Meeting Minutes

Mechanical Technical Advisory Committee

concurrent with the

Structural Technical Advisory Committee

Wednesday, March 30, 2016.

                  

Meeting Location:  Teleconference Meeting from Tallahassee, Florida

 

TAC/POC Members and Objectives

TAC Members Present Via Teleconference:; Steven Bassett, Chair; Larry Banks; Oscar Calleja;  Joe Crum; Elizabeth Goll; Brian mumme (for Gary Griffin);; Pete Quintela

 

TAC Members not Present: Daniel Griffin; Alex Hernandez; Don Pitmann.

 

Staff Present: Norman Bellamy, Robert Benbow, Jim Hammers, April Hammonds, Mo Madani, Marlita Peters.

 

Guests: Rolando Soto, Andrew Loenstein, Randy Shackleford

Objectives:

Ř    To consider and discuss Declaratory Statement DS 2015-150

 

Meeting Minutes

Items

Discussion of objectives included the following: 

1)

 

1:32PM Welcome and Opening, Roll Call. 

Marlita Peters, for the Florida Building Commission, provided a welcome and a brief overview of the agenda items to be presented.
Roll was taken and a quorum was present.

2)

The Agenda was approved unanimously by the committee members. 

The meeting minutes for the January 28, 2016 meeting were approved unanimously by the committee members.

3)

To consider and discuss the following declaratory statement:

DS 2015-150 by Rolando Soto, Chief Code Compliance Officer, Mechanical, of Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals.

 

  • The petitioner, Rolando Soto, was present.  A reintroduction of declaratory statement was given, including modifications to the original petition.  Mo Madani gave the staff analysis for the declaratory statement with revisions for changes to the petition.

 

  • Afterward  there was general discussion by the Structural TAC and the Mechanical TAC.  Questions were asked by Daniel Lavrich, David Compton, Daniel Lavrich, Oscar Calleja, Jaime Gascon, Warner Chang, Cris Fardelmann, Pete Quintela, Joe Crumb. There were also questions and statements from the petitioner.

 

  • Per Mo Madani, there are substantial changes to the code to be made, per House Bill 535.  HB 535 Will also affect Florida Statute 553.844 and related sections of the current Florida Building Code.  Due to this, Mo Madani recommended that the petitioner defer this declaratory statement request until after the bill goes into effect, July 1st, 2016.  There was some discussion from the TAC members concerning the language of the F.S. 553.844.  Mo stated that there will be a glitch cycle to the 5th Edition (2014) Florida Building Code to process code changes as mandated by HB 535.

 

  • Due to the time passed since initial submittal of the petition one of the projects under consideration for the declaratory statement had been completed.  April Hammonds, legal counsel, stated that the TAC would be able to “Motion to grant in part and deny in part” if the TAC wished to make a motion other than deferral.  Question B of Staff Analysis would not be valid to answer.  The Petitioner, Rolando Soto, stated that he would agree to a deferral of this declaratory statement until after the new bill goes into effect after July 1, 2016.

 

 

Committee Action:

 

  • There was a motion by Joe Crum to defer the declaratory statement until the next available meeting which would be held after July 1, 2016, and the motion was seconded by Pete Quintela. The motion passed unanimously.

 

4)

Other TAC Business

5)

Public Comment

 

Adjourn:  Having no other TAC business, the meeting was closed after a Motion and Second to Adjourn. Time 2:52 pm

 

Staff Contacts: Norman Bellamy, Government Operations Consultant (850) 717-1834 Norman.Bellamy@myfloridalicense.com or Mo Madani, Manager mo.madani@dbpr.state.fl.us (850) 717-1825