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��i <br />Elk River , <br />Municipal Utilities UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />ERMU Commission <br />Tony Mauren — Governance & Communications Manager <br />MEETING DATE: <br />AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />June 4, 2024 <br />6.1d <br />SUBJECT: <br />Staff Update <br />ACTION REQUESTED: <br />None <br />DISCUSSION: <br />• In June, all customers will receive the summer 2024 edition of The Current newsletter. <br />This newsletter provides customers with information about the Excellence in Reliability <br />recognition, residential solar, SmartHub, location services, the Water Quality Report, <br />and more. All customers will also receive an informational flyer from the City of Elk River <br />about Emerald Ash Borers. These inserts are attached. <br />• For a July insert, ERMU is once again partnering with the City's Housing and <br />Redevelopment Authority (HRA) to distribute the attached Home Improvement <br />Resources flyer to all residential customers in the Elk River urban services area. The flyer <br />highlights grants, low -interest loans, and weatherization programs from the City as well <br />as Tri-CAP. We last partnered with the HRA in February 2023 to distribute the flyer and <br />they found it to be one of their most effective outreach efforts. <br />• In addition to topics from the newsletter, social media posts this month feature the <br />commission meeting notice, ERMU's scholarship winner, lawn watering guidelines, and <br />the Juneteenth closure. <br />• Scholarship winner Hayden Robinson is unable to join us for the June meeting. With the <br />meeting being held a week earlier we are right in the middle of graduation ceremony <br />week. Hayden passed on this message, "Thank you very much for selecting me, it means <br />a lot as it helps me make college more affordable," and shared that he will be attending <br />the Carlson School of Management to major in business, with a long-term goal of <br />earning his MBA in accounting. <br />• 1 am continuing to gather materials and provide feedback to KJ Branding for the field <br />services building wall art project. Final designs will be provided when available. The <br />engineering manager and I have also spoken with three acoustic paneling suppliers in <br />preparation for a 2025 budgeted project in the building. <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />• Bill Insert — The Current Newsletter — Summer 2024 <br />• Bill Insert — City of EII< River Emerald Ash Borer Flyer <br />• July Bill Insert — Home Improvement Resources Flyer <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />126 <br />