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Treasurer’s
Report:
Approved as submitted.
COMMITTEE
REPORTS:
Education:
Becky
Fraser reported that the last class, Means of Egress held in September was a
success. Doug Thornberg gave his
usual excellent presentation and the program was
well attended and very well received. Permit Technician I will be
presented on December 3rd and Permit Technician II will be presented
on December 4th. The
second day will be an expanded version of day one and it’s suggested that you
send your more experienced staff to the second day.
The
committee is providing two free passes each to Robert Keefe with Consumnes River
College and Marvin Root with Butte College for each of the classes presented for
the next year. They will monitor the
use of these passes to determine the benefits to the students as well as the
Association with the hopes of continuing the program and perhaps expanding it to
students elsewhere. The next meeting
of the committee will be December 9th at 2 PM in Roseville.
Plan
Review/CRDC:
Kevin Reinertson reported that, while the turnout for last week’s
meeting was small, they had very productive discussions involving panic rooms
and media rooms. They also discussed
draft stops, T-bar ceilings and sprinkler requirements of type III, B occupancy
large buildings, private aircraft hangers, intervening room, occupancy
separation between R3 and U on a levee or a flood zone. Any comments on these or
other issues should go to either Larry Leonard
lleonard@roseville.ca.us
or Kevin
kreinert@hcd.ca.gov.
Kevin
and Larry reported that their time spent in Nashville at the ICC code hearings
was very worthwhile and they both urge anyone who can to become involved in the
code development process since it’s important to have California
participation.
Dan
Larsen, as the chairman of the access compliance committee for CALBO, announced
that their current task is to collect information on the areas of code that are
incorrect in Chapters 11-A and 11-B so they can propose code change clean-up
language. Dan asks that anyone who
knows of problems in this area please email their information to Kevin
kreinert@hcd.ca.gov.
Larry also distributed a handout of the code development process as
presented in Nashville. Contact
Larry
lleonard@roseville.ca.us if
you would like one.
These
meetings are regularly scheduled for the last Wednesday of the month so the next
meeting is October 29th at noon for Plan Review and 2:30 for CRDC in Roseville.
CALBO:
Tom Trimberger reported that CALBO just conducted three regional meetings
throughout California. Among the
items discussed was a CALBO three point action plan: 1) California has not
adopted the NFPA and our code adoption process is not a done deal; 2) CALBO’s
duty to the membership is to make whatever is adopted useful; 3) Long term,
CALBO is supporting an effort to make the code adoption process as apolitical as
possible. Toward these ends, CALBO
will be proactive in working with all participants in this process.
ATC
20 cards should have finally been received by everyone who took the classes back
in October and December of last year. The
cards are being issued by OES but, if you haven’t received yours yet, contact
Tom
ttrimberger@cityofranchocordova.org
and he will put you in touch with the right people.
CTI
Education Week is next week in Concord.
For the first time this year, LP2A is holding “Code Bowl”
on Wednesday evening. CALBO also has
a new handbook on accessibility from Dan Larsen.
It’s updated to the 2001 California Building Code and he’ll be using
it at his CTI class next week. It’s also currently available at CALBO.
Dan’s asking anyone who has suggestions for the next edition to contact
him danl@lp2a.com.
CEC:
Tom Trimberger announced that the final draft of the 2005 energy
standards is available on the CEC Web site.
Old
Business:
None
New
Business:
The nominations committee brought forward the following names for
consideration for next year’s Association officers:
President, Brett Hale; Vice-President, Tom Trimberger; Treasurer,
Marianne Oliphant; Secretary, Larry Leonard.
It’s also suggested that Mike Rodriguez be nominated for Past
President. Elections will be held at
next month’s meeting.
Announcements:
Reminder
- the Installation of Officers and Awards Dinner will be on Saturday, December
13, 2003 at Woodcreek Oaks Golf Course in Roseville.
Everyone
was invited to attend the opening of the new Willdan office in Marysville that
afternoon.
Members
of our Association will be attending a special meeting at Consumnes River
College on October 14, 2003. We’ll
give a presentation to the students similar to the one we recently delivered at
Butte College. If you are interested
in attending, please contact Becky Fraser
bfraser@yubacity.net.
The
City of Roseville will soon be recruiting for a Plans Examiner.
CODE
DISCUSSION: Gene
Paolini asked about actions anyone is taking regarding the emergency structural
requirements recently adopted by the California Building Standards Commission.
Mike Rodriguez suggested that we review the issue and have more
discussion next month. Dan Larsen
suggested that Gene forward the CBSC notice to Sandy for posting on the Web site
so anyone interested could review and comment.
Gene agreed.
Larry
Leonard asked if anyone is allowing PEX for dialysis clinics.
Tom Trimberger indicated that he declines requests to use PEX based on
code language and the fact that OSHPD has declined to authorize its use.
PROGRAM:
The program,
CRAWLSPACE
CONSTRUCTION FOR BUILDINGS LOCATED IN SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD AREAS, was presented
by Gregor Blackburn with FEMA.
NEXT
MEETING:
The next meeting will
be on November 14, 2003 at The Sheepherder Inn in Rancho Cordova.
The program is “California Building Standards Commission WHAT’S GOING
ON NOW???” with Bob Raymen of the
California Building Industry Association (CBIA).
Bob has followed the Commission as well or better than anyone lese in the
State for many years. He’ll
discuss the background and provide a current, up-to-date assessment of the
Commission and what might be happening now that we have a change in
adminstration. RSVPs should be
directed to
Jennifer
Glasson (916) 942-0223
jglasson@cityofranchocordova.
ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting was
adjourned at 1:30 PM.
Respectfully
submitted.
Marianne
Oliphant
Secretary
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