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MEETING MINUTES
MONTHLY BOARD MEETING
Thursday, May 23, 2013
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES
1.0 CALL TO ORDER. President Victor Cuevas called the meeting to order at 10:00 PM.
2.0 ROLL CALL BOARD MEMBERS. President Victor Cuevas– introduction of board members present.
Board Member, Title / Jurisdiction / Present / AbsentVictor Cuevas, President / LA City / Y
Mazen Dudar, 1st Vice President / LA County / Y
Ron Takiguchi, 2nd Vice President / Santa Monica / Y
J. Addison Smith, Treasurer / JAS / Y
Fouad Barakat, Secretary / LA County / Called in at 10:300 pm
3.0 APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MINUTES. The April 17 meeting minutes were presented and approved.
4.0 COMMUNICATIONS.
5.1 President: Victor reported
5.2 1st Vice President: Mazen reported
5.3 2nd Vice President: Ron reported
5.4 Treasurer: Addison reported
5.5 Secretary: No report
5.0 COMMITTEE REPORTS:
6.1 Administration: Addison reported that they had a conference call meeting and they discussed electronic plan review.
6.2 Disabled Access. Mazen reported that the committee are working on updating the correction sheets.
6.3 Fire-Life Safety: Mazen reported that they are working on local amendments.
6.4 Green Building: Ron reported that Osama is talking to ICC-IAS to come up with guidelines or standards for building commissioning.
6.5 Inspection: Victor reported that Ayla completed the Deputy Inspection Form.
6.6 Structural: Fouad reported that the structural committee met last month had a discussion on proposed amendments from Karen Bebe. There were no agreement and those discussions are going to continue at the next meeting on Thursday June 13 after the membership meeting.
7.0 EXISTING BUSINESS:
7.1 Program for June: The room is already reserved in Alhambra. The Food and the Program has been taken care of by Victor & Ron. Mr. Dennis Richardson will be making a presentation on the 2012 NDS Wood Construction and the 2008 Special Design provisions for Wind & Seismic.
The agenda and minutes will be prepared and mailed by Fouad; and the Treasurer report will be presented by Addison.
7.2 Joint Tri-Chapter Meeting (May 9, Rio Hondo) on Hits & Misses
Everyone said that the Meeting and turnout was very good. But we need to work on controlling the speakers time and maybe have less speakers.
7.3 Evaluation of the May 6th Training Seminar
The Board agreed to improving the process and be committed to the starting on time and all Board members should participate and be present at these functions. The Board also committed to doing a better job with the presentations.
7.4 Update/Outstanding Tasks
- Monthly Treasurer Report and the May 6th Training Accounting Report and the membership Billing status/payments received and the Money owed by the ICC Orange Empire Chapter will all be addressed at our next Board meeting. Addison promised he will have all those reports ready by our next Board meeting.
- Tax Consultant/IRS. Addison they have sent the non-profit letter from the Secretary of State for 501C non-profit Status.
- ICC Free Training – Victor will follow up on that.
- ICC Advertisement on the Website- Victor has already posted the advertisement, and will follow up on the payment.
- LA City Free CASp Training: Victor provided us with the list of all the names of the people who will be attending the training.
- Update on training calendar and sharing of resources. Victor encouraged everyone to take advantage of the training classes. It was also suggested to create an “Educator of the Year” Award and the it was suggested to nominate Mr. Ray Chan for this year.
8.0 NEW BUSINESS
- Chapter meeting Announcement Format: The Board decided the format to be as follows: 1. Agenda 2. Minutes 3. Treasurer Report 4. Speech Presentation 5. Notes & Updates
- Discussion on Potential new board members: The Board suggested some possible names such as: Sal Kadoura, Mark Campbel, Jesse De Anda, Ray, Tony, Shahin, Ayla.
- The Installation Banquet venue for this year. The Board suggested a few places to hold this year Banquet on the 2nd week of January. 1)LA Soranos, in Chino, 2) Marriott/Radisson in Baldwin Park, 3) Palms in Industry and 4) Monterey Hills. The Board postponed a decision on this till the next meeting.
July Chapter meeting
9.0 NEXT MEETING TIME AND LOCATION
The Board decided to have the next Board meeting on June 26th at 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm.
10.0 ANNOUNCEMENTS. For next meeting under new business: past presidents luncheon
11.0 ADJOURNMENT. Meeting was adjourned at approximately 11:45 a.m.