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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Mechanical/Plumbing Advisory Board - 04/09/2015 REGULAR MEETING Mechanical/Plumbing Advisory Board April 9,2015 MINUTES I. Call to Order: 2:06pm It. Roll Call Present:Bob Forbes,Jared Merdes, Tom Watson, David Wallace, Mike Wanzer, Clinton Bailey, Gilbert Canales, Ronald Klepac, Stacy Gallagher Absent:James 1vfokrj-exc used(out of town) Staff: Gene Delauro, Yvette Dodd, Michelle McC7ollum, Bill Green, James Pendleton 111. Approval of Absences:August 14,2014 Regular Meeting. Absenses: Billy Largin, Julio Sanchez and Stacy Gallagher, Billy and Julio no longer on board. Motion to approve absences-Ronald Klepac-, David Wallace second that motion. Motion carried:9-0 !V. Approval of Minutes:August 14,2014,Regular Meeting. Jared Merdes made a motion to approve minutes. Clinton Bailey"second the motion. Motion carried.- 9-0 K Introduction of new Board Members: Jared Merdes-new board member-is a mechanical engineer, spent 6years on the FAB as the Vice- chair-mechanical is discipline, Ronald Klepac is a returning board member, 2"d tc�rn2-mi,,chanical-divciplille. d Gilbert Canales is from HarborPlumbing, 2" term. Clinton Bailey-Lamar plumbing, 3d term, Mike Wanzer-air conditioning contractor, returning board member-served as Chairman-.years, Stacy Gallagher-home builder, current board member. Tom Watson-not af .filiated-new board member. Bob Forbes-new member, air conditioning contractor, David Wallace-real estate broker and commercial builder, new member. VI. Discussion and possible action regarding election of a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson. Clinton Bailey made a motion to nominate Mike Wanzer as Chairman of the Mechanical/Plumbing AB. Ronald Klepac second the motion. Stacy Gallagher made a motion to nominate Clinton Bailey Vice Chairman ofMechanicallPlumbing AB: David Wallace second the motion. Motion carried,,-910 VII. Discuss and designate ICC voting members. 2018 Codes are being voted on. G Delaw-o explained the ICC online voting process and the 12 votes that the city has been given for voting, The MPAB has been given 2 votes, 7'he board needs to designate 2 voting members for the online voting. Voting members will be responsible for voting on these new issues. Mike Wanzer wants to divide the votes between the Mechanical and Plumbing. Motion made by David Wallace to nominate the Chairman and Vice Chairman as the MPAB voting members. Second.-Stacy Gallagher. Motion carried:9-0 VIII. Discussion and possible action regarding the repair requirement for existing PVC natural gas piping. G Delauro explained that the City of CC Gas Dept sent out memos to customers regarding the requirement to replace avisting PVC natural gas piping verses repairing. ne Gas Department took it upon themselves to dictate this to their customers. This requirement is not in an ordinance or a code, it cannot be dictated to the customers. Customers should be allowed to "repair"their PVC pipe and not be required to replace it. Any changes made to requirement must come through the building official at Development Services. The board agreed that ifthe gas department wants to make changes, their department will need to lobby for this change. No changes will be made or memorandums be sent to customers by the gas department unless Development Services, Building Official is notified. IV Discussion and possible action regarding a timeline for the adoption of the 2015 International Codes and the scheduling workshops to review the significant changes and proposed local amendments. Gene Delauro stated the current timeline is the 2015 International 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; 6 year cycles. We are proposing workshops. M Wanzer does agree that the amendments need to be revised and amount of volume in the pages should be dwindled down. Board decided on June I 01h,July 1P and August 12'h, 2015. K 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. Fire review- new employee that only does fire plan review. Building reviewers were reviewing the plans for fire compliance with little background and the fire inspector was not accepting at their end. This new fire review should improve the overall process. ii.Implementation of new INFOR/Bentley software and requirement for electronic plan review. August 1"is the live date for then so are program-we will go from HTE to INFOR. Bentley is an electronic plan review software that eliminates paper-based submissions. 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. You will have to be a registered user with a valid email address. Ifyou come in with paper plans after I August, 2015®we will scan them and hand them back to 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 We are having an independent fee study done by an outside source to determine the cost of our fees based on our current operations. We maybe charging too much for somethings and not enough for others,- we will see a balancing of fees once the study is complete. Also, the Budget Department will dictate how much of the General Fund will be used for DS costs. XI. Public Comments:None XII. Identify items to be placed on next agenda D?31-well issues and locking caps. ne health department may need to be included in our meeting. X111. Adjourn 335pm P *0 Officer residi g fficer