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Centennial Fire District 7741 Lake Drive Lino Lakes MN 55014. During the first part of 2003, a new Building Code and Fire Code will be adopted by the State of Minnesota. At that time the cities will also be adopting the same codes. There are some optional amendments that can be adopted with the Building Code. One of the options is numbered 1306 which sets up additional fire sprinkler requirements. This amendment will have to adopted with the Building Code. The three cities that make up the Centennial Fire District have all adopted the 1306 amendment to the Building Code in the past. This amendment provides for automatic fire sprinklers in more buildings than the standard Building Code does. The 1306 amendment also requires that existing buildings be sprinlded whenever an addition is made to the building that triggers a sprinkler system. The Joint Powers Agreement that created the Centennial Fire District requires that each of the member cities adopt the 1306 amendment in order to provide a higher degree of life safety in our buildings and to hold fire protection costs down in the future. However there are some options within the 1306 amendment that are the city's choice. The first option is weather or not the existing building gets sprinkled when an addition is made. The 1306 amendment that we presently have requires the existing building to be sprinlded when an addition is made. The Centennial Fire District would like to keep this option as it has worked well for us in the past. The second option has to do with apartments and townhomes. One choice is to sprinkle them when they are 3 or more stories in height or when there are 16 units or more. The other choice is to require sprinkler system whenever they are 3 or more stories in height or when the total building is more than 8,500 sq. ft. in size. The Centennial Fire District would prefer to have the more stringent option because we feel there would be substantially less damage in case of a fire in one of these units. When there is a fire in a Page '1 of 2 12/18/2002