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Page 2 Regular meeting of the Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission January 10, 2006 said the City also received a settlement and was planning on using it for a wellness program. Commission authorized that the utility money be used for an employee wellness program as well. Glenn Sundeen reported on the four poles that were hit in the past month. The overhead work for West Elk River Feeder is complete and the underground work will start in the spring. Crews will start tree trimming in a week. David Berg reported there were 90 security systems sold in 2005. Staff has been flushing hydrants and doing well maintenance. Wells #4 and #6 will be taken off line for maintenance next week. 5.2 Review Auditors Report Theresa Slominski updated the Commissioners on the ongoing IRS and Sales Tax issues. Discussion followed with questions and response from staff. 5.3 Review Electric Outage Report The Minnesota Energy, Security and Reliability Act enacted in 2001, contains a distribution reliability section. One section of this legislation requires, on an annual basis, an outage report be submitted to their governing bodies, which in our case is the Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission. At this time the outages for 2005 were reviewed. Weather and vehicles hitting poles account for over 95% of outages. The number of branch outages is down which indicates our tree trimming efforts are successful. 6.1 Review & Consider Wire Bids The electrical wire bids for 2006 were opened Monday, January 9"' at 2:00 p.m. The bid tabs were reviewed and staff recommends awarding the wire to the lowest responsive bidder. John Dietz moved to approve staff recommendations for awarding 2006 Wire Bids to the lowest responsive bidder, Border States for the primary cable, and Resco for the secondary wire. Jerry Takle seconded the motion. Motion carried 2-0. 6.2 Review & Consider Substation Materials Our 2006 electric budget contains an item to add a second bay to our Station 14 Substation. This substation is located at Great River Energy's facility. This substation addition is required to support Elk Rivers load growth, including the new Data Center. Staff recommends award to the lowest responsive bidder. John Dietz moved to approve the lowest responsive bidder, L & L Substations, supply electric substation material for the Station 14 Bank 2 project. Jerry Takle seconded the motion. Motion carried 2-0.