In the face of all the new modular commercial buildings being produced in PA the much anticipated Commonwealth of PA certification program is NOT going to start on Nov 6th as announced.
In spite of the fact of the two pieces of legislation passed into law and regulations published as final that established November 6 as the effective date for the new commercial program, PA has decided to not institute the program.
The positions of the Division Director, Mark Conte and Program Manager, Milt Stoftzfus have been vacant (9 months and 6 months respectively) because of their retirement with those positions moved to other areas in the Department of Community & Economic Development.
There is no plan to replace either of these positions. Ultimately, the state doesn’t care about these programs.
For modular home builders this means that the PA program is not staffed and while insignias are being issued by clerical people, there is no-one running the program.
This sounds like another kick in the butt for our rapidly growing industry similar to what happened when MA lost their Modular Housing Director and clerical staff took over.
With PA being perhaps the biggest custom and now commercial modular producing state, what else would you expect but for PA to eliminate its certification program simply by ignoring it completely.
This is why everyone in our industry needs to attend either the BSC Summit and/or MHBA Annual Meeting in Hershey this month.
