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14 1 Commissioner porosin said when the Board makes the final decision on budget the tax 2 rates will be set and may be different. 3 Michael Talbert said yes. 4 Michael Talbert said the current rates are just department requests at this point. 5 Commissioner Pelissier referenced item 12 on page 4, which states that the county will 6 provide the departments with standard financial forms, and she asked what this means. 7 Michael Talbert said that information is presented now and it may not all end up in the 8 summary. He offered to pass that information along to the Board. 9 Commissioner Pelissier said she would like to see all of the information. 10 Frank Clifton said, in the past, the fire departments made formal presentations and only 11 the departments that requested an increase presented this. 12 Chair Jacobs said this has been a long process and harmonious relationships have 13 been created. He thanked Commissioner McKee, Frank Clifton, Michael Talbert, and John 14 Roberts. 15 Chair Jacobs said he was speaking to a rural firefighter in New Mexico who said there is 16 a shortage of firefighters willing to serve in that community. He expressed appreciation that our 17 community has so many people willing to serve. 18 Commissioner Gordon referenced paragraph 5 on North Chatham's Insurance rating 19 and asked about the difference in language. 20 John Roberts said he preferred the original language, because it required the 21 department to take reasonable action but the department preferred the updated language on 22 "striving" to maintain a certain rating. 23 Michael Talbert said North Chatham has no assets in Orange County and does not 24 anticipate any future assets in Orange County. He said the feeling was that the other language 25 did not paint them into a corner. He said this department has tremendous resources that are 26 brought to the fire. 27 A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon seconded by Commissioner McKee with 28 revised agreement with North Chatham, to approve new Fire Protection and Emergency 29 Services Agreements for Three (3) New Fire Service Districts with the Town of Chapel Hill, 30 Town of Carrboro and North Chatham Fire Department, and authorize the Chair to sign. 31 32 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 33 34 8. Reports 35 36 a. Oranqe County Bus and Rail Investment Plan Implementation 37 The Board received an update from Triangle Transit (TT) on the status of the Orange 38 County Bus and Rail Investment Plan (OCBRIP) and its implementation. 39 David King introduced staff who would be speaking— Mark Ahrenson, from Metropolitan 40 Planning Organization (MPO); Wib Gulley; JohnTallmadge; and Sondra Freeman. 41 Commissioner Gordon thanked everyone for coming and recognized Wib Gulley, who 42 will be retiring in June. 43 Wib Gulley said this is not a quiet period since a lot of work is going on to translate 44 plans into reality. He said there are many technical and legal steps to get funding in place and 45 to implement the plan. He thanked John Roberts for all of his work. The half cent transit sales 46 tax will be affective April 1St, and it will probably be July before revenue is seen. He said the 47 same is true with the 7 dollar vehicle tax. 48 He mentioned the 3 dollar regional tax and said there was apparently a legislative 49 oversight that needs to be corrected before the tax can be implemented in 2 of the 3 counties.