AGENDA

(7/14/04)

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NCSBCS 37th Annual Conference

AMCBO Annual Meeting

Marriott City Center

Salt Lake City, Utah

September 29-October 1, 2004

7:30 – 4:00         Registration 

8:30 – 9:00        Buffet Breakfast

9:00 – 9:45        Welcome to Annual Meeting
                        Orientation to NCSBCS & AMCBO Programs, Services & Vision

9:45 – noon       State Government Committee
                        (Comprised of state government building officials)

                              *  Introduction to committee
                              *  Issues of relevance to state government
                              *  Training models - How states are successfully funding & providing training
                              *  Identification & discussion of issues of major importance to state officials

9:45 – noon       Major Cities & Counties Committee
                        (Comprised of building officials from major cities & counties)

                              *  Introduction to committee
                              *  Issues of relevance to major cities and counties
                              *  Surviving your budget crisis - Funding building departments during times of
                                  fiscal constraint
                              *  Discussion of fee determination methodology for new construction, retrofit &
                                  rehab
                              *  Identification & discussion of issues of major importance to major jurisdictions 

9:45 – noon       Medium & Small Jurisdictions Committee
                        (Comprised of building officials from medium and small counties, cities, towns &
                         municipalities)

                              *  Introduction to committee
                              *  Issues of relevance to medium and small jurisdictions
                              *  What are generally accepted staff levels - a presentation by ISO on their
                                  findings 
                              *  Strategies for managing all of those unfunded mandates - Doing everything
                                  with nothing
                              *  Identification & discussion of issues of major importance to medium & small
                                  jurisdictions 

9:30 – noon       Factory-Built Structures Committee
                        *  Review of state modular program fee structures
                        *  Changes in the Federal Manufactured Housing Program that impacts states

9:30 – noon       Information Technology Industry Advisory Subcommittee
                        *  Continue work on XML schema for hardware and software used in the
                            building regulatory process

Overlapping Federal Regulations & the Need for Federal Regulatory Streamlining
Speaker:  Bryant Applegate, HUD Affordable Housing Initiative (invited)

1:30 – 5:00      Homeland Security - A Review of State & Local Government Role,
                      Responsibilities & Best Practices

                      *  U. S. Department of Homeland Security's relationship with state
                          and local governments
                               Speaker from DHS being designated

                      *  Building Security Issues
                          -  Pressures for the creation of a new building code for security
                          -  Use of code enforcement personnel and programs for criminal and
                             other public safety enforcement

                      *  Best Practices - What states/locals are doing to address:
                          -  Homeland security
                          -  Consolidation of agencies
                          -  Governors' commissions
                          -  Cooperative agreements

1:30 – 5:00      Private Sector Members Forum

                      *  Review of construction industry regulatory issues to share with state
                          and local code administrators

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THURSDAY, September 30
NCSBCS/AMCBO Joint Important Issues Conference & 4th National Forum on Building Smarter in the Digital Age

8:00 – 4:00      Registration

8:00                Continental Breakfast                  

8:30 – 9:00     Welcome and Opening Remarks

(Two Parallel Sessions)

9:00 – 10:00    Update & Overview of Alliance Work in 2003-2004
                      Alliance Task Force Activities, Model Procurement Guidelines,
                      Implementation Grants Criteria
                      Speakers:  Paul Watkins, MobileHWY, LLC & Robert Wible, NCSBCS

10:00 – 10:15   Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:30   Hardware and Software State and Local Governments Can Use
                       in their Building Codes Administration and Enforcement Programs
                       Speakers:  Mark Topping, New York City Department of Buildings
                                        Stephen Garnier, Fairfax County, Virginia

                       (Panel comprised of software/hardware industry & state/local code
                       enforcement personnel & demonstration of online permitting and
                       plans submittal and review hardware/software.)

11:30 – noon    Hands-on Demonstrations of Hardware/Software Tools

9:00 – 10:00    Understanding Retrofit
                      *  Definition and scope
                      *  Applicability
                      *  Accepted practices
                      *  Examples

10:00 – 10:15   Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:15   When to Require? Examples –

                       Implementing Retrofit Requirements
                       *  Determining applicability
                       *  Supporting compliance & enforcement
                       *  Special issues

11:15 – noon     Changes in Use - This is how it works in building rehabilitation

1:30 – 3:30    Panel on state & major city lessons learned in disaster recovery
                    (Disaster recovery and importance of effective preparedness, mitigation &
                    response programs and damage assessment & mutual aid agreements)

3:30 – 3:45    Coffee Break

3:45 – 5:00    NIST Disaster Investigation Teams and WTC Final Report
                       Speaker:  Shyam Sundar, NIST Building & Fire Research Laboratory

1:30 – 3:30    Federal Update - Things on the Horizon
                    What new regulations and procedures are being planned

                    Panel presentation by representatives from OSHA, HUD, EPA, DOE &
                    DoC on pending federal regulations and rules impacting codes enforcement

3:30 – 3:45    Coffee Break

3:45 – 5:00    How Demographics are Changing the Codes Enforcement World

                    Panel presentation on three important trends:
                    *  Bilingual work force
                    *  Aging of Americans
                    *  Retirements of senior building department staff (Report from President's Task Force)

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1

8:00 – noon      Registration

8:00                Continental Breakfast

(Two Parallel Programs)

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