It's 602.

The August 6 meeting of the Building and Standards Commission is now in session.

The work session is now in session.

Yes, we have a quorum present in the work room.

Satish Jaramon.

Yes.

Okay, Shane Jones.

Yeah.

Kevin Wakler.

Sabia Chaco.

Here.

Michael Leden.

Casey Smith.

And I'm here.

Okay.

First order of business is to begin work session identified an item two of the agenda.

So I'll turn over the work session to Steve Schubert, the chief building official.

Thank

you.

Thank you, Chairman Laver.

My name is Steve Schubert, the Chief Building Official for the City of Capel.

Tonight I am also joined by members of the city staff.

We have uh Matthew Steer, who is our development service administrator.

And we have Jacqueline Downs, who is our secretary.

And helps keep us functioning.

Okay.

And that's it.

Anything.

If you guys are ready, then uh we can go straight to the presentation.

Yes,

let's go straight to the presentation.

Well, no, uh, as I stated, I'm Steve Schubert, Chief Building Official for the City of Capel.

Um presenting to you the proposed adoption of the 2026 National Electrical Code.

We refer to it as the NEC.

The

adoption of the 2026 National Electrical Code is proposed for the approval of building standards commission, which in turn you guys will be making a motion to recommend it to forwarded city council for city councils review and approval.

Uh

real quick, again, every three years, whole new code book comes out.

Uh next edition will be the 2029 National Electrical Code, which they actually are already in the process of writing

that up.

No,

no, got a whole decent so uh the Texas department licensing regulation is over all licensure for electricians in the state.

Uh part and parcel of what they function off of is the Texas Occupations Code, uh, specifically chapter 1305, I believe, which is for licensed electricians.

Um under Title 8, Chapter 1305.101, it requires the executive director of the TDLR to adopt the latest version of the NEC as it becomes available.

Their year starts on September 1st.

So effective September 1st of this year, the state is going to be enforced in the 2026 National Electoral Code.

And our adoption not only brings us in alignment with the state, but also provides us a step up for when we get audited by the ISO.

The ISO is an insurance rating company, and they rate us based on how knowledgeable we are, how many certifications we have, and how recent our code adoptions are.

The higher we rate, the lower insurance rates our residents pay, and that's for our residential or commercial properties.

So part of all of this is a reminder that what I'm proposing to you is my amendments to the electoral codes.

You guys are not here to review the electoral codes.

Um that's my job.

My job is to know and understand the codes.

If I bring a proposal to you all for amending a session of the code, whether it's the election or the building code, whatever it is, then I'll present to you guys the data that you guys need for that particular portion in order to make an educated decision.

Our current practices, of course, we're currently underneath the 2023 National Electrical Code, same as the state.

I chose to steal information from a uh electrical contract construction and maintenance magazine.

It's written by Mike Holtz.

Mike Holt, for people who are not familiar with him.

He is, in his opinion, God's gift to electrical book.

A buddy of mine who is a master electrician as well as a building official, the way he likes to phrase it is uh everything that Mike Holt says is the national electrical code according to my colt.