July 13, 2004
Elevator Association of Florida Meeting Minutes
Tampa
Meeting Minutes:
-The meeting was brought to order at 8:35am by Lee Rigby,
President
- Introductions
- Lee – Discussion of EAOF’s increased attendance over the years and
requested that all sign the attendance sheet.
- Minutes of the last meeting were reviewed and accepted as written.
- Tim Newton gave the Treasures report – Current balance $6,560.00,
and the Association is in better financial shape than at anytime in the
past. Dues are due at the next meeting.
- First Guest Speaker was introduced:
James Goodloe, Bureau Chief of the
Bureau of Fire
Prevention, reported on
a meeting held yesterday regarding the implementation of House Bill 129.
He discussed the Rule Making process; Ideas can be generated by the
Division, from a group of interested parties, or by a meeting of
technical advisors. Meeting on Monday was designed to receive input from
the "Technical" side of the business to help in writing the rules. There
will be future workshops on rule development. For definitions of what
are six (6) story "Buildings" refer to the building code. In buildings 6
stories or more, all elevators with fire service will have to use the
specified key, regardless the number of landings. All existing elevators
6 stories and higher that have fire service must be converted to the
specified key switches by July 01, 2007. The bill does not require
retrofitting/ adding Fire Service to existing buildings unless they are
"Substantially Improved". Permitting authority will determine when a
building is considered "Substantially Improved", typically 50% of value.
It is the legislative intent to have more than one (1) key in the State,
possible one (1) per emergency response district – total of seven (7)
districts in the State. No permit required if you are just changing out
the key switch. IE: Not upgrading the Fire Control Operation.
- Second Guest Speaker:
Jim Marinelli of
Electrodyn Systems
announced a new Elevator
Monitoring system as well as Maintenance Monitoring system. This system
has a multitude of sensors to report vibrations, high speed stops, full
pit cans, and other anomalies. This system is not dependent on the
controller and is compatible with any elevator system. A presentation on
the capabilities & benefits of their system was made and a survey was
handed out. A drawing was held for participants, Bob Szelc’s card was
drawn, and he went home with a new DVD player.
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Cathy White, Bureau Chief for the
Bureau of Elevator
Safety then addressed the meeting:
– Industry Bulletin 2004-01 will be posted on website
concerning HB129. The newly revised inspection report form is at the
printer and it includes a field concerning code compliance with the new
key switch. The
Division of the State Fire Marshal will enforce HB-129,
not the Bureau of Elevator Safety.
- Cathy then answered the questions submitted to the
Bureau prior to the meeting.
NOTE: A written copy of the questions and answers has been
obtained and was distributed via e-mail. Copies are available from Lee
Rigby upon request.
Cathy White then gave the following Comments:
-Elevator Accident inspections are the responsibility of
the Bureau. Customer has five (5) days to report an accident to the
Bureau on the State’s form. Local jurisdictions have the responsibility
to forward accident reports to the State.
-Certificates of Operation will only be issued to those
units with a current inspection without violations. Units operating
without a current certificate may be issued an administrative complaint
and fined. If it comes to the attention of the State that violations are
not corrected even though a letter is sent to the State stating that
violations are corrected, the State can take disciplinary action against
either the elevator owner or the registered elevator company for
falsifying records.
-The Elevator Owner is responsible to notify the State as
to the status of their maintenance contract in order to comply with the
two (2) stop exemption. If owners cancel a contract and contract with
another company they are responsible for notifying the State of this
change.
-The "Certificate of Operation" must be located in the
elevator per Chapter 399 F.S.
-HB129 – The latest version of the Law states that
Disciplinary action against a CC holder / QEI or elevator company is the
responsibility of the State not an authorized jurisdiction.
Old Business:
Next meeting will be October 12th
at the Clarion
Orlando – 3835 McCoy Rd. near the airport. This will be the annual
business meeting.
New Business:
Location for future meetings was discussed. A show of
hands was used to decide that the January 2005 meeting will be in
Gainesville and the April meeting at Sarasota Beach.
A suggestion was brought up, discussed, and a motion was
made, seconded, and approved for the Association to purchase a
microphone/speaker system for meetings.
A motion to adjourn was made, seconded and passed, and the
meeting adjourned at 11:30.
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