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UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO:FROM: <br />ERMU Commission Chris Sumstad– Electric Superintendent <br />MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />October 10, 20236.1f <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br /> Installed 17 new residential services, which involves the connection of a secondary line <br />once the customer requests service. <br /> Crews finished the installation of infrastructure at the Villas of Fillmore housing <br />th <br />development. Crews are currently working on the Miske Meadows 8 addition <br />development. <br /> Crews continue to work at the County Road 44 rebuild project and the Rawlins <br />Street/Pascal Street underground primary wire replacement job. <br /> Installation of three phase services were completed at the Hillside Heights apartment <br />and Rinker Plant (formerly Cretex). This leaves 2-3 three phase services to be installed <br />before freeze-up. <br /> Mitch Girtz and Tyler Meyers attended Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association's <br />(MMUA) Overhead School held in Marshall, September 12-15. Scott Thorsen also <br />attended, serving as an instructor. <br /> Crews are currently installing a few single phase transformers for the Highway 169 <br />Redefineproject. These services will feed signallights, street lights, and traffic <br />management cameras. <br /> Curt Arndt, inventory & procurement assistant, attended the National Information <br />Solutions Cooperative’s Member Information Conference in Denver, September 17-20. <br />Line crews, along with the substation technicianchanged out two reclosers at West <br />substation on feeders 73 and 81. These were two of our older reclosers. We plan for one <br />more recloser changeout at the Station 14 substation this fall. <br />Line crews along withthe substation technicianobtained field oil samples from <br />approximately 30 of our Cooper Switchgears. These samples are sent out for moisture <br />level tests. <br /> I have been working with Angela Hauge, GIS/mapping technician, as she works on <br />publishing an updated version of the CAD system map. <br /> Joe Schmidt from MMUA held safety meetings on ergonomics and safety cultureat <br />ERMU, September 27-28. <br />______________________________________________________________________________ <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />88 <br />