Meeting Minutes -April 2, 2008



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MINUTES OF April 2, 2008 

CALL TO ORDER

President Dennis Corbett called April 2, 2008 meeting of the Napa/Solano Chapter of ICC to order.  The meeting was held at the Paradise Valley Golf Club in Vacaville.  There were 42 in attendance.  

ROLL CALL OF OFFICERS

President Dennis Corbett-present; Vice President Darrell Mayes-present;
Secretary Dan Kavarian-present; Treasurer Gene Ashdown-present

INTRODUCTIONS: Self-introductions were made by attendees  

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES:
March minutes were amended by Dan Kavarian for an incorrect amount under the CALBO section.      

Motion made to approve minutes as amended.  Approved  

SPEAKER OF THE EVENING:

Brain Samuelson, Energy Commission, spoke on the requirements for residential furnace changeouts and duct sealing & testing under the 2005 Energy Code.  He started by giving the number for the Energy Dept. 24 hr. hotline 1-800-772-3300 for questions on the energy effort.  Brain explained that ducts in homes lose an average about 30% of conditioned air into the attic space and that’s why we do duct seal testing.  It should take a HERS rater about 2hrs to test an average house.  Brain also talked about the required forms that are needed on every job.  He said that a CF-6R is required on every job from the contractor and a CR-4R is required when there is testing or a verification required from the HERS rater.  He then spoke on the requirements for sampling testing of 1in 7 replacements that a contractor performs no matter where they were done.  The contractor would give the HERS rater a list of seven homes and the rater will pick one to test and according to Brain that house could be anywhere in California and the building inspector can ask for the location of the other six houses on the list.  So if that house that is tested passes than all seven would pass.  But if that one fails he will test a second house and if it passes and the first house gets retested and passes the remainder of the houses pass.  If the second house fails than all of the houses get tested.  Brain talked about the use of the options where HERS rating is not required for duct testing but still required for TXV verification.  The options are on Table 8-3 of the Residential manual if you want to check.  Brain also gave the name of Karen Nicely the new contact person with the CSLB for Building Officials.  Her number is 707-887-9191.  

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dennis congratulated Tom Garcia for being elected to a two year term on the CALBO board at the ABM.
 

CORRESPONDENCE
Dennis handed out a resolution that ICC is circulating through Congress for approval of the Community Building Code Administration Grant Act of 2007.  This grant would be provided to building departments for training and additional resources vital to building departments through matching funds and grants.  ICC is requesting all Chapters to contact their state representatives with support of this bill.  Steve Jensen is in Washington to discuss this bill with state representatives.  ICC has sent a package around to all chapter Presidents with the resolution and a letter to be sent to Washington for support.  A motion was made a seconded to send the letter and resolution to Washington, all approved.  There is also a link on the ICC website that will generate a letter of approval that will be sent to the representatives’.

 COMMITTEE REPORTS

Steve Lamb said that he has received all of the Education information from David Cliché and he asked if anyone had any ideas about seminars to contact him.  

Dennis said that at the CALBO ABM there was a board up with the entire list of educators for the last year and Tom had sent a PDF showing that a good number of them were from this chapter.

Budget report given and approved.  

Tom Garcia said that the ABM was very successful despite the low turnout.  He also said that Safety week is coming up May 4th-10th; Ed week coming in Modesto and the “Do it Right Wall” is on the CALBO website and can be rented out to building departments.

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Dan Kavarian said that they are working on two details each for foundation systems and stair systems, when they are ready they will be sent out the Building Officials for comments.  Once the details are approved they will be put on the web site.  Dan also said that it will be a long process but it will get done.  

OLD BUSINESS

Dennis said Tom had sent him the information for IRS name change from ICBO to ICC and he forwards it to the IRS.

Dennis said that we had talked about listing our interpretations on a website and he was going to try to start over the next month.


NEW BUSINESS

Dennis brought up the meeting that HCD had to discuss the possible adoption of the IRC for California.  Dan Kavarian went to the meeting and he said that there was a good variety of people.  HCD wanted to setup focus groups to break down the IRC and compare it to the CBC to see if it would clear up some of the problems that have been occurring.  They broke down the focus groups into three sections: nonstructural, structural, and plumbing & mechanical.  Each group has leader and it is their job to keep the dialogue going and keeping track of the comments. The time frame is April 30th to have all of the comments in so HCD can make an educated judgment on whether to adopt the whole code or portions.  

Tom Garcia talked about putting together a Green Building committee to come up with a program that we can take to the City Council and Board of Supervisor in our area.

Dennis talked about using Building Officials for appeal boards as is done in Vacaville that was referenced in the November minutes.  There was great discussion on this matter everything from the great knowledge to impartiality.  This is something to think about when updating your board.

Tom brought up the code requirement for a covered loading zone for dentist offices. He wanted to know how everybody felt about using an accessible parking space that would be right in front of the office as the loading area.  It was suggested that if you put anything in the way of that space you would lose the use of the space.   Dennis told everybody if they had any further ideas about the loading zone they could discuss them with Tom.

INSPECTORS TIME

Harvey asked about the new code requirement for sleeving plastic pipe in a slab or passing through a concrete.  There was no clear answer to the question.  It was suggested to have some kind of detail showing the sleeving.  The detail committee will work on this.

Isaac talked about contacting HERS raters if you ever have any questions about their report or any testing questions you might have.

INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES

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ADJOURNMENT

There was a motion to adjourn and President Corbett adjourned the meeting.  The next meeting will be May 7th at Paradise Valley Golf Club.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Dan Kavarian




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