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Elk River <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Thomas Geiser— Operations Director <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />June 13, 2023 <br />6.1e <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• Staff have been attending meetings with Sherburne County to plan for the County Road <br />44 project. <br />• We had to send 2 of the fuse pads that had been repaired back in due to the same <br />issues. The vendor currently has 4 of the 12 we ordered in for repair. We received the 8 <br />that were fixed. Irby Utilities is still assisting us with resolving the issue. <br />• ERMU staff have been discussing plans for the open house at the field services building <br />on August 24. <br />• ERMU and the Elk River Fire Department had a Dark Sky tabletop exercise on May 15. <br />This allowed us to talk through scenarios in the event that the city were to have severe <br />weather come through town that affected services. <br />• Staff is working through a lot of commercial services coming down the pipe. <br />• ERMU and City of Elk River staff participated in Minnesota Municipal Utilities <br />Association Safety Coordinator Joe Schmidt's Annual Review. <br />• American Flags were installed May 18 along Main, Evans, and Jackson Streets on behalf <br />of the American Legion. The flags will be take down before November 1. <br />• ERMU hired Temporary Line Worker Jack Gebhardt for the 2023 construction season. <br />• On Wednesday, May 24at 2:27 p.m. Ames Construction struck one of our underground <br />main feeder lines near McDonalds, causing an outage for 728 customers. Power was <br />restored to all within an hour. <br />Page Iof2 <br />185 <br />