Product Approval/Manufactured Buildings
Program Oversight Committee (POC)
Minutes
April 6, 2010
9:00 A.M. – Until Completion
Hilton Hotel
Product Approval Program Oversight Committee members present: Ed Carson, Chair Chris Schulte, Herminio Gonzalez, Tim Tolbert, Jeffrey Stone; DCA and Commission Staff attending included: Mo Madani, Suzanne Davis and Jeff Blair; Future member observing: Nicholas Nicholson
1. The Meeting was called to order by Chairman, Ed Carson. The agenda and minutes were approved as presented.
2. Product Approval Program issues
A. Staff presented the Product Approval Entities and Statistics Report (1/1/2009 – 3/18/2010)
Note: Staff reported that the Quality Assurance issue has been addressed. There have been program updates to the BCIS.
TB&A has addressed administrative issues with the QA Entities. So far we have received positive response from the manufacturers as far as updating their quality assurance.
B. Product Approval Administrator’s Survey - Staff presented the survey to the POC members and stated that the overall performance of the Administrator is good to excellent.
3. Discussion Items:
A. Update on Validator Issues and Current Improvements – Staff reported that the warning letter was sent out to Mr. Greenstein on February 16, 2010. Ted Berman clarified that the training addressed technical inconsistencies rather than administrative. A telephone conference call was held in March 2010 with those validators that had discrepancies from the last cycle. The conference call was well attended and the validators seemed to be receptive to the training and staff expects improvements to this process in the future. Staff suggested that the next step may be to target specific validators for one-on-one training.
B. Report on DCA 09/10-08 Invitation to Negotiate for Administrative Services for the State Product Approval System for the Florida Building Commission – Ila Jones gave a brief overview of the final results of the Invitation to Bid process. Ted Berman & Associates, LLC had the top score and will be awarded the contract for the 2010-2011 FY.
C. Establish a Standard Procedure for reviewing applications by the Administrator – Mo presented an idea to have a standard procedure established for the Administrator review of Product Approval application. After discussion, it was decided that a workshop would need to held in the near future to discuss this issue further.
4. Declaratory Statements:
DCA09-DEC-411 by Manny Sanchez of Fenestration Testing Laboratory, Inc.
POC Action: Motion was made and second to support the staff recommendation. Motion passed.
DCA10-DEC-002 by Devvek Runion of & Greenbuilt, Inc.
POC Action: Motion was made and second to support the staff recommendation. Motion passed.
5. Ted Berman & Associates Report – Products and entities were reviewed and approved recommendations were provided.
6. Adjourn – Meeting adjourned at 10:57 a.m.
Actions
Needed by the Commission:
1. Ted Berman and Associates report – Products and entities were reviewed and approved. Recommendations were provided.
POC Action: The Committee recommends the products and entities listed in the Administrator’s report be approved, deferred, conditionally approved or denied as per voted on by the Committee.