two speakers asked for a community emergency response team with about $250,000 for radios and equipment, saying Santa Ana is the only large city in the county without an active one.1:12:09
- A resident said neither Willowick nor Riverview will move the city off 1.1 acres of park per thousand people, because both are already counted as open space, so the city has to buy land.1:04:22
- Another asked for enough armed security or park rangers to patrol every park, saying residents go to other cities to use theirs.53:48
- The historical preservation society asked for money to paint a historic house that has not been painted in twenty years.1:01:07
- Staff told the council the streetcar operating share is estimated at about a million dollars a year from 2024-25, based on ten per cent of operations, and would most likely come from the general fund.1:53:29
- Mayor Amezcua asked for the streetcar's full financial history, and backed the emergency response team, the athletic league and more code enforcement.1:55:24
- Councilmember Hernandez welcomed the chief's district policing plan and said a downtown police liaison is no use without code enforcement alongside it.1:56:52
- Councilmember Bacerra asked that officers be permanently assigned to South Bristol as they are to downtown, rather than covered by ordinary patrol shifts.2:08:28
- Councilmember Phan opposed neutering vouchers but supported a trap, neuter and return programme, and questioned whether $200,000 moved from crossing guards duplicated a $75,000 request for community intervention.2:07:51
- She also asked for the cost of police responses to school sites, and the city manager confirmed the district pays nothing for them.2:06:36
- Councilmember Penaloza said he was in nappies when the Bristol Street project began and is now thirty five, and that a traffic signal at least should not take that long.2:12:48