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• :15-0 6 2 .20 tlpe P.O.Box 337 arrboro 301 West Main Street Carrboro.North Carolina 27510 N.C. (919)968-7700 (919)942-8541 May 19, 1988 Ms. Pamela K. Jones Director of Purchasing 300 W. Tryon St. Hillsborough, N.C. 27278 Dear Ms. Jones, For more than fifteen(15) years the Town of Carrboro has featured a fireworks display at our Annual Fourth of July Celebration held on the Carrboro Town Hall grounds on July 4th. We understand that-a permit to "shoot" a fireworks dis- play mist be received from the Orange County Board of Commissioners as stipu- lated by the NC General Assembly. We submitted to you a similar request last year and the following information proved adequate for the Commissioners to approve our request for this permit. The Town has been working with a professional fireworks company to actually supervise the shooting of the display and this has taken additional time and Board action. Therefore,we would respectfully ask that this matter be brought to the County Commissioners in the most expedient manner.so that we may be as- sured that this process will not endanger the signing of certain contractual documents and the -purchase or binding of additional insurance to cover the specific fireworks activity. I hope that the following information is sufficient for you to forward our permit request to the County Commissioners with a positive recommendation. SITE: The fireworks will be shot over the former Town Hall Ballfield grounds, located behind and adjacent to the Carrboro Town Hall at 301 W. Main Street, Carrboro. This is the same site that has been used in the past. FIREWORKS/DISPLAY SHOOTING: The fireworks display will take place between 9:00pm and 10:00pm on July 4th, 1988. The actual firing will be by a professional pyrotechnic expert with assistance and stand-by/back-up of the Carrboro Fire Department. Only aerial display will be featured. SAFETY: Safety supervision will be provided by the Carrboro Police De- partment and will include both traffic and crowd control. Bar- ricades and roping manned by uniform officers and Town staff will be used-te-deftne- et=backTareas-from-the-firing-stte. INSURANCE: Insurance of a general liability nature in the amount of $1 mil- lion dollars has been confirmed by the Town's independent insurer, the Chapel Hill Insurance Company. This additional insurance above the Town's present policies cannot be binded until thirty (30) days before the actual firing date. However, the Chapel Hill Insurance Company has confirmed the insurance would definitely be available through E&S Facilities, Inc. ,P. O. Box 220905, Charlotte, NC 28222. This insurance will be bound on or after June 4, 1988 after all per- mits and contractual arrangements are finalized. The Town guarantees to provide the required $1 million insurance coverage for the Town.