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Mr.Adams announced that he would be out of the office the second full week of August,which includes the August 14 Commission meeting. He informed the Commission and the management team that in his absence he was designating Mr. Fuchs as his temporary successor. Mr. Adams also noted that tomorrow is the 71st anniversary of the ERMU Commission. In addition to his staff report,Mr. Tietz provided an update on ERMU's reliability statistics for the first half of 2018. A 2017/2018 comparison was also provided. Overall the numbers looked very good. Mr. Sagstetter shared that commercial rebates have been coming in rapidly over the past few weeks. He added that based on energy savings and spending requirements,the commercial rebate program has been closed for 2018. There was discussion on how that would be communicated to customers. Mr.Adams had a comment on the article from the Winona Daily News that Mr. Sagstetter had included in the packet. He noted that they had incorrectly stated that the city had purchased the utilities electric vehicle(EV). Mr. Adams also spoke to the name we have given our EV; Eddy, named for eddy currents,the electrical currents generated by a magnetic field. Commissioner Stewart asked if there was an update on the open engineer position. Staff responded that the plan was to post for it tomorrow. 6.2 Future Planning Chair Dietz announced the following: a. Regular Commission Meeting—August 14, 2018 b. Special Commission Meeting—August 29, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. c. Quorum - MMPA Annual Meeting - July 24, 2018 d. Quorum- MMUA Summer Conference - August 20-22, 2018 6.3 Other Business 6.3a Dual Fuel—Mr. Sagstetter shared a situation we recently had where a customer who was on one of our load management rates (LM) was selling their home, and due to the moratorium on LM rates, and the new customer not being eligible for that rate, the potential buyer backed out of the purchase of the home. Due to a majority of our LM programs being in moratorium, staff reached out to the Commission for discussion and direction on where we are going, and how we want to handle situations like this. There was discussion on having some type of transition period for existing customers currently on these programs, including when transfer of ownership/occupancy takes place. There was also discussion on the communications and notifications that should take place to customers on these programs. Based on a soft transition period of five years, the Commission directed staff to outline a plan, to include the communications that would take place to customers currently on the program, and to add that as an upcoming agenda item for further discussion and consideration. Page 6 Regular Meeting of the Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission July 10,2018