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,,i Elk River Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Theresa Slominski—Finance and Office Manager John Dietz—Chair Al Nadeau—Vice Chair Daryl Thompson—Trustee MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: September 13, 2016 6.1b SUBJECT: Staff Update DISCUSSION: We will be doing our last round of shutoffs in early October before the Cold Weather Rule comes into play for the time period of October 15t through April 15th. The shutoffs have been successful this year in that we are getting our pool of customers needing shutoffs in a tighter group. As noted previously,this year we were turning off some apartments in the summer months and usually we are able to include apartments because there are too many other individual residences that are on the list. On August 22nd I attended our City, County, Other Government Agency (CCOGA) meeting for our medical insurance pool and received our renewal increase that was 19%. This is a high renewal rate; however, I feel it worthy to note that a significant benefit of being in the CCOGA pool is that it spreads our risk and mitigates high renewals. Because of our claims this past year, we should have had a 46% increase in our premiums; but because we are in the pool we are limited to a 19% increase. We have had some ups and downs with the renewal rates over the years, ranging from-9.5%to 22%, with our average increase at 7.37% The Wage and Benefits Committee has a meeting September 12th to review options and will be bringing more information to the commission after that meeting. I will be attending the NISC Membership Information Conference (MIC) and will be out of the office the afternoon of Tuesday, September 6th through Friday, September 9th. I hope to find out more information about NISC's commitment to Fund Accounting and future software enhancements that will benefit us. I will provide a verbal update at the commission meeting. IIEPOiEOEO BY Page 1 of 1 NATURE Reliable Public Power Provider PONIRED To SERVE 141