Recent
Meeting Minutes:
1/9/07
Elevator Association of Florida Meeting Minutes
(Draft -
Until approved at 4/10/07 meeting)
Cocoa Beach
**8:30
Call to order by president. Introduction of BOD by individual board
members. Followed by introductions of members and visitors.
**8:33
Former Association president, Lee Rigby, was honored with a plaque
in recognition of his service to the Association.
**8:36
Treasurer’s report was given by Tim Newton. The secretary also
addressed outstanding member dues. Motion to accept treasurer’s report
and approved.
**8:38
Minutes of September meeting were displayed on the overhead screen for
everyone to review. Following review questions were solicited, having
none, a motion was made to approve the minutes as read and seconded.
**8:41 Tom
Warmingham of Monitor Controls was introduced and talked about the new
requirements for Firefighters’ Operation and the in car panel with layout
now required. Mr. Warmingham displayed a sample of an in car box/panel
that Monitor Controls produces for new or existing applications.
Jonathon Latham of Janus Elevator Products was introduced by Mr.
Warmingham to discuss new emergency communication requirements addressed
in A17.1S-2005. This was a very good presentation with a lot of questions
from those present concerning the use of emergency phones in elevators.
**9:45 Lee
Rigby was given the floor to discuss recent changes in Florida
relating to fire detection in open air lobbies. Mr. Rigby also informed
everyone of a cut off date for submitting change request for NFPA 72.
Questions were fielded and an open discussion was conducted.
** 9:52
Break was announced.
**10:10
Returned from break. President introduced Shawn Crow of Austen
Electric. Mr. Crow discussed the electrical requirements for
elevators including requirements for emergency generators. Mr. Crow gave
a very informative presentation on the national and state requirements for
emergency power and where they apply. Following a lengthy question and
answer session the presentation concluded at 10:42.
**10:43
Assoc. President followed this presentation with remarks that also apply
to the emergency power. Mr. Waardenburg also discussed the importance of
the cracker barrel session held the night before the quarterly meetings.
**10:47
President introduced John Calpini, Bureau Chief for the State of
Florida Bureau of Elevator Safety. Mr. Calpini discussed some of the
Bureau’s changes. He spoke about the State's violation list problems and
indicated that the list is being worked on and changes would be
forthcoming. Also discussed were the testing requirements for Certificate
of Competency (CC); the Bureau is working on the changes for the tests and
process. No date was given to have changes made to the test(s). Mr.
Calpini then discussed the “date certain” as applied to the renewal
process for state provided credentials. He stated that all applications
received to date had been processed. When renewing your credentials you
must send in your continuing education requirements by the old expiration
date even though the State's list indicates your “card” may not expire
until 31 December. You will then be issued a new card that may only be
validated for a couple of months. Following this short renewal period you
will then have to renew again by 31 December. A few questions were taken
by Mr. Calpini and the discussion concluded at 11:15. President
Waardenburg then followed up this discussion with an address about
questions submitted or asked of the Bureau.
** 11:19
Mr. Waardenburg then began to discuss “Old Business”. The president
began to discuss the BOD submission of
newly drafted “By-laws”. These
by-laws as drafted were a product of a BOD meeting held on 09 Jan. 2007.
Notice was hereby given that a vote would be taken on 10 April 2007 which
corresponds with the quarterly meeting that is to be held in Clearwater,
for the membership’s approval of the drafted bylaws. Motion was made
following discussion by Charlie Slater and seconded by Lee Rigby to have
job postings on the Association’s website, some discussion was held.
Motion was rescinded by Charlie Slater. Decision was made to discuss this
issue at the next BOD meeting.
**11:32
Began new business discussion by Mr. Waardenburg with a
destination of Ft. Lauderdale for the July Association meeting. A
vote was taken by a show of hands and approved. Mr. Hub Williams then
asked to speak about the State's handling of accident inspections or lack
thereof. Noted was the Bureau's non involvement in accident inspections.
Motion was made by Bert Calhoun and seconded by Bill Snyder to have the
Association, through the BOD, have a letter go the State to encourage the
State to investigate accidents or provide an unbiased inspector to
investigate accidents and ask BOMA for joint involvement to give the
proposal more clout. Motion was carried by a show of hands and approved.
**11:56
Motion was made and approved to adjourn meeting.
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