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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 19, 2008 <br />Action Agenda, <br />Item No. to <br />SUBJECT: Orange County Fire Insurance District Boundary Maps <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Services PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Twelve Insurance District Maps (Under <br />Separate Cover) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Frank Montes de Oca, 968 -2050 <br />Mike Tapp, 968 -2050 <br />PURPOSE: To approve fire insurance district boundary maps in Orange County for twelve rural <br />fire districts. <br />BACKGROUND: As fire departments throughout the State continue to strive to improve fire <br />protection services, many positive changes have occurred. These changes have allowed the <br />North Carolina Department of Insurance to implement regulations to extend fire insurance <br />district boundaries from five road miles to six road miles from a fire department. This action will <br />allow property owners who are not currently covered within the five mile district to be eligible for <br />lower fire insurance premiums. Property owners in an area five road miles or less from their <br />respective fire department are eligible for fire insurance ratings of Class 9 or lower. Upon Board <br />and Department of Insurance approval, property owners between five road miles and six road <br />miles from their respective fire departments will be eligible to receive a Class 9 rating. Property <br />owners beyond six miles from their respective fire station will remain in a Class 10 rate, <br />meaning that they will pay insurance rates as being unprotected. Without this extension and <br />approval, property owners between five and six road miles of their respective fire station would <br />not be eligible to take advantage of the fire insurance rate reduction. <br />Staff has worked with Tax Assessor /Land Records staff to produce the maps and extend the <br />attached fire insurance district maps utilizing GIS software. The maps have been reviewed and <br />approved by staff from the Office of the State Fire Marshal, Ratings and Inspections Division. <br />Upon the Board of Commissioners' approval, the maps will be delivered to the Office of the <br />State Fire Marshal to officially extend the fire insurance districts in Orange County from five mile <br />to six mile districts. <br />The attached district maps submitted for approval include all of the rural fire districts listed <br />below: <br />