Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 6, 2012 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 5-m <br /> SUBJECT: Approval of Expanded East Alamance Fire Insurance District Map <br /> DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> East Alamance Insurance District Map F. R. Montes de Oca, 919-245-6140 <br /> David Sykes, 919-245-6125 <br /> PURPOSE: To approve the expansion of the East Alamance Fire Insurance District. <br /> BACKGROUND: As fire departments throughout the State continue striving to improve fire <br /> protection services, many positive changes have occurred. These changes have allowed the <br /> North Carolina Department of Insurance to implement regulations to extend fire insurance <br /> boundaries from five road miles to six road miles from a fire station. This action allows property <br /> owners who are not currently covered within the five mile district to be eligible for lower <br /> insurance premiums. Property owners in an area five road miles or less from their respective <br /> fire station are eligible for fire insurance ratings of Class 9 or lower. Upon Board and NC <br /> Department of Insurance approval, property owners between five and six road miles from their <br /> respective fire station will be eligible to receive a class 9E rating. Property owners beyond six <br /> miles from their respective fire station will remain in a class 10 rate, meaning they will pay <br /> insurance rates as being unprotected. Without this extension and approval, property owners <br /> between five and six road miles of their respective fire station would not be eligible to take <br /> advantage of the fire insurance rate reduction. <br /> Emergency Services staff has worked with the fire chiefs in Efland and Mebane and with <br /> Orange County Information Technologies — Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to ensure <br /> accuracy of the extended map as attached. The map has been reviewed and approved by the <br /> Office of the State Fire Marshal, Ratings and Inspection Division. There were no capital <br /> expenditures associated with the expansion of the East Alamance Insurance District, and <br /> therefore it was not reviewed by the Emergency Services Workgroup. Upon approval by the <br /> Board of Commissioners, the map will be delivered to the Office of the State Fire Marshal to <br /> officially extend the East Alamance insurance district from five miles to a six mile district. <br />