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Orozco, Norma From: Ginelle Hardy <ginelleann@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2021 1:09 PM To: eComment Subject: Public Comment_CC_mtg 5/4/21_Closed Session Item 3 - Potential Sale of Cypress Fire Station Public Comment _CC_mtg 5/4/21_Closed Session Item 3 - CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.8: - Potential Sale of Cypress Fire Station May 3, 2021 Honorable Mayor Sarmiento, Mayor pro tern David Penaloza, Councilmembers Phan, Lopez, Mendoza, Bacerra, and Hernandez, As you can see by the attached photo taken a few years ago security of the premises, property, interior and exterior including signifiant exterior architecturally character defining features at the historic CYPRESS FIRE STATION has never been adequate. As with any other vacant property in the City the responsibly for guarding against vandalism and for being a good neighbor to the surrounding other property owners lies with the property owner of a vacant building. In this instance the property owner is the City and the property is the historic CYPRESS FIRE STATION. - The FIRST & OLDEST fire station in the City, a designated "KEY" structure listed on the Santa Ana Register of Historic Properties and uniquely located between and in front of homes that are some of the last remaining Victorian style architecture in the City and all in the Pacific Park/Eastside neighborhood. The CYPRESS FIRE STATION is the equally important and valued Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival style of architecture. As seen in this photo, at this time, the building "security" is consisting of plywood and boards only put in place after countless complaints form residents, neighbors and observers and after the a fire inside the building. Lack of security of this building is negligence that continues today as evidenced by gaps in the sections of chain link "security" fencing at the front of the property that was observed and photographed as recently as lastnweek. - I ask you what kind of "security" is so cheap that they fail to provide enough material to do the job and their efforts are shoddy & flimsy too? I am asking that you take action to; 1. Please remove the CYPRESS FIRE STATION from the City's surplus property - (Considering and being mindful that this is the City's last City owned property, Santa Ana Register of Historic Properties is not the place to mine for surplus property, and listed Santa Ana Register of Historic Properties, including the CYPRESS FIRE STATION, are a City Historic Resource) 2. Please pull the RFP and pull any pending sale of the CYPRESS FIRE STATION as soon as possible 3. Please rally around retaining the Cypress Fire Station as an important historical property open for the public