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APPROVED 9/8/2011 <br /> MINUTES <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> BUDGET WORK SESSION <br /> May 10, 2011 <br /> 7:OOpm <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners for a Work Session on Tuesday, May 10, <br /> 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Link Government Services Center in Hillsborough, N.C. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Bernadette Pelissier and Commissioners <br /> Alice M. Gordon, Barry Jacobs, Pam Hemminger, Earl McKee and Steve Yuhasz <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Valerie Foushee <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: John Roberts <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Frank Clifton and Clerk to the Board <br /> Donna S. Baker (All other staff inembers will be identified appropriately below) <br /> Chair Pelissier said that Commissioner Foushee was absent because she had a death <br /> in the family. <br /> 1. Report to the BOCC: Phase One Assessment of the Current Fire, Rescue, and <br /> Emerqency Services <br /> Commissioner Gordon asked if this was the same report they received earlier and the <br /> consultant said that there are a number of changes. Commissioner Gordon asked that the <br /> changes be highlighted. <br /> The consultant from MMA Consulting Group, Inc. made a PowerPoint presentation. <br /> Assessment of the Current Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services Delivery System <br /> Orange County, North Carolina <br /> Report Overview <br /> • Emergency Response <br /> — 2009 Fire-Rescue Agencies 10,290 <br /> • 4.7% Fires; 51.1% FR/EMS; 44.1% Other <br /> — 2009 County EMS 10,945 <br /> • Personnel <br /> — Fire — Rescue Departments —434 <br /> — County Emergency Services — 99 <br /> — South Orange Rescue Squad — 82 <br /> • Fleet <br /> — County-wide Emergency vehicles <br /> • Facilities <br /> — Twenty Stations <br /> — 98.5% County roads within 6 miles of existing Station <br /> — 97.8% County roads within 12 minute travel of Station <br /> • Finances <br /> — Fire — Rescue $ 3,382,35 <br /> — County Emergency Services $7,062,571 <br />