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part of the Conference,please let me know as soon as possible. The conference brochure is attached. • The Minnesota Municipal Power Agency(MMPA)Annual Meeting and Dinner will be held in North St. Paul this year on Tuesday, July 22. The next MMPA board meeting will be held in prior to the annual meeting. • I have been working with City staff to help Sherburne County apply for MN Shovel Ready Certification. • Utilities, City, and Sherburne County staff met to review comments from the DNR on the Elk River Dam Emergency Action Plan that was approved by the Commission and Council last month. The DNR comments will result in an EAP revision. This will be brought back to the Commission at a future meeting. • I have begun the process for manager annual reviews. Because of the heavy workload, we will work to coordinate the review times as needed for each of the managers. • Before wrap-up and final inspection of the most recent Sprint antenna upgrade to three of ERMU's water tower has been completed, Sprint has contacted me to discuss their next round of upgrades. These new upgrades may require lease agreement revisions or addendums because of the increased number of attachments. It would appear that this will be an ongoing process with continual upgrade projects. The result for ERMU may be additional compensation for attachments but also additional administration, plan review, inspection, and legal labor. On a similar note, Verizon has been working with staff and our engineering consultant on their installations to our Gary Street and Johnson Street water towers. • Along with City staff, I will be participating in a City Council Candidates and Staff Info Meeting. This is an opportunity to meet the candidates and provide an overview the Utilities and what role we play in city government. I really appreciate the Cal Portner, the City Administrator, includes ERMU in the meeting. This is a great opportunity to showcase our relationship with the City and our value to the community. • American Public Power Association(APPA)recently released a new video, Meet the APPA Government Relations Team. The video highlight APPA's work to represent public power interests on behalf their member municipal utilities. Some of this video was recorded during their Legislative Rally in Washington D.C. earlier this year. John Dietz, Daryl Thompson, and I attended this APPA event. All three made the video. The video can be found at: http://videos.publicpower.org/meet-the-appa-government- relations-team • Great River Energy has begun the demolition of their old headquarters building in Elk River. Attached are some pictures of the work in process. POWERED 11 - Page 2 of 3 NATURE Reliable Public Power Provider P O W E R E D T o S E R V E 77