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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 />February 13, 2024 <br />6.1e <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• Working through maps for the new GIS mapping system that we plan to move forward <br />with in the future. <br />• Attending weekly Advanced Metering Infrastructure meetings along with other ERMU <br />staff. <br />• Working through 2024 projects and the equipment that will be needed. <br />• ERMU's crew is practicing for the American Public Power Association's Lineworker <br />Rodeo, happening April 6, in Lafayette, Louisiana. <br />• Attended Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association's Job Training & Safety meeting in <br />Brainard, MN January 17-18 to go over underground school topics. <br />• Our budgeted 2024 digger truck has been moved back to a construction start date of <br />April 2025 due to chassis availability. We also have a new bucket truck scheduled for a <br />construction start date of June 2025. ERMU's plan is to move forward with adding both <br />trucks to the fleet in 2025. With that there will be no large trucks ordered in 2026 and <br />we will replace the last digger truck in 2027. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />164 <br />