December 2018 Minutes

Minutes of the December 13, 2018 Meeting

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 President Tim called the business meeting to order at 2:00 PM.

 Approval of Minutes:

Motion made by – Tom Berger

Supported by – Jim Albus

All ayes – motion pass

Approval of Treasurer’s Report:

Motion made by – Scott Cope

Supported by – Gerry McCallum

All ayes- Motion Pass

Old Business:

• Thank you to Orion Township for their effort in organizing the meeting

• Tim Mrozowski MSU - retiring

• Website maintenance – Motion to approve $250 for annual maintenance

  • Motion by: Scott Cope

  • Supported By: George Kilpatrick

• Introduction of Nomination Committee Chairperson

• Candidates for program coordinator

New Business:

Candidates for Program Chairperson

Jim Albus, Nomination Committee Chairperson: Report from the nomination committee

President: Tim Berger

            Nominations

a)    Stated names of the person nominated for each position

b)    Asked for nominations from the floor for each position

c)     Ask for motion, second and vote for each position

Motion By:  Mike Viazanko

Supported By:  Tom Berger

President: Tim Berger:

Introduced Past President Gerry McCallum, for the installation of officers.

Gerry McCallum:

1)    Installation of Officers

a)    Program Chairperson TBD

b)    Secretary/Treasurer Dave Goodloe sworn in

c)     Vice President: Larry Butler sworn in

d)    President: Tim Hollis sworn in

Outgoing President Tim Berger:

            Presents OCBOA Chapter Plaque to new president

New President: Tim Hollis

            Presents outgoing President with plaque

New President: Tim Hollis

            Addresses the membership

Close Meeting:

Motion made by: Jeff Wren

Supported by: Gerry McCallum

All ayes - Motion

Presentation: N/A

Credit:  NA

Instructors: NA

Location:

            Canterbury Court

            Kings Court Castle

            Lake Orion, MI 48362

Respectfully Submitted

Larry Butler

Secretary/Treasurer

November 2018 Minutes

Minutes of the November 29, 2018 Meeting

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President Tim called the business meeting to order at 12:45 PM.

Approval of Minutes:

Motion made by – Tom Berger

Supported by – Dave Herriman

All ayes – motion Passed

Approval of Treasurer’s Report:

Motion made by – Tom Berger

Supported by – Mike Viazanko

All ayes- Motion Passed

Old Business:

• Candidates for Program Chairperson….Tim Berger

• Annual MADCAD Fees Mentioned…..Larry Butler

• December Christmas Meeting and Kings Court Castle Christmas venue - Larry

• Discussed OCBOA Checking Account……. Larry

• Round Table Discussion on Skylights enforcement …..Mike Viazanko

New Business:

Candidates for Program Chairperson

Close Meeting:

Motion made by

Supported by

All ayes - Motion

Presentation: Round Table

Credit:  NA

Instructors: NA

Respectfully Submitted

Larry Butler

Secretary/Treasurer

October 2018 Minutes

Minutes of the October 25, 2018 Meeting

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President Tim called the business meeting to order at 2:14 PM.

Approval of Minutes:

Motion made by – Scott Cope

Supported by – David Goodloe             

All ayes – motion passed

Approval of Treasurer’s Report:

Motion made by - Bruce Eck

Supported by – Jeff Wren

All ayes- motion passed

Old Business:

• President Tim discussed adjusting bylaws to allow adjusting membership fees Jerry motion/ Tom B support.

• Annual MADCAD Fees

• December Christmas Meeting and Christmas venue - Larry

New Business:

Candidates for Program Chairperson

Close Meeting:

Motion made by Bruce Eck

Supported by Jeff Wren

All ayes - Motion passed.

Presentation: Local Damage Assessment Workshop Approved, Class #CP-17-00097, 4 Hours Credit (2hr. Administrative, 2hr. Communication)

Instructors: Mike Loper PEM and Rob Seely PEM

Respectfully Submitted

Larry Butler

Secretary/Treasurer

September 2018 Minutes

Minutes of the September 13, 2018 Meeting

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President Tim called the business meeting to order at 2:14 PM.

Approval of Minutes:

Motion made by – Bruce Eck

Supported by – Jeff Wren                     

All ayes – motion passed

Approval of Treasurer’s Report:

Motion made by - Bruce Eck

Supported by – Jeff Wren

All ayes- motion passed

Old Business:

• President Tim discussed membership dues.

