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Treasurer’s
Report:
Tom Trimberger was absent AGAIN. His
recent appointment as Interim Building Official for the new City of Rancho
Cordova is keeping him too busy to attend. However,
that didn’t slow the membership from unanimously approving a $5 fine.
COMMITTEE
REPORTS:
Education:
The
next class has been confirmed as Means of Egress I/II with Doug Thornburg for
September 10th and 11th. They
are still tentatively looking at Permit Technician I for December 3rd
and Permit Technician II for December 4th.
The
next meeting will be on July 31, 2003 at 2 PM in Roseville.
Elmer
Larsen recommended that the Association look into a program to teach public
relations to inspectors. This
suggestion was met with great enthusiasm and Rick Reid volunteered to contact
the Dale Carnegie organization to see what might be available for us.
Plan
Review/CRDC:
Larry Leonard (Plan Review) reported that the June 25th
meeting was interesting and the e-mail format for generating topics is very
effective. He will be working on
standardizing a protocol for e-mail submittals.
Larry will also be bringing up the subject of R3 conversion to B
occupancy. Kevin Reinertson (CRDC)
indicated that there isn’t anything to report out of the last month’s
meeting since he and Larry were the only attendees.
He will be sending out an agenda for the July 30th meeting
that will include six topics for discussion.
The next meeting is July 30th at noon for plan review and 2:30
for CRDC.
HCD:
They
are continuing with the Chapter 11A rewrite and are also working on the plumbing
and mechanical codes which will be advanced by October 1.
The PEX piping issue is still on hold.
The individual jurisdictions can still approve it as an alternative
material on a case-by-case basis.
CALBO:
Pete
Guisasola reported on AB1633 which has become a two year bill and won’t be
considered in the near future, and on the recent and future CBSC meetings.
The July 2 meeting saw the Code Change Committee vote 3 to 2 to recommend
the adoption of the NFPA 5000, NFPA 1 and the structural provisions of the IRC
to the full commission which meets on July 16th.
CEC:
Elaine
Hebert reported that the CDs she had discussed at the last Association meeting
are actually DVDs. They contain
valuable training videos prepared by the Energy Commission.
Contact Elaine
Ehebert@energy.state.ca.us
if
you need a copy. She also reports
that the CEC is in the development process for the 2005 changes to the energy
code. They hope to have the proposed
language on the Web site by the end of this month.
There will be a public meeting sometime in August or September.
Old
Business:
None
New
Business:
Mike Rodriguez reports that the fundraising efforts of Monterey Bay
Chapter of ICC was able to refund $97.42 of our contribution to them as the host
of the recent CALBO ABM. Mike
recommends that we earmark these funds for the upcoming CALBO ABM to be hosted
by the Yosemite Chapter.
Announcements:
Jim
Siemers with the City of Lodi asks any jurisdiction who has a permit technician
to send a copy of the job description to him
jsiemers@lodi.gov.
Dan
Larsen reports that he has researched two paint products that purport to provide
fire protection and discovered that the testing laboratory claims on both are
not valid. He urges anyone who is
dealing with products of this nature to research their claims very carefully.
Code
Discussion: Brett
Hale is asking for input from jurisdictions regarding their handling of the
permitting of docks
brett.hale@yolocounty.org.
PROGRAM:
Bill Carey led the program,
“Managing Master Plans”. A wide
range of issues were presented and discussed by jurisdictions and homebuilders
alike. The consensus of the group is
to strive for commonality between jurisdictions.
From the discussion, Bill will create list of desires, wants and needs
along with a list of plan review inspection issues.
This is a prelude to further discussion either at a committee level or at
subsequent Association meetings. Follow-up
will be presented at next month’s meeting and direction determined for future
discussion.
NEXT
MEETING:
The next meeting will
be on August 8, 2003 at the new Simpson Strong-Tie facility in Stockton.
The program includes on overview of Simpson’s company history and
training programs along with an opportunity for discussion of your field issues.
We will also have a tour of Simpson’s new facility!
RSVPs should be directed to Olga
at (800) 999-5099 or e-mail
opsomostithis@strongtie.com.
ADJOURNMENT:
The
meeting was adjourned at approximately noon.
Respectfully
submitted,
Marianne Oliphant
Secretary
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