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Elk River:-; <br />Municipal Utilities <br />UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />ppNppEAEO B~ <br />!~'~~V~~ <br />P O W E R E D T O S E R V E <br />TO: FROM: <br />Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Mark Fuchs <br />John Dietz, Chair Line Superintendent <br />Daryl Thompson, Vice Chair <br />Al Nadeau, Trustee <br />MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />A ril 10, 2012 61 <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Updates <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• Continue working on converting Islandview Drive from 2400 volts to 7200 volts. <br />• Continue tree trimming. <br />• Had six new house services. <br />• Working on changing out our overhead cutouts and fuses. With this we go through <br />checking padmount transformers and padmount switch gear making sure nothing is <br />leaking, the proper tags are in place, the map book matches the tags, and all the warning <br />stickers are on the outside. <br />• Completed testing the overhead and underground protective grounds. We also <br />completed testing the fiberglass hot sticks. Both of these are done annually. <br />• The City shop finished doing D.O.T.'s on all our trucks and trailers. We do half in <br />February and half in March. <br />• Diversified did our annual inspections on the bucket and digger trucks. The inspections <br />include: Visual/ Operational, Magnetic Particle, Dielectric, Load and Acoustic <br />Emission Testing. <br />• Had the new gasboy installed at the plant. The City had installed new pumps at their <br />shop site so we upgraded ours. The gasboy keeps track of the hours and mileage of our <br />vehicles for maintenance. <br />