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��i <br />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 />November 14, 2023 <br />6.01g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In October, the locators processed 464 locate tickets. These consisted of 364 normal <br />tickets, 2 emergency tickets, 59 updated tickets, 23 cancellations, 13 meets, 2 non - <br />excavation and 1 boundary survey. This resulted in a 14.4% decrease in tickets from the <br />previous month and is a 7.9% increase from the prior October. <br />• Electrical technicians completed 197 service order tasks, updated the power bill, <br />addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns. <br />• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) residential water meters and residential <br />electric meters have been starting to get installed in new services and where we may <br />have had an existing meter failure. We are working with our consultant, Rick Schmidt, <br />on evaluating the AMI Endpoint Installation proposals that were opened on November <br />6. We are still anticipating a start date of March 2024 for mass deployment of meters. <br />• For the month of October, staff did not run generators. Engine #4 is still waiting on plugs <br />that are on backorder. <br />• Staff completed the scheduled recloser tank replacements for Feeder 95 and also <br />replaced Feeder 96 and 93 reclosers after testing was performed due to issues that <br />were found. Load tap changer and relay testing and maintenance at our Station 14 <br />substation was completed. We are still working on getting fiber communications <br />completed to this substation before freeze-up this year. <br />• Our yearly oil samples of substation equipment, line regulators, and oil filled switchgear <br />have been completed. Test results came back with only Station 14, Bank #3's <br />transformer showing an elevated amount of ethylene gas which we will need to monitor <br />closely. This will help us identify any issues before they become a problem. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />146 <br />