The Perryville Board of Aldermen hoped they set things straight with a large bulk of the agenda on July 18. The Board approved the new building codes with the emergency clause.
“These are the same things we reviewed at the last meeting,” Perryville City Administrator Brent Buerck said. “We are doing it through the emergency ordinances so we can submit it to ISO so they can determine if we can return to our ISO rating of nine. It helps establish the city’s ISO rating and different fire equipment, and other things. All of that is weighed into what the ISO rating is.”
Building Inspector Ray Jackson has worked to identify major differences between the city’s existing building codes (circa 2015) and the 2021 codes that the city adopted the codes as presented. There were approximately 12 things that were identified.
Buerck said the process had changed from past years as to how the new building codes were relayed.
“In the past we would be given a year and they said that if you don’t adopt the recent codes it would impact the ISO rating,” he said. “In over the next year we would adopt them over that period. It was almost 99 percent that we adopted the codes as they were written. This was the first year that they moved the ISO rating and to let them know if we adopted them. So we were behind the eight ball.”
The city hopes to automatically adopt any new codes in the future and then adjust them as times goes on to make sure the ISO ratings aren’t affected.
