Meeting Minutes
March 13, 2007

1. ATTENDANCE:

        Dave Walter, Poway Fire                                    Terri Leyton, PD&C                                            

        Mike Moffat, Moffat Group / FireTrol                     Mike Benoit, San Diego Fire Dept.

        Toby MacDonald, Western Fire Protection             Mike Rottenberg, Santee Fire Dept.

        Ken Wagoner, Parsley Consutling                        Paul Methot, Tyco Fire Products

        Steve Leyton, PD&C                                           Gene Neely, Spears Mfg. Co.

        Stuart Cook, Potter Roemer                                Tara Shelton, Quick-Dry Flood Services

        Ty Thompson, Bradshaw Engineering                   Kristopher Brantley, Pro-Tech Fire

        Mike Coughlin, Cosco Fire Protection, Orange       Brent Sexton, Sexton Fire Protection

        Randy Siegmund, Kennedy Valve                        Paul Bennett, Starfire

        Scott Harrison, Viking Supply Net                        Steve Adrignola, Bradshaw Eng.

2. TREASURER'S REPORT: Ken Wagoner reports that the Charity Account balance is $1,746.37.  General Checking Account balance is $1988.09.  All bills are paid.

3. FPO REPORT:  FPO information is always available at:  www.firepreventionofficers.org.    Sam Husoe is spending this week at the CA Fire Prevention Institute in Buellton, CA.

4. EDUCATION REPORT:   The San Diego Fire Protection Association continues to sponsor the Fire Sprinkler Technology Seminar Series.  This is a monthly workshop-style seminar series intended for AHJ's, Plan Reviewers, Field Inspectors & Designers.

Last class' topic was design parameters in Chapter 8 of NFPA-13.  Next month, a special training session will be held on APRIL 10.  Location is to be determined.   Russ Leavitt, former SDFPA president currently with Fire Materials Group will be with us for a special 3 ½ hour session reviewing NFPA 25 and in particular, the emergency adoption of NFPA 25 (with requirements from Title 19) set to be effective April 1, 2007.  Our regular monthly meeting will follow this informative session, with Russ again serving as guest speaker.

5. OLD BUSINESS/PAST EVENTS:

• San Diego Fire Dept.'s High-rise retrofit project has been put on hold.  More information will be sent out as it becomes available.

6. UPCOMING EVENTS / NEW BUSINESS:

• 3/21   - FSCASC/NFSA/AFSA/SDFPA Joint meeting.  11:30 at Mr. Stox Restaurant in Anaheim.  Guest speaker will be James Golinveaux, VP of Research and Development for Tyco.  He will be speaking on “NFPA Changes and New Products”
• 3/27   - AFSA San Diego Chapter regular meeting.  1130 at Seau''s
• 4/10  - SDFPA regular meeting.  Guest Speaker: Russ Leavitt, former SDFPA President, speaking on NFPA-25 Changes.
• 4/12   - SFPE San Diego Chapter regular meeting.  11:30 at Sizzler on Aero Drive.
• 5/19   - SDFPA Golf Tournament

7. PROGRAM:  Chief Mike Rottenberg from the City of Santee gave an overview of a controlled burn that was conducted with the cooperation of the Burn Institute and Sexton Fire.  The lesson learned is that sprinklers work - and they work well!  The biggest difficulty that they had was that the sprinklers kept putting out the fires they set too soon.  They finally had to shut off the water so that the fires could get established, then turn the water back on.  The sprinklers still put out the fires with no problem.  Very interesting presentation, and our special thanks to Chief Rottenberg for joining us.

Mike Moffat, President
Terri Leyton, Secretary