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a. a. Establishment of Three (3) New Fire Service Districts and Approve New Boundaries for Three (3) Existing Fire Insurance Districts — South Orange Fire Service District, Greater Chapel Hill Fire Service District and Southern Triangle Fire Service District The Board will approved the establishment of the three new Fire Service Districts —the South Orange Fire Service District, the Greater Chapel Hill Fire Service District and the Southern Triangle Fire Service District; and approve new boundaries for three existing fire insurance districts — South Orange Fire Insurance District, Greater Chapel Hill Fire Insurance District and North Chatham Fire Insurance District. Michael Talbert noted two corrections to abstract: 1. Page two — map is no longer attached; 2. Page 3- should read that greater Chapel Hill service district will get a revenue increase. He said the action tonight is to establish three new fire service districts and re-do the boundaries for three existing fire insurance districts. He said that when this item was first brought to the work group, the purpose in mind was to have the insurance and fire service districts be one and the same. He said that further investigation showed that this was not possible with the North Chatham fire service district because it spanned two different fire protection districts. He said the board held a public hearing on April 17 with 45 people in the audience and comments were generally in favor of moving forward with the fire service districts as outlined. He reviewed actions taken and said the town of Carrboro has agreed to provide service in the South Orange Fire Insurance District, and Chapel Hill has agreed to provide service in the greater Chapel Hill Service District. He said the approval by the North Chatham Fire Department will likely come in the first ten days of May and the maps for the insurance districts have been approved by the State Fire Marshall's office, but it will take four to six months to gain approval for the change in the ISO ratings to become effective. He said the recommendation from the manager is to approve the three resolutions establishing the three new fire service districts. He said Commissioner Gordon handed out a revised recommendation and the county attorney said that it is acceptable and achieves same purpose as the original. Commissioner Gordon requested that her email questions and comments regarding this item be entered into the record as follows: Questions and Comments from Commissioner Gordon -Agenda Item 7a -April 23, 2013 This item deals with the establishment of three new fire service districts and approval of new boundaries for three existing fire insurance districts. My questions and comments are given below. I. MAPS The actions proposed would be clearer if each action in the agenda packet had a matching map. Right now there are six actions but only four maps, and sometimes it appears that the maps listed in the agenda materials are not the same as the maps actually included in the agenda packet. Given below is the listing of the Attachments, followed by a description of the maps and resolutions. If you compare the descriptions of the four attachments with the descriptions of the maps and resolutions, it appears that the South Orange and Greater Chapel Hill fire