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Treasurer’s
Report:
Approved as submitted.
COMMITTEE
REPORTS:
Education:
Becky
Fraser announced that the next scheduled classes are March 26th and
27th. They are the
electrical classes with Bill Clark instructing.
The first day is geared toward residential and the second day is geared
toward commercial. The next meeting
of the Education Committee is on March 13th at 2 p.m. in Roseville.
Tom Trimberger also announced that there are some IAPMO plumbing and
mechanical classes coming to the Sacramento area.
Marianne Oliphant reminded everyone to stay in touch with their
Builders’ Exchange and keep them informed of upcoming education
opportunities.
Inspector
Education, according to Gene Paolini, has two upcoming classes on the matrix of
the building code - March 13th in Sacramento and April 10th
in Rocklin. Contrary to the
announcement in the flyer, Lunch Will Be Provided!
Plan
Review/CRDC:
Kevin Reinertson reported that there was no meeting last month for these
committees and announced that the next meeting is on March 26th at
the Roseville Civic Center. Plan
review committee starts at 12 noon and the CRDC committee starts at 2:30 p.m.
Kevin reported that the cost to go to the ICC code hearings in Nashville
in September is approximately $1,800 each for 7 days or $2,400 for 10 days.
This will be discussed at the next Executive Board meeting.
HCD:
Kevin Reinertson updated us on the rewrite of Chapter 11A.
HCD is coming to the end of phase II and anticipates the March 20th
meeting at their office at 1800 3rd Street will mark the end of this
phase. All who are interested in
receiving an agenda should contact Kevin at
kreinert@hcd.ca.gov.
Kevin also indicated that the Code Enforcement Grant Program has
additional funds available for capital assets to be used for local housing code
enforcement programs. The deadline
for this program is April 4th. If
you are interested in this program, contact Kevin and he will put you in touch
with the right person in his office.
CALBO:
Pete Guisasola announced that Tom Trimberger was elected to the CALBO
Board of Directors for a two-year term. Mike
Rodriguez also announced that Tom received the President’s Award for
Individual Achievement. It appears
that it was “Tom Trimberger Week” at CALBO and we are proud that he is one
of us. Congratulations Tom! Tom
thanked the Association, and especially Sandy Virago with OMG for helping his
campaign for the Board. Sandy was
able to arrange for the executive boardroom on the top floor of the DoubleTree
Hotel in Monterey for the hospitality suite for three nights!
Sandy, thanks for your magic. With
Tom on the Board of CALBO we will certainly be more exposed to the goings on.
In Tom’s own words, “there is no such thing as too much exposure”.
Tom
reported that the program at the ABM was very successful and included an
excellent presentation by Dan Larsen on Disabled Access, a presentation by Tom
on the coming changes in the CEC and a program by private industry on a
comparison between the two codes. Tom
is continuing to work on obtaining comparisons that can be posted to our
Web site. More to follow on this.
Old
Business:
Ken Welch asked for an update on progress with ICC on continuing to
publish the Building Valuation Data. Tom
Trimberger has been in recent contact with ICC and reports that the new
publication will be “Building Safety Journal” and they are saying that they
will continue to publish the data but that it won’t appear until the May/June
issue (the March/April issue is currently being printed).
They don’t know if the data will be the same as the ICBO table we are
all used to or if there will be a combination of data from the three merged
organizations so the numbers may change.
New
Business:
Tom Trimberger indicated that the CALBO Web site has a link to the a very
informative site regarding the PEX issue.
Announcements:
Tom Trimberger says that CALBO is collecting photographs of code
violations so they can compile them for education purposes.
E-mail your photos to
rondarville@aol.com.
Tom
reported that the coordinating council of CBSC had originally indicated that
they would come forward at the June meeting with a preference for Code adoption
(ICC OR NFPA 5000) but has now decided to recommend that each Agency will
indicate their individual preference. It
appears that the earliest that a Code recommendation could come out of this is
September.
If
you want to have your personal information displayed on the SVABO Web site, we
need your authorization. Please
contact OMG at
svabo@omg.com for the form.
Mike
Rodriguez announced that Brett Hale wasn’t with us at the meeting because he
had come out the looser in a car versus bicycle contest – he was on the
bicycle. He’s recovering at home
today but hoping to be back at work next week.
We wish him a speedy recovery.
PROGRAM:
The program consisted
of roundtable discussions on three different topics: Assembly uses (prompted by
two recent catastrophic nightclub fires); Code comparisons between the ICC and
the NFPA 5000; and dust control in woodworking shops.
