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l <br />1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. Y -A <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 24, 1992 <br />SUBJECT: Educational Program for Conventional Septic System Owners <br />DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2411 <br />1) Draft Cover Memorandum <br />2) Draft Brochure (Under separate cover) TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br />3) Estimated Budget Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill - 968 -4501 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: To inform the Board of Commissioners of the information to be sent <br />to homeowners who have a conventional septic system. <br />BACKGROUND: Pursuant to the commissioners' request that homeowners with <br />conventional septic systems receive information about the function <br />and maintenance of their systems, the environmental health staff <br />have adapted information published by the National small Flows <br />Clearinghouse and have reviewed several successive drafts with the <br />Manager which have been further revised using the able assistance <br />of the Management Analyst, Sharron Siler. We are still awaiting <br />permission from the publisher to use several drawings which we <br />have adapted to local circumstances. <br />Kermit Lloyd has analyzed his tax listings to produce a mailing <br />list that targets conventional septic system homeowners with 95% <br />confidence. Therefore, a few homeowners will receive the brochure <br />who do not actually have a septic system, and we may not reach a <br />very small number of septic system owners who have not been <br />identified by Kermit's process. However, the vast majority of the <br />15,000 septic system owners will be contacted. <br />Also, attached for your information is the estimated budget for <br />the cost of this educational initiative. The expenses will be <br />covered within the overall health department budget. <br />The Board of Health has reviewed these documents in draft form and <br />gave the health director latitude to incorporate any feedback from <br />the Commissioners. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The manager endorses the attached information and requests <br />feedback from the commissioners. <br />