• Annual MADCAD Fees

• December Christmas Luncheon

New Business:

• October 25th  Damage Assessment refresher, Vice Pres. Tim CEUs to be awarded

• Nov 29th next meeting

Close Meeting:

Motion made by Bruce Eck

Supported by Jeff Wren

All ayes - motion passed.

Presentation: Local Damage Assessment Workshop Approved, Class #CP-17-00097, 4 Hours Credit (2 hr. Administrative, 2 hr. Communication)

Instructors: Mike Loper PEM and Rob Seely PEM

Respectfully Submitted

Larry Butler

Secretary/Treasurer

June 2018 Minutes

Minutes of the June 21st, 2018 Meeting

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President Tim Berger called the business meeting to order at 1:09 PM.

Board Members present: Tim Berger, Tim Hollis, Larry Butler, Dave Goodloe, Jeff Wren, Gerry McCallum, Mike Viazanko, Tammy Murray, Dave Herriman, Tom Berger, Jim Albus, Jerome Hanna,

Approval of May Minutes:

Motion made by – Dave Herriman

Supported by – Jeff Wren         

All ayes – motion passed

Approval of February Treasurer’s Report:

Motion made by- Gerry McCallum

Supported by – Mike Viazanko

All ayes- motion passed

Old Business:.

The Energy Code discussion from a previous meeting was brought up again and was decided to be tabled for a future meeting when more members are present to discuss it.

New Business:

• Frank Haywood informed President Berger that he was resigning from the position of Vice-President because his work position has changed. David Goodloe was voted in as new Program Chairperson at the last meeting. The following Board members were voted to move up to new positions and were sworn in by past-president Gerry McCallum:

Tim Hollis – Vice President

Larry Butler – Secretary/Treasurer

David Goodloe – Program Chairperson

• A motion was made by Tom Berger and supported by David Goodloe to suspend our monthly meetings until September 13th, 2018.  All ayes – motion passed.

• Out next meeting will be September 13th, 2018, and will be a class presented by ICC titled “2015 IBC Special Inspections”.

Close Meeting:

Motion made by Jeff Wren

Supported by Mike Viazanko

All  ayes - motion passed.

Presentation: A round-table discussion on pool safety covers. It was the consensus of the members present that if a code approved safety cover is installed an additional fence would not be required.

Respectfully submitted,

Tim Hollis

Vice President

May 2018 Minutes

Minutes of the May 24th, 2018 Meeting

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President Tim Berger called the business meeting to order at 12:45 PM.

Members present: Tim Berger, Tim Hollis, Larry Butler, Dave Goodloe, Dennis Smith,

Daljit Benipal, Bruce Eck,  Scott Cope, Tammy Murray, Tim London, Gerry McCallum,

Bruce Johnson

Approval of March Minutes:

Motion made by – Scott Cope

Supported by – Tammy Murray  

All ayes – motion passed

Approval of February Treasurer’s Report:

Motion made by- Gerry McCallum

Supported by – Bruce Johnson

All ayes- motion passed

Old Business:.

President Berger announced that Frank Haywood has resigned as Vice-president of the Board. The Borad presented a David Goodloe as a nominee for the position on Program Director. Gerry McCallum seconded the motion. All ayes – motion passed. The swearing in of the new Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer, and Program Director will take place at the June meeting.

            Gerry McCallum presented a document regarding power safety covers instead of a fence around pools. Gerry asked that this document be sent out to the membership and that the       membership be prepared to comment on it at the June 21st meeting.

            The was discussion regarding who enforces MIOSHA requirements. Gerry McCallum       stated that he had spoke with Don Pratt who teaches classes on this topic. Per Gerry,          Don does not believe Building Departments have jurisdiction to write tickets for         violations.

            President Berger and Tim Hollis went to Canterbury Village and paid the deposit for the    December 13th, 2018 Annual Meeting.           

New Business:

• Tim Hollis presented information on a new composite deck footing that has an ICC-ES approval. Information for the footing was distributed to those present.

• Scott Cope indicated there is open Customer Service position in the Rochester Hills Building Dept.  Those interested can apply at www.rochesterhills.org.

• Tim Hollis indicated that Kelly Winters, who is one of our past presidents will retire from Rochester Hills on June 1st, 2018. Tim nominated Kelly Winters for honorary membership. Seconded by President Berger. All ayes – motion passed

Close Meeting:

Motion made by David Goodloe

Supported by Scott Cope

All  ayes - motion passed.

Presentation: “Office Procedures” presented by Dennis Smith. Class #18402, 2 Hours Communication.  The sign-in sheet has been emailed to those present.

