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18 <br /> Slide #19 <br /> Fee Study Review - Fire Marshal <br /> Staff Recommendations <br /> Budget Office conducting peer review of budgeted recovery levels of peer departments. Not all peers <br /> break out Fire Marshall in public budget documents. There was some notable variances of recovery rates <br /> in other counties.Alamance budgeted minimal cost recovery, while Mecklenburg budgeted 100%+ cost <br /> recovery. Wide variance on how other entities viewed cost recovery for this service. <br /> Staff recommends increasing fees for 15t and 2nd reinspection to add more cost to failed inspections. <br /> Request Board input on weighing different factors, Manager will set policy recovery target in Budget <br /> based on Board deliberation. <br /> Staff previously did not charge Orange County Schools, based on difficulty of receiving payment. Budget <br /> staff confirmed that CHCCS was charged by towns. Should this practice be reversed to maintain equity <br /> between the districts? MGT model assumes revenue is received from OCS going forward. <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> 19 NORTH CAROLINA <br /> Commissioner Carter asked if the Orange County Schools lack of payment has been going <br /> on for a long time. <br /> Kirk Vaughn said it has. <br /> Commissioner Bedford asked how much money is involved with the schools' non- <br /> payment. <br /> Kirk Vaughn said he couldn't recall exactly, but it's between a few thousand and tens of <br /> thousands of dollars. He said it's not the biggest program for the county. <br /> Chair Hamilton observed that taxpayer money would go to paying the inspection fee at <br /> Orange County Schools. <br /> Kirk Vaughn said the schools must be inspected multiple times. He said it's not the biggest <br /> program and not the biggest concern. <br /> Commissioner Carter said that the plan is to build new schools and asked how much Fire <br /> Marshal work will be driven by future construction. <br /> Kirk Vaughn described the various types of inspections that could occur. <br /> Commissioner Bedford said if it's not tens of thousands of dollars then it is less of a priority <br /> to her. She said one way to recover the cost is to hold back some of the payment to the schools. <br />