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��i <br />Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Chris Sumstad — Electric Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />November 8, 2022 <br />6.1h <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• Installed 21 new residential services, which involves the connection of a secondary line <br />once the customer requests service. <br />• Installed a new three phase service on Gateway Road located on the southeast side of <br />Elk River for a new drywall business. <br />• Changed out three voltage regulators on Highway 10 near Broadway Pizza. The three <br />that came down will be sent away for reconditioning and used as spares. <br />• Lineworkers and the substation technician changed out the recloser controller on feeder <br />42 coming out of Station 14 Bank 4. <br />• With the good weather and well behaved rodents, we only recorded two outages for <br />the month of October. <br />• October was fairly active with customers upgrading their services or adding additional <br />ones. The work for the line crews in these cases varies from a power disconnect to <br />installing new or bigger electric components. <br />• Finished the rejected pole changeouts that Mi Tech Services identified during their <br />testing. <br />• Crews continue other maintenance on both underground and overhead infrastructure <br />that need attention. We are hoping for a shipment of single phase transformers soon to <br />perform some needed transformer changeouts. <br />• Joe Schmidt from Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA) was here October <br />27 and 28 to present Office Safety and Fire Hazard training. <br />• Installed a transformer and new service for a Northern Natural Gas booster station. <br />• Continued to collect data for the GIS mapping transition. <br />• Curt Wark, Blaine Snyder, and Alex Paschall attended Tree Trimming School hosted by <br />MMUA in Brainerd October 18-20. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />163 <br />