Thanks for attending the 2022 Saskatchewan Building Officials Association Fall Conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Our fall conference this fall has brought in more than 125 attendees in person and virtual, this is a great number for our association. On behalf of the SBOA Board of Directors I’d like to thank everybody who joined us at our fall 2022 conference. A huge thank you to our conference host committee, as well as our conference chair Mr. Neil Marsh for the educational and informative conference agenda that was put together for this week. Our lineup of speakers for this three-day conference, included professionals from our very own SBOA membership, as well as industry and product specialists.
2022 has been a busy year for building officials throughout Saskatchewan. Building construction investment in Saskatchewan has risen by 87% since August of 2021. Additionally, the number of building permits in 2022 has risen by 39 percent. That’s a substantial increase in workload for all building officials and yet I still see the same number of inspectors at conference. Hopefully that number improves with better access to exams and education through our association.
Executive Director
In July the SBOA Board of Directors parted ways with our then acting Executive Director and re-posted the position. After a short posting, interviews were conducted for the position and an offer was made to our new Executive Director. I’d like to welcome Amanda Prevost as the new Executive Director for the Saskatchewan Building Officials Association. Amanda has been working with us for a few months now. She has done great work and we are looking forward to working with her in the future. Thank you for joining our team, Amanda.
Saskatoon Member-at-Large
On April 4 SBOA reached out to the City of Saskatoon for a member at large representative to sit on the board after the previous seat was vacated by Mark Magnus. Kara Fagnou, Director of Building Standards, put forward Erin Brakefield’s name. Erin is the Business Manager for Building Standards at City of Saskatoon and manages their customer service teams and guides their management team in the delivery of an integrated customer service and business processes associated with the administration of the building and plumbing permit program. Simply put she guides them in connecting technical requirements with the customers using our services. Thank you, Erin, for volunteering to work with us and we look forward to working with you on future projects.
Building Standards Liaison
After a request was submitted to Building Standards to select a liaison to sit on the SBOA board of directors, Mr. Marvin Meickel has put forward Ty Tweidt’s name as their representative. Many of our members have worked with Ty in the past, and we are looking forward to working with him in the future.
Saskatchewan Appeals Board
In April 2022, SBOA committee completed a membership-wide canvas to solicit names to be put forward to the building, technical safety standards branch as SBOA’s nomination for the appeals board. On September 14th, SBOA received confirmation from Marvin Meickel that the appeals board selection process had concluded, and they are advancing all names forward to executive committee. SBOA will have a representative on the appeals board. That is great news to hear for our membership.
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