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"NOTICE TO MEMBERS REGARDING MAINTENANCE POINTS"

The Maintenance Program is a mandatory requirement for CBCOs and BCQs to maintain their designations. Maintenance provides enhanced credibility and value to designations. It is expected that the Maintenance Program will ensure recognition by other building officials associations, municipalities, agencies and professionals.

IMPORTANCE NOTICE: Members who have not accumulated the 30 Maintenance Points required in the current cycle as per the requirements of the OBOA Certification and Maintenance Program will receive a letter. Members who have exhausted all other avenues, may complete a Maintenance Competency Examination to maintain their Professional Designation. The exam has a fee of $150 + HST, the application for the exam will be included with your maintenance letter. Replies to the maintenance letter must be returned to the OBOA office no later than June 1, 2011.

The Current Cycle runs from 2008-01-01 to 2010-12-31 this is the current cycle that members need to follow and obtain 30 points for this period. The members maintenance points list on this website now shows all who have obtained points within this period.

A members reminder letter will be mailed out in June, or the current year to all those on record who have not accumulated the 30 maintenance points in the current cycle to ensure that all your activities that qualify you for your maintenance points are processed. Please call the OBOA office if you feel that we are missing your maintenance information. Once you have been transferred to the next maintenance cycle your maintenance points will be reset to zero for the new cycle.

For those who wish to view point totals throughout the year, visit Members Maintenance Points

 Maintenance Points apply to members of the Association that are certified "CBCO and BCQ" 

1 point is awarded for each instructional hour of professional development received as listed below. (please include agenda and attendance) 

  • Training Courses
  • Chapter meetings if professional development involved and not purely social event must be submitted manually for credit to be added to their maintenance cycle with a maximum of 20 maintenance points for chapter chair executives and chapter members per maintenance cycle.
  • AMTS if attending on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday when technical sessions are being presented. ( if you have attended as a full delegate 18 points will be accredited to your maintenance points for that years AMTS)
  • Technical sessions offered through other organizations have a maximum of 6 point per instructional day and is subject to timeline details of program, participation, attendance and review of relevant content submitted.
  • Training courses delivered by OBOA that include a final exam (Detailed Tech Courses) does not require your input for maintenance points as this is automatic when you successfully attend and complete a training course and exam.
  • Qualification Examinations  (3 points) The OBOA does not issue the final examination for these courses, to ensure that you receive points for these courses please forward the OBOA office your letter of successful completion of the final examination with the MMAH along with the individual reporting form below.
  • Please note that participants of MMAH Refresher Courses delivered by the OBOA receive points for attendance which is maintained by OBOA staff. If there appears to be a discrepancy please notify the OBOA Office. 

Furthermore:

Anyone certified between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2010 shall not require any maintenance points until the next three year cycle, which starts: January 1, 2011 and ends December 31, 2013.

This formula shall carry on, so that anyone certified within a three-year cycle shall be deemed to have met the maintenance requirement for that cycle.

This amendment was put in place on April 3, 2003 as a recommendation by the Certification Chair to the OBOA Board of Directors for the purpose of effectively tracking maintenance points that fall on the same date as newly certified members and unite to form a single maintenance cycle. This also puts certified members in line with the proposed requirements under Bill 124 for the next cycle, and for objective-based codes for future alignment.

GENERAL GUIDELINES:

  • Existing certified members are required to accumulate a total of 30 maintenance points per cycle.
  • Surplus points do not carry over to next identified cycle and Certified Members records will be reset to zero for the next identified maintenance points cycle.
  • Certified members must have 30 points at the end of their cycle and remain a member in good standing by renewing their annual dues at the end of each year, keeping their membership in good standing otherwise; they will loose their professional designation CBCO or BCQ.
  • Once a member becomes certified/approved, it is the certified/approved members responsibility to submit to the OBOA Provincial Office any technical related training that is not recorded by the OBOA. Other accepted maintenance points accumulated must include a detailed description of sessions by filing an Individual Reporting Form or a Group Reporting Form.

In the event that you still have unanswered questions, please contact the Certification Committee Chair: Chris Peck