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Capital Project Ordinances - Jackson Volunteer Fire Department Water Tank
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INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patrick Niland, County Manager's Office, Deputy County Manager, 704-283-3630
ACTION REQUESTED:
Adopt Capital Project Ordinances 259C, 288G, and 300B.
PRIOR BOARD ACTIONS:
None.
BACKGROUND:
The Jackson Fire Department is the only fire district in Union County that does not have access to a municipal water source. This provides challenges for both firefighting and training purposes. Typar has reached out to the Jackson Fire Department about donating a large 200,000-gallon ground tank. This tank was used for fire flow as part of a development in Indian Trail; this development has since upsized a waterline and no longer has the need for this storage tank. This tank would allow Jackson to have a source of water to fill their apparatus in the Jackson District. Currently, they need to leave their district to refill their trucks. While the tank is no cost, there is some expense in moving the tank from its current location to the Jackson Fire Department. The department does not currently have the resources to fund this expense. Being that this will be a benefit to Union County residents, staff is proposing to allocate funding in the amount of $275,000 to the Jackson Fire Department to allow them to relocate the tank. The funding will come from three existing capital projects. Two of these projects are no longer needed and will be closed out after the transfer is made. The third project is a fire training tower. The long-term plan is to have three regional training towers throughout the county; the first tower is currently in the final stages of design. This capital project has enough funding to fund that tower and will be able to shift some funding to the Jackson Water Tank. The 2nd and 3rd fire training towers will require additional capital in future years' budgets.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Funding is available in the General County CIP fund from the following ...
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