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Colorado Chapter ICC Page 1 of 9 2009 A year in Review Colorado Chapter, Inc. of the International Code Council Post Office Box 961, Arvada Colorado 80001 Included in this month’s edition: ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING UPDATE 2009 YEAR IN REVIEW CODE CHANGE & CODE DEVELOPMENT What Energy Code? FMAC UPDATE And more! On the web at: www.coloradochapter icc.org The Colorado Chapter of the International Code Council is dedicated to the improvement of building safety, by promoting and improving the International Codes, educating the building industry, public and our membership, and providing mutual aid to building professionals CCICC ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING UPDATE On Thursday and Friday, December 10 th and 11 th , 2009, the Colorado Chapter of ICC held their Annual Business Meeting and Banquet at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. As usual, the scenery was gorgeous all decorated for Christmas and there was fresh snow on the ground that made the view from any room just spectacular. The Broadmoor staff was their usual generously hospitable selves and everyone had a wonderful time. Dave Tyree was our host for the event and special thanks must go out to him for the tremendous amount of work that went into organizing this year’s ABM. Dave worked tirelessly with Broadmoor staff to not only ensure that every single event was ready and flawless but they also worked together to bring costs for the event down wherever they could and even worked out a lower room rate for next year’s event than we had for this one. There aren’t many places that you can stay and hold an event of this nature for less than $130.00 a night for the rooms and the Broadmoor has assured us that next year’s room rate will be even a little lower. For those folks who couldn’t do the $129.00 room rate this year there were several near by hotels that were available and the Broadmoor allowed them to park for free during the meetings as well as the banquet. Thursday’s agenda started out with a little bit of a scramble when the first presenter, Kelly Frauekron of BASF Polyurethane Foam Enterprises was not able to get a flight out of Chicago due to bad weather and wasn’t going to be able to teach. Luckily, Mike Metheny and Gil Rossmiller of our program committee along with folks from the Broadmoor were able to get things set up so that Kelly’s presentation was viewable on-line for us and she was able to teach via conference call to the room. Following Kelly, Scott Berg of the City of Aurora gave a quick update on the Colorado Electrical Board, which he is a member of. Then, Janine Snyder of the Town of Frisco gave an update on the Colorado Board of Plumbers, which she serves on. Jim Benney, Executive Director of NFRC was able to give a great presentation on commercial building code compliance focusing on fenestration just before we settled in for the Chapter’s business meeting. Prior to the meeting, Tom Meyers, Chairman of the Chapter’s Nominations Committee presented the committee’s recommendations for nominations for the 2010 executive officers and the board of directors. Those nominations were as follows: President: Stephen Kanipe, Town of Aspen 1 st Vice President: Shaunna Mozingo, City of Westminster 2 nd Vice President: Gil Rossmiller, Town of Parker Secretary: Andy Blake, Morgan County Cont next page:

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Colorado Chapter ICC Page 1 of 9

2009 A year in Review

Colorado Chapter, Inc. of the International Code Council

Post Office Box 961, Arvada Colorado 80001 Included in this

month’s edition: ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING UPDATE 2009 YEAR IN REVIEW CODE CHANGE & CODE DEVELOPMENT What Energy Code? FMAC UPDATE And more!

