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3 Patrick Mallett: Some of these with the travel around park don’t necessarily have a clearly posted sign. And then on 108 the EMS end, I think that they’re continuing to make an extraordinary effort to have their database so that they know 109 if somebody’s in need of service that they know how to get there. 110 111 Paul Guthrie: It’s my impression that a lot of the older parks really got their push at the end of World War II, and you 112 can see units that have been there since WWII. How do we watch that to see if it’s still maintained and we try to save 113 it as quality standards, or not? 114 115 Patrick Mallett: Well, maybe what we’ll do is go through the power point and then come back to that part of it. But 116 Mobile homes are a little bit different in the sense that it is build to a HUD standard, it actually has a metal placard 117 that has a serial number kind of like a VIN number and you can change the mount. So theoretically you could have a 118 40-year old unit, singlewide, you yank out the skirting, the underpinning and then replace it with a new one as long as 119 it fits within the space. 120 121 Paul Guthrie: The other question; you mentioned the enforcement of federal protection. Given the turmoil in 122 Washington right now, what do you do if standards get eliminated? 123 124 Michael Harvey: You never say never, but the definitional constitutes a certified manufactured house will never 125 change from this notion of it is a self contained engineered structure that can withstand X capacity. And that’s infinite. 126 That’s never going to change. And that ultimately is what we’re looking for in terms of this is a manufactured home by 127 HUD’s definition. 128 129 Paul Guthrie: And on a curveball, environmental standards in today’s announcement from the EPA and as a couple 130 of us here are ex EPA employees there are standards in EPA relative to water and to wastewater. Who would 131 enforce them if they were withdrawn? 132 133 Michael Harvey: There still have to be permitting for water/wastewater. 134 135 Paul Guthrie: So you would re-permit on existing units? 136 137 Alan Clapp: So this covers the land use zoning comp plan parts of this that our intent is to make it coincide with other 138 regulations at the State and Federal level and not get in the way. Those are going to change over time, as they 139 always have, but this deals with your permits, your zoning and compliance permits, your planning approvals. You still 140 have to go through and meet inspections, building permits, electrical permits, you have to go through Environmental 141 Health to get your water and septic hooks up and so on and so forth. So this is one part in all of the myriad of 142 requirements that you have to meet. So I would say that they’re most closely aligned with the Federal… 143 144 Paul Guthrie: I’ll let you get back to your discussion, I’m just throwing it out because I think there’s going to be a 145 period of time where it’s going to be difficult to mesh some of the Federal standards that have been changed with 146 what we have done as normal business for a long time. And since we’re in the process I just wanted to raise the 147 issue. We should carefully see that we can still continue to do the maximum, especially on sanitary issues, on our 148 own with or without the Federal government. 149 150 Alan Clapp: Currently Environmental Health, for all the mobile home parks that are on well, septic, or one or the other 151 we angle inspection of the park. So that inspection involves walking the entire park, making sure all the systems are 152 functioning, and taking a water sample. Even under the current administration just this year there was a change in 153 that a total coliform hit on a water sample is now not necessarily a stop the presses, put boil water notices up. It used 154 to be that that was the case, even under current administration that’s changed. So there’s no telling what’s going to 155 happen under the next administration. But if it’s a fecal coliform on the water then the boil water notices come up. Of 156 the 90 some parks we inspect about 70 of them the others are all water and sewer. And then to your second 157 question; we do the annual park inspection and then if a model is moved off and another goes on we do a space 158 inspection to make sure that that space will fit in the given slot and not be over the well or septic system, and that the 159 system is functioning. So we do a park and a space inspection. 160 161 8