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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 />May 14, 2024 <br />6.1g <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In April, the locators processed 482 locate tickets. These consisted of 405 normal tickets, <br />4 emergency tickets, 42 updated tickets, 16 cancellations, 7 meets, 5 boundary surveys <br />and 3 non -excavations. This resulted in a 98.4% increase in tickets from the previous <br />month and is a 13.9% increase from the prior April. <br />• Electrical technicians completed 540 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 continue to be installed in new services. The electrical technicians have <br />been busy changing out our Automated Meter Reading (AMR) meters to AMI around <br />the system. We have completed the initial setup processes with Allegiant and are <br />starting water meter installations. Staff has been shadowing the Allegiant technicians on <br />the first few installations to make sure that the contractor is performing the work to our <br />standards. We will continue to read AMR meters via drive -by method until we have fully <br />deployed all the AMI meters. <br />• For the month of April, staff did not run generators. <br />• Staff has replaced the aging regulator controls at two of the three regulator banks that <br />we have within the system. The third location in Dayton is presently waiting for <br />material. This one will be more involved as we will be rebuilding the entire regulator <br />bank. We are hoping to have this work done prior to summer. <br />• Great River Energy (GRE) continues to utilize their feeder tie with us at Station #14, bank <br />3 substation. They have indicated that they plan to use this tie through the month of <br />May while they finish demolition of their building on the GRE campus. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />225 <br />