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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 27, 2002 Action Agenda Item No. SUBJECT: Orange County Hazard Mitigation Plan DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig N. Benedict, ext. 2592 Draft Resolution of Adoption Nick Waters, 968-2050 Revised Orange County Hazard Mitigation Plan (under TELEPHONE NUMBERS: separate cover) Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane (336)227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider adoption of the Orange County Hazard Mitigation Plan. BACKGROUND: In June of 2001, the North Carolina General Assembly passed Senate Bill 300: An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Emergency Management as recommended by the Legislative Disaster Response and Recovery Commission. Among other provisions, the bill requires that local governments have an approved hazard mitigation plan which includes a community assessment and mitigation strategy in order to receive state public assistance funds (effective for state-declared disasters after August 1, 2002). Participating municipalities would be part of the county-wide plan to aid in coordination and consistency. On February 25, 2002, the first draft of the Orange County Hazard Mitigation Plan was presented at public hearing. The Orange County emergency management and planning departments have been working with a state consultant, Ron Campbell, over the last three months to update and amend the plan in accordance with public and commissioner comment. The towns of Carrboro and Hillsborough have sections in the plan and have provided input; material from Chapel Hill is expected to be integrated into the county plan at a future date. Few substantive changes were made to the plan following the public hearing, the bulk of the changes being organizational and stylistic. The entire body of the plan (excluding the appendices) was reorganized and rewritten to improve flow and readability. The only new information was in the Historical Summary section under"Step 1: Hazard Identification and Analysis", and that information was the dollar value amounts of damaged property due to recent natural disasters. The appendices were reordered and the Town of Hillsborough (Appendix E) submitted new information. A new map was added to Appendix A and a couple of other maps were altered to improve appearance, but no substantive changes were made.