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��i <br />Elk River <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 />December 10, 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 />• Joe Schmidt, Safety Instructor from Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association, was here <br />on November 26-27 and held safety meetings for all ERMU staff on cold stress and <br />healthy holidays. <br />• A new three-phase commercial service was installed on Main Street near Gates Avenue. <br />• Crews are finishing the Feeder 42 extension along with completing the power needs to <br />Vireo, the new customer at the old refuse -derived fuel site. <br />• Installed 300 feet of new underground primary and a transformer to service two, three - <br />unit townhome buildings in Dayton. <br />• The bore crew replaced 600 feet of open concentric primary along Dodge Street, north <br />of 193rd Avenue. We will continue wire replacement in this area in spring of 2025. <br />• Crews are currently working on setting transformers and terminating primary wire at <br />the Bradford Park housing development. Over sixty housing lots will then be available <br />there, with more planned for 2025. <br />• Participated in leadership training with Lisa Negstad on November 21. <br />• West bank 1 substation work completed in November included new 500 MCM <br />underground wire from sub to first pole for Feeder 72 and a new recloser for Feeder 71. <br />• The frost set in with the cold snap over Thanksgiving weekend. Over a foot was found in <br />some housing developments, with at least five inches almost everywhere. This always <br />adds to the workload as we install wire over the winter. <br />• 1 am spending time planning the winter work for early 2025. Besides tree trimming, line <br />crews will be rebuilding overhead line on Feeder 65 out of North substation. We will <br />also be replacing five reclosers and controllers at North and servicing our switched <br />capacitor banks on the system. <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />149 <br />