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15 1 Chair Jacobs said he was envisioning taking a block of time at one of the regular 2 meetings and having this as an agenda item. 3 Commissioner Pelissier said the Board is not committing to anything other than adhering 4 to a timeline. 5 A motion was made by Commissioner McKee, seconded by Commissioner Pelissier to 6 approve the scheduling of a public hearing to discuss a proposal to move toward a county-wide 7 Franchise agreement for curbside Solid Waste and Recycling Services in the unincorporated 8 areas of Orange County for April 23, 2013 with a discussion of options at the April 9th meeting, 9 with a mail-out of notices to vendors on March 15th 10 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 11 12 13 8. Reports 14 a. Update on Status/Implementation of Addressing and Road-Naming 15 Ordinance 16 The Board received an update report on the status/implementation of the Road Naming 17 and Addressing Ordinance. 18 Orange County Tax Administrator Dwane Brinson reviewed the background of the 19 ordinance. 20 21 In December 2011 the Board of County Commissioners adopted a Road Naming and 22 Addressing Ordinance. Affected areas include those outside municipal jurisdictions. In 23 November 2012 the County's Geographic Information Systems (GIS) operations were 24 delegated under the direction of the Tax Administrator. Additionally, the Land Records/GIS 25 Division Manager became the Address Administrator as outlined in the Ordinance. 26 The Ordinance took effect January 1, 2013, and the Tax Administrator, Address Administrator 27 and County Attorney's Office have been working diligently to create an implementation and 28 enforcement plan. A foremost goal of implementation is meeting with community partners and 29 educating and empowering the public with a soft implementation throughout 2013. This 30 informational presentation is provided as a means to garner BOCC feedback and suggestions 31 that may augment and improve the current implementation and enforcement plan. 32 33 Dwane Brinson said this is a public safety issue regarding EMS getting to the structures. 34 One of the main reasons for the ordinance is that address numbers on roads are out of 35 sequence. The plan is to use 2013 as a soft implementation. By January 2014 the most critical 36 issues should be worked out. There are three steps of compliance and the fourth step is a fine 37 to homeowners. This is a very large project and it is needed. 38 Commissioner Gordon made reference to page 4 and also referred to the August 29th 39 letter and information on the County website. She said she thought the process of 40 implementation was that the County was going to work through the areas of the County 41 systematically, and that the burden of initiating the address changes would not be on the 42 citizens. She asked for clarification on who would have the burden for changing the addresses 43 for those roads with the numbers that are out of sequence, etc. 44 Dwane Brinson said the August letter is now outdated and they have revised the 45 information. He said the burden is totally on the Tax Office/GIS. 46 Commissioner Gordon suggested that the staff change the part of the website dealing 47 with addressing concerns to reflect the revisions. 48 Chair Jacobs said he would like to see the letter before it goes out to the public. He said 49 citizens were not happy with the first letter that went out because it sounded very offensive.