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Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Sara Youngs —Administrations Director <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />June 13, 2023 <br />6.1b <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• Office walk-in traffic for May consisted of 153 customers, averaging 31 customers per <br />week over the 5-week period. <br />• ERMU disconnections for the month of May. <br />o Cycle 2 — 15 disconnections <br />o Cycle 3 — 17 disconnections <br />o Cycle 4 — 12 disconnections <br />o Cycle 1— 25 disconnections and 1 red tag <br />o Cycle 2 — 15 disconnections <br />• HydroCorp has been providing backflow preventer inspection notices to residential <br />customers. Of the 69 notices sent out at the end of April, 20 have complied. Reminder <br />notices will be sent to the remaining 49 customers, and we will continue to work <br />through the 265 total residential backflow preventers ERMU has on its water system. <br />• Theresa Olek submitted her retirement resignation, effective July 12, 2023. We wish <br />Theresa much happiness as she ventures off into the sun. As a result of Theresa's <br />retirement, we will be hiring a customer service representative. <br />• Staff filed our 2022 Conservation Improvement Program (CIP) results along with our CIP <br />plans for 2024-2026 to the State of Minnesota. <br />• Currently there are 10 active residential solar photovoltaic projects planned or under <br />construction in the ERMU service territory. <br />• Staff participated in a demonstration from STAR Energy on NOVA Power Portal —this is a <br />platform that tracks and manages distributed energy resource interconnection <br />applications. <br />Page IofI <br />175 <br />