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Elk River <br /> Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br /> TO: FROM: <br /> Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Wade Lovelette—Superintendent of Technical <br /> John Dietz—Chair Services <br /> Al Nadeau—Vice Chair <br /> Daryl Thompson—Trustee <br /> MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br /> Date: July 15, 2014 6.1d <br /> SUBJECT: <br /> Staff Update <br /> DISCUSSION: <br /> • Last month I traveled to Blue Earth to attend the Central Minnesota Municipal Power <br /> Agency(CMMPA) CapX2020 meeting. The CMMPA board approved the Settlement <br /> Agreement at their April 9th Board Meeting. At this meeting they gave a PowerPoint <br /> presentation to further explain the financials and to also provide a forecast of the planned <br /> distribution of revenue to Brookings participants in 2014. The net revenue planned for <br /> distribution to ERMU for 2014 is $103,239. The annual net revenue forecasted for <br /> ERMU starting in 2015 is $66,115. <br /> CMMPA also noted that the agency and other participants(ERMU, Willmar, etc...) are <br /> still substantially underinvested in transmission to be"neutrally invested." "This would <br /> represent the point where our ownership in the transmission network approximates our <br /> usage of the transmission network"and would"also represent our tax exempt financing <br /> limit for transmission." If the opportunity arises to invest in an addition transmission <br /> project through CMMPA, ERMU should explore the option and consider participation. <br /> Steve Thompson, CEO of CMMPA, has offered to travel to any of the Brooking project <br /> participants to make a 15 minute highlights presentation of the state of this project and <br /> future opportunities. If the Commission is interested in having Steve give a presentation <br /> to ERMU,please let me know. <br /> • The Locating department had a total of 538 locate tickets in June; five of them being <br /> emergency tickets, 18 cancellations, six meets, 459 normal tickets, two boundary <br /> surveys, 47 updated tickets and one non-excavation ticket. Locating department very <br /> busy. <br /> 'POWERED D1 <br /> 1 . 04 Page 1 of 2 NATURE <br /> Reliable Public <br /> Power Provider P O W E R E D To S V E <br /> 88 <br />