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3 <br />South Orange Fire Service District <br />Attachment 1 is a map of the existing South Orange Fire Insurance District. Due to the Town of <br />Chapel Hill annexations, the South Orange Fire Insurance District has been split. The Town of <br />Carrboro provides fire protection in the South Orange Fire Insurance District and now has to <br />travel through the Town of Chapel Hill to respond to a fire call off Mt. Carmel Church Road. <br />Attachment 2 shows a detail map of the area and Chapel Hill Fire Station #5 that is less than <br />one (1) mile from the area outlined in gray. The Town of Chapel Hill is better positioned and <br />may be willing to provide fire protections for this area in gray. The Town Manager presented <br />this possible solution to the Chapel Hill Town Council on January 14, 2013. <br />The area in gray on Attachment 2 represents 100 parcels and $36,003,769 of real property <br />value. When vehicles and personal property values are added to the real property total, an <br />estimated $37,673,414 of taxable value would be removed from the existing South Orange Fire <br />Insurance District. Attachment 4 shows the existing property valuation of $556,977,528 for the <br />South Orange Fire Insurance District, the reduction of $37,673,414 of taxable value, and the <br />remaining property valuation of $519,304,114. The estimated tax valuation reduction from the <br />existing South Orange Fire Insurance District equals 6.8% of the total. A fire district tax <br />increase of .6 cents, from 7.85 cents to 8.45 cents, would be required to insure that this change <br />is revenue neutral for the Town of Carrboro. <br />This issue has also been presented to the Town of Carrboro. On December 4, 2012 the <br />Carrboro Board of Alderman Town voted to approve a resolution to modify the existing South <br />Orange Fire Insurance District. The revised South Orange Insurance District will not include the <br />donut hole in gray on Attachment 2 and the Town will continue to contract to provide fire <br />protection to the proposed new Fire Insurance District (see Attachment 3), with a new fire tax <br />rate of 10 cents per $100 of real and person property value. <br />On December 11, 2012 the Board expressed its intent to establish three new Fire Service <br />Districts; the South Orange Fire Service District, the North Chatham Fire Service District and <br />the Greater Chapel Hill Fire Service District. Staff was instructed to proceed with the necessary <br />steps to establish three new Fire Service Districts. <br />North Chatham Fire Service District <br />Orange County has received a letter from North Chatham Volunteer Fire Department <br />(Attachment 5) indicating that the Department will charge a tax rate of 8.8 cents beginning July <br />1, 2013. This is the same rate currently charged in Chatham County and a 76% increase over <br />the existing 5 cents. Attachment 6 is a map of the existing North Chatham Fire Insurance <br />District. Included on Attachment 2, in yellow, are 112 homeowners located more than six (6) <br />road miles from the nearest North Chatham Station, but less than three (3) road miles from <br />Chapel Hill Fire Station #5. These homeowners have an insurance rating of 10 (see Attachment <br />7 for an example of insurance premiums related to fire insurance ratings). Several homeowners <br />in this area have indicated that they cannot get fire insurance or that the rate has more than <br />doubled. <br />The Town of Chapel Hill is better positioned and may be willing to provide fire protections for <br />this area in gray. The Town Manager is prepared to make a recommendation to the Chapel Hill <br />Town Council on January 14, 2013. The Town of Chapel Hill is a municipal fire department <br />