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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda $ ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Item No My- Meeting Date: June 3 , 1996 SUBJECT: Fire Inspection Program Fee Schedule ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT Emergency Management/ PUBLIC HEARING YES NO x County Manager ------------------------------- BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED YES NO x -------------------------------- ------------------------------- ATTACHMENT(S) - INFORMATION CONTACT Nick Waters, ext 3030 Proposed Fee Schedule Rod Visser, ext 2300 Current Fee Schedule TELEPHONE NUMBER Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Mebane 227-2031 Durham 688-7331 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PURPOSE: To consider revising the current Orange County fee schedule for State-mandated fire inspections. BACKGROUND: At the March 6, 1996 regular meeting of the Orange County Board of Commissioners, staff presented a report to the Board on the current fee schedule associated with the County' s State-mandated fire inspection program. The Board' s direction to staff was to develop a revised fee schedule that is more fair than the existing schedule, while maintaining a structure that will recoup the costs of the fire inspection program. The Board considered a proposal for a revised schedule of fire inspection fees at their May 14 and May 16 meetings . The Board' s comments indicated that the cost of inspecting County and school buildings should be borne by the County, and not be included in the costs of the fire inspection program to be recouped from fees collected for fire inspections of other facilities required to be inspected. Staff also revised the previous proposal to address concerns that lower fees be applied to the smallest facilities that must be inspected. The Fire Marshal estimates that about 15-2001 of the effort in the fire inspection program is directed to County and school buildings . Staff have therefore revised the proposed fire inspection fee schedule for 1996-97 to reduce by about 20o the fee revenue that would be produced by inspections of other facilities. Staff also suggests splitting the lowest square footage level included in the previous proposal so that instead of one fee for facilities sized between 0-2, 500 square feet, there are categories of 0-1, 000 square feet and 1, 001-2, 500 square feet .