Respectfully submitted,

Tim Hollis

Secretary/Treasurer

April 2018 Minutes

Minutes of the April 26th, 2018 Meeting

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President Tim Berger called the business meeting to order at 12:45 PM.

Members present: Tim Berger, Tim Hollis, Larry Butler, Dave Goodloe, George Kilpatrick, Jerome Hanna, David Herriman, Dennis Smith, Daljit Benipal, Mark Pilot, Albert Boscaglia, Bruce Eck, Randy Warunek,

Approval of March Minutes:

Motion made by – George Kilpatrick

Supported by – Dave Herriman  

All ayes – motion passed

Approval of February Treasurer’s Report:

Motion made by- George Kilpatrick

Supported by – Bruce Eck

All ayes- motion passed

Old Business:.

President Berger asked how Madcad was working for everyone. The response was positive.

Tim Hollis indicated the Board is still planning to post the Damage Assessment Manuals on the website once we determine if they are up to date. He has reached out to Mike Loper at Oakland County and is waiting for a response.

Gerry McCallum could not be at today’s meeting so the discussion from the last meeting regarding swimming pool barriers and MIOSHA issues was tabled until May’s meeting.

President Berger stated that the Annual Meeting for December 2018 will be held at Canterbury Village. The Board will be meeting with the staff from there soon.

New Business:

• Al Boscagia and Mark Pilot asked who is enforcing sprinkler requirements in single family group homes and child daycares. They said that Southfield is and that they are having sprinklers installed in many of these existing homes.

• Tim Hollis made a motion to provide Dennis Smith with complimentary membership for 2018 as Dennis will be providing several training classes for our organization this year.

Motion seconded by Bruce Eck. All ayes – motion passed

• Tim Hollis discussed “Mi-Career Quest” which is a career fair for high school students to get them interested in a career in one of four areas: medical, IT, construction, or manufacturing. Currently this career fair is held in Grand Rapids, but will be coming to S.E. Michigan this fall.

• President Berger stated that Frank Haywood may be stepping down as Vice-President of OCBOA. He contract Frank to confirm. If Franks resigns, the Board will seek a new Program Director and the current Program Director will move up to be Secretary/Treasurer and the current Secretary/Treasurer will move up to be Vice President if so approved by the membership.

Close Meeting:

Motion made by George Kilpatrick

Supported by Jerome Hanna

All  ayes - motion passed.

Presentation: “Ethics” presented by Dennis Smith. Calss #CP17-00143, 3 Hours Administration.

                          The sign-in sheet has been emailed to those present.

Respectfully submitted,

Tim Hollis

Secretary/Treasurer

March 2018 Minutes

Minutes of the March 22, 2018 Meeting

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President Tim Berger called the business meeting to order at 12:45 PM.

Members present: Tim Berger, Tim Hollis, Larry Butler, Dave Goodloe, Tom Berger,

Mike Viazanko, Bruce Johnson, Gerry McCallum, George Kilpatrick, Scott Cope, Doug Lowe,

Bruce Eck, James Albus, Kevin Duhonich, Jason Craig, Jerome Hanna, David Herriman

Approval of February Minutes:

Motion made by – Scott Cope

Supported by – Tom Berger    

All ayes – motion passed

Approval of February Treasurer’s Report:

Motion made by- Tom Berger

Supported by – Gerry McCallum

All ayes- motion passed

Old Business:.

There was discussion of missing Standards on the Madcad website. If the members send the missing Standard info to Tim Hollis, he will make a request to Madcad to have them added.

Tim Hollis indicated that the Board is planning to post the Damage Assessment Manuals on the website once we determine if they are up to date. This needs to be coordinated with Oakland County.

New Business:

• Larry Butler indicated that Dennis Smith will present some up coming classes for us.

• President Berger indicated that this year’s Annual meeting in December will be at Canterbury Village. The date is TBD.

Close Meeting:

Motion made by Scott Cope

Supported by Dave Herriman

All  ayes - motion passed.

Presentation: Round Table discussion on the Energy Code, elevators in homes, electronic plan reviews and software, swimming pool covers (Gerry McCallum will research requirements), manufactured home requirements, sewer excavations.

Please note: There was an agreement by the members present to require the 12 items noted in section C103.2 "Information on Construction Documents" of the Michigan Energy Code. The members present agreed to require this information on all commercial construction plans submitted.

Respectfully submitted,

Tim Hollis

Secretary/Treasurer

February 2018 Minutes

Minutes of the February 22, 2018 Meeting

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President Tim Berger called the business meeting to order at 12:45 PM.

