REDWOOD EMPIRE CHAPTER
OF THE
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF BUILDING OFFICIALS
Minutes of the Meeting of
Wednesday June 5, 2002
1. Call to order
President
Chris Warrick, County of Mendocino called the meeting to order at 12:03 P.M. at
The Quail Inn at the Oakmont Golf Center.
2. Self Introductions
Pres. Warrick welcomed 15
members to the meeting.
3. Approval of Minutes
The minutes were accepted
as corrected and emailed. (www.reicbo.org).
M/s/Passed to accept the minutes as distributed.
4. Program
The program was presented
by our own Dave Martinez, Chief Building Official, City of Santa Rosa. He
attended the annual code change meeting of the NFPA. He was a voting member of a
panel and a speaker on other code changes.
He elaborated on the process of presenting a supporting or opposing view on a
particular comment on a proposal. He informed us of the admittance of members to
the voting area and the delegation of others to the gallery. The NFPA has
approximately 75,000 members. One of the codes that is being considered is the
2000 edition of the NFPA 5000 Building Code. The NFPA 5000 references 275 other
documents such as the ANSI Standards, Uniform Plumbing Code, National Fuel Gas
Standard and the ASTM fuel gas book just to mention a few. He mentioned how the
chapters of the building code reference other documents and those reference
documents are the majority of the code requirements. For example if you are
researching exits, you will find seven different definitions of exits and three
different definitions of exit discharge. All of the classification of buildings
and occupancies will change, so, we will have to get used to a new process of
classifying structures and occupancies. There are references to interior
environment systems, and how we measure them, including the mechanical system,
plumbing system, and electrical system. Each one will refer you to several other
documents. The other reference documents may be produced by a number of outside
organizations, such as IAPMO, ANSI, ACI or any other nationally recognized
organizations that produces standards or writes codes. He spoke of one volume
covering all of the proposed changes and another volume that contains the
comments on the proposed changes and a third volume with the recommended action.
The process seemed quite complicated and laborious. We thank Dave for the
complete and comprehensive report on the code change process from NFPA.
5. Officers and Committee Reports
a. Treasurer
Tres.Willer, City of American Canyon, gave the balances as follows; the checking
account balance is $1015.45, the business account is $2680.79, the education
fund is $3039.13 and the CD is $11189.79. The treasurer has sent out a reminder
to the members for those who have not paid their dues. Please remember to pay
your dues at the next meeting. I am sending a reminder to all of the recipients
of this email minutes that if your dues are not paid by August you will be
removed from the membership list, email list of the minutes and any other
mailing from REICBO.
b. Secretary
Nothing to report.
edhenry@yahoo.com.
c. Vice President
Vice President Mary Jane Fagalde, County of Lake, announced that we now have
speakers for the coming three months. Next month the speaker will be from the
Regional Water Quality Control Board. The following month will be a
representative from Chemco, which treats shakes and shingles for fire resistive
rating.
d. President
President Warrick has nothing to report.
e. Executive Committee
Nothing to report.
f. Education Committee
Nothing to report.
g. Code Development Committee
Don Morton reported that the committee is moving along very slowly and will
need additional submittals from the members to complete the study.
h. ICBO Committee
Nothing to Report.
i. CALBO Liaison
Nothing to report.
6. Correspondence and Announcements
A survey was received from CALBO requesting a reply concerning the type of
offerings in which we would participate. I would like a response be email (edhenry@yahoo.com)
as to what type of courses and seminars you would like to see offered for the
coming years training. CTI is going to be putting on seminars and classes at
more locations around the state this year and could put on programs at local
venues. They are concerned with what type of seminars and classes we would
support . So send me your ideas.
Guy Bachelis reminded everyone about the Redwood Empire Chapter of the National
Green Building Council Conference and Expo.
Tony DeSousa announced his retirement as of July 31, 2002. He brought some
applications for the position and indicated that the application is also on the
website which you can find on the Redwood Chapter webpage (www.reicbo.org).
(Secretary's Note) I for one am going to miss his smiling face and helpful
input. "Tony, have a great retirement."
7. Legislative News
Nothing to report.
8. Nominating Committee
Nothing to report.
9. Old Business
The bylaws committee has temporarily stalled and we are awaiting the report from
Cindy Heitzman, City of St. Helena.
10. New Business
President Warrick brought up the idea of establishing a category on our website
for job listing in all jurisdictions within our membership. The members agreed
and directed Larry Jones, City of Santa Rosa, to investigate the possibility and
the work involved with setting up and maintaining a job listing section on our
website. M/s/Passed to applaud Larry Jones for the job he has taken on to
design, run and maintain the Redwood Empire Chapter ICBO website. The group
directed the secretary to send a letter to all of the neighboring chapters with
our website address and to invite them to send us their website address so we
can link our chapter website to theirs and theirs to ours. The letter sent to
the other chapters is attached to this email minutes. Guy Bachelis elaborated on
the Redwood Empire Chapter of the National Green Building Council, what and who
is membership, and what each company has to go through to be a member.
11. Code Issues
President Warrick asked the chapter if anyone has had any experience with
wine caves. Chris was informed by the state that the division of mines and
tunnels cover the boring and the drilling of the access. He has required utility
permits for the work completed for electrical, plumbing and mechanical. He
received quite a few helpful, and some not so helpful, hints from the members.
The consensus was that the actual tunneling and boring is exempt from building
code and is under the jurisdiction of the division of mines, but, the shotcrete
and steel placement in the cave is covered under the building code and should
require permits and comply with all other applicable sections of the code.
12. Adjournment
M/s/Passed to adjourn at 1:59 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by Ed Henry