Each month a board of seven Granite Bay residents meet to discuss the safety, transportation needs, new construction and other concerns of the Granite Bay community. They make up the Granite Bay Municipal Advisory Council, MAC, which reports to the Board of Supervisors. They hold meetings that are open to the public at the Granite Bay Library, often with representatives, discussing safety updates with the fire department and highway patrol or other community influencers. 

“A Municipal Advisory Council meeting is held to allow community members to discuss local issues, provide feedback, and advise county officials on matters impacting their area,” Frank Udvarheley, the district representative of Placer County District 4, said. 

Since the December MAC meeting was cancelled, here are the following topics from the November MAC meeting that affects the Granite Bay High School community:

California Highway Patrol kicked off last month’s MAC meeting by presenting some of the following statistics on road collisions in October, followed by statistics of calls to the police station and the trends of what those calls were for.

“They had 114 [collegiate collisions] and two fatality collisions, citations, and 520 DUI arrest(s), [and] 20 felony arrests,” Yvette Norman, Granite Bay’s CHP officer, said.

“We have 400 incidents in Granite Bay for the month of October, 36 reports taken, 22 transient related activities… 52 disturbance calls, 19 alarm calls, [and] 67 traffic stops,” Norman said. 

“So there’s a pie graph there… That’s our priority level call. So when you call 911, our dispatcher takes the information that you’re getting and puts it into a priority level one through nine, and then it just breaks it down onto priority one being the most dangerous, to priority nine being the last,” Norman said.

Next up, the CalFire Chief, Derek Evans, came to report the overall decreasing fire activity in Northern California due to the more frequent precipitation and rain. Evans then announced the lifting of the burn ban as we’re moving out of the dry weather season. 

“You can apply for burn permits online [at] burnpermits.fire.ca.gov,” Evans said.