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Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities <br />UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission <br />Troy Adams, P.E. — General Manager <br />John Dietz — Chair <br />Daryl Thompson — Vice Chair <br />Al Nadeau — Trustee <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />March 19, 2013 <br />6.1 <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Updates — General Manager <br />DISCUSSION: <br />The closing date for the property at 1627 Main Street has been set for March 25th. <br />The City has requested bid for some GIS mapping work and the Utilities had included an add <br />alternate for water mapping GIS work. This was a good opportunity for the Utilities to partner <br />with the City to get a better value for our investment. The water department had a budgeted line <br />• item for this mapping work. Contingent upon the City proceeding with the mapping work, the <br />Utilities will contract to have the add alternate work completed. <br />The collaborative fiber optical infrastructure project has been completed, the integration of the <br />field services building to the office computer network has been completed, and the servers at the <br />office and field services buildings have been merged onto a virtual served hosted by the City. <br />This has created opportunities for improving data follow and improving processes. The fiber <br />optical infrastructure agreement with the City has not been completed due to a delay by the <br />County in finalizing the agreement between the City and the County. <br />This past month our staff assisted the City with demoing horns for the railroad road crossing. In <br />order for the City to accurately test the decibel levels from the horns they needed to simulate the <br />actual mounting heights and mounting directions. An electric line crew used a bucket truck to <br />simulate the mounting of the horns at seven planned railroad crossing test locations. The Star <br />News has written an article on the horn testing and Zac Johnson, one of our lineworkers, had his <br />picture in the paper. <br />Utilities staff also assisted the City by performing some infrared camera testing of their <br />switchgear at the Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Utilities purchased the camera a few years <br />ago and have recovered the initial investment over and over again by proactively discovering <br />failing system components. The Wastewater Department had been looking to have this type of <br />work done, but hiring a third party had proven cost prohibitive. The Utilities was able to assist <br />KIR <br />pi <br />Reliable Public <br />Power Provider <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />P 0 V F R E I 01 <br />NATURE <br />P O W E R E D To S E R V E <br />