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From: <br />Kelly Wynveen <br />To: <br />PublicComment <br />Subject: <br />Agenda Item 9A <br />Date: <br />Monday, June 22, 2020 12:57:43 PM <br />Dear City Council, <br />My name is Kelly Wynveen, and I am a resident of Redwood City. I urge you to reject the <br />proposed budget because it allocates $49M toward an outdated and punitive policing <br />system that makes many residents feel unsafe. Instead, in the name of public safety, I ask <br />that you defund the police and reallocate their funds into programs that prevent crime such <br />as affordable housing, community services and non -police response teams <br />I want a city that is safe for everyone. That is why I urge you to defund the police and divert <br />their funds into services that prevent crime. We cannot wait to take meaningful action until <br />October. The future of public safety is a future of prevention, by community services and <br />unarmed specialists, rather than punishment backed by armed force and incarceration. I <br />implore you, for our sake, to reorient our city to this future. <br />Thank you for your time, <br />Kelly Wynveen <br />