Gerardo Mouet, BA

Executive Director
Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Agency
City of Santa Ana

Gerardo Mouet was appointed as the Executive Director for the City of Santa Ana's Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Agency in August 2004. His career in public services began in Tijuana, Baja California Mexico, where he grew up. He was part of the staff team that began the first YMCA branch in Tijuana. After getting his BA degree in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego, he worked as a Fair Housing Counselor in Los Angeles for several years before accepting the position at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he served as Assistant Director for the Educational Opportunity Program. At UCI, Mr. Mouet developed an innovative leadership development summer residential program for high school students called the Knowledge and Social Responsibility (KSR) Program. KSR became recognized as a model program that showed how to bring students together from different backgrounds and learn how to become effective community activists focusing on solving social problems. He began working for the City of Santa Ana in 1990 and helped establish the City's Workforce Diversity Program and coordinated the City's Public Business Academy. The Public Business Academy became a model on how to train supervisors and managers to become effective leaders in local government administration. In May 2002, Mr. Mouet was promoted to Assistant Director of the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency until he was appointed Executive Director.

Since joining the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency, he has focused in leading the agency through functional teams that cross through the structure of the organization and focus all employees on accomplishing the mission of the Agency in a team oriented way. The purpose of the Agency is to provide quality programs and services that inspire fun, fitness and respect through active living, community events, arts, culture and exploration of the natural world. The Agency's motto is Have Fun * Get Fit * Be Respectful. With an annual budget of $15 million, the 300 employees in Santa Ana's Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency serve the largest city in Orange County and ninth largest city in the State of California with a population of 370,000. The Agency manages forty parks, athletic fields, a network of trails, 19 recreational facilities, such as recreation centers, senior centers, pools, a Stadium and a Zoo. Mr. Mouet lives in Santa Ana with his wife Jenny, 12-year old daughter Monica, 10-year old son Andrew and Toby, a 12-week old Silky Terrier.