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5.4 Water Superintendent Position David Berg announced his retirement date of January 31, 2014 in a prior commission meeting. Troy Adams requested from the commission that staff post the position internally and hire David Berg's successor as soon as possible so there can be cross-training. There would be no back-filling until after January 31, 2014. Discussion followed. Al Nadeau made motion to post the Water Superintendent position internally. John Dietz seconded the motion. Motion carried 2-0. 5.5 New Website Overview—Verbal Staff formed a website committee to work on the website redesign. The new website went live November 1st and was presented to the commission. 5.6 CAPX2020 Update In May 2006, the Utilities Commission authorized ERMU joining Midwest Municipal Transmission Group (MMTG)to explore the potential to obtain ownership in the regional transmission system. In February 2007, ERMU entered into an agreement to participate through Central Minnesota Municipal Agency (CMMPA) in the CAPX2020 Brookings-Twin Cities Transmission Project. In March 2011, the Commission and Council both approved resolutions authorizing the Utilities' participation in the project for an amount not to exceed $7,140,953. The next phase of the project was an extension from Brookings to Big Stone. This is a significantly smaller project yet required all the same amount of legal work associated with the Federal Regulatory Commission(FERC) filings. Because of the size of the project, the CMMPA Board of Directors elected to not extend an invitation to a nonmember like ERMU to invest in their$2.5M eligible share of this project. Because of the amount of work for such a small investment, CMMPA and the other upstream investors have agreed to swap the investment rights for the Big Stone transmission project for an increase in the Brookings project. The decision to swap creates a requirement for CMMPA to offer ERMU the opportunity to increase their Brookings project allocations based on their current entitlement share. Troy Adams said the current project is coming in well below budget. Increasing ERMU's entitlement share would only cost about $500,000, which would still total below the not to exceed amount that was previously decided on. Troy Adams said he is not looking for an answer now, but will bring more information back to the next meeting. 6.0 OTHER BUSINESS There was no other business. 6.1 Staff Updates Theresa Slominski added to her staff update that the Assistant Office Manager,Greg Scherber, will have his 10 year anniversary in a few days.John Dietz asked Theresa Slominski about Power Cost Adjustment credits. It has been procedure to set money aside every year to offset any rate Page 3 Regular meeting of the Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission November 12,2013