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MARCH
18th MEETING MINUTES
Call to
Order: at 6:30 PM.
Introduced
Members and Guests - Total 15 members out
of 15 RSVP’s. Doug Wilson was excused as
sick and Kelly Kosko took his seat. Fred Volkers (speaker).
Roll Call of
Officers - All officers present.
Proof of
Meeting Notice - Meeting notice approved.
Approval of
Previous Minutes - Approved as amended.
Reports of Officers:
Reported:
President
-
Mike
Noot
· The
Annual Chapter Meeting for the installation of officers is coming in May.
Anyone interested in serving please contact any Officer. Serving multiple
terms has been frowned on in the past, but it may be allowed by membership
vote. It’s always a good thing to get people involved with the Chapter who
haven’t been. To be president you must have served in another position.
Past
President -
Allen
Johannessen
·
No
report.
Vice
President - Marc
Schoenberg
·
It has been brought to
my attention that some of the other Chapters offer free membership renewal to
unemployed or laid off members. Do we want to discuss this?
Mike Noot: There may not be any benefit to that, we have
traditionally kept the names on the list in perpetuity, you simply couldn’t
vote if you were not paid up. You’d still get all the notices.
Marc Schoenberg: Any
benefit to the Chapter?
Mike Noot: Good Will.
Treasurer-
David
McCurdy
·
Summary report March 2010: WAMU Bank Checking Account
has a balance of $737.91 and we have deposited $550.00. WAMU
Money Market Account is now at
$14,262.97 and earned interest of $.05 as we have not received a
statement.
·
The new address of WWC of ICC
is PO BOX 112468,
Tacoma
, WA 98411-2468
Secretary-
Andy Westgaard
·
Please send me any
change in your contact information, and let me know if you’re aware of anyone
not getting the notices.
Report
of Committees - No reports.
New
Business
·
Burien is looking for an On Call Inspector. See Jan.
· Jim
Frank: Robbins & Co do house lifting and seismic retrofitting, and they
would like to do a class. Any interest?
Marc Schoenberg: Have them call me.
Jim Frank: As a construction supervisor I believe I
am an Associate Member. Does an Officer need to be a class A or B member?
(The By-laws were referred to Article 5.1.3 Restrictions.
Officers must be Class A or Class B members.)
Mike Noot: Can we entertain a motion next meeting and
vote on whether we want to change the By-Laws?
(See the by-laws for noted information at the
referenced Article.)
Mike Noot: I wish I’d brought the videos from the
SeaTac Anniversary. They had the Good Wall/Bad Wall up, and it was a good
display even though the middle part was left out for the smaller space. We
will need to tune it up some. I saw a dozen kids build birdhouses, and
everybody loved it. We should have a bag of Payday candy bars to give to
whoever can find all the defects in the wall.
The code updates are going to be April 26th, 27th, and
30th. It looks like we will break even at 30 people a day. I will
see if we can get the regional benefit, which might bring it down to about 26
people a day break even. How many here are planning to go? (A half dozen hands
went up.)
Register by April 16th. Our regular
meeting in April is going to be the first nomination of officers for the
2010-2011 year. The May meeting is
our Annual Business meeting with final nominations and election of
officers. I had a query about postponing our May meeting, as WABO
is the same day in
Leavenworth
. Any motion?
(It was moved, seconded and approved to move the May
meeting to the following week, May 27th.)
Old
Business
·
Mike Noot had a call from a lady with FEMA, who co-ordinates special
projects. She said they need all kinds of projects done. He will keep us
posted. He haven’t heard back from
Lewis
County
, stay tuned.
Training and
Guest Speaker -
Training
program -
"Tips on What to Look
for in a Plumbing Inspection Part 2"
Guest
Speaker -
Mr.
Fred Volkers, N. W. Washington
Chapter, IAPMO; Plumbing Inspector
·
“Remember, without plumbing, the most beautiful building is just a
warehouse.”
·
“The UPC was adopted
in
Washington
in
my first year as a journeyman. Today, IAPMO has offices in seven countries, and
half the world has adopted the UPC."
·
Some tips:
- Nail
plates need to go 1½ “ past the pipe each side.
- The
mid-story guide is to
keep the plastic pipe from touching the sheet rock after hot water has caused
expansion over the years.
- Don’t use plumbers tape for the floor support, they
can glue on a pipe support either homemade from cut pipe or manufactured.
- PVC always needs
purple primer, if you can’t see it through a clean out it’s not there.
-
Hanging pipe must be supported at every change in direction.
- TPR valves from
water heaters can go into the washing machine drain, indirect.
- Watch out for out
of state contractors installing accessible bathrooms, the WA amendments are
different, and many contractors don’t find out.
- Waterless urinals are not
working. By and large they take more water to clean than they save, and
maintenance is a huge surprise to the owners.
- Remember, the next
NW Washington IAPMO Chapter meeting is going to be right here at Dukes on
Thursday, April 1st.
Thanks, Fred, and
again, good luck in retirement when you finally pull the trigger in June!
Raffle
Winner:
Was won by Jim Frank, for $8:00.
Member
Drawing: The
winner was Joe Szpek, who was not present. $19.00 is going back in the
pot.
Adjourned:
At 8:40 PM.
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