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4r,;.Z, <br />Elk Riv <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 />January 9, 2024 <br />6.1f <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• Installed 14 new residential services, which involves the connection of a secondary line <br />once the customer requests service. <br />• Crews completed the three phase service at the Martin Marietta gravel pit off Baldwin <br />Street north of 225th Avenue. <br />• Crews completed the three phase service at the Beaudry storage facility located along <br />County Road 1. <br />• Crews finished up the landfill reroute project, setting a new three phase transformer <br />and getting the primary loop back to normal. <br />• Joe Schmidt from Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association (MMUA) was here on <br />December 28, 2023. He conducted year in review training sessions that touched on all <br />safety topics that were covered in 2023. <br />• The bore crew replaced approximately 2000 feet of underground primary on 202" <br />Avenue in Elk River. They will continue there again in the spring with about 1500 feet <br />left to install in this project. <br />• Crews have been working on replacing the rejected poles found during Mi-Tech <br />Services' annual pole testing which occurred this past summer. <br />• Crews replaced older high pressure sodium streetlights with new LED lights along Main <br />Street from Proctor Avenue to Waco Street. Annually, we target areas of our service <br />territory to replaces old lights with new LEDs and plan to start another area in February. <br />Page 1of2 <br />W <br />