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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 17, 2011 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~_ <br />SUBJECT: Review of Fire Department Issues Relating to Fire Protection Districts, Fire <br />Insurance Districts and Fire Tax Districts as Related to Property Insurance <br />Ratinas <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Caldwell Insurance District Map <br />2) East Orange Insurance District Map <br />3) County Attorney Memo Dated 9/1/11 <br />4) Caldwell Fire Department Contract <br />5) Fire Taxing Districts Map <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />F. R. Montes de Oca, 245-6100 <br />Annette Moore, 245-2317 <br />Michael Talbert, 245-2153 <br />PURPOSE: To review Fire Protection, Insurance and Tax Districts and their relationship to <br />property owners' insurance ratings and provide direction to staff. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Fire Protection <br />In 2009, Eno Fire and Emergency Services, Inc. opened fire station #2 on St. Mary's Road just <br />south of Pleasant Green Road. The North Carolina Department of Insurance, Office of the <br />State Fire Marshal, Ratings and Inspections Division, inspected and approved the station, <br />apparatus and equipment. This approval allowed the Department of Insurance to extend the <br />East Orange Insurance District, which is now adjacent to the Caldwell Fire Insurance 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 were <br />not in an insurance district, rated as Class 10. Staff 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' Geographic Information Systems (GIS) <br />personnel to identify those parcels in the Caldwell Fire District that are not in the Caldwell Fire <br />Insurance District and moved those parcels into the East Orange Insurance District, which is a <br />Class 9 District, thereby allowing those property owners to be inside a rated insurance district. <br />GIS staff produced a revised map of the East Orange Insurance District, showing those parcels <br />being added into the East Orange Fire Insurance District. The revised map was approved by <br />staff from the North Carolina Department of Insurance, Office of the State Fire Marshal, Ratings <br />and Inspections Division. <br />