The Building Officials Association of Palm Beach County recently elected Robert Hill, building official for the Village of Royal Palm Beach, as its president and Jacek Tomasik, building official for the Village of Wellington, as its vice president.
Duties include, but are not limited to, contributing to pending construction-related legislation; working and coordinating with FEMA to prepare before and after hurricanes and other disasters; working with the International Code Conference on new and existing codes; and keeping up with current training of codes and products for all building plan reviewers and inspectors across all the trades.
This organization is important to the State of Florida, as Palm Beach County is the largest county in the state and a leader regarding state building legislation and protection of life and property representing the “First Preventers.”
