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Elk River Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Mark Fuchs—Line Superintendent John Dietz—Chair Al Nadeau—Vice Chair Daryl Thompson—Trustee MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: April 9, 2013 6.1 SUBJECT: Staff Update DISCUSSION: • Continue tree trimming. • Continue fixing problems that the infrared camera finds. • Continue working on changing out our overhead cutouts and fuses. With this we go through checking padmount transformers and padmount switch gear making sure nothing is leaking, the proper tags are in place, the map book matches the tags, and all the warning stickers are on the outside. • Had five new house services. • The City shop is working on D.O.T. inspections on our trucks and trailers. This is done on an annual basis. • Finished hooking up Barton's Pit service. They upgraded their service size and moved the location of the service. • We posted an opening for Lead Lineperson position internally. This is to fill the position Art Gatchell held before he retired. After Art retired we hired a Journeyman Lineperson, so we delayed filling the Lead Lineperson position. We have also posted a job opening for summer help. I contacted the four colleges in Minnesota that have the line workers course so we can get someone with basic electrical knowledge and a class A driver's license. We are going to monitor the work load this summer and see if we should put the fifth crew back on in 2014, which would require hiring one more full time line worker. This crew would use an existing bucket truck. a.. Page 1 of 1 P Y I E A E l BY INATUREJ Reliable Public Power Provider P o w r a r o T o S rRvr