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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 />February 14, 2023 <br />6.1h <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In January, the locators processed 74 locate tickets. These consisted of 2 emergency <br />tickets, 45 normal tickets, 11 updated tickets, 4 cancellations, 6 meets, 2 non - <br />excavation, and 4 boundary surveys. This resulted in a 28.8% decrease in tickets from <br />the previous month and is a 30.8% decrease from the prior January. <br />• I would like to recognize Locator Devin Ruprecht for his 3rd place award in the 2023 <br />Minnesota Common Ground Alliance (MNCGA) Virtual Locate Rodeo Competition held <br />at the CenterPoint Energy River Building in Minneapolis on January 18. Devin was one of <br />35 locators from around the state that participated in the event this year. Please join me <br />in congratulating Devin on his outstanding performance! (See attached photo) <br />• Electrical technicians completed 192 service order tasks, updated the power bill, <br />addressed customer meter issues, and any off-peak concerns. <br />• On January 19, staff ran generators #1 & #2 without incident. Staff alerted me to an <br />issue with engine #4 running poorly. They did some further investigation and found that <br />there was water present in one of the air inlet tubes. We did some testing and <br />determined a hole in the aftercooler was where the water was coming from. I am <br />working on getting estimates for the repair of both aftercoolers on engine #4. <br />• Great River Energy (GRE) removed a potential transformer off the bus and removed the <br />controls for their motor operated device (MOD) switch at the west substation on <br />January 11-12. They also had transmission line work that required us to do some <br />switching of the subs. GRE notified us that they need to come back again to replace the <br />MOD with a switching handle on February 1. <br />• We hosted our annual operations meeting with Connexus at our new field services <br />building on Monday, January 23. It was a very productive meeting with discussions <br />about electric vehicle chargers, mutual aid bird dogs, communication practices, <br />Advanced Metering Infrastructure lessons learned, and updates about their GIS and <br />SCADA systems. <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />• Photo — Locator Devin Ruprecht at MNCGA Virtual Locate Rodeo <br />Page IofI <br />117 <br />