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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 2, 2015 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 6 -m <br />SUBJECT: Approval to Extend the Central Orange Fire Insurance District Boundary from <br />the West Orange Fire Insurance District <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Central Orange Fire Insurance District <br />Map <br />West Orange Fire Insurance District Map <br />Map of Proposed Property Transfer from <br />West Orange Fire Insurance District <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Jason Shepherd, 919 - 245 -6151 <br />1 <br />PURPOSE: To approve the updated Central Orange Insurance District map which has been <br />expanded to include properties from the Efland Fire District that are not currently in the rated <br />insurance district. <br />BACKGROUND: This is the same concept used in the past by other county fire departments to <br />address the insurance concerns for property owners. <br />Certain properties in the southeast area of the Efland Fire District are located greater than six <br />miles from Efland Fire Station 1 located at 3900 U.S. Highway 70 west. As a result, those <br />properties are not in the West Orange Fire Insurance District and are rated as a protection class <br />10. Orange Rural Fire Department Station 1 is located at 206 South Churton Street. This <br />station serves an area of the Central Orange Fire Insurance District which is adjacent to the <br />Efland Fire District. <br />The Fire Marshal's Office has worked with representatives from the Orange Rural Fire <br />Department and the Efland Fire Department to identify the areas not in the rated West Orange <br />Fire Insurance District. Fire Marshal Staff has also worked with Orange County Geographic <br />Information Systems (GIS) to identify those parcels in the Efland Fire District that are not in the <br />West Orange Fire Insurance District. <br />Staff proposes to move these parcels into the Central Orange Fire Insurance District which will <br />allow fifty -six (56) property owners to be included in a rated insurance district and be eligible for <br />insurance premiums. GIS staff has completed a revised map of the Central Orange Fire <br />Insurance District showing those parcels now being added to the Central Orange Fire Insurance <br />District. <br />