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6 1 Wayne Fenton made reference to light bulbs and said that each year staff plans to bring 2 forward to the Board different things to continue to meet this goal. He thinks that the County 3 has done a great job with lighting efficiency. 4 Commissioner Jacobs said that it would be good for the document to state that it is the 5 policy to continue to look at this issue. He made reference to page 14 and fuel for County 6 vehicles that is acquired through a card system. He suggested putting "allocation system" so 7 that the wording does not have to be changed every time the system changes. 8 Chair Pelissier asked about the scorecard results and Wayne Fenton said that the 9 scorecard is outside of the budget process. 10 Chair Pelissier said that she would like to see the scorecard as part of the budget 11 process. 12 Commissioner McKee and Commissioner Gordon supported the scorecard being a part 13 of the budget process and getting it out to the public. 14 15 3. Review the Concept of Establishing Three (3) New Fire Service Districts to 16 Improve Property Insurance Ratings and Lower Homeowners' Insurance Costs 17 Michael Talbert said that this is a recommendation coming to the Board from the 18 Emergency Services Work Group for three new fire service districts. He made reference to the 19 yellow document with the email exchanged with Commissioner Gordon and the memo from 20 September 1St that talks about Fire Protection Districts and Fire Service Districts. The County 21 has 12 Fire Protection Districts. The County contracts with the individual fire departments to 22 provide fire services within those districts. The districts were established by election in the 23 1960's and 1970's. Changing those districts becomes difficult. Not long ago, the General 24 Assembly gave counties the option of establishing service districts. A service district is defined 25 by the Board of County Commissioners and is a fairly simple process. Attachment N outlines 26 this process. The third term is a Fire Insurance District. This is a term for the State. This is in 27 Attachment F. He said that there were agreements between Eno and Caldwell recently and 28 insurance districts were created, but the fire protection districts did not change. 29 Commissioner Gordon said that it seems that fire protection district and fire tax district 30 are similar. Michael Talbert explained the difference. 31 Michael Talbert said that right now the County has three Fire Insurance Districts that 32 encompass four different Fire Protection Districts — Damascus, Southern Triangle, Chapel Hill, 33 and South Orange. The proposal is to reconfigure the lines for all of those and come up with 34 three new services. There would be three separate districts with three different providers and 35 three different insurance districts. The insurance district and the service district would be one 36 and the same. 37 Michael Talbert further clarified and made reference to Attachment B. The map is the 38 northern part of the Southern Triangle district (yellow and green). The two gray areas were 39 what was left after annexation of adjacent areas by the Town of Chapel Hill. The area in yellow 40 represents 112 property owners that have an insurance rating of 10. Either they pay double or 41 triple rates or cannot get insurance at all. The goal was to solve this for the 112 property 42 owners and eliminate the two donut holes in gray. 43 44 Attachment A is a map of the existing South Orange Fire Insurance District. Due to the 45 Town of Chapel Hill annexations, the South Orange Fire Insurance District has been split. The 46 Town of Carrboro provides fire protection in the South Orange Fire Insurance District and now