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��i <br />Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Mike Tietz —Technical Services Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />November 8, 2022 <br />6.1i <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In October, the locators processed 430 locate tickets. These consisted of 2 emergency <br />tickets, 361 normal tickets, 42 updated tickets, 5 cancellations, 10 meets, 3 non - <br />excavation, 5 corrections, and 2 boundary surveys. This resulted in a 13.1% decrease in <br />tickets from the previous month and an 18.4% decrease from the prior October. <br />• Electrical technicians completed 227 service order tasks, updated the power bill, <br />addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns. <br />• On October 26, staff ran generators #1 & #2 without incident. Engines #3 & #4 were <br />turned over but not ran. The repair of the replacement exhaust bellow for Engine #4 has <br />been completed and we are expecting it to be shipped back to us in the next week or so. <br />• Mapping department continues to work on GIS updates, GPSing splices, and assets. We <br />had to postpone our GIS server upgrade in October after it was determined that we did <br />not have enough space on our server to complete the installation. After discussion, it <br />was decided that we need create a new server to allow us to upgrade from version <br />10.7.1 to 10.9.1. The mapping and IT/OT technicians along with GRE staff and myself <br />have discussed this upgrade and it will be installed on November 10. <br />• The substation apparatus technician completed the load tap changer maintenance on <br />Station 14, Bank 3 along with recloser testing on Bank 4 and the relay panels for both <br />banks have been checked out in SCADA. The recloser control on feeder #42 has been <br />replaced. We encountered a problem with the bus disconnect switch on Station 14, <br />Bank 3 that prevented us from completing our testing of the reclosers on this bank. We <br />will need to further investigate what is causing the problem on the switch. The regulator <br />bank on Highway 10 has been replaced with our spare set of regulators. The old ones <br />will be sent in for refurbishment and returned to inventory as our spare set. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />164 <br />