| Author | Subject: What should MCAIA be doing for members? |
| Jeff Shelden | Posted At 21:49:26 09/13/99
I thought I'd break in this website, and this forum by asking this basic question. How can the chapter make membership more valuable? |
| Linda Bell |
Re: What should MCAIA be doing for members? (Currently 0 replies)
Posted At 13:14:43 10/03/2000 Can we get some legal advise? Realitors have a legal defense fund, can we? For instance: The state of Montana and the local Bozeman Building Department seems to have a policy of accepting preliminary drawings originally drawn by myself,a licensed Architect, and submitted by the owner of the property. When I asked to withdraw the drawings because they had a red stamp on them " Preliminary Not For Construction," and pointed out that my logo was on them, they would not let me pull them. The Bozeman Building Department and the State Building Department are of the impressions they are the owner's property, even though the owner had not paid for them, and even though I supplied with construction documents with my license number on them, that they did not use. Because it is a residential project, the Building Departments are of the impression that an Architect is not required, and it is not their function to police ownership of documents even though they were informed, that they were basically stolen. Instead the building departmentinstructed the owner to white out the preliminary stamp, (it is handwritten on the building department check list.) Can you provide me with anyone to talk to about this? Can the AIA file a complaint with the state with the goal of changing their policy? It seems to me they are "aiding and abetting" to a theft. Thank you. Linda |
| Jeff Shelden |
Re: What should MCAIA be doing for members? (Currently 0 replies)
Posted At 21:16:35 11/05/2000 Linda--sorry for being so late to reply--I haven't checked this portion of the site in a long time--I wish our members would use it more often. I'll take this to the next AIA Board Meeting (Dec) and see what ideas there are. Our new Tech Council lobbyist is a lawyer--perhaps he can give us some recommended verbage on our "preliminary" stamps to discourage preliminary approval of plans. Any other ideas? |