On the web at: www.coloradochaptericc.org

The Colorado Chapter of the

International Code Council is

dedicated to the improvement of

building safety, by promoting and improving the International

Codes, educating the building

industry, public and our

membership, and providing mutual

aid to building professionals

CCICC ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING UPDATE On Thursday and Friday, December 10th and 11th, 2009, the Colorado Chapter of ICC held their Annual Business Meeting and Banquet at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. As usual, the scenery was gorgeous all decorated for Christmas and there was fresh snow on the ground that made the view from any room just spectacular. The Broadmoor staff was their usual generously hospitable selves and everyone had a wonderful time. Dave Tyree was our host for the event and special thanks must go out to him for the tremendous amount of work that went into organizing this year’s ABM. Dave worked tirelessly with Broadmoor staff to not only ensure that every single event was ready and flawless but they also worked together to bring costs for the event down wherever they could and even worked out a lower room rate for next year’s event than we had for this one. There aren’t many places that you can stay and hold an event of this nature for less than $130.00 a night for the rooms and the Broadmoor has assured us that next year’s room rate will be even a little lower. For those folks who couldn’t do the $129.00 room rate this year there were several near by hotels that were available and the Broadmoor allowed them to park for free during the meetings as well as the banquet. Thursday’s agenda started out with a little bit of a scramble when the first presenter, Kelly Frauekron of BASF Polyurethane Foam Enterprises was not able to get a flight out of Chicago due to bad weather and wasn’t going to be able to teach. Luckily, Mike Metheny and Gil Rossmiller of our program committee along with folks from the Broadmoor were able to get things set up so that Kelly’s presentation was viewable on-line for us and she was able to teach via conference call to the room. Following Kelly, Scott Berg of the City of Aurora gave a quick update on the Colorado Electrical Board, which he is a member of. Then, Janine Snyder of the Town of Frisco gave an update on the Colorado Board of Plumbers, which she serves on. Jim Benney, Executive Director of NFRC was able to give a great presentation on commercial building code compliance focusing on fenestration just before we settled in for the Chapter’s business meeting. Prior to the meeting, Tom Meyers, Chairman of the Chapter’s Nominations Committee presented the committee’s recommendations for nominations for the 2010 executive officers and the board of directors. Those nominations were as follows: President: Stephen Kanipe, Town of Aspen 1st Vice President: Shaunna Mozingo, City of Westminster 2nd Vice President: Gil Rossmiller, Town of Parker Secretary: Andy Blake, Morgan County Cont next page:

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ABM UPDATE Continued from page 1: Board of Director Nominees: Mike Metheny, City of Aspen; Janine Snyder, Town of Frisco; Keith Peetz, City and County of Denver; Mark Gurule, Pueblo Regional Building Department and Mike Jones, Town of Louisville. During the election of the officers and board, there were no nominations from the floor and the above mentioned were elected into the positions for which they were nominated. Stepping down from the board of directors after 2009 were Scott Berg of Aurora, Bill Clayton of Lakewood and Will Birchfield of Estes Park. All 3 men did an exceptional job on the board of directors and will be missed. The Treasurer’s position is appointed by the board of directors and for the 2010 year, the board re-appointed Dan Weed of Colorado Code Consulting as Treasurer. The Treasurer’s position is a time consuming and detail oriented job and the board recognizes and appreciates Dan’s effort in taking on this position in 2009 and his willingness to carry it forward into 2010. During the business meeting, presided over by President Stephen Kanipe, we were lucky enough to have Laura Scott, Vice President of Chapter Relations for ICC and Sara Yerkes, Senior VP of Government Relations for ICC present. Sara gave an ICC report during the meeting and she and Laura both gave ICC gifts to the officers and board of directors during the swearing in of the new board. It has always been great to have an ICC representative present during our ABM and it was especially wonderful having both Laura and Sara there this year. The annual banquet was quite a hit this year with over 50 people attending. Steve Thomas did another outstanding job on his slide show presentation, which portrays pictures of the chapter at work over the past year and Steve was able to highlight CCICC receiving the Chapter of Year Award from ICC for 2009. A Great big thanks also goes out to Steve Thomas of Colorado Code Consulting for donating the corsages that each lady received at the banquet. What a generous gift and the ladies all enjoyed them tremendously. The Broadmoor did an excellent job on the dinner and Stephen Kanipe’s son Tristan DJ’ed some music until everyone had turned in for the night. It was a wonderful event and Stephen, our host for the evening, did a great job with everything. Friday’s agenda included a presentation from Tom Meyers on the Solar Decathlon, which is always a crowd favorite to hear about and for which he is the building inspector for. Tom Meyers of Colorado Code Consulting also gave an update on the Code Change hearings in Baltimore and the continued work of the Code Change Committee. Other presentations heard on Friday were Paul Krieserch of Lightly Treading, gave an interesting training session on Home performance and energy audits with Energy Star. Stephen Kanipe, member of the Sustainable Building Technology Committee, gave an update on the progress being made toward development of the International Green Construction Code. Gil Rossmiller enlightened us on the National Green Building Standard 700 and then there was time for discussion on all topics. A lot of information was packed into two wonderful days in Colorado Springs and there was a lot of networking and catching up done during breaks, lunches and dinner so all in all this year’s ABM was a great success. Thank you to all involved, job well done!!!

