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To date, over 40 percent of the towns, cities and counties of North Carolina have executed the <br />agreement. As a result of winter storms (January and February, 1998) which produced <br />extensive flooding in the western section of the state and spring tornadoes (March and May, <br />1998) which hit the central section, and the most recent snow and ice storms of the past three <br />years, counties and municipalities have benefited from the alliance. <br />North Carolina Emergency Management serves as the repository for the statewide mutual aid <br />agreement. A nineteen page list of signatories (including Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, <br />and OWASA) to the pact is available for review on the State's Website at <br />http://www.ncem.org/MUTAID/index.htm. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no new direct financial impact associated with this agenda item. <br />If Orange County agrees to sign on to the Mutual Aid Pact, it would formalize a practice that has <br />been in place for many years of receiving from or sending aid (in the form of loaned staff, <br />equipment and/or supplies) to other local governments in times of emergency. Indications from <br />the State Office of Emergency Management suggest that those local governments who formally <br />belong to the Mutual Aid Pact may have an improved chance of receiving favorable <br />consideration of applications for federal and state emergency management grant funds. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board: 1) approve Orange <br />County's participation in the Mutual Aid Pact; 2) authorize the Manager to sign all paperwork <br />and execute all documents that may pertain to the County's participation in the pact; and 3) <br />appoint Manager John Link as Primary Representative, with Assistant Manager Rod Visser as <br />First Alternate, and Assistant Manager Gwen Harvey as Second Alternate. <br />