REGULAR CALLED MEETING ELECTRIC BOARD Wednesday May 15 @ 10:00 AM- In Person PERMITTING DEVELOPMENT CENTER/ 1st FLOOR, CONF RM 1401-1402 6310 WILHELMINA DELCO DR AUSTIN, TEXAS Public comment will be allowed in-person or remotely by telephone. Speakers may only register to speak on an item once either in-person or remotely and will be allowed up to three minutes to provide their comments. Registration no later than noon the day before the meeting is required for remote participation. To register, contact rick.arzola@austintexas.gov Gabriel Flores-Chair (Fuentes); Delwin Goss (Velasquez); David Johnson- V Chair (Madison), Victoria Shope (R.Alter), Ben Brenneman (A.Alter), Deschaine, David (Pool); CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS: Christian Spies(Kelly); Michael Grant (Qadri); Joel Cochren(Page) AGENDA CALL TO ORDER PUBLIC COMUNICATION: GENERAL The first 10 speakers signed up prior to the meeting being called to order will each be allowed a three-minute allotment to address their concerns regarding items not posted on the agenda. APPROVAL OF MINUTES- 2024. 1. Approve the minutes of the Electrical Board Regular Called Meeting from March 20, DISCUSSION 2.- Electrical Ordinance 80.38-Suspension of Registration- On Hold for additional Updates 3.- Austin Energy- Technical Advisory Panel- How changes are made to the criteria manual and its decision making. 4.- Austin Code- Numbers of Stop Work orders that are being issued in the community. 5.- Commercial Plan Review update on number of submittals and on time ratio and staffing 6.- Service Center update on application turnarounds time and staffing 7.- Commercial and Residential Inspection update on staff vacancies and timely inspections. DISCUSSION AND ACTION 8.- Nomination of Chair and Vice Chair. 9.- June 19th Electrical Board meeting date. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS ADJOURNMENT The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable modifications and equal access to communications will be provided upon request. Meeting locations are planned with wheelchair access. If requiring Sign Language Interpreters or alternative formats, please give notice at least 2 days (48 hours) before the meeting date. Please call Rick Arzola at Development Services Department, Building Inspections, at (512) 974-2417, for additional information; TTY users route through Relay Texas at 711.
REGULAR CALLED MEETING May 15, 2024 Electric Board APPROVED MINUTES The Electric Board convened in a Regular Called Board Meeting on May 15, 2024, at the Permitting Development Center at 10:05 am. Board Members in Attendance: Victoria Shope, David Johnson, Delwin Goss, Gabe Flores, Michael Grant, David Deshaine and Ben Brenneman. Members Not in Attendance: Christian Spies and Joel Cochran. Staff in Attendance: Rick Arzola (DSD), Maria Jaramillo (DSD) James Epperson (DSD), Marty Starrett (DSD), Moses Rodriguez (ACD), Hyatt Dunn (DSD) and Aaron Finney (DSD) PUBLIC CITIZEN COMMUNICATION: No one registered to speak. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. The minutes were approved for the March 20, 2024, regular called meeting on board member Grant motion, board member Johnson second the motion. Motion passed on a 7-0 vote. DISCUSSION 2. Electrical Ordinance 80.8 Suspension of Registration- No Discussion took place on this item. 3. Austin Energy-Technical Advisory Panel- Austin Energy requested to postpone this discussion to possibly August to attain more information to present to the board. 4. Austin Code-Number of Stop Work orders that are being issued to the community-. Development Services and Austin Code representative Moses Rodriguez reported that there were 955 electrical violations last year, unfortunately he was unable to provide the specific types of electrical violations reported, additionally there were 355 violations on work without permits and 6 stop work orders reported. 5. Commercial Plan Review update- Commercial Electrical plan reviewer James Epperson indicated that commercial plan reviewers are up in reviewing plans to 18% in the first quarter of this year. However, the month of May is trending downwards. Currently, Development Services is now in a hiring freeze till the next fiscal year of October which includes vacant positions that need to be filled in plan review. All said, commercial plan review is one day behind in reviewing plans except for building trade reviewers, who are on time. As for staffing, one reviewer is on medical leave and one reviewer is being shared with the special event permitting team. 6. Service Center update on applications turnaround time and staffing. Maria Jaramillo, Building and trade contractors services manager, provided that her staff is now named Building and Trade Contractor services (BTCS) which will now hopefully be focused on stand alone trade and building permits in place of all other requests it receives that does not pertain to Building and trade contractor services. There are two current ways to …
