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Elk River Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING TO: FROM: ERMU Commission Mike Tietz—Technical Services Superintendent MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: May 14, 2019 6.1d SUBJECT: Staff Update ACTION REQUESTED: None DISCUSSION: • In April, the locating department had a total of 433 locate tickets consisting of six emergency tickets, 8 cancellations, 362 normal tickets, and 33 updated tickets. This is a 305% increase in the volume of tickets from the previous month. • Electrical technicians continue with updating the power bill, substation checks, disconnects/reconnects, dealing with customer meters, and off-peak issues. Staff continues to make progress on disconnecting A/C controllers. On April 25, the monthly run of Engines 1, 2, 3 & 4 was performed with no issues. • As a follow up to last month's American Public Power Agency(APPA) Safety Award, I have attached the 2018 Safety Awards of Excellence Annual Report. It should be noted that out of the 325 utilities that submitted their annual injury and illness incidence rate report forms to APPA, 113 participants received an award. With our incident rate of 2.46, we received a 3rd place award within Group D, which had 17 award recipients out of 59 participants. • Mapping department continues to enter GPS points and attribute points for all of our systems assets within the ESRI ArcView GIS system. We met with Power Systems Engineering to discuss our immediate needs for GIS integration into our Customer Information System. We also discussed database configuration/disaster recovery, and having them assist with the development of field applications for use by our field staff. • The VHF radio repeater was temporarily relocated to the Power Plant on April 23 in preparation for the upcoming Auburn Water Tower reconditioning project. We have a vendor coming in on May 15 to help us with development of a communications needs assessment. Page 1 of 2 396