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Hello, I have received your comments on Resolution 17-019 and will include them in the supplemental packet that publishes and prints today (before noon). The council packet and supplemental
packet, including Resolution 17-019 is published on our website. You may access it at:
http://www.cityofhomer-ak.gov/citycouncil/city-council-regular-meeting-150 Thank you, Jo Johnson, MMC City Clerk City of Homer 491 E. Pioneer Avenue Homer, Alaska 99603 907.235.3130 PUBLIC RECORDS LAW DISCLOSURE:
Most e-mails from or to this address will be available for public inspection under Alaska public records law. From: Valerie Kinney [mailto:skiffgirl@xxxxxxxxx]
Dear Mr. Mayor, I have read the amended resolution regarding 'inclusion.' I am puzzled as to why we need this and I am against the resolution. Homer is diverse and very tolerant. This resolution has done
nothing but waste time and cause division in our community, which is the very thing this resolution is against. Please vote no on making Homer a Sanctuary City. Please do not put us as a city, in a potential position, to lose the Federal Funding programs that are in place and being utilized to aid
and help the people who already live here. Please do not allow certain members of the city council to bring their personal political issues into a city-wide arena. The City of Homer should not be making a decision that will affect me, my family and those who
live here who do not agree with this. We as citizens have the right to protest laws that we feel are unjust, (on a personal level) but we do not and should not have the corporate power to encourage breaking or ignoring a Federal Law. That is treason. When
crime rates rise, and an already overburdened and stretched aid programs break from non-funding by the Federal Government, which has a potential of happening if this is voted through. A sanctuary city would not be receiving any federal funding. That affects
the airport, the roads, family planning, mental health and our hospital just to name a few. We will be encouraging people to come here, and will have little or no resouces to help them. Individuals who feel strongly, that this is a correct position to take,
can and have the freedom to make their choices. They do not have the right to make mine. If this is voted and passed, when aid programs fail, and we have more crime, someone will be blamed. For evey action, there is always a reaction. There is a chance
that the consequence of this action could bring even more separation to an already clearly divided community. I would gladly support something that brings us together rather than hammers the wedge between us a little farther in. Thank you for your time. Valerie Kinney
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