PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING OFFICIALS CONFERENCE

BOD MEETING

APRIL 12, 2007

HOLIDAY INN Carlisle

carlisle, PA

 

 

Call to Order

The meeting was called to order by President Richard Barton at 11:10 A.M. after the Educational meeting.

 

Pledge of Allegiance and Invocation

After the Pledge of Allegiance, Jeff Shultz gave the Invocation.

 

Roll Call

Richard Barton, President, David Knox, Recording Secretary; Shawn D. Forrest, Corresponding Secretary; David Ross, Treasurer; Jim Scheifley, Region IV Representative; Bob Greene, Region V Representative. Jeff Shultz, Region V Representative; John Eby, Region V Representative, Fred Kinder, Region VI representative; Michael Como, Region VI representative, Robert John Smith, Region VI Representative.  Also present was Gil Longwell, Meetings with Success, Khervin Smith, and Roland Hall with ICC.  A quorum was declared.

 

Minutes

                   A motion was made by John Eby and seconded by Robert John Smith to approve the minutes of the April 12, 2007 BOD.  There was a verbal vote with the motion passing unanimously.

 

Treasurer’s Report – David Ross

                   PennBoc, as of April 1, 2007, has $24,027.82 in the checking account, $ 28,946.09 in the savings account and $6,075.71 in a CD.  John Eby stated that the board will be continuing the regional subsidy based on the number of members and this will be paid to each region. A motion was made by John Eby and seconded by Dave Knox to accept the Treasurer’s Report as submitted.  There was a verbal vote with the motion passing unanimously.  

 

Jeff Shultz gave a reminder on the expiration of the grandfathering for residential certification.  There was a brief discussion on this item.

 

Committee Reports

                   ICC Relations – David Ross deferred to Roland Hall whom was present at the last meeting.  Roland stated that any member of a chapter covered under Region 7 can attend the meeting.  John Eby stated that we should include this on the web sited.  Roland gave a summary of the ICC Region 7 year-to-date activities.  Roland stated that they will focus on training and code changes.  There was also a presentation of Smart Code computerizing code enforcement.  Roland also stated that there is a bulletin board for Region 7 that is very good.  John Eby asked if we will consider hosting training for ICC Contractor Certification.  Roland stated that there would be no cost for PennBoc to host this training.  Fred Kinder made a motion that PennBoc promote Contractor Certification Licensing with ICC.  There was a second to the motion by Jim Scheifley.  There was a verbal vote with the motion passing unanimously. 

                                  Roland Hall also stated that ICC will not charge for the books for the complementary class as long as they are members of ICC.  There will be a charge for books for non-members.  Also ICC will resume special test administration for pen and paper tests.

 

                   Government Relations – Jeff Schultz stated that Senate Bill 437 had passed in the Senate.

                  

                   Khervin Smith stated that the IRS has requested additional information for our application for tax exemption.  There is a question on the scholarship.  There was a discussion on the status of the scholarship program and should we continue it if it will jeopardize the 501(c)(3) status.  Bob Greene made a motion to discontinue the scholarship program.  There was a second to the motion by David Ross.  There was a verbal vote with the motion passing unanimously.  Khervin stated that the regions must follow the same fiscal responsible issues as the Board for the 501(c)(3) status.  They can’t collect dues on there own.  What is done with regional monies must be in conformance to the Board and they should submit an annual report to the Board.  Jim Scheifley made a motion to recommend that all regions adopt the same fiscal policy as the board.  There was a second to the motion by John Eby.  There was a discussion on this issue.  There was a verbal vote with the motion passing unanimously.

                                  Khervin stated that he has not yet made contact with L & I on the recent court decision to make a recommendation to the board.

                                  Khervin asked the status of the testing situation from the last conference.  PennBOC has reimbursed the members for the test.  We have not received anything from Thompson.  It was the general consensus that we should do nothing unless we receive something from Thompson.  We can not do anything about the test at this time.

 

                   Community Relations/Newsletter – John Eby asked Bob Smith if he would still serve as the liaison for the web site.   Bob stated he would do that.  Also John stated that he needs reports from each region by the end of April to put out a newsletter. 

 

                   Membership – Gil presented a list of membership per region.  He stated the numbers are comparable to last year at this time.

 

                   33rd Annual Conference – Gil reported that the next conference will be at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg East, October 24 thru 26, 2007.  Gil stated that the committee has not yet met.  Gil stated that from the Education meeting that we should concentrate on commercial this year.  Richard Barton as president should be the conference Chairperson and also Jim Matscherz is on the committee.  Rick stated that a committee will be formed.  Gil asked about next year’s conference and has been getting prices from several locations.  There was a discussion on the proposed location.  John Eby made a motion that on the president’s incoming years the conference be moved to other locations and on odd years it would be at a central location (Harrisburg area).  There was second to the motion by Fred Kinder.  There was further discussion.  There was a verbal vote with the motion passing unanimously.  Gil will check additional sites for the next meeting.

                  

                   Constitution and By-laws – John Eby reported that Region V has become a locate chapter of ICC.  John stated that we should consider changing our status of our members.   There is a concern of whom we allow as a member and there status with the organization.  The question is should we allow members of a third party agency as regular members?  John Eby will prepare a draft amendment for the July meeting.

                  

Region Reports

               Region I -             

               Region II                             -             

               Region IV             -Verbal report     

               Region V              - Written report attached  

               Region VI.           

 

NEW BUSINESS

Gil Longwell stated the Meetings with Success received $12, 341 last year.  Of those monies $4,299 was for actual services.  The remaining monies were for reimbursed monies such as training and membership. 

 

A motion was made by Fred Kinder and seconded by Dave Knox to adjourn the meeting at 2:45 PM.  There was a verbal vote with the motion passing unanimously.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

Shawn D. Forrest

Corresponding Secretary