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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 19, 2011 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Approval to Extend the East Orange Fire Insurance District Boundary <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Caldwell Insurance District Map <br />East Orange Insurance District Map <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />F. R. Montes de Oca, 245 -6100 <br />Annette Moore, 245 -2317 <br />PURPOSE: To approve the East Orange Fire Insurance District Map which has been expanded <br />to include properties from the Caldwell Fire District that are currently not in an insurance district. <br />BACKGROUND: In 2009, Eno Fire and Emergency Services, Inc. opened fire station #2 on St. <br />Mary's Road just south of Pleasant Green Road. The North Carolina Department of Insurance, <br />Office of the State Fire Marshal, Ratings and Inspections Division, inspected and approved the <br />station, apparatus and equipment. This approval allowed the Department of Insurance to extend <br />the East Orange Insurance District, which is now adjacent to the Caldwell Fire Insurance <br />District. <br />Certain properties in the southeast section of the Caldwell Fire District are over six (6) road <br />miles from the Caldwell Fire Station located on Guess Road. As a result, those properties are <br />not in an insurance district, rated as Class 10. Staff has worked with representatives from the <br />Caldwell Fire Department and the Department of Insurance to identify those affected areas. <br />Staff also worked with Information Technologies staff to identify those parcels in the Caldwell <br />Fire District that are not in the Caldwell Fire Insurance District and moved those parcels into the <br />East Orange Insurance District, which is a Class 9 District, thereby allowing those property <br />owners to be inside a rated insurance district. GIS staff produced a revised map of the East <br />Orange Insurance District, showing those parcels now being added into the East Orange Fire <br />Insurance District. The revised map has been reviewed and approved by staff from the North <br />Carolina Department of Insurance, Office of the State Fire Marshal, Ratings and Inspections <br />Division. Upon approval by the Board of the County Commissioners, the Office of the State Fire <br />Marshal can legally approve the transfer of those affected parcels to the East Orange Fire <br />Insurance District. Representatives from Eno Fire and Emergency Services have also been <br />involved in this process and are receptive to the modification of the insurance district. <br />