WANTED Have you been to training and met a great vendor or met a company rep in the field who you thought would make a good vendor at our Education Institute in March? Please forward that information to Jim Thelen at [email protected]

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CODE CHANGE & DEVELOPMENT YEAR IN REVIEW

By Tim Pate, Co-Chair Code Development Committee

The Chapter Code Change Committee was extremely busy this year. Our group had numerous meetings late winter and early spring to discuss and approve proposals for code changes to the IBC, IRC, and IECC. Ultimately the Committee sponsored 15 total changes which were submitted by the June 1 deadline.

Many committee members also submitted their applications to serve on the various national ICC Code Change Committees for the Baltimore Code Change Hearings in October. Eleven Colorado chapter members were selected to serve on ICC committees; five serving as committee chairs. This is a testament to our members’ deep knowledge of and commitment to the ongoing enhancement and development of International Codes.

The committee met in September and early October to review all of the posted combined code changes. We came up with position statements on many changes and set up speaking assignments for chapter members who would be attending the Baltimore hearings. The Chapter helped fund travel expenses for 10 members who attended portions of the hearings.

Numerous members who served on ICC Committees arrived at the hearings early and/or stayed after their ICC committees convened. We were able to have at least two members provide coverage for all of the major ICC committee hearings. Our representatives were able to provide testimony on Colorado chapter proposals and also on other changes that we supported.

The Chapter was successful on 7 out of 15 changes and received excellent feedback on potential to write public comments for some of our defeated changes.

The code change committee will be meeting twice in January to prepare for the upcoming final action hearings next May in Dallas. Our chapter will be submitting a number of public comments for several of our previous code changes that were defeated along with some public comments for other changes that we feel are important.

We routinely have 25 to 30 chapter members attending our meetings. This shows the high level of member interest in taking part in this very important aspect of the chapter’s mission.

If you are interested in becoming a member of the Colorado Chapter Code Change Committee feel free to contact Tom Meyers ([email protected]) or Tim Pate ([email protected]) for information. You will play a part in an important role in enhancing the ICC code development process, and have the opportunity to network with experts and code officials from many different states. The information you learn about the background behind code changes is a very big help for you in your every day job as an enforcer of the codes.

For information on what is going on with the Energy Codes see the related article titled, “What Energy Code?” found later in this newsletter.

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The Chapter newsletter went to an annual basis instead of monthly or quarterly just due to participation on the Newsletter Committee and various time constraints. Starting for 2010, Janine Snyder, Building Official for the Town of Frisco, has graciously volunteered to be the new chairperson for this committee and will be providing information through this valuable resource. If you have something you’d like to see in upcoming newsletters please email Janine at [email protected] Certainly one of the primary purposes of the Chapter newsletter is to educate – to keep us all informed and aware of the numerous changes which threaten to overwhelm each of us on a daily basis. Hopefully the newsletter will also encourage us to become more involved with the Chapter, to attend a Chapter meeting, sign up for an Institute class, to join a committee, or maybe volunteer at one of the Chapter Give-a-Day events. This past year we were all witness to or victim of the world wide recession that continues to take place. In times like these it has become as important as ever for the Colorado Chapter to continue to provide services to its members at as low a cost possible, if any, and to make more and more things available via the Chapter website, by email or conference call. Again this year you can register for the Education Institute on-line from our website. This has proven to be such a great convenience to jurisdictions that we will likely offer membership and meeting registration on-line in the near future. Another convenience that the Chapter has continued is the free meetings to chapter members. In 2009 if you RSVP’ed for a chapter meeting prior to the deadline your registration fees were waived. This helped the jurisdictions combat some of those training expenses while also helping the chapter save money on meals and room space by having a more accurate count for the meetings. President, Stephen Kanipe, implemented some work sessions via conference call for board members and interested parties, which allows work to be done outside of regularly scheduled business and board meetings so that the chapter can stay up on everything that is going on. These conference calls have allowed more participation without having the expense of driving and meeting spaces, etc. These work sessions will be on the regular calendar for 2010 and will be available to those interested in participating. The Web-Site committee will continue to post meeting minutes as well as a brief summary of those meetings on the website for those who couldn’t attend a regularly scheduled meeting. Also on the website are meeting announcements, special events and Give-A-Day program announcements. Here is a brief summary of what happened with the Colorado Chapter of ICC in 2009:

