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Building Board of Appeals
Town of Vail
Community Development Large Conference Room
75 S. Frontage Road, W.
Vail, CO 81657
3:00 PM, Thursday January 8th, 2009
Minutes
Members present
Thomas R. Dubois
Mark J. Mueller
Rich Seth
Lynne Fritzlen
Rollie Kjesbo
Members absent
Kathy Langenwalter
Kyle Webb
Meeting Commenced: 3:05 p.m.
Review and acceptance of meeting minutes of Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Minutes were reviewed by board members. Rich Seth motioned to approve minutes
Minutes unanimously accepted by the board
Establishment of committees for the 2009 Building/ Fire code adoption
The building official presented the proposed committees for the 2009 code adoption. The Board was also requested to accept a position as chair on the committees proposed. Chair Fritzlen
asked for volunteers to serve on the committees. All members accepted a position. Chair Fritzlen assigned absent members to committees .See attached 2009 Code adoption committees for
assignments. The assignment does not preclude any member from participating on other committees. The assignment will allow the chair to report back to the board on progress of the committee.
The Building Official shall begin to solicit members to serve on the committees that have the technical knowledge for that specific area of expertise.
Report on the Best card by the Building Official
The building official informed the board that he went to Aspen and discussed the Best Card program with the building official and the person administering the program.
The program is currently being administered by Pitkin County and Aspen. The Rocky Mountain College is proctoring the test. The program is being administered on a 10 year plus agreement
between the local communities.
One of the downfalls of the program is that a person has to appear in Aspen in order to apply and receive their license.
The town administration will continue to look at the viability of the licensing by testing. Several members of the board felt there is a need for creating a testing program in order
to enhance the consumer protection of the Town of Vail citizenry.
ADA Workshop on January 9th, 2009
The ADA workshop is to be held on Friday. We currently have over 55 participants with most being from local firms, towns, and developers. Many of the board members are to be in attendance.
We were unable to get AIA credits but will be able to on future projects with the AIA as a co-host.
Discussion of the proposed sustainable energy code and goals to be achieved
Building Official Martin Haeberle introduced Bill Carlson, Environmental Health Specialist and Kristen Bertuglia, Environmental Sustainable Coordinator. They will be working with the
committee for the 2009 energy code in order to include a sustainable portion to the code. The desire is to create a energy code that may be used for LEED certification or similar programs.
Draft of the Special Inspection Program
Senior Building Inspector JR Mondragon explained the proposed rough draft for special inspection to be done within the Town limits. The proposed program shall require that the inspectors
verify with the Town that they are qualified to perform the inspection. Martin Haeberle stated that the program shall be reviewed by local engineers and special inspection agencies prior
to bringing it before the board for input.
Currently the special inspection agencies engineer shall be required to signoff on inspections done by the special inspector.
Draft of a Revised Plans Policy
Martin Haeberle presented to the board a proposed policy for revisions to plans. The policy is a rough draft and still seeks input. The balance of requiring revision to be submitted
and reviewed or allowing a field inspector approved the changes is one that is being addressed within the policy.
The need to insure field changes are approved as part of the original approved plans and also accepted by the design professional is reflected in conflicts that have occurred on several
projects.
Martin Haeberle shall be bringing a final draft of the policy to the board for input upon receiving industry comments.
Items for the February , 2009 meeting
None proposed
Adjournment 4:30