Oklahoma Alarm and Locksmith Industry Advisory Board Meeting

 

The July 2009 meeting of the Alarm & Locksmith Industry Advisory Board

The meeting was held on July 1st, 2009 in room #806 of the Oklahoma State Department of Health .

The meeting was called to order by Rick Brown at 9:04 am.

Seven board members present for this meeting, and they were: Rick Brown , Matt Schue , Bob Carol , Steve York ,

Drake McDonald , Ronald Edwards , Ed Humes.  Paul Juneau and James Perry were absent.

Rick moved right into the approval of last month’s minutes, and they were approved.

The board went directly to the Review of New Company Applications.

There were six companies up for review.  All were approved for licensure except one, Fire Engineering Company, Inc.

was tabled for further review.

The Board moved into Discussion and possible action concerning language  changes to the Alarm & Locksmith Industry Regulations.

Rick turned the floor over to Matt Schue for discussion and Matt began to talk about the rewording of the rules concerning the

Electrical Industry. Matt wants to put wording in the rules that in complete detail explain what the Electricians are allowed to do,

and what they are NOT allowed to do as to the inspection of Alarm & Fire Systems.  There was a lengthy discussion by the board

on this issue.  Then Matt moved on the possible action on the out of State Companies putting in bids for jobs in Oklahoma.

The board is looking at a possible 6 month moratorium  on all out of State Companies before they can be licensed and be able

to bid on jobs in our State.  They are also looking at requiring out-of-State companies to have a manager living in Oklahoma, and

they are also looking at requiring the Manager to live within a specified distance from the job site.

The board was also looking at making all out-of-State companies who apply for a license in OK to submit a affidavit on all current

and future jobs in Oklahoma.

After some discussion from the board on this issue, Rick took control of the meeting again and moved on to New Issues. And there were none.

Rick moved to Old issues, and there were none either.

The board moved to discussion from the General Public.

The issue of Tulsa's rules on Inspection of Fire Doors was brought up to the board.  Matt spoke up and said that they were still working

with Tulsa on this matter.  There was some discussion on this issue from all parties present at the meeting.

Ed Humes brought up the matter of scammer locksmiths in the Edmond Yellow Book. Several of the addresses in the book had already

had been checked out, and were found to be phony!

Mat was given a copy of the phone book so they could follow up on this matter.  Ed said that he was going to meet with a rep. from

Yellow Book later and point out all the phony addresses to them. 

After a short discussion on this issue, Rick Brown said the next meeting would be on August 5th at 9:00 in room #806, and at that

point Rick called for adjournment.

 

Dusty Brummitt

Dusty's Lock & Key LLC