January The 2009 Legislative session started and the Legislative Committee under the leadership of Greg Wheeler began tracking and participating on committees for several legislative items such as The Samaritan Act, The Electrical and Plumbing Inspections in schools; CO detector legislation, to name a few. Also, Gil Rossmiller, Shaunna Mozingo and Becky Baker were invited to Washington D.C. by the Department of Energy to take part in the first round of meetings held to begin collaboration amongst interested parties on future changes to the International Energy Code as well as the energy provisions of the IRC. CCICC sponsored a training in Mesa County taught by Colorado Code Consultants on the IBC and IRC.

February The February Chapter meeting was hosted by the Town of Parker and included an informative legislative update by Greg Wheeler, along with full day of Evaluator Training for building inspectors and plans examiners to accomplish field evaluations of damaged buildings after a disaster strikes. The Fire Sprinkler Task force was formed between FMAC and the CCICC with a mission to aid jurisdictions in adoption options for the new IRC requirements as they pertain to residential sprinklers. Shaunna Mozingo and Gil Rossmiller hosted the second Energy Collaboration meeting in Denver with the Department of Energy. Continued on page 5

A year in review By Shaunna Mozingo, 1st Vice President, CCICC

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A year in Review, cont.

March The Code Change Committee held 3 meetings to discuss chapter positions on upcoming code change proposals being submitted for the 2012 code cycle. However, the BIG march event was the 24th Annual Education Institute where 1800 + participants and numerous Exhibitors were in attendance. The Chapter’s Education Institute is one of the largest of its kind and absolutely the least expensive with the highest quality instructors around! Committee made up of Stephen Kanipe, Becky Baker, Gil Rossmiller and Shaunna Mozingo started meeting with Governor’s Energy Office to create a program to allow the Chapter to train Colorado jurisdictions on the 2009 Energy Codes as well as ARRA funding requirements of compliance. Chapter sent letter of support to ICC President Adolf Zubia for the good job ICC is doing in the tough times of the current economy.

April

The April Chapter meeting was hosted by Mike Metheny in the town of Aspen. Colorado Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (CAPMO) gave a presentation on the plumbing and mechanical codes and Sam Dardano presented Gil Rossmiller with a plaque of appreciation for stepping in at the Education Institute and filling in at the last minute as the instructor for the Manual J class. Membership directories available in PDF form to all members. Special budget committee assigned by President Kanipe to discuss and make recommendations for 2009-2010 budget.

May Building Safety Week proclamation signed by Governor Ritter. Becky Baker goes to DC to help promote Building Safety Week on Capital Hill.

June Chapter members went to Rye, Co for their annual Girl Scout Camp Give-a-Day where they volunteered time and materials to work on cabins and enjoy some amusing camaraderie. The CCICC Chapter meeting was held in Trinidad on June 26th, hosted by Chris Kelly. Larry Trumble, Chairman of the Disaster Mitigation Committee held another Disaster Response Evaluator Training, bringing the total trained personnel in the chapter able to respond in a disaster situation to over 200! The board of Directors met to finalize budget proposals to recommend to the membership, which was presented and approved at the meeting on the 26th. The Public Relations Committee traveled to Vail to attend the CML conference. ICC Mechanical Contractor and ICC Roofing Contractor exams completed, bringing total to 7 exams available to contractors through ICC.

