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To: Yasuda,Erica;Woodward,Carrie;City Clerk
Subject: New eComment for Regular Meeting of the City Council and Special Meeting of the City Council
Date: Tuesday,April 21,2020 11:31:02 AM
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New eComment for Regular Meeting of the City
Council and Special Meeting of the City Council
KellyAnn Romanych submitted a new eComment.
Meeting: Regular Meeting of the City Council and Special Meeting of the City Council
Item: PUBLIC HEARING ITEM 8
eComment: Dear City Council Members, We hope you and loved ones are safe and healthy.
Veterans Legal Institute is grateful for the recommendation to continue our partnership through
the CDBG program. We support another three year partnership to serve our Tustin Veterans
together through these challenging times. At present, VLI has served 22 unduplicated Tustin
Veterans out of the projected 25 for this program year. VLI's rapid response to the novel
coronavirus began the week of 3/6. In anticipation of the stay at home order, VLI collaborated
with its six outreach clinic partners to shift over 50 in person appointments to telephonic. On
3/17, the VLI office went virtual overnight with its team of 12 staff and over 200 volunteers. VLI
will maintain virtual hours for as long as necessary. VLI's current priorities are the health and
safety of its clients, team, volunteers, colleagues, and community; continuing to provide free
legal services; and proactively communicating with all clients and community to lessen the
confusion of closed courts, government agencies, and the uncertainty that comes with job loss
and ability to remain safely housed. Since going virtual, VLI staff attorney have been leveraging
their pro bono base and volunteers, speaking with opposing counsel and preparing documents
to help find ways forward in pandemic parenting plans, rent issues, veterans benefits, income
stabilization and more. Pro bono legal clinics have continued in virtual format telephonically.
Currently, we have 23 open cases for Tustin Veterans. Recently, the OC Superior Court
rescheduled approximately 9,500 civil cases and have approximately 25,000 new civil cases that
are on hold. There is concern juries will not be able to congregate. The courts are advocating for
mediation and voluntary settlements whenever possible, especially critical in domestic violence
and the rapidly changing conditions for renters. Thank you for caring so deeply for the wellbeing
of Tustin's Veterans.
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