Fire Code General Membership Meeting

Monterey, July 28, 2006

ATTENDEES:

Rocque Yballa, Co-chair

Daniel Najera, Co-chair

Diane Arend, SFM

Dorothy Priolo, Salinas Rural Fire

Randy Dusart, Calsafe/Beacon Fire Safety

Darrell Harguth, Brooke Equip. Co.

Rick Thornberry, The Code Consortium

Steve Medina, Spears Mfg.Co.

Jim Bouier, Sprinkler Fitters 445

Alisa Morua, SFM

Ed Tubbs, Dixon Fire

Tim Annis, Davis Fire

Ron Keefer, Menlo Park Fire

Paul Inouye, Milpitas Fire

Vern Canon, Nevada County Consolidated

Ron Branilan, Woodland Fire

Discusssion on CAC meetings and some of the decisions that were voted upon.

• HCD’s proposal to modify the definition of townhouse to exempt them from the sprinkler requirement. .

A call for participation at the code hearings in Orlando has been made to boost the number of California representatives. SoCal is helping some members by sharing the cost of attending.

Assignment review of the changes being proposed in the ICC monograph. Rocque to be emailing out the assignments next week.

Discussion on the purpose of the ICC process, recommendation to visit to their website: www. Iccsafe.org

North and South Fire Code co-chairs to coordinate positions. Only those positions that both groups agree upon will be spoken upon at the hearings. Rocque and Dan to meet with Laura Blaul and Christina Jameson on Aug 24 in SoCal. Rocque sent out assignments to committee members and suggested reviews by Equipment Devices Committee and Haz Mat Committee with the Aug. 20^th, 2006 Minutes.

Matrix showing the agreed upon code positions to be available the next week.  

Title 19/ IFC merger

The Fire Code committee will be taking up the project of merging the two documents. The committee will be developing the proposal for approval by the Board and the SFM,

The benefits are many and the exposure of the SFM’s regulations to the fire service increase greatly.

A question was raised on how the current efforts of the SFM with regard to NFPA 25’s adoption would be effected. The merger of T19/ IFC will likely spin off to many more "blended" codes such as a California Fire Alarm Code or the blend of T19 and NFPA 72.

Other NorCal committee assignments must be made to review the various T19 subject matter specific chapters. Industry involvement will also have to happen. When the other committees evaluate the T19 chapters, industry groups should also be identified to bring into the process.

A question was posed on identifying the anticipated opponents. A list of these groups is to be developed to approach them with the proposal in order to find a way of getting support.

Rocque and Dan to develop the business plan with a timetable to present to the SFM and an identification of a point person from the SFM to work with.

Next meeting Aug. 10 at San Ramon.

See you there!