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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 17, 2015 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 6 -d <br />SUBJECT: Approval of Expanded East Alamance Fire Insurance District Boundary <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />East Alamance Fire Insurance District Map Jason Shepherd, 919 - 245 -6151 <br />PURPOSE: To approve the East Alamance Fire Insurance District Map which has been <br />expanded to include properties within six road miles of Mebane Fire Department Station 3 <br />located at 1469 Mebane Oaks Road in Alamance County. <br />BACKGROUND: The City of Mebane has acquired property for a new fire station #3 located at <br />1469 Mebane Oaks Road, Mebane, N.C. to enhance fire response in the Mebane Oaks Road <br />area of Mebane. This new station will also respond in the East Alamance Fire Insurance District <br />in Orange County. Property owners in the Orange County area of the East Alamance district <br />were not eligible to be in the rated insurance district because they were more than six road <br />miles from Mebane Fire Station 1 located on Washington Street in downtown Mebane. <br />Mebane Fire Station 3 has now been completed and is currently awaiting certification from the <br />North Carolina Department of Insurance, Office of the State Fire Marshal. The insurance <br />boundaries for station 3 need to be extended to six road miles from the fire station. Expansion <br />of the insurance boundaries will allow 53 property owners in the southern geographical section <br />of the East Alamance Fire Insurance district to be included in the insurance district and take <br />advantage of lower fire insurance rates. <br />Emergency Services Staff has worked with the staff from Orange County Information <br />Technologies- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to ensure an accurate revised map of the <br />East Alamance Fire Insurance District. The attached map has been reviewed and approved by <br />staff from the North Carolina Department of Insurance, Office of the State Fire Marshal Ratings <br />and Inspections Division. Upon approval by the Board of County Commissioners, the Office of <br />the State Fire Marshal can extend the fire insurance district to six road miles from Mebane Fire <br />Department Station 3. <br />An analysis was conducted by staff to determine the number of properties affected by the <br />insurance district expansion. There are 53 properties that are currently outside of the insurance <br />