July July included the Chapter Golf Tournament which was well attended and enjoyed by all, along with our other Give-a-Day event at the Wilderness on Wheels facility, where additional sections of boardwalk were replaced by a great turnout of volunteers. Disaster Mitigation Committee sent Tim Pate of Broomfield and Collette Parks of Frisco to assist the building official of Wheat Ridge to assess the damage from the wind/hail/tornado damage there. CCI, NACO and Congressman Ed Perlmutter get on board with CCICC to support the Community Building Code Grant Act.

August The August Business meeting was a three day event hosted by the Northern Colorado Code Professional Association along with Will Birchfield and the Town of Estes Park in the beautiful mountain community of Estes Park. Dave Nichols, Government Relations Manager with ICC was in attendance at the meeting and gave an ICC report for the members. Colorado Code Consulting’s Steve Thomas presented training on both the 2006 IBC and the 2006 IRC. There was an Ice Cream Social on Wednesday night as well. Thursday night’s social event was a family outing with food and activities at the Fall River Picnic Grounds with volleyball, horseshoes and a bunch of story telling! Pete Visser presented information on the National Green Building Standards on Friday and Sam Dardano was able to provide information on the significant changes to both the International Fuel Gas Code and the International Mechanical Code. Another Disaster Response Evaluator Training was held in Weld County hosted by the City of Longmont. Continued Page 6

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A year in Review, cont

September Post Disaster training held for Colorado Association of Permit Technicians, hosted by Rick Davis, City of Northglenn. CBO exam prep class held in Golden. Chapter attended Home Builder’s meeting at the Jeffco fair grounds, which was hosted by Fire Team USA and took a look at removing fire barriers. CCICC Adhoc Energy Committee submits application to State Governor’s Energy Office for training program. Adhoc committee formed, chaired by Steve Thomas to research whether criteria could be set up where companies could be listed by the chapter as special inspectors.

October The City and County of Broomfield and the City of Westminster co-hosted the October business meeting, which offered the very informative “Total Fire Containment Symposium” put on by Underwriters Laboratory, Fire Contractors International Association, US Gypsum, National Concrete Masonry Association, Technical Glass Product, Door and Hardware Institute, Door and Access Systems Manufactures Association, Grenheck, the Fire Damper Industry and the National Fireproofing Contractors Association. Chapter sends 20 individuals to attend the various portions of the first round of code change hearings in Baltimore, MD for the 2012 International Codes. The Chapter also attends the ICC Annual Business Meeting and accepts the 2009 Chapter of the Year award from ICC. The Public Relations Committee attended the Colorado Home Builders Meeting in Beaver Creek. Greg Wheeler announces the Elevator regulations are transferred from the Division of Oil and Public Safety to the Division of Fire Safety. Chapter members volunteer at the Colorado Construction Career Days held at the Jeffco Fairgrounds, which is attended by several hundred high school students getting a full day of exposure to all aspects of the building industry. Standardization finalizes the Pole Barn Building Guide and makes available on chapter website. Chapter circulates ICC flyer for contractor licensing exams to all jurisdictions and posts on website.

November The Colorado Association of Permit Technicians hosts their Annual Business meeting at the Wheat Ridge Recreation Center and Glenn Mathewson form the City of Westminster presented “Building Codes for Building Decks”. CAPT held their election of officers for the 2010 business year and presented Gerry George with the Honorary Member award. Adhoc Energy Committee withdraws grant application with State Governor’s Energy Office while the GEO tries to get more organized to accept this type of request. Registration begins for the 25th Annual Chapter Educational Institute to be held March 1-5 in Denver. Chapter donates old lap top computer to Wilderness on Wheels.

