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CITY OF SCANDIA
September 12, 2016
Mr. Chuck Preisler, Building Official
Scandia
14669 Fitzgerald Ave., N.
Hugo, MN 55038
RE: Building Code Effectiveness Grading Schedule Results
Scandia, Washington County, MN
Dear Mr. Preisler:
We wish to thank you for the cooperation given to our representative, Nola Lebrecht, during our
recent survey. We have completed our analysis of the building codes adopted by your community
and the efforts put forth to properly enforce those codes. The resulting Building Code Effectiveness
Grading Classification is 4 for 1 and 2 family residential property and 4 for commercial and
industrial property.
The Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) is an insurer -supported organization with the primary
mission of providing advisory insurance underwriting and rating information to insurers. There is no
requirement that insurers use our advisory material. Insurers may have adopted, or may be in the
process of adopting, an ISO insurance rating program that will provide rating credits to individual
property insurance policies in recognition of community efforts to mitigate property damage due to
natural disasters. These insurers may use the Building Code Effectiveness Grading Classification we
have recently developed for your community as a basis for the credits used. While individual
insurers may use different credits or different effective dates, the ISO program will apply credits to
new construction within Scandia that has been issued a Certificate of Occupancy in the year 2016
and forward.
We will email our report which provides additional information about our classification process and
how we have graded various aspects of your community's building codes and their enforcement.
We want to highlight the fact that the Building Code Effectiveness Grading Schedule is an
insurance underwriting and information tool; it is not intended to analyze all aspects of a
comprehensive building code enforcement program nor is it for purposes of determining compliance
with any state or local law or for making property/casualty loss prevention and life safety
recommendations.
If you have any questions about the Classification that was developed, please let us know.
Additionally, if you are planning on any future changes in your building codes or their enforcement,
please advise us as these changes may affect our analysis and your community's grading
classification.
Sincerely,
JWary Lucicti
Building Code Technical Analyst
Enclosure
cc: Mr. Neil Soltis, City Administrator
Scandia
14727 209th St., N.
Scandia, MN 55073
Distribution of Communities by BCEGS Class Number within Classification in Minnesota
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The personal lines classification addresses building code adoption and enforcement for 1- and 2 -
family dwellings. The commercial lines classification is for all other buildings.
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