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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Building Code Board Of Appeals - 03/19/2015 REGULAR MEETING Building Code Board of Appeals Thursday,March 19,2015 MINUTES I. Call to Order 1:30p. . 11. Roll Call Present:Robert Knowles, Ray Jones,Randy Farrar and Chuck Anastos Absent:Steven McClure, Debbie Schibi,Ram Munoz-excused Staff:Building Official-Gene Delauro, Yvette Dodd,Michelle McCollum and Bill Green 111. Approval of Absences: January 16,2014 Regular Meeting Chuck Anastos made a motion to approve the absences. Robert Knowles second that motion.­Rqr- +aacc card. The motion carried 4-0. IV. Approval of Minutes: January 16,2014 Regular Meeting,July 18, 2014 and August 25,2014- Special Called Randy Ferrar addressed the board to notify of discrepancy on the bottom of page I-should read"require a copy of third party insurance before certificate of occupancy." Chuck Anastos made a motion to approve the minutes with the correction in wording for the January 16, 2014 regular meeting minutes and Robert Knowles second the motion.Motion carried 4-0. The minutes of July 18 and August 25 of Special Called were reviewed. Motion to approve-Chuck Anastos, an Ferrar second. Motion carried 4-0 V. Introduction of New Board Members Mr.Anastos introduce everyone. Bill Green- Consultant- (Bill will help with revisions to the building code and adopting the 2015 Building Codes) Yvette Dodd-Floodplain Manager Gene Delauro-Building Ojficial Michelle McCollum-Mgmt Asst.-New Board Secretary Randy Farrar-Has been on the board for a year;home builder and inspector Robert Knowles-with AEP substation and infrastructure(MP Board) Chuck An Ray Jones-Fulton Construction Building VI. Discussion and possible action regarding election of a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson. Ray Jones motioned that Chuck Anastos be nominated as the Chairperson. Robert Knowles,second the motion. Yhe motion carried 3-0. Ray Jones nominated Ram Munozfor Vice-Chairperson and Randy Ferrar seconded the motion. The motion carried 4-0. VII. Discuss and designate ICC Voting members. Chuck Anastos received a letter from the City regarding serving the as an ICC voting member Gene-ICC previously proposed changes, but you had to be in the room to vote.ICC has now offered electronic voting and the City was given 12 votes. Out of the 12 votes 2 votes go to the each advisory Board. 2-Fire-2-DS-2-HBA-2AGC Anastos®should all 12 members get together and discuss before rendering the vote. This would help someone that is not very versed in the Code to get educated on the changes without having to read the entire code book. Page 1 of 3 Amendments are for the 2018 code since the 2015 codes are already published. Ray Jones motion Randy Farrar and Chuck Anastos represent the Board as ICC voting members. Second from Mr. Knowles.Motion carried 4-0. VIII. Discussion and possible action regarding the requirement fora Registered Accessibility Specialist Inspection upon project completion. Chuck Anastos ked for explanation regarding this position. 68.521 pectio and 68.53 Corrective Modificationsfollowing Inspections outlines requirements that are supposed to be taking place for projects over 50k a contractor or developer must retain the services of a Registered Accessibility Specialist. This is a person that the contractor or developer hires, not the city, This person will ensure that the proper accessibility provisions are incorporated in the plan and inspect the work to ensure the work is completed Yhe inspection requirement must be done within the P anniversary of the completion of construction. If deficiencies are identified, then the RAS may grant them sufficient time to remedy the deficiencies or corrections up to I year. Robert Knowles wanted more clarification in the "process"that this specialist would be involved in. Gene Delauro mentioned that any changes made would have to be in an ordinance approved by council, Gene also mentioned that this issue was to provide the board with information only-no actions taken on this matter. Yvette-I think we should also get a deficiency report that shows how many buildings are inaccessible at inspections to show to the Committee if we are king for an annual CO until resolved. Gene-projects under 50,000-the City examines the plans and conduct the inspections;are in the process of getting someone certified, DC. Discussion and possible action regarding a timeline for the adoption of the 2015 International Codes and the scheduling of workshops to review the significant changes and proposed local amendments. Gene Delauro stated the current timeline is the 2015 Internal Code service and the 2014 NEC electrical code will go to council this year in November and revised Chapter 14 local amendments to the codes. Gene wants all the boards to have a discussion with input regarding the amendments. We are going from 2009 to 2015; 6year cycles. We are proposing workshops, We have about 100 pages of local amendments. We would like to omit some of the local amendments. Gene-local amendments don't really add to public safety; like to omit most of the local amendments and make them for geographical differences in the code based on our location. Chuck-It may be helpful to have the City pay a consultant that maybe wrote the code so the City staffcan learn along with the contractors and tradespeople, Secondly I like the idea of the amendments.I like the idea of building the buildings to the Code and not tricking them with additional amendments. Robert Knowles-agree with the amendment issues as well someone of them need to go and some need to stay.As he recalls back when the 2009 code where considered Joe Elliot was ChiefMP Inspector at that time. Randy Ferrar-as a Board our function is to grant variances from the code and feels that he should be a part of all the talks,Jones and Knowles agree. Should be taken as a whole with all of the 2015 Codes. Robert Knowles-Take it to the other Boards, but workshops makes sense if they don't want to do it that way then members from these Boards can hear reasoning. Page 2 of 3 X. Building Official's Report A. Department Updates i. Implementation of new department policies for floodplain and fire review: Gene- Introduced Yvette as new Flood Plain Manager. FEMA audited us and we are working on our deficiencies. Important to have affordable insurance. Fire review- new employee that only does fire plan review, Building reviewers where reviewing the plans for fire compliance with little background and the fire inspector was not accepting at the end Contractor had to make changes at the end to please the fire department. This new fire review should improve the overall process. ii. Implementation of new Infor/Bentley software and requirement for electronic plan review. August 3rd is go live date for the new program. All business will be done electronically. With review being electronic and the comments or revisions also done electronically. Workshops prior to going live to demonstrate the software and show them how to use it. Training will be done over summer. Gene-If you come in with paper we will scan them and hand them backfor you, there may be a small fee, B. Permit Recap Gene- the volume is the same as it was last year. We will be budgeting with the down cycle in mind. Chuck Anastos® if everyone anticipates a slow down this may not be the time to increase fees. Gene-we may be charging too much for some things and not enough for others and we need to balance.Also, the Budget Department will dictate how much of the General Fund will be used for DS costs. Ray Jones-what do most Cities use the fees to cover costs? Gene-most usually use some general fund to cover the operation so we are not totally dependent on fees. Chuck can we get that ratio at our next meeting? XI. Public Comments No one here. Chuck recommended moving number 11 to 3 or 4. XII. Identify any items to be placed on the next agenda Randy request notice of the meeting please send the minutes from the previous meeting. XIII. Adj ourn 2:52 M Presiding Officer Page 3 of 3