City updates building regulations, adopts AFCI-related electrical changes

City Manager Michael Hall told the council that Ordinance 2026.02 bundles housekeeping and policy updates to Title 9 — Building Regulations — that Director John Sauter and his department had prepared. The amendments address inspection procedures, the city's adopted building codes, the absence of a Board of Appeals and National Electrical Code requirements related to arc-fault circuit interrupters (AFCI). "As per the agenda, the amendments update inspections, adopted building codes, absence of a Board of Appeals, and the National Electrical Code as it relates to arc-fault circuit-interrupter (AFCI)," Hall said.