Members present: Tim Berger, Frank Haywood, Tim Hollis, Dave Goodloe, Albert Boscaglia,

Tom Berger, Mike Viazanko, Frank Beyer, Bruce Johnson, Gerry McCallum, George Kilpatrick

Approval of January Minutes:

Motion made by – George Kilpatrick

Supported by – Mike Viazanko            

All ayes – motion passed

Approval of January Treasurer’s Report:

Motion made by- Gerry McCallum

Supported by – Tom Berger

All ayes- motion passed

Old Business:.President Berger discussed the request from Scott Cope to talk more about the new Commercial Energy Code at this meeting.  There is a Commercial Energy Code Class on

March 9th, 2018, in Sterling Heights from 9am to 1pm. This may need to be a topic discussed again at a future meeting.

President Berger also indicated that he was able to get our 2018 education voucher from ICC re-instated after many phone calls to ICC. The membership thanked President Berger for his work to get this done. The voucher will be given to Larry Butler to get a class scheduled. President Berger also stated that it is the out-going presidents’ job to get this scheduled for the next year.

Tim Hollis indicated that all the jurisdictions that signed up for MADCAD should have received their log in email from MADCAD to create passwords. Also, if member jurisdictions would like to have a webinar for their staff by Erdem Dedebas of MADCAD, he is willing to do that. He can be contacted at ededebas@madcad.com.

Tim Hollis also indicated that the spreadsheet that was emailed to the membership with the Interlocal agreement information has updated information for current members. There have been a couple corrections made since it was sent out and that list will be re-sent after it is determined if any other changes from the members need to be made. This spread sheet is NOT for public information as it has personal phone numbers, etc. on it.

New Business:

• There was discussion regarding electronic plan reviews.  Dave Goodloe from Orion Twp. has purchased the plan review table and they are learning how to use it. There was also some discussion about the “Blue Beam” software used with the table.
• Bruce Johnson from Birmingham asked if any jurisdictions are requiring a builder’s license from an Excavation Contractor who is repairing a sewer line. Some jurisdictions do and some do not as this work is done though some DPS departments.

Close Meeting:

Motion made by Gerry McCallum

Supported by Viazanko

All  ayes - motion passed.

Presentation: Simpson Stong Tie’s new deck tool  (no credit for Act 54/407)

Instructors: Jerry Tuggle  and guest

Respectfully submitted,

Tim Hollis

Secretary/Treasurer

January 2018 Minutes

Minutes of the January 25th, 2018 Meeting

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Tim Berger called the business meeting to order at 12:57 PM. 
Approval of December Minutes: 
Motion made by – Bruce Eck
Supported by – James Albus
All ayes – motion passed

Approval of Treasurer’s Report: 
Motion made by- Gerry McCallum
Supported by – Glen Bartoni
All ayes- motion passed

Old Business: 

1.    Tim Hollis gave an update on our new website. The web address is ocboa-mi.org.
2.    Tim Hollis also gave an update on Madcad. Passwords will be emailed by February 1, 2018 that will give users access.
3.    Larry Butler was sworn in as 2018 Program Director by Tom Berger.

New Business:

• Tim Berger said that the Board had discussed moving the December Annual Meeting to a new location. The cost at the Plazzo Di Bocce where it has been held is $50.00 per person. We have been charging only $35.00 per person. The membership agreed that a new location would be a good idea. Canterbury Village was discussed as an option. The Board will look into other options.
• Bruce Eck asked if anyone has had a commercial building built with shipping containers. It was discussed that this should require a Structural Engineer.
• Tom Berger discussed attic ventilation problems. There has been 3 reported problems in his community of new houses having moisture problems on the inside of the ceiling drywall. Proper number of vents and vapor retarder or paint was discussed.
• There was discussion on revising the Wood Deck Committee. Scott will send out an email to all communities that has signed the Deck Guide to see if there are any suggestions.
• President Tim Berger also indicated that the ICC annual report did not get sent in to ICC in 2017 for this year. He is working to get ICC to still give us a free class for this year.
• Mike Viazanko said that Sterling Heights will host a Commercial Energy Code Class on February 6th. Doors open at 8:30 am., class begins at 9:00 a.m.  Class number is CP-17 00132.
•  Scott Cope asked how everyone is enforcing the new Commercial Energy Code. There was some discussion and Scott asked that we bring this up again at our next meeting.

Close Meeting: 
Motion made by Scott Cope
Supported by Bruce Eck
All  ayes - motion passed.  

Presentation: Tim Hollis presented and explained our new website. 

Respectfully submitted, 
Tim Hollis
Secretary/Treasurer