December Annual Business Meeting and Banquet held at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. Registration continues for Ed Institute. Membership applications start coming in for 2010. ICC publishes the report on the hearings held in Baltimore and announces locations and deadlines of final action hearings as posted on their website. Disaster Mitigation Manual made available on the Chapter website. As you can see, the chapter was quite busy in 2009 and I wasn’t able to fit everything in that the everyone was involved in. 2010 promises to be just as eventful with two sets of final action hearings for code change, on-going educational seminars, the 25th Annual Education Institute, training for new board members, anticipated energy code training for jurisdictions, new Give-A-Days, and plenty of other activities to keep us hopping. We encourage your support and involvement as we move into this New Year. The Chapter is only as good as the member involvement. This is 100% a volunteer, member driven organization and I, for one, continue to be proud to be involved. Shaunna Mozingo Left: Gil Rossmiller accepts award Past Chair, Newsletter Committee from CAPMO’s Sam Dardano. 1st Vice President, CCICC Right: Work at Wilderness on Wheels

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What ENERGY Code? By Shaunna Mozingo, City of Westminster

Over recent years there has been a demand from the federal government to increase energy efficiency in new and existing buildings. These mandates have been passed down to the local governments by way of state legislature as well as the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). It has also been mandated that an energy code be created that increases energy efficiency over the 2006 IECC by 30% to 50%. According to the Department of Energy the 2009 IECC increase energy efficiency by approximately 15% over the 2006 code so another 15% minimum increase in efficiency needs to be gained in the 2012 IECC. WOW! What a battle this has become on many fronts. First, the energy codes are at a minimum difficult to understand and enforce at first glance so a lot of jurisdictions are not currently enforcing the code as written therefore we shall never see that true increase in energy efficiency. The IECC is getting tightened and wrenched down because no results can be seen on current efficiency when in fact; it is this writer’s opinion that if everyone would enforce the code as it exists in the 2009 IECC there would not be a need for further revisions. But, because it just isn’t happening the DOE mandates that we keep wrenching. Secondly, most departments don’t have the time or funds available to stop and learn the new energy code every 3 years and then to try and take time to enforce it so unless some free, convenient training comes around to them they will not be able to do their job properly. There is already so much to learn and enforce with just the IBC, IRC, IPC, IMC, IFGC, IFC, IPMZC, etc, it is hard to ask departments to take time to learn another code that they don’t feel is a life safety issue. The codes are in place to protect health and life safety and also energy efficiency. If we do not write a code that deals with energy then the federal government will do it for us and it is in our best interest to keep these things in our own control because we are the ones that have to enforce them. That being said, it has become increasingly difficult at code change hearings to fight for the enforceability of the energy code because the majority of the people present at these hearings are industry and consulting folks who are paid to be there. There are very few, and I mean 3 or 4 at the most, code officials present to fight for a consistent, enforceable energy code that can be taught, learned and implemented with ease and not become another book on the shelf. The Colorado Chapter of ICC and the Department of Energy hosted public meetings in 2009 for all parties interested in the energy code changes submitted for the 2012 IECC and IRC. The meetings were held in Washington DC and Denver, Colorado and were attended by industry personnel, consultants, DOE, code officials, PNNL and others with a goal to work out as many details of the various aspects of the code prior to any of the code hearings in an effort to decrease the time energy code change hearings last and to collaborate on what goes into the code so that everyone had a chance to vet their opinions and hopefully resolve issues before hearings and get a more comprehensive yet consistent and enforceable code. After the meetings Pacific Northwest National Laboratories set up a shared website so that everyone could post their proposed changes and people could post their comments in an effort to carry the collaboration effort forward without the expense of travel. The process worked great and by the time ICC’s deadline for code change submittals rolled around it was clear what would be moving forward and who was involved and there were many concessions made and folks agreed to disagree where needed. The hearings in Baltimore for the IECC actually ended a few hours early instead of going until all hours of the day. There is still much work to be done but HUGE steps were made in moving closer to a more enforceable code. The Colorado Chapter of ICC has set its feet in the starting blocks and knuckles to the ground just waiting on the Governor’s Energy Office and the DOE to start the race by providing funding for us to begin training each other on the 2009 Energy Code and future codes as they become available. It is our desire to provide free, convenient training to everyone who wants it because the code will do no good unless you know how to use it and actually enforce it. I sent out a survey to jurisdictions on their knowledge of and enforcement of the energy codes and about 15 jurisdictions have responded. I will give it another week or so and then post the results on the web page. If you have any questions regarding the IRC energy provisions or the IECC please contact either Shaunna Mozingo at [email protected] or Gil Rossmiller at [email protected]

