California Fire Chiefs Association

Fire Prevention Officers Section

Southern Division

Long Beach

May 12, 2004

Minutes

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESENT :

Kevin Scott 2nd Vice President
Ken Kraus Secretary
Ken Quick Treasurer
Hank Teran Operations Dir.
Phil Garcia Liaison Chief
Penni Overstreet-Murphy Past Pres.

Pledge of Allegiance: Sean Dougherty

Greeting from host Agency or City: Chief Teran presented welcoming remarks

Recognition of Chiefs

Recognition of Past Presidents: TOM Oakes

Self Introductions: Quorum Achieved (64 attendees)

  1. General Business/Minutes – Motion passed to accept Minutes from meeting of 4-14-04 in Huntington Beach

    Sergeant At Arms: Brain Heyman

  2. Board & Standing Committee Reports
  1. Program Coordinator & Meeting Locations:

    Kevin Scott, announced future meetings:

    June 9 San Marino Egress/Security

    July 13 Irvine Joint/OCFPO

    August 11 Carlsbad Joint/South Bay

  2. Treasurer – Financial & Membership Report

    Ken Quick presented report.

  3. Legislative Report

    John Haberek summarized the current bills the Leg. Comm is monitoring.

    SB1369 – One of 10 UWI Bills on the table

    AB 2343 - Nation: Schools/Fire Sprinklers CFCA –SUPPORT

    2065 – Nakano: Passed Appropiations Comm 5/12, will move on to Gov Org Comm & Health and Human Services in Senate

  4. Fire Protection Equipment & Devices: No Report
  5. Fire Service Education: No Report
  6. Public Education

    Penni Overstreet-Murphy provided report. Next Meeting – June 2 in Rancho Cucamonga. Pub. Ed. Will not have a track at the 2005 CFPI Workshop

  7. Urban Wildland Interface: No Report
  8. Fire Code

    Ken Kraus provided report. Code Comm. met on May 6 in Monrovia (OSFM) The Comm has prepared a draft of a letter to be submitted through the current Rule Making process to add to the CBC Non-Ambulatory and Delayed Egress provisions consistent with the original language of AB 1361.

    The Comm. will forward a package of amendments

    that will eliminate conflicts between Titles 19 and 24.

    The Comm conducted a plan review of an "A-2" Occupancy per the CBC, NFPA 5000 and the IBC.

    Results will be summarized and compiled.

  9. Workshop:

Penni Overstreet-Murphy provided report. The 15th Annual CFPI Fire Prevention Workshop will be held March 14-18, 2005 in Buelton. 2004 was the first year at our new location and it was a great success. 2005 promises to be even better.  

1. CFCA

Liaison Chief Phil Garcia presented report. CFCA appreciate the hard work of North and South FPO Divisions. The Chiefs value the input of the FPO. The Chief’s role will be to bring to the FPO, current, relevant CFCA issues and to take back to CFCA, pertinent FPO issues.

  1. OSFM/CDF
  2. OSHPD
  3. DSA
  4. HCD
  5. LAAFM
  6. CAFAA
  7. NFSA/AFSA
  8. CalBO
  9. NFPA

    Ken Quick presented a brief overview of NFPA 1 and recent NFPA actions.

    Provisions of NFPA230/231 have been incorporated into NFPA 13.

    NFPA is processing change from 150’ to 450’ for building access if building is sprinklered.

    CEO Jim Shannon intends to submit California amendments to NFPA 1 and 5000 to the Standards Council for blanket approval.

  10. ICC

Kevin Scott announced that he will seek appointment to ICC Board of Directors. Kevin stated he would appreciate any letters of support, which must be submitted by August 15.

Final Action Hearing will be held next week, May 17-20.

A test of remote voting will be held on Monday and Wednesday. Code Officials must provide their membership # to vote. This test vote will be non-binding.

1. AB 2065 Position

Motion and Second to submit letter of support for AB 2065.

Discussion: Relative to the emphasis of our letter. Rochelle Maurer presented informal overview of the incident. [Occupancy was recently inspected, in compliance. Space Heater is the most probable cause. The major contributing factor resulting in the deaths of the 3 occupants was their inability to self evacuate. This was despite legal egress provisions and the attendance of required staff.

Further discussion regarding the need to reiterate the position already taken by CFCA. Opinion expressed that multiple letters can help tip the scales.

Vote: Motion Carried  

E. NEW BUSINESS

1. Past President’s Advisory Council

Motion and second to establish the PPAC

Discussion: At the Exec. Board meeting held on 5-5-04, Board members discussed the formation of Past Presidents Advisory Council, whose main objectives would be to document historically relevant events and issues and maintain the legacy that might otherwise be lost. Also, the PPAC would insure that the FPO’s don’t reinvent the wheel unless absolutely necessary.

Tom Oakes stated he could help coordinate establishing the framework for the Council.

Vote: Motion Passed

Kevin Scott handed out new hardcopies of the SoCal roster to members in good standing. Members who have not paid for 2004 may do so at renewal rate until June. After that the rate will revert to new annual rate. Any updates to the roster

should be forwarded to Kevin. Updates will be made annually to the roster.

3. AESAC

The OSFM’s Automatic Extinguishing Systems Advisory Committee will meet at the Fire Sprinkler Advisory Board located at 6301 Beach Bl., Buena Park on June 12th. 

Fire and Life Safety Systems From A Contractor’s Perspective

Presented by: Rick Taylor, President of Building Electronics Controls, Inc 

June 9, 2004

1151 Oxford Road, San Marino

Huntington Library

Egress & Security – Can They Co-Exist?