5.7. ERMUSR 02-12-2019 - Laserfiche WebLink

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Theme 5: Growth—Assess the growth curve to make decisions regarding organizational change. • Electric Service Territory Expansion Plan—Staff successfully developed and implemented a plan to safely transfer 337 customers in Areas 5&6 per the 2015 Connexus electric service territory transfer agreement. The processes for these transfers have become highly refined and efficient.The coordination and communication with Connexus has exceeded all expectations making these transfer safer, quicker, and more cost effective. Staff also successfully filed with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) a request to change the electric service territory boundaries to reflect the 2017 transfer of Areas 3&4. Additionally, staff began working ahead on system improvements to facilitate the transfer of Areas 7&8 in 2019. • Field Services Expansion Plan &Site Preparation—Staff continued to plan for the future field services expansion.The building construction is forecasted for 2023.The next sub- initiative is the construction of a tempered storage building to be located on ERMU land adjacent to ERMU's West Substation and the City Public Works Facility.This is budgeted for construction in 2019.Then forecasted for 2020, site preparation work could begin at the Field Service Facility which will include the relocation of the power plant substation, electrical feeders, and other underground facilities. • MnDOT HWY 10 bridge project—Staff successfully provided oversight to the new water main installation to facilitate the bridge improvements. Staff also successfully relocated electrical facilities as required for the project. • Well #5 project-Staff successfully provided oversight to a complete rehabilitation to the pressure filter at Well #5. Staff used the opportunity to update, repair, clean , and perform general maintenance on the other water filtration and treatment facilities within the Well #5 filter building while this well was off line. • Well #8 control building project—Approved in the 2019 budget. Staff is working on bid documents for this project to be constructed in 2019. • Auburn Street Water Tower Rehabilitation —Approved in the 2019 budget.This project will be overseen by staff in 2019. Theme 6: Process, Measurement, and Financial Health—Improve processes and measurement to better determine and report efficiency and effectiveness of organization and to ensure financial and organizational health. • Implementation of multi-cycle billing—The planning for this initiative was conducted in 2017 and then implemented in 2018. Although the initiative generated some negative feedback from the community,the results were highly successfully.The implementation of multi-cycle billing resulted in significant efficiency improvements and allowed ERMU Page 5 of 7 77