Minutes

Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, September 14, 2006

Location: Montgomery County Fire Academy (MCFA)

President Gentile called meeting to order at 9:05 a.m.

The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance

Present:

Jeff Gentile, President

Kevin Pezzano, Secretary

Glenn Holt, Treasurer

Board of Directors

Robert Loeper

Robert Neely

Stan Altzman

Richard Dillon

Mark Zadroga

Absent

Brian Gallagher, Vice President

PRESIDENT’S REPORT – Jeff Gentile

Fall Conference

Jeff reported that the Fall Conference brochure and registration forms had been mailed out and were available at the back of the room. The seating is limited so please register ASAP.

Web site

The minutes from the June quarterly meeting are posted on the web site. If you haven’t read them yet please take a moment to do so. Minutes will not be mailed out to members but will be available on the web. The minutes from this meeting should be posted within a week or two of the meeting.

Membership fee

Members will be voting on the proposed $15.00 increase in PACO membership fee. PACO membership fees cover the cost of membership to PACO as well as PABCO. The Board is proposing the increase in membership fee to help defer the costs of the joint membership costs with the Pennsylvania Association of Building Code Officials (PABCO) and the expense of the administrative assistant. This is the first increase in membership fee since the inception of PACO over ten (10) years ago.

UCC Updates

Be prepared to enforce the 2006 codes come January 1, 2007. Lee Milligan reported that Act 13 clearly states that the codes have to be readopted at the local level however, the Secretary Department of Labor & Industry states that if you legally adopted the 2003 ordinance you do not have to readopt the 2006.

To be more specific if your ordinance generically states that you adopted the PA Construction Code you do not have to readopt. If your ordinance specifically stated that you adopt the 2003 International Residential Code, the 2003 International Building Code, the 2003 Plumbing Code etc. then you will have to readopt.

We strongly suggest that you verify this with your solicitor.

Certifications

Just a reminder that the grandfather status for the residential building, plumbing, and electrical inspector etc. classification expires April 7, 2007 and the commercial inspector classification expire in 2009. Be prepared to have all certifications by that time.

Good & Welfare policy

It was decided at the Board Meeting to adopt a Good & Welfare policy. The policy calls for a card or flowers being sent and/or a donation being made to any PACO member who is ill, been in an accident, had an operation etc. The success of this policy requires the assistances of all PACO members to notify either a Board Member or officer of anyone who falls into this category.

Our best wishes and quick recovery goes out to Don Forry who was in a terrible biking accident. He continues to make great progress in his recovery. A donation of $300 was made to the Don Forry fund to help Don and his family with the additional costs for his recovery. This is the maximum amount of any donation without the prior approval of the members.

ICC Conference

The conference, being held in Orlando, Florida, starts September 17th. Jeff Gentile, Kevin Pezzano, Bob Loeper and Lee Milligan will be representing PACO.

Motion was made to approve the minutes from the June meeting. Approved

TREASURER’S REPORT – Glenn Holt

Glenn reported that there is:
$27,438.00 in the checking account:
8,118.00 in the money market account
$3,739.64 in the one year CD
TOTAL* $37,425.62
*This figure does not include the 6-month CD which was unavailable at the time of the meeting

Glenn reported that he has been meeting with the Audit Committee. They are currently working on establishing Rules & Regulations for the committee. The rules will include how many times the audit committee will meet and how many times the committee will review the books in addition to the main audit conducted by PACO’s account. They also plan on developing a budget, which will require membership approval prior to adopting.

Jeff thanked everyone who has volunteered for the committee.

Motion made to accept the Treasurer’s report. Approved

MEMBERSHIP – Kevin Pezzano

Kevin reported that currently there are 239 active members. As Jeff stated earlier the Board is proposing to increase PACO membership dues by $15.00 in 2007.

The Board is also proposing to change the membership renewal date from March 1st of each year to January 1st of each year. This will eliminate processing membership renewals and the Spring Forum registrations at the same time. The increase in dues and new renewal date, if approved, will require a By-law change. Copies of the proposed By-laws changes were available at the meeting.

The Board will be conducting an outreach program to solicit Townships that aren’t PACO members in an effort to increase membership.

Jeff added that all renewing PACO members in 2007 would be receiving PACO membership cards.

