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Yuba, Amador, and Mariposa counties, located in and around California’s Sierra Nevada foothills, understand the importance of strengthening public infrastructure. In the video below, local government leaders from these communities share how modernizing aging facilities can improve resilience and protect essential services during wildfires, flooding, road damage, and power outages. Through HVAC and lighting upgrades, solar generation, battery backup, and a microgrid, the county can continue operating its government center during grid disruptions while reducing energy costs and returning savings to its general fund.
SitelogIQ helped align these improvements with the county’s long-term infrastructure needs, providing more reliable systems for public works, law enforcement, and other teams that serve residents 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. These investments are delivering immediate operational benefits while positioning the community for greater resilience and financial stability in the future.
Video transcript:
Miles Menetry, Mariposa County Supervisor, District 5: We have a lot of unforeseen natural disasters. We contend with wildfire, high water events, which causes flooding and eroding of our roads. And our public works team, our sheriff’s department really work overtime to keep the community safe, cleaned up, and back in operating position.
Jeff Brown, Amador County Supervisor, District 3: This project aligned with our infrastructure just so the fact is that we had aging infrastructure. Our air conditioning systems and lighting systems were antiquated. And so this brought our systems into a modern zone where we can take care of them a lot better without having problems with our people.
Perminder Bains, Yuba County, Director of Administrative Services: With the battery backup, it’s going to allow the government center to be self-resilient. When we have PSP outages, we can still operate and provide services to the public.
Miles: You know, county services, they don’t take a day off. They are 2/47/365. Working with SitelogIQ and installing our solar array saved us untold hundreds of thousands of dollars that go back into our general fund.
Gary Bradford, Yuba County Supervisor, District 5: We’ve invested in a microgrid to be more resilient to power outages and PSPS events.
Jeff: The sun’s power above us is there, so we’re going to use it to benefit Amador County.
Miles: These decisions that we’ve made today will have deep impacts in the future.