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14 1 Craig Benedict said the areas in blue are in the area of the new joint urban services 2 boundary between Orange County and Hillsborough. He said what is not shown is the joint 3 planning ETJ expansion area that was to be Hillsborough's jurisdiction. He said this will include 4 all of the areas surrounding the blue and extending to the ETJ and the Hillsborough corporate 5 limits. 6 Commissioner Rich said she thought water was just being done for the economic 7 development districts. 8 Craig Benedict said the majority of the economic development areas are in the south 9 side, but this is the County land use plan and it includes the urban growth areas. 10 Commissioner Rich wanted to know if there was an inter -local agreement with Durham. 11 Craig Benedict said there is an inter -local agreement with Mebane and Durham, but not 12 with Hillsborough. 13 Commissioner Rich asked how frequently staff updates these agreements. 14 Craig Benedict said Mebane's started in 2003 and was updated in July 2012. He said 15 the Durham agreement goes back to 2011 and will be updated soon due to land use issues and 16 infrastructure costs. He said now that the ETJ swaps have been determined he has it on his 17 work plan to move toward infrastructure agreement. He said there is money within the capital 18 improvement program to help Hillsborough in some of the economic development zones with 19 water and sewer. 20 Commissioner Rich said it sounds like the updates are not on any specific schedule. 21 Craig Benedict said there was a delay with Mebane, but he said there should be 22 dialogue on an annual basis. 23 Chair Jacobs said the Efland Mebane Small Area Plan recommended re- zoning the 24 Morinaga area to commercial. He said this study was not finished until 2009, and all of this had 25 to be changed and incorporated. 26 Craig Benedict said the small area planning process identifies growth potential for 27 certain areas and then comes up with a sequential plan, but this takes years to unfold. He said 28 in the case of the Mebane Efland small area plan, the recommendations have been unfolded 29 over the years. He said the economic development zones for the towns are being marketed 30 more regularly and he believes the dialogue will continue on an annual basis. 31 32 5. Emergency Communications 33 Jim Groves said when this proposal was made to Bonnie Hammersley; he saw this as a 34 two part process. He reviewed the following information from the memo in Attachment A: 35 36 In establishing a communications capability, he said that it would fall into two (2) 37 categories: 1) robust communications capability between each commissioner and their 38 constituents, the County Manager, the Emergency Coordination Center (ECC), and County 39 staff(as needed), and 2) the capability to conduct public meetings, including public access, 40 when the BOCC may not be able to gather in a single facility or under the same roof (due to 41 any reason). 42 43 With Category 1, the group felt that improving the BOCC's capability to use their personal 44 devices (phones) and email would be the best option. By using their email addresses, OCES 45 could push out Situation Reports on the Emergency or Disaster to keep them informed and able 46 to answer questions by their constituents. OCES can also revise the elected official's disaster 47 guideline to provide more detail on how and whom to communicate with during emergencies 48 and disasters. To enable the BOCC to make calls, we propose that each Commissioner and 49 County Manager's staff be registered with the Government Emergency Telecommunications 50 Service (GETS), which provides a free priority mechanism to make Iandline calls. Basically this