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<br />April 20, 2021 Cypress Fire Station Correspondence 2021-2017 1 <br /> <br />SELECTED CYPRESS FIRE HOUSE CORRESPONDENCE <br /> <br />This is a compilation of selected emails demonstrating continuous community <br />advocacy to save the Cypress Fire Station as a publicly held property and have it <br />restored to public use. These emails date from 2017 to 2021. There are numerous <br />times here where we ask City staff for a Steering Committee to be formed in order to <br />fundraise and guide the restoration of this important historic property. To view one of <br />the more detailed requests, please refer to pages 11-14 where I have listed a timeline <br />of advocacy, a fundraising plan and request for a steering committee to be formed. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Gerardo Mouet <gmouet@gmail.com> <br />Date: <br />01/21/2021 02:35PM <br /> <br />I have wanting to be more active in the community, but due to ongoing health challenges, I have <br />had to lay low since I retired a year ago. <br /> <br />The challenge with having an active use of this building for the public is that it has very limited <br />parking. Because of this, and the fear that eventually the History Room Library function would <br />be eliminated due to budget constrains, my thought had been to create a work shop satellite space <br />for the History Room at the Cypress Center and at the same time renovate the Center to also <br />honor the history of the Fire Station. At this Digital Archive Center, the space would allow a <br />handful of staff, due to parking limitation, to work on Digital scanning images for the history <br />collection. I believed that the money for digitizing community history could possibly be obtained <br />through grants. <br /> <br />I do believe the Center should remain public. To honor the previously closed 128 year-old City <br />Fire Department and to produce new archives for the town’s history is just one idea. I am sure <br />other options are out there. <br /> <br />I don’t believe selling this small property, that has disclosed re-construction challenges and <br />historical preservation parameters, will get the City a lot of money. <br /> <br />I hope that sharing what I had in mind for this space back when I was still working for Santa Ana <br />is of some use. <br /> <br />Goodluck. <br /> <br />Gerardo Mouet <br />gmouet@gmail.com <br />c: (714) 552-1037 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />