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BOARD OF ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (BOCC) GOALS — 2015 UPDATE FOR DISCUSSIONS PURPOSES Emergency Services • Provides prompt competent response to medical and traumatic emergencies for all County Residents and visitors, and supports public safety responders during significant incidents. • The Fire Marshal Division promotes the wellbeing of all county residents by preserving life, property, and environmental resources through education, prevention, investigation and fire code enforcement. • The 9 -1 -1 Communications Division provides the vital link between our community and all emergency service /public safety personnel by receiving and dispatching calls for service. • The Emergency Management Division coordinates with partner agencies to ensure that Orange County is prepared to respond to and recover from all natural, technological, and man -made emergencies in order to reduce the loss of life and property through an all- hazards emergency management program of prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery throughout Orange County. Priority 4: Review services to identify and North Carolina State Cooperative Extension protect `safety net' programs and services. • Expanded Food and Nutrition Education m safer homes and less toxic landfills. • Coordinated emergency storm debris management planning and operations with Towns and NC -DOT. Emergency Services • EMS Division worked with the Orange County Health Department and two Municipal Police Departments to initiate the Police Naloxone Initiative to combat increasing numbers of narcotic overdoses in Orange County. • EMS and Health will be teaming up again in 2015 to expand the program to the Sheriffs Department and the Town of Hillsborough. North Carolina State Cooperative Extension • In 2014, over 4,772 youth and adults were engaged in this program.