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Jennifer L. Hall
From:Gretchen Levesque <
Sent:Sunday, September 27, 2020 12:46 PM
To:Loretta Day
Subject:Angel Stadium + Sale
To the Mayor and City Council,
My family has lived in West Anaheim for three generations. We are now raising our three daughters here–all
five of us live, work and pay our taxes in Anaheim. We work in food service, at Home Depot, in non-profit
education, and local real estate. We are a hardworking, Anaheim-loving family. Yet our side of town struggles
to have the basic things provided to us; graffiti-free walls, clean public spaces, a descent public bench to sit on,
green grass in our parks…and the City wants to give away a billion precious, needed, hard-earned dollars in the
sale of Angel Stadium and surrounding area to an already wealthy private individual?
My heart sinks at the unfairness of this. We have worked SO very diligently to achieve one small step in our
struggling neighborhood to improve it–a humble dog park added to Maxwell Park. This has taken years of
petition, outright begging to achieve. When I heard about the Angel Stadium sale, the multiple millions of tax
payer money that will be lost to Anaheim because of it, I felt utterly powerless at the injustice of it all. There’s
no logic in it. What could possibly motivate our City Council to do such a thing when our City’s residents have
such real and present needs?
The unfairness of this sale to the individual tax paying residents of Anaheim is, I dare say, immoral. Where is
the justice to us who have been so faithful and well meaning with every tax paying dollar we give to our
beloved City? We are left behind in this deal. Our children are left behind. The beauty of this Great City is left
behind.
Please think of us, each of us, when you vote of the sale of Angel Stadium. We are real people who love our
City.
Thank you,
Gretchen Levesque
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