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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 />June 13, 2023 <br />6.1f <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• Installed 8 new residential services, which involves the connection of a secondary line <br />once the customer requests service. <br />• Crews are currently working on the Pullar Prairie housing development. Michels <br />installed joint trench utilities. Our crews are setting the transformers and terminating <br />the wire. This development is 13 buildable lots on the northwest side of Elk River near <br />the gun club. <br />• Dan Plude and Curt Arndt from the inventory department along with a few other field <br />employees have been periodically assisting the contractors finishing outstanding work <br />on the field services building. <br />• Crews are currently working at the landfill retiring line and equipment related to the <br />decommissioned generation facility. We also installed a new transformer to feed the <br />building going forward. <br />• Crews have been working in the School View housing development, relocating a few <br />transformers, pedestals, and street lights in preparation for the city street project <br />coming in July. <br />• Work continued on the new Feeder 44 project. We have installed two of our new type <br />switchgear boxes and are working on a third. The new 500 MCM underground wire is <br />installed from Station 14 Sub to the Otsego destination except at the railroad crossing. <br />• Crews are working on older underground primary wire replacement in the Ironton and <br />Gary Street area west of County Road 1 and the Elk River golf course. <br />• Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA) held Underground School in <br />Marshall, May 9-12, with ERMU employees Josh Shoutz and Alex Bernier attending. <br />• MMUA held Competent Person and Excavation Safety Workshop in Marshall, May 23- <br />24, with ERMU employees Luke Hafften and Jeremy Lindberg attending. <br />• Joe Schmidt, MMUA Safety Coordinator, was here May 24-25 and held companywide <br />safety meetings on walking/working protocols. <br />• Scott Thoreson celebrated 30 years of employment with ERMU on May 26! <br />Page IofI <br />