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Page 3 <br />Regular meeting of the Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission <br />February 24, 2009 <br />meeting. Water meters are being updated with the radio read. Some customers are difficult to <br />get a hold of. Numerous calls and letters have not received a response. Some of the accounts <br />have had estimated water billing for the past year because of problems with the meter. Staff is <br />asking for direction in this matter. Attorney Peter Beck recommended adding to the <br />Ordinance to treat it like a delinquent account. Jerry Gumphrey stated after the 3`d notice, <br />ERMU should shut the water off. Consensus of the Commission was for David to work with <br />Attorney Peter Beck and Troy Adams to incorporate this into the Ordinance. <br />Mark Fuchs updated Commission on the recent activity in the electric department. The <br />permanent electric service has been energized for the Metal Craft building on Business Center <br />Drive. The faulty regulator on County Road 30 has been repaired and is back in service. Staff <br />continues with the tree trimming, cutout replacement, and fuse change outs. Recently some <br />guy wires were moved for Sherburne County off County Road 30 that were too close to the <br />road. The electric line truck previously ordered from Dueco should be delivered in April. The <br />City of Elk River staff is currently performing the DOT inspections and maintenance on <br />ERMU vehicles. Vance informed commission that Connexus is now repairing transformers. <br />This will be beneficial savings to ERMU. <br />Troy Adams reported 12 security sales in the month of January. Locates are still down so the <br />locators have been assisting with tree trimming and working on mapping. A new thermal <br />imaging camera recently purchased has been beneficial in discovering hot spots that need <br />maintenance. Previously GRE would perform this service for us. Staff continues to replace <br />old meters with the new radio read. Troy updated Commission on the correspondence with <br />another Data Processing Center interested in relocating to this area. The two substation <br />transformers that were leaking have been repaired. A recent black start walk through was <br />performed at the generation facility. The Anoka Tech versus the MMUA safety program was <br />discussed. Staff is in the process of planning a Workplace harassment training seminar <br />partnering with the City of Elk River. In the near future cable bids will be sent out for the <br />projects scheduled this year. MMUA's winter convention will be coming up in March at the <br />Capital and has strongly suggested someone from ERMU appear. Vance Zehringer <br />commented he could go. Jerry Gumphrey asked incoming Commissioner Daryl Thompson if <br />he could also go, Daryl responded yes. <br />Lori Johnson needed to clarify for the City Council meeting on Tuesday, March 2"d that if <br />John Dietz was going to appear, there would be two Commissioners present at the meeting <br />therefore it would be considered a joint meeting. <br />John Dietz moved to authorize a Special Meeting Monday, March 2, 2009, at 6:30 at <br />City Hall. Jerry Gumphrey seconded the motion. Motion carried 3-0. <br />5.2 Approve Revised Policies <br />At the January ERMU Commission meeting the final draft policies were distributed. <br />They have been reviewed by staff with some minor clarifications/changes and sent back to <br />