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5.1 2015 Annual Safety Report Minnesota Rules Chapter 7826 Public Utilities Commission Electric Utility Standards cover safety, reliability, service, and reporting requirements. Per 7826.0100(A), municipal utilities are exempt from these requirements. However, the Elk River Municipal Utilities (ERMU) Commission adopted a number of parts of this chapter as a Distribution Reliability Standard policy. This policy includes an Annual Safety Report requirement. The policy requires ERMU to "file an annual safety performance report with its local governing body. The report will include summaries of all reports filed with OSHA and the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry during the calendar year." In 2015, ERMU only submitted one report that qualifies under this reporting requirement; the OSHA Form 300A, which is a summary of work related first report of injuries and illnesses. Troy Adams presented the OSHA Form 300A that had been filed. There were only three recorded incidents and two days lost from work. Troy added that these are impressive figures considering a majority of our workers are in the construction industry and working out in the field on a daily basis. It goes to the credit of our employees and the safety culture the employees embrace. Al Nadeau made a motion to receive and file the 2015 Annual Safety Report. Daryl Thompson seconded the motion. Motion carried 3-0. 5.2 2015 Electric Reliability Report Minnesota Rules Chapter 7826 Public Utilities Commission Electric Utility Standards cover safety, reliability, service, and reporting requirements. Per 7826.0100(A), municipal utilities are exempt from these requirements. However, the ERMU Commission adopted a number of parts of this chapter as a Distribution Reliability Standard policy requiring annual reporting on system reliability. Mike O'Neill presented the 2015 Electric Reliability Report. In 2015, our reliability numbers remained excellent and reflected an improvement in two of the four reliability indexes used for tracking. Mike went over the reliability indexes which included a comparison of ERMU's 2014 and 2015 statistics. John Dietz had a question on why the System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI) percentage went from .1428% in 2014 to .3% in 2015. Mike explained that in 2015 there were two outages on the same sub- station which affected a large amount of people, and even though the outages were a short duration, because of the amount of people it affected, it results in a higher SAIFI percentage. During the presentation, it was discovered that the 2015 CAIDI of 71.157 minutes, was labeled 2014. Staff will make that correction to the report being received and filed. Daryl Thompson made a motion to receive and file the 2015 Electric Reliability Page 3 Regular meeting of the Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission February 9, 2016