EDUCATION – Kevin Pezzano

FALL CONFERENCE

Kevin reported that the Fall Conference brochure and registration have been mailed out to all members. The dates for the conference are November 1st, 2nd and 3rd and will be held at the Montgomery County Fire Academy in Conshohocken, PA. This three-day event will cover the updates to the 2006 IRC, IBC and the IFC. Pricing is $150.00 for one day, $300.00 for two days and $350.00 for all three days. Classes are limited to 50 people per class so hurry and register. Registration deadline is October 18th. The Fall Forum registration form is available on the PACO web site.

SPRING FORUM

Kevin reported that the location for the Spring Forum is tentatively scheduled at the Best Western in Towamicin Township, Montgomery County. The topics for the Spring Forum are undecided at this time and any suggestions would be welcomed. You can e-mail your suggestions to Kevin at HYPERLINK "mailto:kpezzano@plymouthtownship.org" kpezzano@plymouthtownship.org

Immediately following today’s meeting will be a presentation on Tyvek.

A round table discussion is scheduled for the December meeting.

CODE REVIEW – Bob Loeper

ICC Conference

Bob reported that PABCO should be recognized at the ICC annual meeting as the Pennsylvania Statewide Professional Chapter.

PABCO

Bob reported that all PACO members should be receiving e-mails from PABCO – Bob Buddenbohn. If you are not receiving Bob’s e-mails please notify a Board member or officer. The e-mails contain very important information regarding proposed legislative changes and updates to the UCC. You can also order 2006 ICC books through PABCO.

PABCO is continuing to build a coalition with the PA Builders Association through discussions involving code interpretations and other topics of mutual concern.

On Tuesday, September 13th Lee Milligan served as Chairmen of the Government Affairs Committee. In this capacity he testified in front of the House Labor Relations and Governor’s Affairs on the introduction of the Carbon Monoxide Detector bill. Lee outlined PABCO’s position of not being in favor of introducing isolated amendments to the UCC code. He stressed the idea that these types of issues should be presented at the national level to invoke change to the national code.

Also discussions of forming a Disaster Response – formulation of groups through out the state that would be available to assist different regions in case of a disaster whether it be flooding, fires etc.

REGION VII – Lee Milligan

Lee reported that the next Region VII meeting would be held at the ICC Conference in Orlando. Some of the topics to be discussed are minor by-law changes to the structure of Region 7.

ICC was negotiating with IAPMO to consolidate the Plumbing and Mechanical Code into one ICC Code. Attempts have been successfully killed due to IAMPO’s position on code changes and committee membership.

Lee proposed and made a motion for PACO to support Steve Jones from New Jersey for is run for the position of Board of Director for ICC.

Motion made and accepted to support Steve Jones

NOMINATIONS

Elections will be held at the next quarterly meeting to be held in December. Nominations will be accepted for the positions of three (3) Board of Directors and all officers. Any interested parties should send a note which includes their name, Township affiliation and the desired position to Lee Milligan at Upper Providence Township, P.O Box 406, Oaks, PA 19456 or e-mail at HYPERLINK "mailto:Lee@uprov-Montco.org" Lee@uprov-Montco.org.

Currently Glenn Holt has submitted his bid for Vice President

VOTING

Vote was taken to increase the membership fee by $15.00. Motion made and accepted

Vote was taken to change the membership renewal date from March 1st of each year to January 1st of each year. This would require a by-law change to amended

Article 2, Section 3 - Membership Dues - Changes to Subsection B & C

By-laws now read: Due shall be due March 1st of each calendar year. If new members come into the association the last three months of the dues year the membership fee shall also cover the following full year’s dues. The Treasurer will bill each member of the association once a year. Dues must be paid before March 1st of each calendar year to maintain membership.

By-laws will be amended to read: Due shall be due on January 1st of each calendar year. If new members come into the association the last three months of the dues year the membership fee shall also cover the following full year’s dues. The Treasurer will bill each member of the association once a year by October 1st of the ending membership year. Dues must be paid by January 1st of each calendar year to maintain membership.

Motion to approve and accepted

OLD BUSINESS

Jeff discussed John Water’s proposal for the formation of a local Damage Assessment Team or Disaster Response. This team of code officials would be available to assist neighboring Township, Boroughs or other local municipalities in the event of floods, hurricanes or other types of catastrophic damage.

NEW BUSINESS

It was reported that there were problems downloading the ICC Code books from the ICC website. The page numbers did not print out on the corresponding page.

Training for the quarterly meeting – Mr. Christopher Gayle – Tyvek Instructor.

Motion to adjourn – second 9:40 a.m.

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