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Elk River ^, Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Wade Lovelette—Superintendent of Technical John Dietz—Chair Services Al Nadeau—Vice Chair Daryl Thompson—Trustee MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: February 11, 2014 6.1d SUBJECT: Staff Update DISCUSSION: • The Locating department had a total of 75 locate tickets in January; one of them being an emergency ticket, one cancelation, two meets, 59 normal tickets, two non- excavation and 10 updated tickets. • In January, the Security Systems Department had a total of 91 phone contacts, six systems quoted, seven system sales made, 11 installs completed, 30 service calls and six personal visits. The monthly Security Department financials are attached. • Electric Technicians continue with the meter reading,power bill, substation checks, hanging red-tags, meter read-outs and off-peak issues. They continue to change out the three phase meters to radio read meters. Jeff Murray has been promoted into the meter shop as an apprentice Electrical Technician. • The power plant staff did the monthly engine run on January 14th. The engines ran well with no problems. • Staff continues to collect data with the GPS for our ArcView maps as time permits. • Jeff continues to conduct infrared tests on our electric system. He found some hot elbows in a three-phase transformer. The line crew did some switching to change out the elbows and while doing this they found a problem with one of the high side bushings. We will schedule an outage to change the transformer out. • ERMU has applied for the RP3 Award and the APPA Safety Award this year. They will present the awards at the 2014 E&O Conference in Oklahoma City. El IIIEIEI IV Page ! of 1 NAUR 1 RellaWe Public Power Plodder POWERED TO SERVE 193