Item P05BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: December 19, 2008 Division: County Attorney
Bulk Item: Yes X No _ Department: Natileene W. Cassel
Staff Contact Person/Phone #:292-3470
AGENDA ITEM WORDING: Approval of the unanimous recommendation from the
Contractor's Examining Board to appoint Mr. Rudy Krause, as a regular member of the
Board for an initial three (3) year term to begin January 19, 2009; and approval to
reappoint the Mr. Charles Miller as an alternate member, for another term to begin
January 1, 2009.
ITEM BACKGROUND: At the November 12, 2008 meeting, the Contractor's Examining
Board unanimously recommended Mr. Rudy Krause for a three-year term as a regular member of
the Contractors Examining Board. Mr. Rudy Krause is a certified building contractor, who has
served as past -president of the Contractors Association, and has resigned that position in order to
be considered by the BOCC. He would be taking the position previously held by Mr. Edward
Werling, whose term expires in January 18, 2009, and who does not desire an additional term.
At the November 12, 2008 meeting of the Contractor's Examining Board, Mr. Charlie
Miller was recommended unanimously for another term as an alternate member. Mr. Miller is a
certified general contractor who has diligently served on the CEB since January 28, 2006.
The Contractor's Examining Board recommends BOCC approval for both of these
appointments.
The Monroe County Code Section 6-84(a) requires that BOCC appoint members to the
Contractors Examining Board. The members of the Contractor's Examining Board serve without
compensation for three-year terms. There are no term limits for service on the Contractor's
Examining Board per Monroe County Code Section 6-85.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:: Approval to reappoint Mr. Joseph Veirick, as a
regular member, Ms. Peggy J. Bankester, as a regular member, and Mr. Frank Toppino, as an
alternate member, was granted by the BOCC on February 20, 2008.
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES: None
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: Approval
TOTAL COST.-0- Members serve for free
COST TO COUNTY: -0-
BUDGETED: Yes No
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes No AMOUNT PER MONTH Year
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APPROVED BY: County Atty X_0 OMB/Purchasing Risk Management
DOCUMENTATION: Included X Not Required
DISPOSITION: AGENDA ITEM #
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DIVISION 2. EXAMINING BOARD*
*Editor's note: Division 2 was formerly entitled "Examining and Examiners Mediation Boards." Since
the examiners mediation board provisions were repealed by Ord. No. 21-1986, the editor has changed
the division title to "Examining Board."
Sec. 6-83. Created.
The following examining board is hereby created:
(1) One (1) person holding an engineering I card.
(2) One (1) person holding a contractors I card.
(3) One (1) person holding a master plumber's card.
(4) One (1) person holding a master electrician's card.
(5) One (1) person holding a master mechanical card.
(6) Two (2) persons, holding any of the foregoing qualifications and having previously
served as regular members of the contractors examining board shall be designated
alternates to serve at any regularly scheduled meeting of the contractors examining
board only upon the inability of a quorum to be met in the absence of said alternates.
(7) Three (3) persons who are not and have never been, engaged in any of the
occupations for which licensing is required under this chapter and who are not engaged
in any related profession.
(Ord. No. 16-1975, § 6(A); Ord. No. 10-1993, § 1; Ord. No. 25-1998, § 1; Ord. No. 004-2005, § 1)
Sec. 6-84. Appointment; secretary, etc.
(a) The examining board shall consist of eight (8) regular voting members and two (2) alternate
voting members appointed by the board of county commissioners. The building official or his
designated agent shall serve as secretary to the board and shall have no vote. Legal counsel
shall be furnished by the county attorney or his designated representative. The members of the
board shall be proportionately representative of the trade or trades related to the subject matter
concerned in the examination and qualifications, and professions within and connected with the
particular trades concerned shall be represented. The eight (8) regular member composition
shall, at all times, include at least one (1) representative from each of the Lower, Middle and
Upper Keys of Monroe County. No member of the examining board shall receive any
compensation for duties involved.
(b) No officer, director or administrator of a state, county or regional professional or
occupational organization or association, while holding such position, shall be eligible to serve
as a member or the examining board for the profession or occupation_ Each regular member
who is a licensed contractor shall have five (5) years of active participation in his respective field
and shall be currently involved as a licensed contractor in that field to qualify for appointment.
The alternate member shall be a priormember of the contractor's examining board and shall be
currently involved as a licensed contractor.
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(Ord. No. 16-1975, § 6(13); Ord. No. 46-1988, § 1; Ord. No. 10-1993, §§ 2, 3; Ord. No. 25-1998, §§ 2, 3;
Ord. No. 004-2005, § 2)
Editor's note: Section 1 of Ord. No. 46-1988, adopted Oct. 4, 1988, added provisions to § 6-84
designated by the editor as subsection (b), with the existing provisions of the section designated as
subsection (a).
Sec. 5-85. Terms of office; removal, vacancies.
(a) Each member, regular or alternate, shall be selected for a period of three (3) years. Upon
expiration of a member's term, any member, regular or alternate, who has served in good
standing and receives the recommendation of a quorum of the examining board, shall be
eligible for reappointment to the examining board. Nothing contained in this section shall be
construed to impose any limit on the number of terms, consecutive or otherwise, any individual
member can serve.
(b) Any member, regular or alternate, of the examining board may be removed from office by a
majority vote of the five (5) members of the board of county commissioners.
(c) Any vacancy occurring during the unexpired term of office of any member, regular or
alternate, of the examining board shall be filled by the board of county commissioners for the
unexpired term thirty (30) days after such vacancy occurs.
(d) Any regular member of the contractor's examining board who absents himself from any
three (3) consecutive regular meetings of the contractor's examining board, unless excused
from such attendance by consent of the board, expressed by action of record in its official
minutes, or who is absent from a total of four (4) regular meetings of the board in any fiscal year
without having been excused from such attendance by consent of the board expressed by
action of record in its official minutes shall thereby automatically forfeit his position and office as
a member of the contractor's examining board; and the name of such person shall be
automatically removed from the membership of the board immediately after the adjournment of
any such third consecutive meeting or any such fourth meeting in any fiscal year, as the case
may be, at which such member has not appeared. The board shall thereupon promptly notify
the member so removed, and the board of county commissioners for Monroe County shall
thereupon appoint a newmember to serve the remainder of the unexpired term for the member
so removed.
(Ord. No. 16-1975, § 6(C); Ord. No. 46-1988, § 2; Ord. No. 18-1991, § 1; Ord. No. 10-1993, §§ 4--7;
Ord. No. 038-2003, § 1; Ord. No. 005-2007, § 1)
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The Present Members of the Contractor's Board are:
1) Steve R. Henson, Chairman, Certified General Contractor, engineering card,
Lower Keys
2) William (Bill) Kelly III, Vice Chairman, Electrical contractor, electrician card,
Middle Keys
3) Jonathon Barth, Certified Air Conditioning Contractor, mechanical card, Upper
Keys
4) Gary Centonze, Certified Plumbing Contractor, plumber's card, Lower Keys
S) Edward Werling, Certified Building Contractor, contractors card, Lower Keys
b) Peggy J. Bankester, Lay person member, Lower Keys
7) Joseph Vetrick, Lay person member, Upper Keys
S) Vacancy for Lay Person
Alternate members:
1) Charles Miller, Certified General Contractor, Middle Keys
2) Frank Toppino, Engineering Contractor, Lower Keys