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Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities <br />13069 Orono Parkway • PO. Box 430 <br />Elk River, MN 55330-0430 <br />UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />Phone: 763.441.2020 <br />Fax: 763.441.8099 <br />TO: FROM: <br />Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Wade Lovelette. -Superintendent of Technical <br />John Dietz, Chair Services <br />Jerry Gumphrey, Vice Chair <br />Daz 1 Thom son, Trustee <br />MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />Au ust 10, 2010 6.1 <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff U dates - Su erintendent of Technical Services <br />DISCUSSION: <br />The following is a summary of projects and/or updates over the past several weeks: <br />'This month the Locating Department had a total of 2621ocate tickets. Eight of those tickets were <br />"appointments required", fifteen were "updated" tickets and three were "emergency" locates. <br />Jeff has been extremely busy locating our underground lines for M&P Utilities as they aze <br />installing over eight miles of underground cable in the northern part of our service territory. <br />The Metering Department continues with weekly and monthly substation checks and doing the <br />monthly power bill. The meter change-out program is still continuing as time permits. During <br />this process they have helped the Water Department by changing 43 water meters last month <br />while they were changing the electric meters. <br />The Security Systems Departrnent had a total of 67 phone contacts, eight personal visits, eight <br />systems quoted, six sales made, ten installs completed and twenty service calls for the month of <br />July. <br />Power Plant staff has performed the monthly run of the generators. We aze waiting for a cylinder <br />head to be repaired on engine #1. <br />