ICC Members Elect 2011-2012 Board Officers, Directors

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(From L to R) Ronald E. Piester, Robert Drexler, Richard C. Truitt Sr.

International Code Council (ICC) members elected board officers and directors during the council’s 2011 Annual Conference in November in Phoenix. They are as follows:

William (Bill) Dupler, deputy county administrator for community development for Chesterfield County, Va., was elected president.

Ronald E. Piester, AIA, director of the New York State Department of State Division of Code Enforcement and Administration, was elected vice president. Piester, a certified code enforcement official and professional code administrator, manages a 60-person division that administers and enforces New York’s Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code and State Energy Conservation Construction Code. He has served on the code council board for six years as a director and secretary/treasurer. 

Stephen Jones, C.B.O., construction official for Millburn Township and the Borough of Florham Park, N.J., was elected secretary/treasurer.


Patrick Parsley, building official for Fairmont, Minn., and Ravi Shah, Assoc. AIA, C.B.O., director of development services for Carrollton, Texas, were re-elected as directors at large.

Robert G. Boyer, code product and training coordinator for the Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning and Building Department, and Robert Drexler, fire marshal for Greece, N.Y., were elected to their first terms as directors at large. Drexler serves as a liaison between the town and its four fire districts with responsibility to provide the town’s fire prevention program. He assists in investigating the cause, origin, and circumstances of fires involving injury, loss of life or substantial property damage. He also provides leadership to assistant fire marshals and building inspectors on code enforcement including fire safety enforcement, education, inspections and plan review. He is co-chair of the New York State Code Coalition to Protect and Preserve Our Communities. Drexler is the Monroe County Fire Marshals Association delegate to the New York State Building Officials Conference.

Jay Elbettar, building official for Mission Viejo, Calif., and Richard C. Truitt Sr., county deputy code director in Harford, Md., were elected to their first terms as section directors. Truitt helps administer Harford County programs for issuing, maintaining and controlling of licenses and permits required by the county. Elected as a section director, the section includes Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec. 

"Our directors devote a lot of time and energy to volunteer for the International Code Council board," said International Code Council CEO Richard P. Weiland. "They could not serve on the board without the support of the jurisdictions they work for. We thank the board members and their employers for their dedication to pursuing the goal of building safety and fire prevention."

The International Code Council is a member-focused association dedicated to helping the building safety community and construction industry provide safe and sustainable construction through the development of codes and standards used in the design, build and compliance process. Most U.S. communities and many global markets choose the International Codes. Through public/private sector collaboration, the International Code Council provides support to government by developing codes that allow for safe and sustainable construction. As a result, government does not take on the high cost of developing its own codes and benefits from code uniformity that encourages local, affordable construction growth. 
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