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• Strengths <br /> — Infrastructure <br /> — Individual Agencies <br /> — Central Dispatch <br /> • Weaknesses <br /> — Data Collection <br /> — Service Delays <br /> — Radio Limitations <br /> • Opportunities <br /> — County Aiding Volunteer Agencies <br /> — Strategic Planning <br /> — Response Districts <br /> • Threats <br /> — Relationships <br /> — Economy <br /> — Questions <br /> Commissioner Gordon said that she had asked about the inclusion of service by <br /> Mebane and North Chatham the last time and they have not been added. <br /> The consultant said that North Chatham serves quite a large area and they were not <br /> successful sorting out what was in and out of the County. <br /> Commissioner Gordon said that one needs to have these numbers and this information <br /> for these agencies because there are parts of Orange County in the south and west that are <br /> served by them. She said that they need to start collecting data since Mebane and North <br /> Chatham get funding from Orange County. She wants to see these numbers. <br /> Chair Pelissier asked the County Manager to address this. <br /> Frank Clifton said that there are data issues and when there is a mix of paid and <br /> volunteer fire departments, it is hard to get consistent data. <br /> Chair Pelissier said that the data is not really usable and she suggested adding `lack of <br /> data' as another weakness. Frank Clifton suggested saying `standardization of data.' <br /> Commissioner McKee made reference to page 8 and approximately 10,000 fire <br /> department calls annually and on page 72 it states that there were 11,995 EMS calls. He asked <br /> if this was double counting because the fire departments respond to half of EMS-type calls. The <br /> consultant said that it appears that this is double counting. He said that during the BOCC <br /> meeting in March when the initial report was received, the fire chiefs requested some additional <br /> information. He asked if all of this information had been updated because South Orange <br /> Rescue still states that it has a Chief and an Assistant Chief for each division. <br /> The consultant said that he had the comments. <br /> Chair Pelissier suggested adding some caveats in the document to make it clearer <br /> about the number of calls. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs acknowledged the presence of so many fire chiefs, assistant fire <br /> chief, and EMS personnel and he said that he is sorry they are doing this in a work session <br /> since the fire chiefs wanted to have a conversation with the Board of County Commissioners. <br /> He said that there was a very good meeting of the steering committee a few weeks ago. They <br /> discussed this report and some issues were raised. One of the things that came up in that <br /> meeting was that there is not accurate data. It was also identified that the CAD software needed <br /> to be updated. There was also discussion about how people have taken this report as implied <br />