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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 15, 1998 Action Agenda Item No. Q- F SUBJECT: Renewal Agreement -Town of Hillsborough Fire Inspections DEPARTMENT: Emergency Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/1~ BUDGET AMENDMENT: (Y/l~ ATTACHMENT(S): Renewal Agreement INFORMATION CONTACT: Nick Waters, ext 3030 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider modifying and renewing the existing agreement between Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough, whereby County personnel perform State mandated fire inspections on behalf of the Town. BACKGROUND: In November, 1993, Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough entered into an agreement that provided for county fire inspectors to conduct State mandated fire inspections of facilities in the Town's jurisdiction that are subject to periodic inspection. The Town has paid the County for performance of those inspections against invoices prepared in accordance with the County's fee schedule for fire inspections. In discussions in May 1996, the County and Town agreed to continue this arrangement through June 1997. The intent was for the Town of Hillsborough to take on its own fire inspections as of July 1, 1997. The Town was unsuccessful in making arrangements to provide for its own fire inspections program at that point, and the Town and County signed a revised agreement in June 1997 to cover fiscal year 1997- 98. The Town fire inspector, who has worked with and under the supervision of the County's inspectors for the past year, has obtained State Certification at Level I Fire Inspector. The Town therefore now has the ability to perform Level I Fire Inspections, independent from the County. That will greatly reduce the workload on County staff, since the majority of the inspections (approximately 80%) in the Town are Level I. The approximate total number of Level I facilities is 355 (three hundred fifty five) and the approximate combined total number of Level II and III facilities is 89 (eighty nine).