The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.

It's similar to what would happen in your home if you didn't have circuit breakers in place. You'd burn up equipment. You'd cause real problems, real damage in your home.

This is a prescribed action that we do to support the electric grid. Certain areas will be experiencing rolling blackouts every 15 minutes, but we we'll be taking power off of the system and returning it to different areas.

What it does is unite the arts groups. A lot of times there are different groups in Gilroy and they'll have a purpose individually, but this makes it more of a collective group where you're able to share a vision and purpose.

We really want to protect the public from a potential hazard especially with situation of grass fires (and) how it affected our area.

There will certainly be new courses in that area. It may also impact the existing interdisciplinary programs, such as the engineering and biology certificate program.