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^ <br /> -2' <br /> Actions contingent upon next years budget; <br /> A) Currently the County employs a secretary for 16 hours a week in — <br /> Emergency Preparedness. Convert this position to full time, and move <br /> it from Hillsborough to the Center Office in Chapel Hill . This person <br /> would work about one half time keeping updated developed emergency plans <br /> and resource lists and the other time providing secretarial assistance . , <br /> to the Emergency Services Department. <br /> B) Add one additional dispatcher to the Communications Center. This will <br /> allow the current Center Director (Bobby Baker) to devote some of his <br /> time to overseeing Emergency Management and Emergency Medical Services <br /> Departments. <br /> C) Officially transfer the 0 Cnunty headquarters for Emergency <br /> Management to the Emorgonov terviues Office in the old Chapel Hill <br /> police Station, <br /> This plan would provide one central point of control for em.ergencies, and <br /> would shift responsibility for developing plans from the existing part,time <br /> coordinator to the Department of Emergency' <br /> mergenc Services. Their progress in developing <br /> plans for particular types of emergencies cou ld be more closely monitored, <br /> � ~ <br /> CONSOLIDATED HUMAN SERVICES <br /> , <br /> TR8N5PORTATlOM SYSTEM <br /> A second item for inclusion in this month's Managers Report is a document <br /> dealing with the proposed Human Service Transportation System. The report goes <br /> into some detail explaining what is proposed, and projects both the expense <br /> and revenue sides of a budget and points out some of the problems yet to be <br /> surmounted. Its suggestion of July 1, 1081 as a starting date is unrealistic <br /> unless the Board of Commissioners 1s willing to make a pre-budget commitment <br /> of funding necessary to implement the program. <br />