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Chief explains ordinance change to reference current state fire code
Summary
Chief Smith presented Ordinance 2026-02 to amend Chapter 10 (Fire Prevention) so the city ordinance references the current state fire-protection code rather than hard-coding a specific edition, which staff said will keep city rules automatically current.
Chief Smith presented Ordinance 2026-02, explaining the proposed change to Chapter 10 (Fire Prevention) would stop hard-coding a specific edition of the state fire-protection code and instead reference the current state code so the city's ordinance updates automatically. "If we change this language to this now, it'll bring us into compliance as well as we won't have to change this ordinance ever again, which is automatically adopted," the chief said.
Staff and commissioners agreed the change would align the city's ordinance with the state's update cadence and avoid a repetitive three-year ordinance revision cycle tied to new state code adoptions. The transcript records the presentation and brief acknowledgement; no final vote is recorded.
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