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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 29, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~~,_ <br />SUBJECT: Cedar Grove Fire Department Trustees <br />DEPARTMENT: Emergency Management PUBLIC HEARING: (YlN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Request for Appoin#ment <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Mike Tapp, ext 3030 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 7328181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To appoint two citizens of the Cedar Grove Fire District to serve as Trustees <br />to the Cedar Grove Volunteer Fire Department <br />BACKGROUND: A# the recent annual meeting of the Cedar Grove Volunteer Fire <br />Department, two Trustees were nominated, to replace two Trustees of the Cedar Grove <br />Volunteer Fire Department. <br />Taxes collected for fire protection go into a fire tax fund administered by the County <br />Commissioners. A three. member fire protection commission, known as Trustees, <br />appointed by the County Commissioners, may adminster these funds once the County <br />distributes monies to the respective fire departments for which they serve. Trustees <br />serve at the discretion of and under the County Commissioners. The County <br />Commissioners make all final decisions and set the tax rate for a fire district The <br />Trustees of a fire district, in actual practice, are advisory to the County Commissioners <br />only and have no authority to establish or change tax rates for fire protection. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: No financial impact will be incurred by this action. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve the request <br />and appoint these citizens as Trustees to the Cedar Grove Volunteer Fire Department. <br />