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4r,;.Z, <br />Elk Riv <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 />February 13, 2024 <br />6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In January, the locators processed 93 locate tickets. These consisted of 70 normal <br />tickets, 5 emergency tickets, 9 updated tickets, 4 cancellations, 2 meets, 1 non - <br />excavation, and 2 boundary surveys. This resulted in a 38% decrease in tickets from the <br />previous month and is a 25.7% increase from the prior January. <br />• Electrical technicians completed 221 service order tasks, updated the power bill, <br />addressed customer meter issues and any off-peak concerns. <br />• The Advanced Metering Infrastructure residential water meters and residential electric <br />meters continue to be installed in new services. The electrical technicians have also <br />been actively exchanging all electric vehicle meters within the system along with any <br />other meters located at the same premises. I have been working with our consultant <br />and Allegiant Utility Services to complete our contract for endpoint installation. The <br />contract has been initially reviewed by our legal team and we are finalizing the <br />document to present to the Commission for approval at the February meeting. We are <br />looking at a kick-off meeting in February and initial meter deployment shortly after that. <br />The mass deployment of meters could begin as early as March if there are no issues <br />during the initial deployment. Integration with National Information Solutions <br />Cooperative continues to progress as expected. We have identified a few issues that we <br />are working through testing to find the best solution before we move into the mass <br />deployment stage. <br />• For the month of January, staff did not run generators. <br />• The substation apparatus technician assisted a contractor with the testing of Minnesota <br />Municipal Power Agency (MMPA) and ERMU's substation meters. MMPA is required by <br />Great River Energy to provide accuracy tests for these meters every five years to make <br />sure that billing allocations are being recorded correctly. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />166 <br />