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Fire Marshals Association of Colorado Accomplishments

2009

• In cooperation with the CO Chapter, ICC, we formed the Joint Ad-Hoc Residential Sprinkler Committee designed to identify and remove barriers to the adoption of the IRC's residential sprinkler requirements. The committee includes stakeholders from CCICC, Homebuilders Association (HBA), State Board of Plumbing Examiners, National Fire Sprinkler Association (NFSA), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and numerous industry representatives

• The FMAC code committee submitted several proposed code changes and was well represented at the 09/10 code development hearings in Baltimore, MD, with 13 representatives attending the fire, building and residential code tracks.

• The International Fire Code Prep Class was updated for the 2009 edition of the Code. The premier class is being offered on a seven week, flip/flop schedule starting January 7 and 8. Thirty-five people have signed up, as of now. The instructor pool for this, and other classes, grew by over fifty percent.

• FMAC instructed at numerous conferences throughout the year, including: the annual Northern Colorado Fire Marshals Institute; the Colorado State Fire Chiefs Association (CSFCA) Leadership Conference; the CCICC Institute.

• FMAC took an active role on numerous legislative issues during the session.

• The Vice President, Ed Van Walraven, represented FMAC at the International Fire Marshals Association Annual Meeting in June.

• Two FMAC members were selected to the State School Construction Board of Appeals. Jerry Stricker will represent FMAC and Rob Geislinger will represent CSFCA

• Two FMAC members, Rob Geislinger and Mark Wasson, were appointed to the International Fire Code committee. One member, Mike Dell’Orfano, was reappointed as chair of the ICC Code Correlation Committee.

CAPMO 2010 MEETING DATES

All meetings will be held at:

Jefferson County Administration & Courts Building

Lower Level - Buffalo Bill Room

100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, Colorado

303-271-8260 9am to Noon January 21 March 18 July 15

September 16 November 18

WILDERNESS ON WHEELS

The Chapter Give-A-Day for this year’s Wilderness on Wheels project will be held

on Saturday, July 17th.

Watch the chapter website for more information to come on this event!

DISASTER OPERATIONS MANUAL

NOW AVAILABLE ON THE

CHAPTER WEBSITE.

CHECK IT OUT!!!

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Colorado Chapter of

the International

Code Council

Colorado Association of Plumbing And Mechanical Officials

Sam Dardano

President (303) 441-4283

[email protected]

Newsletter Committee: Shaunna Mozingo – Chair City of Westminster 303-430-2400 ext 2084 [email protected] Tim Pate City and County of Broomfield 303-438-6373 [email protected]

Colorado Association of Permit Technicians

“Our job is to solve complicated problems, not complicate solved problems.” Bob Fowler

Darla Brooks President

720-874-6609 [email protected]

Fire Marshal’s Association of Colorado

President Rob Geislinger (720) 488-7174

Parker-South Metro Fire

Authority [email protected]

Colorado Chapter Of ICC, Inc

Officers for 2010 President Stephen Kanipe Town of Aspen 1st Vice President Shaunna Mozingo City of Westminster 2nd Vice President Gil Rossmiller Town of Parker Secretary Andy Blake Morgan County Treasurer Dan Weed Colorado Code Consulting Board of Directors Mike Metheny Town of Aspen Janine Snyder Town of Frisco Keith Peetz City and County of Denver Mark Gurule Pueblo Regional Building Dept. Mike Jones City of Louisville Past President Steve Byer Arapahoe County

WHAT’S COMING UP IN THE NEXT ISSUE? A new newsletter team! Future newsletters will be under the direction of Janine Snyder, Committee Chair for 2010. Thank you Janine for taking on this responsibility.

Dave Nichols Regional Manager Government Relations ICC, Arizona GR Field Office 3347 N. Chestnut Mesa, Arizona 85213 1-888-422-7233 x7701 480-835-8900 fax [email protected]