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Orozco, Norma From: Ginelle Hardy <ginelleann@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 1:18 PM To: eComment Subject: Consent Calendar Item: 17 Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Please hold your vote this evening on Consent Calendar Item: 17 Approve an Agreement with Dunbar Architecture for Architectural Design Services for the Historic Cypress Fire Station in an Amount Not to Exceed $434,880 for a Five- Year Term (Project No. 22-6023) (General Fund) Please continue this item until the Eastside/Pacific Park neighborhood has an opportunity to make comments related to the RFP about the use of the historic Cypress Fire Station. At at least one(1)meeting,if not more meeting need to be held in&for the community where the RFP drawings&proposed use of the building is disclosed and open for debate in the community @ an Eastside/Pacific Park neighborhood meeting- or a meeting held just for such a presentation and discussion-with City staff,Developer&Architectural Firm representatives in attendance! This is not asking too much,but only the bare minimum of what has been done in the past regarding proposed projects in other neighborhoods! The community MUST be able to provide feedback about use,parking,landscaping, availability of the building to the community, etc, - and the community's input must be reflected in a revised proposal with Neighborhood buy-in before the project is awarded funding by City Council. Please postpone voting on Consent Calendar Item: 17 tonight, and continue this matter until after the neighborhood has had an opportunity to provide necessary input @ a Community meeting related to this project with City Staff,Developer &Architectural firm in attendance.At such meeting all material related to RFP or pending proposal should be presented in full disclosure with all necessary drawings,displays&explanations.And choices given for use of the building made available to the neighborhood&community! Please be aware that there has been for years, and is now,neighborhood&community interest in both the preservation of the exterior of the historic Cypress Fire Station per state guidelines(Secretary Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation),AND the use of the building, or part of the building,open to the public for use by the neighborhood&community as a meeting space& an art center. Written&photo documentation is available to show evidence of this long struggle by residents. Also know that by the time this project reaches the Historic Resources Commission (HRC)for review it will be too late for Neighborhood&Community input and related changes to the use of the historic Cypress Fire Station- as the HRC will only be concerned about the historic rehabilitation of the exterior of the building. Thank you for your consideration related to postponement of tonight's Consent Calendar Item: 17, Ginelle Hardy South Main Street Neighborhood Resident Heninger Park Neighborhood,President Historic Resource Commission, Commissioner ginelleann@gmil.com 1