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Public Comment
From:Sue Grant <sue@literacyproj.org>
Sent:Saturday, September 26, 2020 6:08 AM
To:Public Comment
Subject:In Support of Angels Baseball
Attachments:Angels Baseball Endorsement 2 -City of Anaheim 092420.docx
For your consideration.
In Literacy,
Sue Grant
Founder
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949.721.1319
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literacyproj.org
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September 22, 2020
Dear Members of the Anaheim City Council,
On September 29 you will consider on your council agenda an important and historic opportunity in the
history of the City of Anaheim, and for Orange County. The proposal in front of you for the sale of the
stadium and property to SRB Management will make a great step for Anaheim bringing jobs, housing,
and park spaces to Anaheim when it needs them the most. Like many, we at the Literacy Project are
especially excited about the prospect of Angels Baseball staying in Anaheim until at least 2050 as a result
of this deal.
That is not just because we are fans of the team, but we are fans of what the Angels have done here in
this community and what they do to demonstrate their commitment to Anaheim.
Since 2014, Angels Baseball has sponsored and hosted our “Readers in the Outfield” event, which brings
together over 100 underprivileged second graders in the Anaheim school system. This very special event
honors and recognizes the graduates of the Literacy’s Project’s reading programs.
Hosted at Angel Stadium, these amazing young people spend a Saturday afternoon with Angels alumni
like Rod Carew, Bobby Grich, Chuck Finley, and Cylde Wright, as well as Angels Baseball Chairman Dennis
Kuhl demonstrating and showing off their reading skills, which they are understandably very proud. Plus,
each youngster gets a set of four tickets to an upcoming Angels game to share with their family.
But that’s not all. Over the course of the past six years, the Angels have funded our literacy programs in
Anaheim schools for over 9700 elementary school students struggling with reading, funded to the tune
of over $250,000. Because of that generosity and commitment, we are able to assist at-risk kids in our
schools with our specialized 30-hour reading program at absolutely no cost to either the child or their
family, or to the school.
So you see, making it possible for the Angels to stay in Anaheim doesn’t just mean baseball stays in
Anaheim, which is very important, yes. But more importantly to us, it means an incredible community
partner in our mission to bring literacy to kids struggling with reading also stays in Anaheim.
Please keep that in mind as you consider this proposal, and approve this deal so that the Angels stay in
Anaheim and can keep doing the great work they do with us, and with so many others to make Anaheim
a better place and improve the lives of Anaheim residents and students.
Thank you.
Sue Grant
CEO, The Literacy Project