Dan
Larsen (dan@lp2a.com)
reported out of the assembly uses group and should be contacted for specifics of
their discussion.
Pete
Guisasola (peteg@rocklin.ca.gov)
reported out of the code comparison group and should be contacted for specifics
of this discussion.
Roger
Fuller (fullerr@saccounty.net)
reported out from the dust control group. Roger
has provided a summary of their discussion that you will find at the end of
these minutes. He and Greg Lake
(lake.greg@smfd.ca.gov) from the
Sacramento Metro Fire District would like input on this issue.
CODE
DISCUSSION: Dennis
Mathisen (dmathisen@roseville.ca.us)
presented the issue of a mini-storage facility wanting to locate into an
existing warehouse and use large, metal cargo containers as the storage units.
Steve Foster (stevefoster@egcsd.ca.gov)
discussed issues surrounding shopkeepers installing roll-down, mesh security
doors on the inside of the exit door of the shop.
Tom Trimberger (ttrimberger@saccounty.net)
asked about the Unico Systems high volume heating and air conditioning units
with small ducts surrounded by insulation that are dropped into the stud walls.
Ken Doyle (kdoyle@elkgrovecity.org)
asked about swimming pool fencing/alarm systems, specifically “baby guard”.
Pete Guisasola (peteg@rocklin.ca.gov)
asked for discussion on whether, under the recently adopted NEC, arc fault
interrupters are required on receptacles and outlets or just receptacles.
Nancy Springer directed everyone to the IAEI Web site which has a lot of
information of this nature.
NEXT
MEETING: The
next meeting will be on April 11, 2003 at Butte College.
The program is “Recruitment and the BIT” and will include a tour of
the new facility, an opportunity for Association members to meet the graduating
class, “our future employees” and a discussion hiring practices in our
various jurisdictions.
ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting was
adjourned and “Tom Trimberger Day” AT SVABO officially ended at
approximately 1:30 p.m.
Respectfully
submitted.
Marianne
Oliphant
Secretary
Attachment
COUNTY
OF SACRAMENTO
PUBLIC
WORKS AGENCY
Commercial Plan Review
April
1, 2003
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SVABO
Recording Secretary
Marianne O
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FROM:
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Roger
Fuller
Sac Co
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SUBJECT:
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Cabinet
Shops and Dust Collection
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A round table
discussion was held at the SVABO General Membership meeting on 3/7/03
Members present
included representatives of Sac County Building Inspection and Sac Metro Fire.
Problem
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Small
cabinet shops are out of compliance with building, fire and mechanical codes
for the proper handling and disposal of flammable dust (sawdust) by using
indoor bag and 55-gal drum dust collection systems.
UMC 505.1 requires exhaust for flammable dust to be direct to the
outside and not recirculated to occupied areas.
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The
economic impact for compliance to exterior mounted exhaust collection
cyclone systems on small shops would be sever as the installed cost
typically is $40-60,000 by Fire Dist estimate.
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There
is a lack of Qualified Fire Engineers to evaluate Alternate Methods or Means
of protection. UBC 104.2.8
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Studies
of case history for fires in cabinet shops from insurance reports do not
indicate significant prior losses within cabinet shops due to improper
handling of dusts.
Conflict of Codes.
While
the mechanical code requires exhaust to the outside, the Fire Code allows a
collection system to be contained within the building if explosion venting,
1-hour separation and room exhaust to the outside within 10’ is provided. Is
spark-arresting system mandated?
Discussion
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A
draft proposal was presented authored by Greg Lake suggesting when indoor
collection systems could be allowed.
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Square
foot size of the shop, number of employees, number of dust producing
equipment and whether a shop is considered a production facility were
evaluated.
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Liability
to jurisdictions making considerations of alternate systems needs to be
considered.
Recommendations and Presentation to
Membership
No
recommendations to the membership were agreed to after the 20-minute discussion.
It was suggested that in many cases, judgment may be used.
How many pieces of equipment? How
many employees? Is it production
work that would create a lot of dust or more custom work?
How big is the shop. It takes
a lot of room to do production work. The
code exempts handheld saws and lumberyards- so is the proposed shop
substantially different. It would be
difficult to quantify in terms of # of pieces of equipment or sq. footage of
shop area.
Keep
in mind that many shops “evolve’ and “grow” so the use characteristics
change. Shops that get permits are
perhaps not the worst offenders. There
are a lot of worse shops still in operation.
Some
jurisdictions get permits with business license renewals and check for gross
violations.
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