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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 15, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5 - ~ <br />SUBJECT: Endorsement of Orange County's Hosting of Citizen Corps Council Conference <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />None <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Jack Ball, ext 3030 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider endorsing a request from the Governor's Office that Orange County <br />host a statewide conference for Citizen Corps Councils (CCC) and related volunteer programs <br />to be held in October 2005. <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County Emergency Management (OCEM) has been asked by the <br />Governor's Office to host a statewide conference for Citizen Corps Councils and related <br />volunteer programs in early October 2005. Orange County staff were asked to do this because <br />of the County's active and well managed Citizen Corps Council. The Governor's Office is <br />offering $62,000 from the 2004 Citizen Corps grant to the Ccunty to pay for the expenses. The <br />Citizen Corps Council is an oversight body for related programs such as Volunteers in Police <br />Service, Fire Corps, Neighborhood Watch, Medical Reserve Corps, and Community Emergency <br />Response Teams. Orange County has an active Citizen Carps Council with Medical Reserve <br />Carp program and Community Emergency Response Team Program, <br />This two day event will draw approximately 250 attendees to Orange County with approximately <br />100 persons staying overnight. The funding will be used to pay for facility rental, lunch, and <br />motel rooms for attendees, Staff are exploring the possibility of using the Friday Center for the <br />event, and will coordinate to ensure that Friday Center staff handle recyclable materials in an <br />appropriate manner (this has been a BOCC paint of emphasis for previous Friday Center- <br />hosted County events). <br />Governor's Office staff and North Carolina Emergency Management staff will provide 90 percent <br />of the organizational responsibility for this event, with Orange County Emergency Management <br />being the preliminary logistics coordinator, There will be minimal cost to the County for this <br />event, but positive impacts on both the County's image and local economy are anticipated. <br />