Santa Rosa Board of Building Regulations Appeals Meeting - July 18, 2024
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Santa Rosa Board of Building Regulations Appeals Regular Meeting - July 18, 2024
This was a brief regular meeting of the Santa Rosa Board of Building Regulations Appeals. The meeting included introduction of the Acting Chief Building Official and a discussion regarding electrical code requirements for energy storage systems (ESS) and solar installations. No appeals were heard and no public comments were received. The meeting was adjourned after approximately 6 minutes.
Note on date discrepancy: The meeting minutes indicate the meeting occurred on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, but the prompt specifies the meeting took place on July 18, 2024. The summary below uses the date from the prompt.
Department Announcements
- Acting Chief Building Official Jimmy Bliss introduced himself, noting he has been with the city for five years, starting as a plan examiner and working up to a check engineer. He previously worked in private sector structural design and engineering. He stated he is excited to carry on the city's legacy.
- Board members inquired about the online diagrams for PCS (Power Control Systems) for ESS systems and solar. One member noted receiving pushback from contractors regarding requirements for ESS on 100-amp main service panels, referencing diagrams showing an 80-amp PCS circuit on a fully loaded 100-amp panel, which appeared to risk overloading the bus. The Acting Chief Building Official acknowledged the complexity and offered to discuss the electrical code details offline.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Chair Cooper opened and closed public comment at 4:14 p.m. No members of the public spoke.
Key Outcomes
- No votes were taken on substantive matters. The only action was a motion to adjourn, which was seconded and passed by voice vote (all in favor). The meeting adjourned at 4:17 p.m.
Meeting Transcript
Can we do the roll call? You have the rule. Okay. Well, I see Eric, Craig, Carl, Dave, and Ken here. So I guess that's how the road call. All right. And uh we apparently don't have any minutes to approve, so we don't have to worry about that. We have no hearings to do that. And now we're over to item number five, which is department announcements producting acting to building for children. That's nice. I'm acting cheap building visualization. I um have been with the city for five years. Um I started as a fine example and work my way up check engineer. Um before that I worked on the private sector, uh doing structural design and engineering. Um can okay, yeah. So uh I'd worked um I think five years there. Um before that I did a lot of schooling and uh year outside of school where I was trying to find a drug. I had some filler jobs in between. Yeah, but uh I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to uh carry on the legacy that city is making working through all this type of stuff we're working on. So questions, pretty let me know and uh you have the same numbers that just you do the same what same towel number that just cell phone number is yes, the the desk phone is different. Okay, but I can give that to you. Yeah, that would probably be good to give us content. Yeah, and I believe it's on our uh board of appeals page as well. We have I can send we can send those out not via email. So if it's on the page, that's probably an issue for the client. I don't know, it was buried pretty deep. But yeah, that's good. Okay. So yeah, I'll send that to you. I think last time we talked, we introduced the little study, you should know that. Okay. Um think we can talk about too much other stuff. So unless you ask me questions. All right. Um anybody have any questions for you? Yeah. Stay tuned. Our question. I was looking at your guys' uh sheets online for your uh diagrams for the PCS for uh ESS systems and solar. And I've been getting a lot of uh kick kickback in uh from contractors, solar contractors about requirements of the ESS and uh how it can you know land on a say 100 amp main service panel. And so I noticed on a couple of your guys' diagrams here showing uh where it's about a hundred amp load on the main service panel that wasn't controlled by PCS, but then there was PCS circuit coming in about 80 amps or so and uh I just wanted you know, there's been so much uh talk about this and what your guys' thoughts are about because you know the new Power Wall threes are C, you know, putting out 48 amps each. Um they do have built-in PCS. I was just reviewing a project last week where there it was only a hundred amp main service panel that was fully loaded, hundred amps, and then they're bringing in you know 80 amps worth of ESS and to me it uh appears bus. So I was just wondering your guys' yeah, um actually dug into the electrical code a lot. So I don't know if that's appropriate for this meeting, but I could talk to you offline and run through whatever you want to do. Yeah, I I went through those really in depth for all the changes because I keep thinking a lot of changes. Yeah, I know it's hard to keep up. Yeah, interesting. Um any further comments we that need to be made by or to this board.
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