As a Citizen and tax payer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, I believe it is crucial that we have recertification requirements in place for tradesman and tradeswomen.  Currently hairdressers are required to have continuing education so why would we not want someone who builds our homes, work and entertainment facilities required to have update training?  I want the tradesman who works on my home to be competant and up to date with current codes, and the latest technology on the market today.  As a provider of training the biggest issue I hear of is " why is this required every 2 years but the code comes out every 3 years".  We are on track to fix that this year.  As an inspector I do not want to tell someone that they have not done their work to current code and now have to remove it and do it over when a simple class once every 3 years would take care of this. 

Casey Littlefield, MCP