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L*- <br /> Elk River <br /> Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br /> TO: FROM: <br /> Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission Theresa Slominski—Finance and Office Manager <br /> John Dietz—Chair <br /> Al Nadeau—Vice Chair <br /> Daryl Thompson—Trustee <br /> MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br /> November 15, 2016 6.1b <br /> SUBJECT: <br /> Staff Update <br /> DISCUSSION: <br /> We had a visit from our Regional Business Manager, Lisa Fennell, from NISC on Monday, <br /> October 18th. Included in the discussions were Jennie Nelson, Troy Adams, Jenny Biorn, and <br /> Melissa Karpinski. We talked about previous issues and some of the resolutions that we have <br /> recognized working with our multiple services, some of the items still in progress (fund <br /> accounting is the big one), and general assessment of NISC on several levels. We also asked for <br /> quotes'on their Mosaic and iVUE Connect products we saw demonstrated at the Member <br /> Information Conference in September. Overall, we appreciate their recognition of the differences <br /> of municipals versus cooperatives and look forward to further enhancements of the software <br /> addressing municipal and multi-service specific needs. <br /> John Weber, Product Line Manager for the accounting side at NISC, will be here the last week of <br /> November for 2-3 days to review the requirements of implementing the Fund Accounting <br /> enhancements we have been requesting. He has offered to come and seek our input on what we <br /> see as necessary in this enhancement and how it would affect all the pieces of the financial data. <br /> We welcome this opportunity and are really looking forward to his visit! <br /> We received our workers' compensation insurance renewal for 2016-2017. For the renewal, we <br /> have an increase of$2,000 in wages for staffing, and our experience modification factor <br /> increased from .69 to .74. Both items contributed to a premium increase of approximately <br /> $4,000. <br /> We have 4 individuals who have waived health insurance coverage for next year, one who <br /> enrolled in the CMM plan, and the rest are all enrolled in the HSA plan. <br /> As mentioned in the Audit RFP memo, we should see an increase in our transmission revenue <br /> with our transformers qualifying as MISO assets. Troy Adams and Mike O'Neill worked with <br /> MCR Consulting to properly evaluate the transformer assets against MISO criteria to determine <br /> P�G EHEB 81 <br /> Page 1 of 2 NATURE <br /> ble Public' <br /> Power Provider <br /> P OWE 0.E D To Se <br /> 1AA <br />