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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 16, 2004 <br />Action Agenda r <br />Item No. T <br />SUBJECT: Approval of East Alamance Fire District Contract <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Contract <br />2. 08/25/78 County Manager Letter <br />3. 08/15/78 Minutes Approving <br />Extension of the East Alamance Fire <br />District <br />4. Map and Legal Description <br />5. 06/30/03 Contract - City of Mebane <br />and Efland Volunteer Fire Company <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Nick Waters, ext. 3030 <br />Mike Tapp, 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 approve a contract between Orange County and the City of Mebane related to <br />the City's provision of fire protection services in the East Alamance Fire District. <br />BACKGROUND: Staff recommends that the Board of Commissioners approve the <br />accompanying contract between the County and the City of Mebane related to the East <br />Alamance Fire District. This purely administrative action will have no effect on the delivery of <br />fire protection services to citizens and properties in the East Alamance Fire District, nor on the <br />costs for providing those services or the tax rate required to produce the revenue to pay for <br />those services. It represents what is in effect a housekeeping detail that will continue <br />arrangements that have existed for a quarter of a century. Formal approval of the contract will <br />assist the City of Mebane as it prepares for the triennial inspection of the East Alamance District <br />by the North Carolina Department of Insurance, <br />In 1978, the boundary of the East Alamance Fire District was extended to cover a portion of the <br />western section of Orange County. This area is within four (4) miles of the Mebane Fire <br />Department and was not in a rated insurance district, Efland Volunteer Fire Company, <br />Incorporated, had identified this as an area outside their rated fire insurance district and <br />contracted with Mebane Fire Department to provide fire protection services in that area. That <br />contract has been in place since that time and a new contract was signed between Efland <br />Volunteer Fire Company, Incorporated and the City of Mebane in June 2003. <br />The East Alamance Fire District is scheduled to be inspected in March, 2004 by the North <br />Carolina Department of Insurance for insurance rating purposes. Recently, staff from the North <br />Carolina Department of Insurance met with representatives from the Mebane Fire Department