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7 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Public Safety – CIP 1 <br />• EMS Substation and Morgue – p. 53 CIP 2 <br />– Efland Substation Replaces Station #4 on Mt. Willing Road 3 <br />• 24 Hour Substation 4 <br />• 5,000 sq. ft.; Two Ambulance Bays; Sleeping Quarters for Four Staff 5 <br />• PV Panels – 61 kW System with 11-13 Year Payback 6 <br />• Total Cost - $2.3 million 7 <br />– Morgue Project 8 <br />• Revised Cost from $1.2 million to $575,000 9 <br />• Provides Fully Functional 1,000 sq. ft. Facility 10 <br />• Attached to the Substation for Shared Site Work and Infrastructure 11 <br />– Public Safety – CIP 12 <br /> 13 <br />Dinah Jeffries said she is proud of her team and Orange County, and appreciates 14 <br />everything that the County has done for her department. She said her staff is tired, but 15 <br />dedicated, and Orange County has one of the best Emergency Services departments in the 16 <br />state, and maybe in the U.S. She said her staff is thankful to the Orange County Board of 17 <br />Commissioners. 18 <br />Chair Rich said she has been working closely with EMS on Covid-19, and she thanked 19 <br />the department for its great efforts. She said this is EMS week. 20 <br />Commissioner Dorosin referred to page 220, and said the organizational chart shows 21 <br />one community paramedic. He asked if the other one listed elsewhere in the organization. 22 <br />Travis Myren said this is probably due to the timing of the publication. He resumed the 23 <br />PowerPoint presentation: 24 <br /> 25 <br />Public Safety 26 <br />• Sheriff – page 331 27 <br />• Total expenditure budget - $14,803,705 28 <br />– Net County Cost Increase of $727,614 over FY2019-20 Budget 29 <br />• Classification and Compression Work in FY2019-20-chart 30 <br /> 31 <br />Public Safety 32 <br />• Sheriff – page 371- Sheriff’s Office Calls for Service (chart) 33 <br /> 34 <br />Public Safety 35 <br />• Sheriff – page 371- Average Scene Time (chart) 36 <br /> 37 <br />Public Safety 38 <br />• Sheriff – page 371- Response Time (chart) 39 <br /> 40 <br />Commissioner Price referred to the slide with the projections of number of calls, and 41 <br />asked if there is a current update. 42 <br />Travis Myren said he can get that information. He said on an annualized basis there 43 <br />would be 13,000 calls. He said this goes from July 2019 to early May 2020. 44 <br />Commissioner Price asked if the calls are around 30,000 now. 45 <br />Travis Myren said the high twenties. 46 <br />Commissioner Price asked if there is a reason for the increase in response time. 47 <br />Travis Myren said it is about stable. 48 <br />Sheriff Blackwood said there are many factors that go into this, but the main reason is 49 <br />that his department is spending a lot more time with investigative measures at the scene, due to 50