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Grass Valley staff outlines Measure B wildfire program, inspections and community outreach
Summary
Community Risk Reduction Manager Dwayne Strawser updated the City Council on Measure B implementation, describing inspection goals, fuel-reduction projects, home-hardening assistance and outreach plans. He said the city will begin defensible-space inspections and has an oversight committee and auditing in place.
Dwayne Strawser, the city’s community risk reduction manager, told the Grass Valley City Council on May 20, 2025, that Measure B funding is being used to staff wildfire prevention work and expand vegetation-management programs, and that the city is preparing for a large schedule of defensible-space inspections.
Strawser said the Measure B allocation was split roughly “50/50” between fire-safety personnel and vegetation-management projects. He summarized early work as complaint-driven removals and shaded-fuel breaks and said city staff plan to inspect the city’s roughly “6,500 plus or minus parcels” to build a defensible-space database. “We, I believe, have 6,500 plus or minus parcels, structures that we have to inspect,” Strawser said.
The program overview explained several parts of the launch: staffing…
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