FLORIDA BUILDING COMMISSION

Swimming Pool subcommittee to the Plumbing TAC

June 8, 2009  Minutes

Tampa, Florida, Embassy Suites Hotel

Call to order: Ken Gregory-Chair called the meeting to order at 11:04AM

Quorum was achieved with the following members in attendance:Tom Allen, Tony Caruso, Joe Crum, Bill Dumbaugh, Dale Greiner, Dan Johnson, and Gordon Shepardson.

Agenda: The June 8, 2009 Agenda was approved as submitted

Commission policy and procedure: Jeff Blair Reviewed the of Commission’s Workgroup Meeting Guidelines, Consensus-Building, Decision-Making Process, and the Sunshine Requirements the committee must follow

Review of Workgroup’s Tasks as provided by the Florida Building Commission:  To evaluate swimming pool entrapment standards application to Existing pools. The swimming pool subcommittee entertained comments from the public relevant to the entrapment issues as well as other items for future meetings.  

August 2009 agenda  are as follows:  Requirements for compliance of existing pools with the following motion:

Motion: for discussion at next meeting to try to determine the various triggers which will require existing residential pools to be brought into compliance with current suction outlet and barrier safety requirements for new pools”

As noted by the chair all members or the public are to send in comments relating to the above issue to staff by July 25,2009

Next meeting schedule will be in Melborne Beach, August 2009, for further details visit our website at www.floridabuilding.org

Adjourn 12:02