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Page 3 Regular meeting of the Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission August 10, 2010 6.1 Staff Updates Troy Adams presented a thank you card from Police Chief, Jeff Beahen for ERMU's donation and participation in National Night Out (Night to Unite). The attendees for the MMUA summer meeting this year will be Troy Adams and Mark Fuchs. John Cunningham recently did a training session for staff on the new digital radio system. John Cunningham is checking into the possibility of utilizing ERMU's existing analog radio system with the City and County digital system. The Sprint contract has been signed. John Dietz commented he would like to revisit the credit card fee in six months instead of one year as previously stated. David Berg said the new City Engineer, Justin Fernrite has been working with GRE regarding using gray water for their steam plant and burning the sludge from the waste water treatment plant. David Berg asked Commissioners if an ordinance should be written for the odd/even sprinkling for Elk River citizens with their own private wells. Consensus was to have it added to the current ordinance. Lori Johnson informed the Commissioners how thankful she was that Troy Adams was able to step in and take over the department head meeting the other day for her. Mark Fuchs discussed the recent outage caused by a problem with the substation. GRE is helping troubleshoot to find the cause of the outage. Troy Adams said Grant Orrock and Chris Sumstad did an incredible job at switching the load to another sub. Troy Adams commented that on the last wave of shut -offs it was discovered a few customers turned themselves back on. John Dietz added he received a call from a disgruntled customer regarding having his power turned off. Discussion followed regarding customers who turn their own power back on and the risks associated with that. Troy Adams asked if the City Council needed to adopt an ordinance. Attorney Peter Beck asked if ERMU wanted to ask the City Council to make it a misdemeanor. Jerry Gumphrey moved to ask the Elk River City Council to adopt an ordinance on meter tampering with an imposed fee and making it a misdemeanor. Daryl Thompson seconded the motion. Motion carried 3-0. John Dietz asked if there could be a heading in the Current City newsletter for the ERMU pages. Discussion followed regarding having dedicated pages for ERMU. 6.2 Set Date for Next Meeting The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission will be Tuesday, September 14, 2010, at 3:30 p.m.